Belaire'sExploding Impacting is an album that very well captures the essence of summer madness: the spectral emotional range goes from playful romanticism ("You Really Got Me Goin'") to the deeply reflective ("Waiting Patiently" and You're Not A Kid Anymore". ) The band's sound is somewhere between '60s Brazilian Tropicalia (Caetano Velosco, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes) and early '80s synth-pop (Gary Numan, Talking Heads, OMD) taken in a new direction. Though twin sisters Cari and Christa......

After an incredibly (too) long hiatus, the lovable local kaleidoscopic synth pop band Belaire return with a brand new album titled Exploding, Impacting, despite the non-stop touring schedule of members Jason Chronis and Matt Simon (thanks to a little side project they have called Voxtrot) and twin sister (and singing partner) Christa Palazzolo now living in New York City. The album is a tour de force of Cari Palazzolo, who, with this release, has emerged......

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......

In a town as small as ours, you're bound to run into a few people you know in any given night. Hell, we've randomly bumped into old high school acquantainces at Whisky Bar or The Parish Room in the past few months - and we grew up in Orange County! Not surprising, then, that some of Austinist's favorite local personalities have taken the idea that most of our city is connected in some strange,......

M O N D A Y [19] [music] Spoon, stellastarr*, Morningwood and Alpha Rev at The Parish Room [holidays] Armadillo Christmas Bazaar with Austin Lounge Lizards at Austin Music Hall [link] [music] Trans-Siberian Orchestra at Frank Erwin Center [DJ] DJ Mel, Jahmight at Nasty's [music] Elizabeth McQueen and Jason Roberts at Threadgill's [film] Monday Britcoms Night, featuring Nathan Barley at the Drafthouse Downtown (7pm) [link] T U E S D A Y [20] [fundraiser] Kinky......

Today we bring you the fourth band in our "Local Music is Sexy" Austinist + Trojan rock show/dance-party, happening this Saturday at the Velvet Spade: In the Discerning Confectioner's Cookbook for Delectable Indie Pop, the recipe for Austin's Belaire might read something like this: combine one part Parisian lounge act, two parts low-key drum backings, a drizzle of guitar intonations, and a generous dollop of ever-so-refined synth grooves, and flambé! In their case, the......