In Austin, all the malt shops, arcades, bowling allies, drive-ins and wherever else the hip kids hang out these days will be empty May 13th. Instead, they’ll all be gathered at Bass Concert Hall with their hearts in hand ready to give them freely to Bright Eyes indie folk heartthrob Conor Oberst. He’s now become a coveted American musical icon, and thanks in part to the media, we have watched him mature through breakups... more ›

Blood Brothers – Young Machetes The Blood Brothers maintain an unusually large and fabulous place in today's glutted art-punk market; where the majority of floppy-haired guitar-waifs wail about shards of glass coating their hearts over Punk 101 power chords, the Brothers are more apt to lace their post-hardcore slash and burn with Queen keyboards and falsetto vocals about car crashes. True to form, this record is shriller than a sack of drowning kittens, but unlike... more ›