The Culture
July 26, 2019
Spoon’s Greatest Hits: Britt Daniel on Songs That Didn’t Make the Cut
Imagining a theoretical second disc for the Austin band’s best-of album, out this week.
Britt Daniel
Music
February 23, 2017
A Fanboy’s Notes
Spoon is my favorite band. Spoon has a new album out. It is my favorite Spoon album. That is all.
Music
July 10, 2014
The Way They Get By
Spoon gets ready to take its new album to the top of the charts.
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June 25, 2014
How To Survive As An Austin Rock Club For Four Decades
The "Live Music Capital of the World" is also a live music venue cemetery. The University of Texas-area bar Hole in the Wall is an exception.
Music
May 10, 2013
Spoon’s Jim Eno on His Recording Studio and New Label
The drummer and producer had his name on four April releases, including "Thr!!!ler" by !!! and "Nuestro Camino" by Austin's Dupree, which Eno put out on his own. But Spoon is also hard at work on their eighth record.
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May 9, 2013
Live Music’s New Normal
What's better for a band: gigs at big, sponsored festivals or the old, thirty-shows-in-thirty-days touring model? Divine Fits, the supergroup fronted by Spoon's Britt Daniel, debates.
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April 1, 2004
Spoon at a Fork
According to Time, the Austin rock-pop trio Spoon "just might be your next favorite band." But Britt Daniel and the boys have been burned by such pronouncements before, so this time they’re carefully considering their options—and, as always, putting their music first.
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April 1, 1996
CD and Book Reviews
Hot CDs Yes, it’s that Tiny Tim—albeit with a gruffer voice than you probably remember—singing with Denton polkaholics Brave Combo on Girl (Rounder). Together, the onetime tulip tiptoer and the 1995 Grammy nominees bip and bop through a set of standards (“Stardust”) and pop-rock faves (“Hey Jude”). The collaboration may…