Free week rolls on tonight with our humble offering at the 29th Street Ballroom. Five local bands for the glorious price of free - should be the perfect capper to a hilarious day of reading about the fallout from the Iowa caucus. Grimy indie-poppers Literature will headline our showcase. The band just released their debut LP, Arab Spring, which you can grab for whatever you care to pay for it on their bandcamp. The ten songs are catchy, pop-punk nuggets, distorted and besmirched by low-fidelity that would be right at home on Slumberland Records circa 1995. The album got a Twitter recommendation from Kip Berman of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, who likened the sound to an amalgam of the Buzzcocks and Exploding Hearts. more ›

When you first read about David Williams, his story seems fake, like some massive This Is Spinal Tap or Joaquin Phoenix put-on. It’s straight out of VH1’s Behind The Music: he dabbled in a few Denton-area post-punk bands, then moved to L.A. and helped produce a bonafide hip-hop classic, and then moved back to Austin with a nasty drug habit that he’s since kicked. And now he’s starting yet another chapter as the frontman for locals Beautiful Supermachines. You can catch the man, the myth, the legend tonight at Beerland as part of The Rumble, a local concert series presented in part by your friendly Austinist. more ›

An album release show is always fluttering with excitement. Performers know it represents the grand finale of countless hours of hard work and back-tracking. A special sparkle is in the air and everyone knows they're getting a taste of excitement and magic. Tonight is that night for Sour Notes. The group will celebrate its long-anticipated release on its 7-inch, Never Mix Never Worry, at the Parlor. more ›