Music
- 'Cats,' 'Voices Underwater,' Fiery Furnaces, Dr. Dog
- Willie Nelson and Freedom Fest; Rufus Wainwright and Neko Case at Stubb's; Mr. Marmalade at Capital T Thetare; Rainbow Family of the Serendipitous Now, or, the Orpheus Project at Salvage Vanguard Theatre
- Martina McBride, Roky Erickson, David Allan Coe, 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,' Jupiter String Quartet
- Patty Griffith, The Hold Steady, Vietnam, Sharir+Bustamante, the KDH Dance Company
- Mavis Staples, Chaos In Tejas, the Frank Mills, Austin Civic Orchestra
- George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Austin Ballet, Okay Mountain, Bright Eyes, The Falsettos dinner theater
- Rubber Repertory, The Marleys, 'Trash Anthems,' Old Haunts, The Miró Quartet
- Old Settler's Music Festival, 'Plump Jack,' Deborah Hay, 'Thom Pain,' Bill Callahan
- The Barber of Seville, the Killers, Fusebox, Ah Wilderness
- Ted Leo, Guster, Eastern European Painting Now, Austin Ballet's 'The Taming of the Shrew'
- 'Take Me Out,' 'Ways to Get There,' University of Texas Dance, the New Music Co-op, the Nonsense Company, Plain White T's
- 'It's A Wonderful Life '70s Christmas Television Special Starring the Fonz,' Joanna Newsom, Edmond Bulldogs
- Rascal Flatts, 'Have You Ever Been Assassinated?' Florida vs. Austin, 'Classic Beauty,' Debussy, Savion Glover, 'Acoustic Africa,' The Shells, James Hunt
- Pet Shop Boys, 'The Assumption,' 93.3 Meltdown 2006, Conspirare
- The Parlor, 'The Rocky Horror Show,' 'Wide Open Wide,' 'At Home with Dick'
- XL Reviews
- "Hairpray," "Symphony V," "St. Nicholas," "Hot September Flurries" and "World of Lacquer"
- Gorilla Biscuits, "Cops and Lawyers," "10 Minutes Max"
- Alejandro Escovedo, the National Poetry Slam, Cross Canadian Ragweed, 'The Sweetest Swing in Baseball', and Carol Bove at the Blanton
- Peaches, 'West Side Story', Aztlan Dance Company
- Yellowman, 'I Am My Own Wife,' Shearwater, Maia String Quartet, 'The Play About the Baby,' 'Vaudeville Vanya'
- Fiona Apple, 'In On It,' Duo Turgeon, Kathy Dunn Hamrick
- Black Crowes, Red, White & Blues Festival, the Strange Boys, Miss Alex White and Daphane Park
- Sheryl Crow, 'The Music Man,' 'A Brief History of Helen of Troy,' Sonic Youth, Festival-Institute at Round Top, 'Summer Fling,' Scott H. Biram
- Panic! At the Disco, the Streets, 'I Love My Dead Gay Son, The Musical!,' Conspirare, 'H.M.S. Pinafore,'
- The Roots, Holy Ghost Party, Women & Their Work, Air Guitar Championship, 'Bunk Bed Brothers'
- Eagles of Death Metal, James Hunter, Austin Symphony, 'The 24th Day,' 'Lonely' and 'Special'
- Elvis Costello, 'Static,' The Books, 'Pulse,' 'Barely Still Lifes,' DMC International DJ Competition, 'The Beard of Avon,' 'The Odd Couple.'
- 'Los Grandes de la Musica Tejano,' Old Settler's Music Festival, 'Dialogues of the Carmelites,' 'Swingin' Then and Now,' 'The Summer People
- Kirk Franklin, Nine Inch Nails, the Go-Go's, Chamber Soloists of Austin, 'The Glory of Living,' 'Kissing the Goodbye
- Hobble, Pudding, Norma Clark, 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Bus Stop,' Dave Douglas
- Reviews: Chuck Berry, Kathy Griffin, A. Mozart Fest, Houston Grand Opera, 'Get Your War On,' 'Two into War,' Karen Mason
- Shows: "The Nutcracker," American Analog Set, "The Santaland Diaries," Conspirare, "Pale Idiot"
- Shows: "Shear Madness", Monte Montgomery, Texas Choral Consort
- Shows: Mundi, Common, "The Three Cuckolds", American Momo
- Shows: Suzanne Vega, Ars Ipsa Gallery, "Footloose", Pelican
- Shows: Le Tigre, "Up in the Old Hotel", "Bigasslife"
- Shows: "Annie Get Your Gun", Golden Boys, Texas Festival Orchestra, Maria Taylor, Austin Chamber Music Festival
- Shows: Antone's Anniversary, Bobby Bare, Jr., Mission of Burma, "The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley"
- Shows: John Legend, Psychedelic Rock Showcase, "Object", The Derailers, Voxtrot
- Shows: Latium World Tour, Conspirare, "Whispers of Heaven", "The Mikado", Gang Gang Dance
- Shows: Spoon, Rogue Wave, "Appointment with Death", Michelle Shocked
- Shows: "King Hedley II", Margaret Cho, Lil Jon, "The Water Principle", The Gipsy Kings, Keren Ann, David Sanborn
- Shows: Chaos in Tejas, Kerrville Folk Festival, Handel in Georgetown, "Holes Before Bedtime", Real Heroes
- Shows: Melt-Banana, Mike Barfield, Urban Roots Gallery, B.B. King, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"
- Tito Puente Jr., the Evens, 'Ring Round the Moon,' 'Elephant's Graveyard'
- CD reviews: Little Big Town, Say Anything
- Good beats, but 'Blackout' leaves Spears' vocals in the shadows
- Plant and Krauss make 'Sand' sound as smooth as glass
- Cross Canadian Ragweed, will.i.am, Toni Price, Merle Haggard
- CD review: Chamillionaire
- Iron & Wine - 'The Shepherd's Dog'
- XL Weekend Reviews: Richard Thompson, Animal Collective
- Earle sheds most of his anger with adventuresome 'Serenade'
- KVRX party, Perry Farrell's Satellite Party, The Jimmy Reed Highway, James Hand, '10 Minute Max'
- New Pornographers keep their pop complicated
- M.I.A., Mekons
- UGK, The Quebe Sisters Band, Eisley
- Nick Lowe, John Vanderslice, Eliza Gilkyson, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
- Ruler of '80s pop life shows off guitar skills on latest release
- Iron and Wine, Red Fang and Rebel embrace the EP format
- Fire up the CD player or iPod before ACL fest
- The Golden Boys, Betty Davis, Michael Bublé
- Road to Austin concert looks to the past
- Guy Forsyth, Björk, Rush
- James Blood Ulmer, Shannon Wright
- Miranda Lambert, Mavis Staples, Dinosaur Jr., Gurf Morlix
- Queen of Soul gets deserved respect from capacity Bass crowd
- Nine Inch Nails, Arctic Monkeys, Patti Smith, Signal Lost
- Grinderman, Jack Ingram
- Kings of Leon, Clutch, Prodigy
- 'Pocket Symphony' by Air, Richard Wagner
- The Arcade Fire burns brighter than ever
- Dean and Britta, Asylum Street Spankers
- Southern Culture on the Skids, World Burns to Death, Tony Bennett
- With 'West,' Lucinda Williams heads in a brilliant direction
- Patty Griffin, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bloc Party
- Austin Symphony Orchestra with Evelyn Glennie, Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, FronteraFest Short Fringe Best of the Week, the Kinks Hoot Night
- ST-37, Ron Sexsmith, The Holmes Brothers
- Nas, Autumn
- Clipse, the Summer Wardrobe
- KGSR's 14th 'Broadcasts' CD has broad appeal
- My Morning Jacket, the Deftones, McCoy Tyner, A. Mozart Fest
- Texas hip-hop ready to get its dew
- Joanna Newsom, Nanci Griffith, Tia Carrera
- Yefim Bronfman with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, 'Electrons and Phonons,' Regina Spektor
- Trail of Dead, Voxtrot, J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton, The Alice Rose
- Gob Iron
- The ballads of P.F. Sloan
- Willie Nelson and the Cardinals, the Deftones
- Stones sling into Zilker Park
- Patrice Pike, Michael Hall, Lisa Richards, Dave Madden
- Beck, Bert Jansch
- The Hold Steady, Sunny Sweeney, Pompeii
- Pat Green, Grupo Fantasma, Ray LaMontagne, Christina Aguilera
- Scratch Acid rekindles manic '80s fire
- Return of the philosopher Dylan
- It's wonderful
- Trae, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Money Waters, Final Fantasy
- Chris Gates and Gatesville, Quantic
- Los Lonely Boys, Ray Davies, American Repertory Ensemble, Lora Reynolds Gallery, 'Making It Alone'
- Blackpool Lights, the Ginn Sisters
- TV on the Radio, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Golden Bear
- Los Lonely Boys' 'Sacred'
- Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic 2006
- Thom Yorke, the Paper Chase, Shearwater
- Two dimensions of womanhood from Sara Hickman
- Willie Nelson, Weary Boys and Mario Matteoli, Red Leaves
- Willie Nelson, Tina Marsh, Awesome Color
- Southpaw Jones, Unified Tribe, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
- With reissue, Depeche might never go out of style
- Hype might be overtaking the Arctic Monkeys
- Sound Team, the Twilight Singers, Thursday
- Dixie Chicks' 'Taking the Long Way' is long way from 'Home'
- Slaid Cleaves, Ghost of the Russian Empire, ButterCup
- Red Hot Chili Peppers, James Hunter, Pretty Girls Make Graves
- Paul Simon, Blackholicus, Mono
- Pearl Jam, Daniel Johnston, Maneja Beto
- Mogwai unleashes a balanced 'Beast'
- Rush to 'War' pays off for Young
- Bruce Springsteen, Drive-By Truckers, Bruce Robison
- Blue October, Voxtrot, Jon Dee Graham
- Neko Case, 'The Gospel According To Austin, Vol. 5,' Del Castillo, Pink
- Raitt was impeccable, but she could've delivered some more soul
- CD: The Strokes
- CD: Brian Eno
- CD: Box Set Guide 2005
- CD: Alanis Morissette, The Darkness, Pitbull, Ethan Azarian
- CD: Kate Bush, Wilco
- CD: Kathy Valentine, Amy Cook, Big & Rich, The Mars Volta
- CD: Movie Soundtrack 'Rent', Against Me!, Broken Social Scene
- CD: Liz Phair, Bun B, Rapid Ric
- CD: America Is Waiting, Amy Rigby, Coheed and Cambria, Voxtrot
- CD: Growing, Michael Feinstein & George Shearing, Johnny, Dick & Emily Gimble
- CD: Franz Ferdinand, Gang of Four, Various Artists: "I Believe to My Soul",
- CD: Placido Domingo, Will Taylor and Strings Attached, Grassy Knoll Boys
- CD: South Austin Jug Band, Bill Frisell, The Hudsons
- CD: ACL Fest 2004, Manikin, Houston Grand Opera, The Willowz
- CD: Kanye West
- CD: The New Pornographers
- CD: Easy Star All-Stars
- CD: Criteria, Jettie, Various Artists: "Turn 1", Houston Grand Opera
- CD: The Stooges
- CD: Eliza Gilkyson, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Half Knots, Attack Formation
Helping a friend
With medical bills piling up, friends of Welsh singer David Llewelyn gather today for a benefit at Journey Warehouse.
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- 11/1: Gogol Bordello
- 11/1: Pelican, Black Cobra
- 11/1: Thomas Function
- 11/1: Sin DNA, Virus Filter
- 11/1: 'John Rutter Requiem'
- 11/1: Judy Schachner signing
- 11/1: 'Nosferatu'
- 11/1: 'The Long Haul'
- 11/1: Hideout Showcase
- Thru 11/8: `The Turn of the Screw'
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