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"What the Stones were; what the Dandy Warhols should have been."* Strong words, even in today's desensitized rock-critisphere, but Lions In The Street have already opened for Kings Of Leon, been shopped-and-dropped by major labels, and recorded their debut EP in a dingy basement with an 8-track and broken mics because they could hardly afford beer. What are you gonna tell them, be less rock and roll please? This is the kind of band SXSW exists for. (Said EP, Cat Got Your Tongue, is available as a free download on their website, so you downloaders aren't getting away with anything.) Besides that, it's obvious that frontman Chris Kinnon has plenty of love for the ATX:

The annual Shortlist Music Prize was envisioned by creators Greg Spotts and Tom Sarig to "create opportunities for left-of-center culture to cross over to the mainstream." And to accomplish this, they enlisted a slew of "respected members of the creative community" to serve as arbiters of indie taste. Pitchfork announced today that this year's Shortlist awards have been cancelled, owing to infighting between Spotts and Sarig: Speaking about the duo's rift to AP, Spotts...

LA's Mae-Shi are dilettantes of experimental electronic-noise-funk-rock, employing all manners of instruments - "guitar, bass, drums, tamborines, noisemakers, computer programs, omnichord, glockinspiel and voice", among others - and "staccato bursts of rhythm" to create something wholly original and, well, unsettling. Unsettling in the sense that listening to these guys in our little monkey boxes makes us want to run outside and set a trashcan on fire! Or deliberately misfile our weekly status reports or...

[In which we use the word fuck no less than three times. Well, four.] A few months ago, at a house party in Hyde Park thrown by local label Christmas Mountain Records, we found ourselves lounging idly with our mates on a plushly upholstered sofa, near the stage setup of a living room so sardine-packed with Austin hipsters that, in the dimmed lighting and from our low vantage point, all one could make out...

“DiG!”is probably the best documentary about a band that we have seen in the past year. Writer/director Ondi Timoner brings to light the friendship cum bitter rivalry between Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor and their respective bands, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. Both musicians fancy themselves revolutionaries in the music world, but the paths they take to achieve their success drastically diverge, leaving their friendship torn and their lives and careers in very different places. Come to a special screening sponsored by Scion on Thursday night at the Alamo Drafthouse South. This is a very limited engagement, so RSVP’s are required and can be done here. As a very special bonus, Timoner will be on hand for Q&A after the screening. We recommend checking out this film whether you are a fan of either band or do not know the first thing about either one. The tragicomedy of these people’s lives is not to be missed. (We’re looking at you, Joel Gion, you silly lovable bastard.)