Entries from Austinist tagged with 'britpop'
December 5, 2007
It's hard to explain in 2007 what it feels like for music to be both uniting and important. Having spent nearly three years of the '90s living in London, it's with honest nostalgia and wonder that we examine Rhino's The Brit Box. The set's mission is rather broad: it attempts to examine the whole of UK indie rock from 1985-1999 and devotes a disc each to '80s indie, shoegaze, Britpop, and the late '90s. One......
Continue Reading "Don't Look Back In Anger: Rhino Releases The Brit Box "September 26, 2006
TUESDAY [26] political-rockstars • Howard Dean speaks at Scholz Garden (5pm-6:30pm, $50/$20) pol/booze • "Drinking Liberally" weekly meetup for liberal and progressives at Dog & Duck Pub (6:30pm) books • Drew Banks presents Able Was I at BookPeople (7pm) music • The Queers, Hard Ons, Toys That Kill, Signal Lost at Emo's music • "Cool Brittania," By Wayne (Calla) and ex-Yuppie Pricks -- Brit Pop, Rock, Punk, Psych, Metal, and Prog from 60s-90s at......
Continue Reading "The Daily IST"June 8, 2005
Here in Austin, it's common knowledge that we don't wait for Friday or Saturday to start getting drunk and acting foolish socializing. Just ask any hipster, any co-ed or any thirty-something and they'll tell you, "the weekend starts on THURSDAY." Well...the times are changing, and thanks to a few downtown bars, the idea of when the weekend starts might have to change as well. You see, Wednesday night has quickly burrowed it's way into......
Continue Reading "Wednesday, it's not just hump day anymore."