Raised in a remote frame house without electricity or running water in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, Micky, Gary, Willy and Cody Braun had never heard of “The Tonight Show” until they appeared on it in 1989. Micky, the youngest, was 8 at the time. Oldest brother Cody was 12. The band’s lead singer was father Muzzie […]
Being ranked is Kryptonite to the No. 24 Texas Longhorns, who won’t have that weakness next game, when they’ll drop off the charts like the Dixie Chicks after losing 38-13 to Oklahoma State at home. UT’s six-game winning streak ended just before halftime Saturday, when Case McCoy threw his only touchdown pass of the day, […]
The Iranian band stayed at the home of Austin painter Eileen Pestorius, who stepped in when she heard they had no place to stay during SXSW 2010. They also stayed with her in 2013 and called her on Mother’s Day. Eileen Pestorius (the mother of Okkervil River bassist Patrick Pestorius): “I think Ici and Sot […]
Aug. 31: Texas 56, New Mexico State 7 Sept. 7 BYU 40, Texas 21 Sept. 14 Ole Miss 44, Texas 23 Sept. 21 Texas 31, Kansas State 21 Oct. 3 Texas 31, Iowa State 30 Oct. 12 Texas 36, Oklahoma 20 Oct. 26 Texas 30, TCU 7 Nov. 2 Texas 35, Kansas 13 Nov. 9 […]
It was a gutsy, free-slugging prizefight, the kind of game that no team deserved to lose. But Texas wanted it a little more and came away with a 47-40 overtime win against the West Virginia Mountaineers in Morgantown. The winning touchdown was a two-yard pass to fullback Alex De La Torre, his first catch in […]
By Michael Corcoran In the summer of 2006, David Boyle spent a month on his knees in an old Baptist church in East Austin, but he wasn’t repenting for his time as keyboardist in the naughty funk band the Scabs. The Australia native, who moved to Austin in 1991, was on all fours refinishing the […]
1, Whoopi Goldberg & Ted Danson. 2. John Lennon & Yoko Ono 3. Rock Hudson & Jim Nabors 4. Renee Zellweger & Kenny Chesney 5. Frank Sinatra & Mia Farrow 6. Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovett 7. Sandra Bullock & Jesse James 8. Arnold Schwarzenegger & Maria Shriver 9, Barbara Walters & Sen. Edward […]
Halfway through “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart,” the leadoff track on 2002’s “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.” That’s when I stopped listening to Wilco, which had been one of my favorite bands of the ‘90s because of their first three albums- “A.M.,” “Being There” and “Summerteeth,” as well as the fab “Mermaid Avenue” collab with […]
DOIN’ THE DOZEN: THE 12 GREATEST OVER-THE-TOP ROCK GUITAR SOLOS OF ALL TIME 1. Dickey Betts on “Whipping Post” 2. Johnny Winter on “Be Careful With a Fool” 3. Jimmy Page on “Stairway to Heaven” 4. Jimi Hendrix on “Little Wing” (or about 15 other numbers) 5. Freddie King on “Remington Ride” (second solo) 6. […]
Musicians move to Austin to rejuvenate their careers. Yet when Donna Hightower decided to relocate here 23 years ago, it was with thoughts of retirement. The Missouri-born singer, who signed her first recording contract with Decca in 1951, had made a pretty good living in Europe, where she went to sing for a week at […]
