One of our favorite parts of SXSW Music last year was only tangentially related to the thousand-plus bands in town -- it was Flatstock 6, a three-day gigposter show over at the Austin Convention Center that featured some of the world's most talented screen printers (we snagged a limited-edition print of the cover of Michael Chabon's The Final Solution, as well as some classic Flaming Lips show posters). And this South by, they're coming... more ›

Austin-based online music/film/literature magazine Urban Pollution launched today, and they're already in top form: the sharply-designed indie upstart - a clear contender for the Pitchfork/PopMatters set - unveiled a bevy of nifty content, with reviews ranging from albums (The Mendoza Line, Test Icicles, Cat Power) to films ("Match Point," "Brokeback Mountain," "Shop Girl") to books (Salvador Plascencia's The People of Paper). Of the last section, we were especially pleased to see a review of Michael Chabon's (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh) latest novella, The Final Solution, which Austinist had the delightful and unforgettable pleasure of hearing read aloud by Mister Chabon himself a few years ago at a swanky soiree thrown by The Paris Review. Dare we say that these hipster kids - who write quite well, we might add - are after our hearts (and yours)? Check 'em out for yourselves! more ›