Subject: Austin

• Five Random Songs From My Work iTunes, October 17

  October 17, 2007

• Texas Loves You Anyway

  June 19, 2008

• Sounds Like Fun!

  Shag: Brit-Pop a Go Go

  April 20, 2000

• DeVotchKa announces spring tour dates

  This Friday night in Philadelphia, DeVotchKa is kicking off a fairly exhaustive eight week tour that will take the band across the country from New York to San Francisco to Austin -- not during South By Southwest, surprisingly -- back up through the midwest before culminating in Cleveland on Saturday, March 22. In the midst of all that road work, Nick Urata and company will pull into town just in time for a pre-Valentine's day gig at the Paramount on Friday, February 13. Make plans with your sw

  January 21, 2009

• Best Steakhouse for the Common Man

  April 4, 2002

• Backwash

  March 20, 2003

• Update: Lineup for Mile Hi-Fidelity day party at SXSW close to being confirmed

  Photo: Anthony Camera Party boys: Dan Rutherford (center) and Adam Lancaster (right).So, just got off the phone with Adam Lancaster (Morning After Records, Curious Yellow), and the lineup for the Mile Hi-Fidelity party in Austin is close to being completely confirmed. Wait? What? Mile Hi-Fidelity? Isn't that the name of your radio show, you ask? Indeed. And while, yes, the show and the station (101.5FM) are co-sponsoring the event, the party actually came first, three years earlier in Austin. Th

  February 18, 2009

• Encore

  March 11, 2004

• Best Rock Club

  March 25, 2004

• The Beatdown

  March 31, 2005

• Epilogues SXSW tour diary

  Sunday, March 22: I'm not keeping up with these entries, because it's damn near impossible to find any time to write down here. I'm about two days behind right now, so I'm going to attempt to just cover everything between Thursday morning and right now. As a disclaimer, my memory only goes back about 24 hours, so I don't really remember Thursday all that well anymore. Actually Friday is a little fuzzy too. Shit... I've got to stop drinking. Hmm... well anyway, here we go...

  March 22, 2009

• How to cope with SXSW withdrawal

  All right, I'll admit it. I'm all kinds of bummed out. Not only am I feeling like two crates of ass specially flown in from Assville right now thanks to some stupid throat/sinus/ear infection, but I'm reeling from reading all the South By Southwest coverage from my colleagues (including a fairly middling review of the Wheel), reading about all of their exploits down in Austin and seeing all the pictures of all the cool bands they've seen. I'm think I'm just going through withdrawals or something

  March 20, 2009

• 3OH!3 SXSW tour diary by Kam from Chain Gang of 1974

  JensenFriday, March 20: I arrived in Austin on the evening of Wednesday, March 18th. I had played SXSW last year so I knew what to expect. But this time around, I am hired to play bass for 3OH!3 -- you know, that small band from Boulder? The band who still aren't super stars in the eyes of a Colorado critic but have a single in the Top 40!? [Editors note: WTF, Kam? Read Backbeat much there, broseph?] Let's just say that there are a lot of perks involved with this...haha.

  March 20, 2009

• Waterloo Ice House

  An Austin institution opens a new location in Louisville.

  November 1, 2007

• Explosions in the Sky

  March 20, 2008

• The Sword Conquers

  This doom metal comes endorsed by Metallica.

  April 24, 2008

• Feedback

  March 26, 1998

• Balmorhea

  Wednesday, August 20, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

  August 14, 2008

• Critic's Choice

  W.C. Clark

  February 7, 2002

• The Unforeseen

  Man vs. nature deep in the heart of Texas in The Unforeseen.

  April 10, 2008

• Get Lost!

  These troubled teens found themselves at Lost and Found. But now the program is finding itself out of options.

  June 7, 2007

• Sight Seeing

  SXSW was a real eyeful -- and earful.

  March 22, 2007

• SXSW 2007 Preview

  Texas Toast

  March 8, 2007

• Sound Team

  Wednesday, November 1, Bluebird Theater, 1-866-468-7621.

  October 26, 2006

• Faceless Werewolves

  Medium Freaky (Super Secret Records)

  September 28, 2006

• Nobelity

  Starz

  August 24, 2006

• Darkness Prevails

  I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness sheds light on its latest disc.

  May 25, 2006

• The Octopus Project

  Thursday, May 18, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

  May 18, 2006

• At All Costs

  Sunday, April 9, Marquis Theatre, 303-298-0900.

  April 6, 2006

• I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness

  Fear Is on Our Side (Secretly Canadian)

  March 9, 2006

• The Tuna Helpers

  Saturday, March 5, 15th Street Tavern, 303-572-0822.

  March 3, 2005

• ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

  Worlds Apart (Interscope)

  February 10, 2005

• Brotherly Hate

  Denver Repertory's True West succeeds with actors' intensity.

  February 26, 2004

• Bang to Hype

  At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band.

  March 28, 2002

• Short Story

  Aspen is long on short films during its tenth annual festival.

  April 12, 2001

• Spanker Madness

  The Asylum Street Spankers
  (Spanks-a-Lot)

  March 23, 2000

• Critic's Choice

  And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

  December 2, 1999

• A LaFave Rave

  Jimmy LaFave upholds American musical tradition one song at a time.

  June 10, 1999

• Feedback

  March 25, 1999

• Love's Labors Lost

  January 21, 1999

• Something New

  January 8, 1998

• Spoon Tunes

  April 25, 1996

• Feedback

  March 21, 1996

• BOSTON BAKED BEINGS

  February 8, 1995

• LETTERS

  April 6, 1994

• Q&A with Dave Dictor from MDC

  In this week's edition of Rough Mixes, we printed excerpts of Tom Murphy's recent chat with Dave Dictor from MDC. As you'll see from the full transcript posted after the jump, the band's frontman is still very much an iconoclast championing ideals that are as provactive as the revolving moniker of his venerable punk band, alternately known as Multi-Death Corporation, Millions of Damn Christians, Millions of Dead Cops and more.

  May 7, 2009

• Indie 101.5 moving its broadcasts online

  ​We heard murmurs about this over the weekend, but the official word just came down. Beginning Friday morning at 10 a.m., Indie 101.5 will be broadcasting at Indie303.com. Being billed as Denver's internet station, Indie 303 will presumably work to build its niche ala WOXY.com (which, incidentally, is in the process of moving its home base to Austin from Cincinnati). According to Whip, who just made the announcement on the air, the station has designs on playing local bands at the top and bott

  July 29, 2009

• Papermoons

  August 13, 2009

• The Octopus Project

  August 20, 2009

• Q&A with Conrad Keely of ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

  ​The past two years have served as a period of transition for ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead. After splitting with Interscope Records in 2008, the Austin-based sextet started their own label and drew on its own funds to record and release its latest effort, Century of Self, which boasts a decidedly rougher and edgier feel than the group's earlier material. We caught up with Trail of Dead frontman Conrad Keely to discuss the band's new directions, his recent move to Brooklyn f

  October 20, 2009