In a city that hosts ACL and South by Southwest, it's easy for smaller, more genre-targeted festivals to get overlooked. Not that people aren't taking notice of Chaos in Tejas, though. This year's iteration of the punk/hardcore/noise festival is its seventh, and features more bands than ever before swarming into the Red River district. Timmy Hefner has curated the festival's strongest lineup yet, replete with big names in the scene from across the globe. more ›

The indie pop of this Austin symphonic sextet is often quite charming like on “Tarzan” where the strings and flute weave brightly and an echoey, Band of Horses-esque vocal track sings over a slightly somber number about a forlorn stuntman having trouble giving up on an old role. Jeff Luna sings, “He used to be Tarzan, now he’s just Steve.” The disc is at times funny, at others really pretty, sometimes lightly clever and occasionally a little unpolished. more ›