This weekend celebrate festival season right with the worst of the bunch at Vegatron’s self-dubbed 2nd Best Fest, barter your way through reels on reels on reel...
by Jake Muncy
“Weakest Limb,” the first track on Carry Illinois’s Siren, starts with a buzzy electric guitar. There’s some keys, too, and maybe another sou...
by Nick Hanover
Each week, we're showcasing three mostly unknown Austin acts we've discovered on Bandcamp or Soundcloud, in the hopes of bringing them Fr...
Another weekend in Austin, another packed schedule of amazing shows. Come out and be part of the XETAS video shoot, jump around to the nonstop hip-hop of Riders...
Black Pistol Fire doesn’t seem to give a shit about any of the standard questions about whether the music they're creating is fashionable. Kevin McKeown and...
The reunited Flamin' Groovies
The Flamin' Groovies are one of the most beloved early garage rock and power pop pioneers, but in their own time, they never t...
Words and photos by Janelle Revord
This was the first time since SXSW that I had attended a show at Empire Control Room-- just last month I was there to se...
It’s going to be a weekend full of awesome shows. Check out lineups from Side One Track One, Black Fret and the closing of Otis the Destroyer’s residency. We'll...
by Morgan Davis Photos by Photography by Carlos J. Matos
It's always disappointing to walk into a show and notice the room has more photographers than paying...
by Dylan Garsee
It's easy to dismiss paranoia has the bored ramblings of a person with undiagnosed personality disorders. Modern day paranoia seems to st...
