With the 2007 Austin City Limits Music Festival set to take over the town shortly, it’s worthwhile to note that the music will naturally not be restricted to the fenced confines of Zilker Park. "Official" ACL-Fest after shows and sexy time aside, downtown should be bumping with a plethora of quality events. The wonderful folk from FactoryPeople and DFA Records present one such extravaganza on Friday at Red 7. The Outdoor Stage will feature quality... more ›

Saturday June 30th marks the 5th installment to the multi-media spectacle Everyone Knows Everyone, sponsored by The Onion. This event is held twice a year and focuses on the celebration of artistic community in our city. Many have compared it to Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, where visual artists and multi-genre musicians, DJs and filmmakers showcase their talents in front of a live audience. The event is being held on all of Emo's stages... more ›

Ever since renovating the space where Just Guns used to reside, FactoryPeople's clothed tons of fabulous Austinites, thrown dozens of rockstar parties, and brought sexy back to Central Texas. What's next? Well, this week they're turning three. Thursday Night: they're bringing in DFA Records' DJs Tim Sweeney and Juan Maclean, along with DJ Ramesh from Voxtrot, to spin instore from 7-10pm. Come and enjoy complimentary cocktails on the rooftop deck, or check out Boom... more ›

Now in its third instantiation, the multimedia arts showcase dubbed Everyone Knows Everyone brings together some of Austin's creative types, spanning artistic mediums from music to performance art. Drawing on the success of last December's pre-holiday event, the production quality of tonight's EKEIII, at Emo's, seems to have grown tremendously in the past six months: Throughout the evening, sets by Those Peabodys, Visitors, Mars Wars, Young Love, Rory + the Artificial Heart, and Pirates... more ›

Last week, two of Austin's bastions of style jointly celebrated their second birthdays - FactoryPeople, purveyor of the hautest threads you'll find in Austin, and Youth of Tomorrow, a custom-fashion design house whose clients run the gamut from darling indie bands to elementary school chess clubs. As is typical of every soiree we've attended at FP this year, the decadent open bar and wicked grooves - provided by mixmaestros Black Madonna, DJ Shit Robot (of Death From Above Records) and the Juan Maclean - set the perfect tone for an evening of luscious debauchery. Several hours later, a little lightheaded from indulging in the requisite cupcake or two (or three), we went with the hipster swarm as they migrated eastward to the Peacock, the Eastside's new "it" bar across the street from the Pedernales Lofts. A full-on dance party ensued, the details of which will forever remain hazy, but the fact that we woke up the next morning with mysterious scratch marks in questionable places is probably a damn good endorsement of the evening's success. Austinist congratulates both FactoryPeople and Youth of Tomorrow for two brilliant years!
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Put down Harry Potter if you haven't finished it yet (we haven't, so don't ruin the ending for us!) and get out this weekend. As always, if there's something you'd like to recommend, drop us a line. FRIDAY [music] BLING Party at Beerland, with Things That Go Pop, Tran Tram, Assacre. [music] We finally have an excuse to party at Gallery Lombardi when Green Potato Ventures presents A Cool Summer Night, the Snowman Media Launch... more ›

There’s nothing like pretending it’s cool outside in mid-July and that’s exactly what the kids over at Green Potato Ventures and snowman media want you to do tonight at Gallery Lombardi. They are throwing together a party jam they call A Cool Summer Nite, which will be celebrating the official launch of snowman media. They have put together quite the arsenal of local bands to rock your booty the entire night. Canoe, Experimental Aircraft, AM Syndicate, Loxsly and Stories from the Frontier will make sure that you stay for the entire show. Plus DJ Black Madonna spins in between sets and will make sure to get the dance party started afterwards. more ›

We might as well dub this the Week of the Dance Party - Emo's on Monday, Beerland on Tuesday, Flamingo Cantina on Wednesday, The Parish on Thursday, and - best of all - Gallery Lombardi on Friday. Check it out, and pace yourselves. As always, feel free to contact us with any hot tips! MONDAY [music] Church of the Friendly Ghost may have postponed shows at their awesome Eastside house, but they're still bringing great... more ›

Why not enjoy this amazing weather with some outdoor strolling and people watching. South Congress is the place to be for tonight’s First Thursday. Austinist will definitely be at Factory People later on to hear DJs Black Madonna and The Casual Dude throw it down. Plus, we think they might have some tasty beverages for us to enjoy. Also, don’t forget to sit poolside at the marvelous San Jose. One day we will find an excuse to actually spend the night. more ›