Hey everybody, we're giving away two tickets to the Liars/No Age show at the Mohawk on Saturday! Winners are also invited to a late Happy Hour (8-8:30) with Liars before the show. Details and concert entry form after the jump...but first, backstory:...

Dear reader, we’re sure you’ll agree that it’s been too long since we’ve heard from our favorite Bear Den/music venue, The Chain Drive, up there on Willow Street. ...

Photo by Ray Soto $2 Music Mondays: Punk’s Not DeadMonday, November 5thAlamo Drafthouse Downtown [map]9:45pm, $2[info] | [tickets]After a painful four month hiatus, the Music Mondays film series has finally returned to the Alamo Drafthouse! Huzzah! The series will no longer be curated/hosted by Kier-La Janisse (who has left Austin to return to the wilds of Canada), but the first batch of programming looks strong, beginning tonight with Susan Dynner's Punk's Not Dead, a documentary......

This time, Liars didn’t catch us off-guard. Whereas 2006’s Drum’s Not Dead came prepackaged with low to no expectations—a result of 2004’s nearly unlistenable and critically panned They Were Wrong, So We Drowned—yet managed to stun and satisfy with its deliberate grittiness and an art-house-from-hell approach to the concept album, this new release of theirs, Liars, is blessed with no such reprieve. Liars is an honest attempt to recreate the razor-like precision of Drum’s Not......