Stuck at work and loathing your job? Episodes of The Office no longer so funny as true? Here's an opportunity to parlay your fanatical music lust and problem with The Man into something, well, practical: Misra Records, one of Austinist's favorite Austin-based indie music labels and home to such esteemed bands as Phosphorescent, England's Flotation Toy Warning, The Mendoza Line, Shearwater and Destroyer is looking for an intern! more ›

While scores of wonderful albums from already well-established indie acts like Broken Social Scene, Of Montreal and The Decemberists were all but predestined for greatness this year, others seemed to appear from nowhere. Case in point: Sup Pop phenoms Wolf Parade, emerging from Montreal with a series of cameos in various compilation albums that left American fans in a rabid frenzy before finally dazzling us with their debut LP, Apologies to the Queen Mary;... more ›

England's Flotation Toy Warning is a band of inventors, academics, and a former flying machine test pilot - most telling of their avant-garde leanings, it was while discussing exotic butterflies over dinner that the five "discovered a common interest in astrophonics and decided to become a musical item." Their debut album, "Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck" - released by Austin's own Misra Records - is what would have resulted had Johann Sebastian Bach... more ›