Tipping their hat to this immortal glory of fluorescent heartache that was the New Wave Scene, the Alamo Drafthouse debuts their newest concert/theater/dance explosion this Thursday evening, promising such running-in-place classics as Whip It, Rio, and, well, I Ran (So Far Away). If you have never been to an Alamo sing-along, then we can personally assure you that it will be just like heaven. ...

Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely follows the adventures of an American Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) who meets a charming Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton) on the streets of Paris. Together, they travel to a commune populated exclusively by celebrity impersonators--a Neverlandesque place where everyone is famous, and the spotlight never fades....

101X FM presents this year’s final installment of their Homegrown Live series on Wednesday at Emo’s Lounge. Homegrown Live has featured a broad array of local hotshots this year including Born To Lose and Black Before Red, staying true to their mantra of “showcasing promising local artists and the kick-ass live music venues in Austin.”...

The 6th annual Indie Music Video Festival rolls into town tonight at the downtown Alamo Drafthouse....

The Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF) is all grown up in its 20th year and it shows in tonight’s kickoff festivities. Not only is the inaugural film—Call Me Troy—a world premiere, it is also the first documentary in the festival’s history to serve as an opening night film. The schedule continues to entice with another noteworthy first: the Sapphire MojitoMartini. You can down this “aGLIFF 20 Signature Cocktail” and chat up......

Austinite Bill Kilday has put together a pretty nifty ACL page that shows you which artists are playing on each stage throughout the weekend. What's more, he's conveniently provided YouTube clips and music videos for most of the artists. "Bill's Map" is a mashup of Google Maps, YouTube, and the Official ACL schedule. It's worth a look around, especially if you're curious about some of the lesser known acts playing the festival. In an......

Dandi Wind - Concrete Igloo (Summer Lovers Unlimited Music) Ok, we are fond of electronic duos. Even more so when they hail from Canada. Dandi Wind (comprised of Dandelion Wind Opaine and Szam Findlay) tests our undying affection with their hit or miss debut, Concrete Igloo. The duo combines a variety of genres to conjure up an adrenaline fueled, almost destructive sound that clicks wonderfully on songs like “Slumlord” and “Apotemnophilia.” The insistent “Hitch-Hiker” could......

Calling all 2.0 auteurs: Have you been sleeping on the SXSWclick! Festival deadline? You best get your ten-minute video in the mail by Friday, June 15th--tomorrow--so you can get in the running to win a veritable cornucopia of glittering prizes, including tons of slick production software AND a MacPro Workstation with an Apple Cinema display from iThentic! Just make sure your masterpiece is ten minutes long or shorter, and enter it in one of five......

In the mid 1980s, the US Senate (provoked by a high-powered busybody wives club called the PMRC) held a series of hearings on so-called “porn rock”—music containing lyrics about violence, sex, drugs, and the occult. The hearings were pointless but hilarious, providing a public venue for several old, rich, uptight assholes to make fools of themselves reciting lyrics from songs by prominent 80s rock bands. And though the hearings are probably best remembered for testimonies......

Austin filmmaker Bob Ray's Hell on Wheels tells the story of Austin's roller derby revival, following a group of hard-hitting Texas women who pulled the sport from the brink of obscurity and into the international spotlight. Five years in the making, this rock-meets-rollerskates doc will be premiering at this years' South by Southwest film festival. We recently had a chance to talk to Bob about Roller Derby, filmmaking and one-man bands. How did Hell on......

In our effort to help you sort through all of the excellent screenings at SXSW Film Festival, we've partnered up with Austin-based B-Side Entertainment, who create nifty online program guides for film festivals all around the world. Locally, they're responsible for the interactive schedules you might have encountered at Austin Film Festival, the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, and Fantastic Fest. Here are just some of the things you do over at......

We don't know about you, but by the third day of our recent ice storm, we had a serious case of cabin fever. A few more days in chilly isolation, and we might have completely lost our marbles. So we can only imagine what it's like to live in the land of ice; a frosty, desolate country where the mercury rarely pushes past 60 degrees and where the largest city has less than a......

Alpha Dog Dir: Nick Cassavettes There's an interesting moment early on in Alpha Dog that sets up the gist of the movie. At a house party in an affluent LA neighborhood, teenagers are getting loaded and generally misbehaving. One, eyes heavily lidded by pot smoke, points at a rap video playing on a plasma TV and proclaims derisively, “Man, they only thing they be shooting is music videos!” Apparently these upper-class Valley kids know a......

Just like Barbie had her hip, perky teen sibling Skipper, South By Southwest has its younger counterpart, SXSWclick. Now in its third year, the fledgling "mobile media festival" is a chance for amateur filmmakers around the world to show off their short-form storytelling skillz by competing in any of five categories: Old-School Shorts › Tried'n true narrative shorts, shot on anything you like. Really Real Shorts › Documentary shorts, real stuff. Animate-it › Flash......

Just like Barbie had her hip, perky teen sibling Skipper, South By Southwest has its younger counterpart, SXSWclick. Now in its third year, the fledgling "mobile media festival" is a chance for amateur filmmakers around the world to show off their short-form storytelling skillz by competing in any of five categories: Old-School Shorts › Tried'n true narrative shorts, shot on anything you like. Really Real Shorts › Documentary shorts, real stuff. Animate-it › Flash......

Yes. Even though there’s no chance in hell that we could afford their threads, we really dig their parties! FactoryPeople is throwing down for fans of music, and the videos that come with, on the roof deck this Saturday night. Their wordy-words by way of press-release (fancy!): First Week of South by Southwest 2006 Kicks off With a FactoryPeople Party FactoryPeople is the place to celebrate SxSW (Austin, Texas)—-March 6, 2006—-FactoryPeople announced today that......

A few weeks ago, local bands and filmmakers were asked to submit their music videos for consideration in this year's inaugural Texas Indie Music Video Festival. Tonight the selected works are being shown at the Drafthouse Downtown, brought to us by End of an Ear and Emo's. The list of chosen videos includes some of our favorite regional acts, including now-defunct Canoe, Peter & the Wolf, and Okkervil River. Check the full listing after......

[The following is an editorial column by contributor Alison Coffey and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Austinist staff. --The Editors] By accident I flipped to #1 Single, the new E show featuring songstress Lisa Loeb, who's dating her way through New York City's available hip men, lookin' for love. I was instantly hooked. It's funny that the tagline calls her the real-life Carrie Bradshaw. She's cute and sassy and creative, but......

Come March 1st, the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown will be hosting the inaugural Texas Indie Music Video Festival, with music videos by Texas-based indie bands competing for prizes (including gift certificates from End of an Ear). Submit your band's entry by February 15th for consideration in their lineup - no entry fee is required. Submissions should be sent on DVD with full contact info and the name of the video director to: Kier-La Janisse Programming......

Back in May, Alamo Drafthouse and DJ Nick Nack teamed up to bring us a screening of Fritz Lang's magnificent Metropolis, set to a live turntable score by the vinyl maestro. This Saturday, they're bringing it back with back-to-back showings of the black and white sci-fi masterpiece at the Downtown Drafthouse, at 7pm and 9pm. The screening we attended last time sold out, so we had to settle for seats at the very front;......

Having sex for the first time probably did not go down in your ‘magical experience handled with surprising aplomb’ hall of fame. There are the awkward all-thumbs moments when trying to unsnap bras; the nervousness of wondering exactly what the hell you might be doing and if you are, in fact, doing it to the thrilling effect you have seen achieved in thousands of movies and millions of music videos. But, self-consciousness be damned,......

In 1927, Austrian filmmaker Fritz Lang premiered his latest masterpiece to a modest reception in Berlin: Metropolis it was titled, so-named for the futuristic citystate where its story takes place. The black-and-white silent film describes a society split into two vastly disparate castes: the privileged Thinkers, who dwell in the lofty upper levels of the skyscrapered urban cityscape, and the oppressed Workers, who wallow in an underground dystopic squalor.Borne of the waning German Expressionism......