Last night, veteran noise rockers Sonic Youth appeared on the Austin City Limits stage for the first time. With only a handful of tapings left in the KLRU campus studio before moving over to their new downtown digs, the venerable PBS series is hosting several performances in conjunction with this weekend's Austin City Limits Music Festival. The band were booked to play on the show last fall, but had to cancel the show and their festival appearance after guitarist Lee Renaldo fractured his wrist. more ›

Marfa, TX is a tiny, strange place crawling with perpetually drunk twenty-somethings that fancy themselves as misfit "artists". The weather is nice, though. It's still not enough to make us want to drive seven hours this weekend to celebrate the megalomaniacal minimalist Donald Judd's legacy by taking tequila shots around a maypole. We're gonna save ourselves the nightmarish Orwellian experience that is worshipping a yankee carpetbagger and stick around Austin. Who in the hell needs Chinati weekend when Sonic Youth is playing right here at Stubb's? With the Meat Puppets, no less! more ›

Emo's is packing in approximately half of the bands in Austin this evening for a Bacchanalian orgy of rock and roll, Lone Star, and - with all due respect - poorly conceptualized tattoos. Silly tats aside, tonight is guaranteed to be a blowout, and whether you're looking to get familiar with some of the best indie that this town has to offer, or a long-time fan, you'll be sonically satiated come this evening. Here's... more ›

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... more ›