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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 Saturd ... More >>

Best Steakhouse for the Common Man

Texas Land & Cattle Steak House

Backwash

Fear of a hip planet? Austin swarms with the übercool during SXSW.

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? I ... More >>

Encore

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? I ... More >>

Best Rock Club

Larimer Lounge

The Beatdown

South by So What? Not this year, thanks to Vaux and other Denver bands.

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 abou ... More >>

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 mid ... More >>

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 Colora ... More >>

Explosions in the Sky

Wednesday, March 26, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-8497.

Feedback

Wednesday, March 26, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-8497.

Balmorhea

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

The Unforeseen

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

Sight Seeing

SXSW was a real eyeful -- and earful.

SXSW 2007 Preview

Texas Toast

Faceless Werewolves

Medium Freaky (Super Secret Records)

Nobelity

Starz

The Octopus Project

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

At All Costs

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

I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness

Fear Is on Our Side (Secretly Canadian)

The Tuna Helpers

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

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

Worlds Apart (Interscope)

Brotherly Hate

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

Critic's Choice

And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

A LaFave Rave

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

Feedback

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

Something New

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

Feedback

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

BOSTON BAKED BEINGS

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

LETTERS

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

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 h ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Papermoons

Friday, August 14, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

The Octopus Project

Saturday, August 22, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

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 ... More >>

South By Southwest 2010 preliminary list of performers announced

​Ah, man, it's that time of year already? Time to start hearing all about how everybody's preparing their livers for South By Southwest, yada, yada, yada? Yep. Appears so. Even though it's still more than three months away, the shadow of Austin's annual booze and schmooze fest looms large. And sin ... More >>

Moving Pictures: A Shoreline Dream makes driving to Austin for SXSW seem positively dreamy

Leave it to the dudes from A Shoreline Dream to turn their simple road trip to Austin a few weeks ago to perform at that city's annual South By Southwest festival into a notably artistic, three-minute long dream sequence. In addition to making the journey seem way cooler than it probably was -- we ... More >>

Download an unreleased track from Strange Powers

​ Strange Powers moved back to the Mile High City from Austin last fall. Austin, he says, is not all it's cracked up to be. And besides that, he missed the Queen City, the place where he grew up, and where, given the choice, he prefers to hang his hat (know the feeling, Strange). Anyhow, dud ... More >>

Song of the Day: "Let Go" by jj

Today's song of the day comes from an utterly bewitching Swedish duo known as jj. Comprised of Joakim Benon and Elin Kastlander, the group is in the midst of embarking on its first ever tour of the States with xx, a kindred act with an equally google defying moniker. Bummer or all bummers: The tou ... More >>

The Black

Wednesday, August 25, hi-dive, 720-570-4500; Thursday, August 26, Astroland, Boulder, myspace.com/ASTROLANDD.

Denver via Austin: The new-look Brothers O'Hair revive old music styles

Wednesday, August 25, hi-dive, 720-570-4500; Thursday, August 26, Astroland, Boulder, myspace.com/ASTROLANDD.

Get in on the geek glory: Competitor tickets for Geek Bowl 2011 are still available

​As is befitting of a the world's biggest bar trivia night, there's been a flurry of questions surrounding the circumstances of Geek Bowl 2011, that hallowed tradition where prestigious geeks from all around the country will gather to do battle tomorrow evening to the end of proving their supe ... More >>

Love Is Blind

​As is befitting of a the world's biggest bar trivia night, there's been a flurry of questions surrounding the circumstances of Geek Bowl 2011, that hallowed tradition where prestigious geeks from all around the country will gather to do battle tomorrow evening to the end of proving their supe ... More >>

The Sword added as a headliner to this year's Westword Music Showcase on June 18!

​The Sword! In case you weren't already completely stoked for this year's Westword Music Showcase on Saturday, June 18, brace yourself: The bill just became even stronger and more kick ass with the addition of these doom merchants from Austin. If you haven't experienced the Sword's corrosive b ... More >>

Tonight: White Denim at the Larimer

​It is easy to pass off White Denim (due tonight at the Larimer Lounge with The Growlers) as psychedelic garage rock -- except the reverb isn't there and the Austin-based act implements some seriously dub-like rhythms. Labels aside, the power trio (that recently became an even tighter foursome ... More >>

J.D. Cronise of The Sword shares advice from Lars Ulrich of Metallica: 'You gotta give it to 'em'

J.D. Cronise​The last time I got a contact high was in September, when Sleep played the Gothic Theatre. So it was only appropriate that my next contact high came while talking with J.D. Cronise of the Sword, another great metal band, about fifteen minutes after the Austin-based act finished it ... More >>

Explosions in the Sky

Tuesday, September 13, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

Runway rundown: A recap of last night's Project Runway All Stars

​After the first episode of Project Runway All Stars, my head was reeling from all the changes that Lifetime had made to the basic Project Runway model (as well as from all the fun everyone was having at the viewing party with Mondo Guerra at Beauty Bar, the first in an ongoing series).