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CRUST BY CRUST CAKE 2013: FRIDAY/SATURDAY 13 Mar 2013 | 10:00 pm
Hot talent on the streets of Austin. Ready for part two of our SXSW previews? You know you here. Here, we cover the madness that will go down Friday and Saturday. For reference, here's our guide to W...
CRUST BY CRUST CAKE 2013: WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY/FOOD 13 Mar 2013 | 05:00 pm
Austin's rich queso tradition in full bloom. SXSW is about to pop off once more. Old friends come into town. Bros become bros. Sweating your gotdamn perm out. Bands come here with the intent of being...
AUSTIN RAGING IN GOLD: NEUROSIS LIVE 21 Feb 2013 | 11:30 pm
Neurosis When: Sunday, February 17, 2013 Where: Emo's East, Austin, TX By Van Darden (TX) On Sunday night, five men took the Emo's East stage in semi-darkness. Then, as the lights came up -- and s...
THE BADASS WEEKEND IN REVIEW 21 Feb 2013 | 09:58 pm
By Andy O'Connor (TX) Houston was poppin' over the weekend. Namely, because of the All-Star Game. Flocka was in town, as were Jay-Z, 2 Chainz, Pusha T, Birdman, and a whole host of ballin' luminaries...
ANDY O'CONNOR'S TOP 10 THINGS OF 2012 16 Jan 2013 | 01:24 am
Mostly musical, a few that aren't. If you want an albums list, you can find that at Metalsucks.10. No Gang ColorsIf I wasn't some hack who merely wrote about music and gets butthurt when people use th...
IN WHICH WE SAY GOODBYE TO ECOCIDE 11 Jan 2013 | 10:37 pm
Pictured above and below are Ecocide's final moments, snapped in a cramped living room in a squat on San Antonio's East Side. Rainy New Year's Eve show capped off a string of Texas dates, marking the ...
VAN DAMNED'S BEST OF 2012 9 Jan 2013 | 09:00 pm
I didn't do a lot of writing about music this year. I've been working on a large-scale writing project that's subsumed a lot of my free time and, frankly, I'd kept the music crit candle burning too br...
FUN FUN FUN FEST: THE RECAP (FUN-ALLY) 17 Dec 2012 | 07:00 pm
Your faithful and intrepid protagonists, Van and Andy, once again braved the seasonably-for-Central-Texas warm weather and choking dust of a November weekend in Austin to throw themselves upon the alt...
FUN FUN FUN PICKS: METAL! 2 Nov 2012 | 08:30 pm
We gave you our non-metal reccommendations earlier...now, for the stuff we really love. Here are our choice cuts for the black stage (and one from the yellow!) so you know how to hesh best. TURBONEGR...
FUN FUN FUN FEST PICKS: NOT METAL 2 Nov 2012 | 07:24 pm
Fun Fun Fun Fest is more than just about metal. It's about...fun? Fun is a pretty broad word. Here's some of the best stuff not going down on the Black Stage. RUN DMC Run DMC didn't invent hip-hop, ...
