Covers are inherently ballsy, and Lord knows Chan Marshall is no coward. She's already released one full length's worth of odes to her varied inspiration, 2000's Covers Record. In general, the songs Marshall covers are tiny glimpses into what we gather is her inner life, and they're almost always hit or miss, just like the lady herself. Her version of Pavement's "We Dance" was withered, but her rendition of Lou Reed's "I Found a Reason" was emotionally devastating. "I Can't Get No (Satisfaction)" was inspiring and combined her natural strut with a legend's perfectly, but here we find her opening number, "New York New York" an uncomfortable, shallow mess. ...

"Barista Babe" From Unrelated Source, Found on Seattle MetblogsA new coffee trailer in South Austin is hoping to capitalize on the recent "sexpresso" fad that's taken over Seattle. Latte Dolls offers a selection of coffees and espresso drinks served by scantily-clad female baristas with stripper fascinating names like Kyana, Alysha, and Reyna. Touting itself as a "highly-personalized, memorable and convenient coffee alternative to morning commuters and the mobile labor force of Austin," the stand plans......

JOSH RITTER What’s The Deal: Josh Ritter graduated from college with a major in American History through Narrative Folk Music, which makes the title of this folk-pop singer/songwriter’s recently released album, The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter, fitting as well as boastful. He can boast all he wants with those hearty lyrics fat with imagery and the voluminous songwriting of this, his fifth album. Comparisons to Bob Dylan as well as John Lennon immediately come......

Demonstrating just how far one will go to further his or her craft, Austinite playwright Greg Romero subjected himself to the ultimate humiliation in order to raise $700 for a play he's producing in New York City: shaving off the beard he's been growing for the past 13 years. Found via Yellow Tape's fantastic new website.......

Dear Austin pervs, creeps, voyeurs and general lurkers (we know you're out there—Missed Connections and A Shot in the Dark speak volumes): Tonight is your night! Jason Bitner and Arthur Jones of Found Magazine will descend upon the Alamo Drafthouse to celebrate the new issue of Dirty Found, the paragon of accidentally found porn. They invite you to "witness all-new pervy PowerPoint festivities, packed with improbably lusty love notes, red-hot fantasy doodles, intimate bedroom photos,......

MONDAY [30] food • Central Market Cooking School with Chef Aimee Olson: Spectacular Sponge Cakes at Central Market Cooking School, 4001 N Lamar ($45, 6:30-9pm) books • Dirty Found: Live! with Found Magazine Creative Directors Jason Bitner and Arthur Jones at Alamo Downtown (7:00pm) film • "Dirty Found" at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown film • Music Mondays: "The Smiths: These Things Take Time" at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown music • Music Industry Boot Camp, presented by......

Michigan's Quack!Media is your entity’s one-stop shop for music, video, print, and web needs. Meanwhile, Quack! affiliate Found Magazine is an intriguing collection of interesting stuff found in random places. As their website states, “We collect found stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, doodles- anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life. Anything goes”. Oh, and there’s also a pervy version, Dirty Found Magazine. Together, they......

WEDNESDAY [1] music • Minus the Bear, POS, The Velvet Teen, Russian Circles at Emo's music • Social Distortion w/ Blackpool Lights & The Chelsesa Smiles at Stubb's music • New Found Glory at La Zona Rosa music • The Mozart Requiem: A 250th Anniversary featuring Les Violons du Roy & La Chapelle de Quebec at Bass Concert Hall music • Capitol Years, The Lemurs, National Eye at The Mohawk books • Poetry on......

Note: this post has been revised after receiving additional information from the Austin Police Department. According to the Daily Texan, the body of a student from St. Edward's University -- identified by the Austin Police Department as 19-year old James Henry Leonard -- was discovered by officers at a small apartment complex at 22nd and Rio Grande, mere blocks from UT Austin, earlier this morning. Meanwhile, News 8 Austin's article claims that "party noises"......

TUESDAY [15] art • Opening Reception for "Dogs Among Men" at Gallery Lombardi (7pm) ® film • Oh Brother, Where Art Thou at Jo's Coffee (7pm) film • Zoom Lost & Found Show with Tommy White Live at Alamo Downtown (7pm, $8) film • Maltese Falcon at Rounders Pizzeria (8pm, Free) film • Three Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation benefiting ABC Legal Services and the National Angola-3 Coalition at MonkeyWrench Books (8pm,......

In a city that’s home to bands like Gang Green, Slapshot, Mission of Burma and Converge, being labeled “loud” and “raw” is a compliment of the highest order. And perhaps no other Boston band deserves it as much as Unnatural Axe. Unnatural Axe were a hugely important part of first-wave Boston punk. Despite their small discography, the Axe became Boston’s favorite hard-rocking, beer-swilling, Ramones-inspired three chord punk band during the late 1970s, often sharing the......

MONDAY [14] film • Excellent Cadavers, the story of the Italian Mafia, at Alamo Downtown (7pm) ® film • Touches Pas Au Grusbi at Paramount Theatre (7:15pm) film • Brick at Rounders Pizzeria (8pm, Free) film • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels at Austin Java (8pm, Free) film • Bukowski: Born into This at Café Mundi (8:30pm, FREE) film • Classe Tous Risques at Paramount Theatre (9:15pm) ® music • Horns of Happiness,......

When your roster of artists includes dancers from the Joffrey Ballet, Boston Ballet, Atlanta Ballet and Oregon Ballet Theatre, musicians from the Tosca String Quartet, and two Artistic Directors that are already rising stars in their respective disciplines, your work has to meet some seriously high expectations. After seeing Dialogues, American Repertory Ensemble’s first performance event – a highly professional, intelligent, inventive and entertaining evening of music and dance – we think ARE lives......

Austin's Sound Team just released their major-label debut, Movie Monster, a few weeks ago. We've been pretty impressed with it. Pitchfork, on the other hand, gave the album a less than stellar rating (3.7), though we're inclined to question the authority of any review mentioning the already-passé Snakes on a Plane reference. The above video is Sound Team's response: In retaliation of the 3.7 rating, the band-- or someone purporting to be them-- posted......

MONDAY [5] [film] Anime Monday at Ventana del Sol (7:30pm, Free) (link) [film] Be Here to Love Me at Rounders Pizzeria (8pm, Free) (link) [film] Memento at Austin Java (8pm, Free) (link) [film] Strangers on a Train at Paramount Theater (7pm) (link) [film] North by Northwest at Paramount Theater (9:10pm) (link) [film] The Puffy Chair at Alamo Downtown (Though 8th, 7pm, except Tuesday, 9:45pm) (link) [film] The Fall: The World of Mark E. Smith at......

DCist is screwed in the event of an oil crisis. Not that we're not all screwed in the event of an oil crisis, just D.C. is more screwed. Don't sell your car yet, District resident, a cabbie can kick you to the curb if he doesn't like your address. Not even Metro can save you now. Londonist experiences the London of the future through the wonders of 3D modeling, but while the 3D guys are......

Dear Alicia, What were you thinking?! Fucking Ben in the next room while I was sick w/ mono. UR A DIRTY BITCH and I rebuke you!!! I thought we had something special, but clearly you didn't. I hope you enjoy "tramping it up" and fucking half of Austin. Please die Sincerely, Roger Hilarious? Yes. Sad? Sure. Familiar? Probably. This is just one of the hundreds of pieces collected in the new book FOUND II, the......

UT's student resident dance company, Dance Repertory Theatre is premiering new work by David Justin, Yacov Sharir, and MFA candidate Ray Eliot Schwartz this weekend in an evening entitled PROOF. Sharir is one of the co-founders of popular Austin dance company Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks, and Justin, now the Artistic Director of DRT, has danced with Birmingham Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Boston Ballet. Out of the "four short stories with lasting impact and truth"......

Judging from the success of projects like Found Magazine and its recent local offshoot, the Austin Found Party at the Drafthouse, we suspect that there's a burgeoning public interest for these snippets of anonymous history. Tonight, The Griffin School's art instructor Aaron Reynolds presents his discoveries - not of manmade inscriptions, but the objects, materials, and textures he's come across throughout the years. It's happening at The Space on Airport Blvd from 8-10pm. Aaron......

A local developer is planning on building a new "Gentlemen's Club" (that phrase always kills us) around I-35 & Grand Avenue Parkway. But local residents are concerned that the new club would only bring "unsavory clientele" into the neighborhood, putting children at risk of drunk perverts. Come on, don't you folks already have high-speed internet? The die has been cast, we think. The intersection near the proposed topless club already has two titty-bars and......

Found on an apartment's windowsill this morning. Anyone wanting to share photos from the recent storm can tag their photos on Flickr with "Austinist ice."......

A while back, we interviewed Broken Social Scene co-founder Kevin Drew before their show at Stubb’s. In their latest, self-titled album - one of our favorites this year – they’ve realized brilliant, anthemic indie rock majesty, what Drew himself refers to as a “big, beautiful mess.” And by all accounts, their live shows rival, if not surpass, their studio efforts. Found In Various Contexts In This Interview: “Ibi Dreams of Pavement”, Just Pressing Record......

: : FRIDAY : : [culture] End of Ramadan (EID) Festival, 9:30am-4:30pm @ Richard Moya Park [homework] Deadline for the Soup Peddler's Soupie Cookbook [film] New Movies! @ Your Local Theater! [dance] Armagetdown with New Berlin, DJ Big Face and DJ Manny, 9pm @ Progress Coffee [music] Cruiserweight, The Fall Collection, The Always Already and Paper Airlines @ Emo's [music] Fluffer's Union and American Graveyard @ Trophy's [theatre] Paul Rudnick's "The Most Fabulous Story......

We've a pair of tickets to give away to see Laura Cantrell at the Cactus Cafe tonight! Simply answer the following question in the subject line of an email. We'll randomly draw one lucky reader before 1pm. Update: Congrats, Clay! Q: What's the name of the unreleased MP3 posted to this site on 10/06? And, for those of you with a short attention span, we're reposting a few downloads: Laura Cantrell 14th Street I'll......

Check the IST List to see when and where these acts will be playing this week Laura Cantrell 14th Street I'll Remember You I Lost You (But I Found Country Music) Bees Letters Rain Boy The Handsome Charlies (samples) Friend of Mine Eighty One Makes Me Love You Ghostland Observatory Podcast Interview with Laurie Gallardo, KUT's "Before the Break" The Deadly Snakes Gore Veil Sound Team Don't Turn Away It's Obvious What's Happening Here......

We love pirates. Even though the whole weed-winded sect of armchair academia has long-proved, beyond any reasonable doubt, ninjas are far, far superior in every category of comparison from hand-to-hand combat to headwear to macramé trivet production. Hands/hooks down, the ninja reigns supreme. Secondary status notwithstanding, we are still hell-bent on becoming pirates when we get bigger. Really good pirates too. The kind with crazy-ass accents, bare feet, and lots and lots of exotic......

Last week, we journeyed down to San Antonio to check out the mighty metal quartet known as Mudvayne. Their latest CD, "Lost and Found" debuted at #2 on Billboard, bested by Mariah Carey’s latest release. It’s been a long struggle for this Illinois troupe. Battling drug problems that have forced them off the road a few times, Mudvayne seems ready to conquer the world as they have recently been named one of the mystery bands......

This weekend you will have your choice of ways to help out Austinist's favorite charity, Safeplace. First, we'd like to remind you that the Tripartite festival, which we posted about last week, takes place on Firday, May 6, 2005, at Jo’s (1300 S. Congress). Program starts at 8:30PM. Admission is free but donations (all of which will go to SafePlace) are encouraged. The Austinist recommends bringing your own chair as seating will be limited. This......

This Saturday, April 30th, from 7pm-9pm, Progress Coffee (500 San Marcos St) is hosting a show entitled Episodic Attempts. The opening features wine, bite-sized food, music and the paintings of Sean Ripple, a self-made mover/shaker in Austin's art scene. Sean's biggest claim to fame might be as the vibraphonist for The American Analog Set, but the Austinist loves him most for being the man behind the Tripartite Film Festival. The festival, which is now in......

For those about to rock, the Austinist has a few selections to piss off your neighbors. Mindless Self-Indulgence - You'l Rebel to Anything Mindless Self-Indulgence combine industrial groove with spastic metal outbursts. Mudvayne - Lost and Found Mudvayne finally drops the goofy make-up and alien masks to reveal that they may be capable of making good music without all the gimmicks. Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) Special Edition Roadrunner loves to issue re-releases......