I thought I'd pretend like I was some sort of major music blog and tell everyone a few of my favorite new songs (artists and videos) from 2011. I feel like a lot of really great stuff came out last year, or maybe I've just been paying closer attention.... »
“Enthralling” is the one-word description for the current Austin Lyric Opera production of Lucia di Lammermoor. We all know that this is a peak allergy season, but there was seldom even a half-suppressed cough or sneeze to be heard; through most of the... »
You know Golden Bear. They’ve been putting out great records full of robust and perfect post-chamber pop (is that a thing?) songs since 2003. Every time they put out a release they grow more and more. Here on the new album Alive the drums are tighter ... »
Austin band Motel Aviv is set to release their latest 5 track EP by releasing a track a week starting with the song "Sideways" which you can stream now. Keep an eye out here and on Motel Aviv's SoundCloud profile to listen to the tracks.[Motel Aviv on ... »
After devoting enough time to Learning Secrets to land themselves on a government watch list, DJ/booking duo Orthy and Jeramy celebrate eight years Saturday with a send-off to soon-closing Beauty Bar featuring a rare live show from NYC nu-disco up-'n-c... »
Preempting the 7th St location's spring closing, dance club dynasty Beauty Bar has opened their largest space yet, where they will play the Tubes' "She's a Beauty" on perpetual repeat, and you will be so, so angry with more than 2x the original's capac... »
Wow, it’s been a long while internet. Is that a new haircut? What ever happened with that one thing? Are you all caught up on the BBC version of Sherlock? After going this long without posting, it is difficult to get back into the swing of it. Austin h... »
Listening to Big Deal's Lights Out, one is immediately captured by the intimacy of the songs and the minimalism of the instrumentation. Lights Out is an album that is comprised mostly of an acoustic and electric guitar and... »
