Advertised with tongue-in-cheek flair as a “frotean festival! of the fantastique” and “an evening most thrilling!”, the Victorian Pageant at the Mohawk on the 6th was indeed a unique experience, and a sprightly, fun show even when it didn’t exactly keep with the theme of corsets and humours. Photos of Moth!Fight! courtesy Super!Alright!!!......

Welcome to the latest edition of Band Slam!, wherein I navigate the murky waters of Austin's club listings for the best and worst band names playing this week. The only rule: I can't know anything about the actual band, thus limiting my critique strictly to the band's chosen moniker. Let's cook!! Harptallica - Elysium, Friday 10/05 After the Radiohead reggae album, all bets are off as far as taking ultimate creative license with canonized......

Moth!Fight! are a band who have had a much longer gestation period than most of their peers, a time in which one can assume songwriter and “conductor” Kevin Adickes painstakingly perfecting both the rumpled antique aesthetics that dominate his band’s look, performances and sound – the latter of which calls to mind both the inspired trippy noise-pop of The Olivia Tremor Control, but which also speaks in the lexicon of the band’s clear, more current......