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Austin Style Watch shot this footage from last Sunday's Silent Dance Party flash mob in the Capitol Rotunda.

A popular dance-workout phenomenon that's been getting asses in shape in New York City and Chicago is now catching on in Austin. It's called the Dance Dance Party Party — think of it as a ladies-only, free-form, DIY Sunday night Rock the Casbah to help you work off that weekend of boozing. In their October/November issue, BUST magazine explains its appeal as bringing back that "giddy, uninhibited spirit of those bygone slumber parties, when you...

Ryan Adams – Easy Tiger (Lost Highway): We like Ryan Adams: he’s witty, annoying, moody, talented, and 100% rock star. It’s unfortunate, then, that his output is so often uneven. Like a poster child for iPod album editing, Adams throws a handful of gems on each album, then adds lots of C+ songs with gratuitous swearing and purposefully off-key vocals. Easy Tiger isn’t the complete return to glory that early press suggested, but it...

You can check iPhone availability at local Apple stores before heading out to buy one. Both the Domain and Barton Creek locations in Austin are stocked up--for now--so it's about time to get in line. Bring your sleeping bag--or, better yet, pay someone to wait for you. In case anyone still cares about the iPod, researchers broke down the parts and labor costs by country. Can't go more than 3 hours without checking your...

White Denim are sort of an anomaly in Austin: they aren't iPod dance-rock, they don't have a gimmick, and they haven't been consumed by the scene's self-conscious rock elite. They seem to be making it based on the purest of rock 'n roll fantasies: a live show that makes people turn around and smile at each other, and songs which catalyze that in more ways than one. But describing their sound can be difficult....

After a month of guesswork, the ACL Fest lineup is here. And it's quite a good one. While the wild speculation of headliners like Neil Young and Stevie Wonder once again proved false, the key items one sees this year are depth and balance. Having spent yesterday looking over the roster, we have the following observations on the 2007 edition of ACL. The Good: A Great Top 10. Had you told us that we'd...

Another special night of local music beckons Friday at the baby Emo’s (Lounge). Headlining will be fast rising favorites Golden Bear, featured recently as the Artist Of The Day by Spin Magazine, while fellow Austinites Peel celebrate the release of their self-titled debut out now on Peek-A-Boo Records. Sandwiched between the two are the Midgetmen who specialize in beer infused punk n’ roll fit to kick off any weekend, or week-day for that matter....

The Austin City Limits Festival lineup is official, making this year's three day event a legitimate item of lust. In addition to the names you see there, the fest will include performances by Peter, Bjorn & John, Midlake, The National, Yo La Tengo, Sound Team, Pete Yorn, Ghostland Observatory, Joseph Arthur and many more. Right now, tickets are $145, and VIP passes are $1,700. VIP access, in case you're wondering if its worth the...

The penultimate speaker in KLRU's 2007 Spark Series is the ever-fascinating Douglas Rushkoff, a hugely prolific author, teacher, and documentarian who's written extensively on new media, pop culture, religion, and technology as it pertains to society in general. Rushkoff first exposed the world to the emerging cyberculture phenomenon with his 1994 book, Cyberia, and has since published at least ten best-selling books, including Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism (2003) and Media Virus: Hidden...

What happens when you throw music, dance, poetry, photography, visual art, theatre, film, and -- why not? -- opera into a great big blue box and shake? You get an explosion of proportions that only the creative geniuses at Refraction Arts can contain. This year's Fuse Box Festival, featuring artists from Brooklyn to Portland and places in between, showcases works you've never seen before and aren't likely to see hence. Things start gearing up this...

Sam Duckworth (aka Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly) just celebrated his 21st birthday by headlining a sold-out 2,000 seat theatre in London. If that's not precocious enough for you, he also has three UK Top 40 singles and made almost all of the major British magazines' Top 100 albums of '06 lists. The emotive and earnest vocals Duckworth employs are a touch emo, often political, and quite radio-friendly, which has earned him comparisons to...

In what might be the best example of both SXSW Interactive & Film comes "The Weathered Underground", a film that allows you to choose the direction that the main character, Eric (played by Michael Ciriaco), gets to experience. Wanna see Eric trip out on mushrooms? Wanna see him go to a club instead of working? Or would you rather see him work instead of drinking? The control is literally in your hands in this...

We were so excited when Thomas Dolby graced our city with his presence last year, and when the prospect of an interview with the pioneer came our way last week, we literally planned our weekend around it. Now, the thrill has gone and we’re left with some wonderfully insightful responses from the master himself. Enjoy. And then jam out that Grammys performance again. Are you working on new studio material? When can we expect...

One of the more intriguing panels during SXSW Interactive isn't even part of the official conference: 20x2 assembles twenty interesting individuals from the creative industry -- "writers, musicians, filmmakers, web geeks and other bon vivants" -- and poses a broad, abstract question that each must answer in two minutes. Having been around since 2001, questions presented at 20x2s past have included "Who Are You?", "What's the Word?", and "What's the Big Idea?". Abstract, indeed. This...

Andy Roddick, the world’s sixth-ranked men’s tennis player and part-time Austin resident, was in town last weekend for his Second Annual Andy Roddick Foundation Charity Gala. Founded in 2001, the Andy Roddick Foundation raises money to benefit organizations that aid in the development of at-risk children and families, including those that have been abused, abandoned and neglected. The Foundation’s goal is to improve the quality of life and enhance educational and economic opportunities for all...

If you're hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients - although we imagine IMs "so are you nakie" to be included in cop shows, just for realism. If only the cops were busting the Hummer-driving jerk who made a poor...

Even on the stronger tracks of the album, the band seems to be doing nothing more than borrowing from what has worked elsewhere. The opening track, “You Are the One,” kicks off with amped-up synths that are something more than reminiscent of The Faint, before collapsing into a clichéd imitation of ‘80’s new wave, albeit with the kind of overblown lyrics that one would sooner expect to find in a hair metal ballad. The first single, “Le Disko,” is certainly the album’s strongest point, though even there the band doesn’t quite manage to hit its stride. Take into account the aimless drivel that surrounds it, and there just isn’t much to recommend the album. True, there are a couple decent tracks, but you’re not likely to feel like your iPod is incomplete without them.

Last week Austin police seized 850 balloons of heroin in South Austin. Yikes, that's a lot to swallow. Pat Buchanan thinks Gore can beat Hillary in the Democratic primaries. Pat Buchanan, that great liberal mind. Saddam Hussein has some head-crushing in mind. On that note, soon scientists will be able to tell how smart you are with their improved brain imaging techniques. So there, IQ tests! People are taking their revenge for Steve Irwin's...

Verdict: Well done, and great for Bob's followers. Expect KGSR to play this to death.

We let it slide when ticket prices increase every year. We thoughtlessly shell out $3 for water or $4 for beer every year. And we even said "we'd go next year" when the dust from Zilker’s fields gave us dry mouths and black boogers for a few days. But the folks at The Austin City Limits Festival have outdone themselves this year (as well as overused the words deluxe, supreme and luxury) with their...

Trying out a different approach in their efforts to preserve the Edwards Aquifer from urban development, Save Our Springs Alliance today launched a new audio-based walking tour of Barton Springs. The self-guided tour covers thirteen stations of note, including Philosopher's Rock Statue, Old Mill Springs, Eliza Spring, and the Monument on Big Hill. What's more, they're making these available as free mp3 downloads so you can load 'em onto your iPod before you head...

Our favorite local posts for the week: Jeff Beckham posts on the phenomena that are iPod guides to Austin. Los Brushes ponders the space-time continuum. Paul Burka from Texas Monthly now has a blog, after writing last year that they were just a fad. Eileen at ITPT takes him on. McChris riffs on the smartest cities listing. Karmalized is being overrun by figs. Favorite Random Blog of the Week: ultra8201, because he asked so...

This being one of those quality-over-quantity weekends for bands and rocking and, y'know, that kind of thing, you won't really have to make any tough decisions. Friday night you got Sonic Youth w/Awesome Color at Stubb's. Thurston & Co. have aged so gracefully they just might be wheeled onto the stage encased in blocks of carbonite; they're like 50 years old! Nonetheless, if you've never seen Kim Gordon do her cheerleader dance, or heard...

• A professor at UC Davis was awarded a grant to study the relationship between music and emotion. For instance- why do some people get turned on by R. Kelly while it makes us other people want to vomit?
• Every kid's dream came true for 6-year-old Michael James Emanuel Jr. who was left behind at a Chuck E. Cheese on his birthday. His 23-year-old mother didn't even realize Junior was missing until the following morning.
• A survey administered in the US apparently indicates that us young folk like the iPods more than the beer. We call bullshit, we want proof. An iPod has no power to get one laid.
• A man woman in prison for murdering his her wife is suing the state in an attempt to get them to foot the bill for a sex change. Now, in an all-male prison, we wonder what fantasies are going to get fulfilled.
• Your mom can't tell you that smoking pot is going to give you cancer the same way she warns you about cigarettes. A recent study reveals that there is not a correlation between the two. Couch-potato-syndrome, however, is yet to be dertermined.
• KISS sells out! (Like that's new.) But this time it's...weird.
• The World Cup starts today! Time to go out with your mates, get pished at the bar, get in a swedge with the blokes wearing the wrong colored scarves, then stagger home and pass out before the match starts. reference.
• Carole Keeton Strayhorn wants to be listed as Grandma on the ballot, but the law says that a candidate has to be known by that nickname for at least 3 years. Kinky Friedman calls it a campaign slogan and inappropriate for the ballot.
  
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• A New Zealand man and double-amputee Mark Inglis, is heavily criticized for walking past a dying man on his trek to the summit of Mount Everest.
• Houston's bat population is getting a bad rap already. A teenager was diagnosed with rabies and is fighting to survive passed away after being bitten by a bat.
• "Nike+iPod will change the way people run." What, with shoes on their ears? Oh, ok. Nike just wanted in on the fun. The iPod is going to become another fancy running calculator.
• Our nieces and nephews can barely put their faces in the pool water comfortably, yet this kid has already swam to Alcatraz, and he's only 7!
• UT Football coach Mac Brown underwent successful knee replacement surgery yesterday. Now to more pressing matters, quarterback replacement.
• If you're totally into nerds like we are, you should plan on attending the newly expanded Austin Gaming Conference in September. The convention will also the Game Writers Conference, Casual Games Conference and Game Audio Conference. Austin loves geeks.
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You're listening to your iPod walking down Congress Ave., the beats pounding in your head conspire with your artistic sensibilities, painting in your mind's eye a visual landscape for the song you are hearing.