Although they may share neighboring shelf space in record stores and similar vowel sounds with the DC reggae/punk band, their music couldn’t be more different. These two blonde Cincinnati boys, Benjamin Davis and Sebastien Schultz, have come up with a fairly affecting mixture of perky pop and sweetly vulnerable indie rock. Well, to be fair there is a third member; she’s a 1973 reel-to-reel for playback of background mixes named Irene. They’ve built up a little steam recently on the music blogs, and of course they’re headed to Austin for SXSW. ...

Photo by johnkoetsier on flickr Utter Reading SeriesMonday, Nov 5BookPeople [map]7pm, Free[info]This month’s Utter Reading Series features two standouts from a couple hours south on I-35. Both teach at Trinity University in San Antonio, and both are long-overdue candidates for the Utter Series, which spotlights hot Texas-based writers. One has just won a national award for his short stories, and the other is an Austin-bred recent graduate of the Michener Center at UT. After the......

Don't worry. You haven't lost your mind, and Austinist's famously solid and predictable servers haven't gone on the blink. Things are just a little wonky in the Austin theatre scene right now. All these fests -- which are wonderful, mind you -- are wreaking havoc with show schedules. Some productions are playing first at one fest, then at another...first at one location, then somewhere else just down the block.... It's enough to make a......

Billy Joe Shaver's next lyrics aren't going to be about losing his wife, or his dog. He'll be singing a tune of self defense on the witness stand. Drop your dance partner and you could get sued. We suggest you start with trying not to step on her toes. Keith Richards can't keep anything out of his nose. Including his father. "Staring at women's breasts is as healthy as an hour spent at the......

Remember the good old days, when Mom & Pop had a fancy SLR camera they toted along on every vacation, stashed inside a camera bag the size of an Apple ][, all loaded up with 35mm slide film? Ahhh, a few weeks after returning home, they'd clear the living room wall of its family photos, whip up a huge bowl of Jiffypop, and you'd all settle in for an evening of magical memories, rendered......

Texas may be out of the College World Series a little early this year, but junior outfielder Drew Stubbs has about a million reasons to celebrate. The Cincinnati Reds selected the three-year starter with the eighth selection in the first round of the MLB draft. The All-American centerfielder leaves having played the second-most number of games in Horns' history. Congrats, Drew. In other Texas-related draft news, Longhorn pitcher Kyle McCulloch was taken by the World......