At one time or another many of us have formed a relationship with Pink Floyd’s extensive catalog, listening late night in smoky basements and dorm rooms, singing along quietly in crowded barrooms...whatever your case may be. There’s a timeless energy in their music that finds a home in generations of record collections. While most of us save our interpretations for drunken sing-a-longs and Guitar Hero-esque moments, a select few have the dedication and precision to fulfill the dream and, if only for one night, be the band. Saturday night marked a special occasion as Floyd fans gathered at Seaholm Power Plant for one last hurrah before the doors close and an extensive multi-year reconstruction begins. more ›

Pink Floyd tribute bands are a cottage industry in the music world - in the increasingly unlikely event that the Floyd itself might reunite, a lot of musicians would be put out of work. But this performance is something special. As the event’s website says, “What classic rock music fan hasn’t looked up at the smokestacks at Seaholm Power Plant and envisioned a pink pig flying above?” Local promoter Electric Company is putting that vision into practice with a name borrowed (with permission) from a L.A. tribute act and an epic audiovisual extravaganza that purports to cover the Floyd’s entire career. (Including the Syd Barrett era?) more ›

For our final Psych Fest post, here are some backstage/all access/out in the parking lot photos that Pooneh Ghana snapped. more ›

Our last installment of reviews from the Psych Fest includes more of Pooneh's photos as well as recollections of performances by My Education/Theta Naught, Roky Erickson, The Black Angels, Cold Sun, and more. more ›

The second day of Psych Fest featured a full day of live music at the Seaholm Power Plant, and, like on Friday, we were there to watch it all go down. Pooneh Ghana, as per usual, took some great photos. more ›

The first day of the 4th annual Psych Fest took place on April 29th at the Seaholm power plant, and featured two stages of music that lasted from early evening to early morning. Our writers caught a good chunk of the sets that evening, and Pooneh Ghana got some great shots. more ›

Fusebox, the annual festival of contemporary art and pereformance, is back for its seventh year. Tonight's free opening performance finds Austin-based orchestral pop band Mother Falcon, normally a 17+ member affair, recruitingn 100 string players to join them at Seaholm Power Plant. more ›

• The October issue of Men’s Health magazine declared Austin to be the most sexually active city in America. You might care that part of the data they used to determine this ranking was the rate of STD’s!
• Barton Springs Pool might be open again by this weekend!
• We had no clue that Townes van Zandt ever loved a goat who didn’t love him back!

The Alamo Drafthouse has been busy preparing special Rolling Roadshow screenings all across the country this summer, but we get an impressive screening of our own next month. more ›

Last October, Rare and the now-defunct WOXY teamed up to host Toronto’s Broken Social Scene at an unofficial ACL after party at Seaholm Power Plant. Now no longer affiliated with the magazine, Hicks and his fledgling new production company back are returning to the art-deco landmark this Sunday to stage yet another free public event. more ›

With all the events, after-shows, parties, and spontaneous outdoor dance parties surrounding ACL weekend, you’d be forgiven for overlooking some of the festival’s incredible (official or not) ancillary events. This is not one of those events to overlook. If you only make it to one show outside of the festival this year, Rare Magazine and WOXY, Austin’s newest internet radio station (which is already endearing itself quite nicely to our community), have made a strong case for this being the one to hit. Of course, we’re referring to the rechristening of the decommissioned Seaholm Power Plant as a live music venue, with none other than the ensemble cast of Toronto’s Broken Social Scene shattering the bottle of champagne on the art-deco columns (figuratively for sure, literally, maybe). more ›

Blue Lapis Light's newest production opened last weekend, and we had chance to take it in. Illumination is the latest site-specific aerial dance work from Blue Lapis Light’s Artistic Director Sally Jacques. We were totally wowed by how pretty the show was. We might've even spent at least part of the time with our mouth hanging open—we were that amazed by the sheer spectacle. Illumination features dancers/aerialists moving around the big open space of the... more ›

O, the mighty men and women of Austin's stages! They get so busy this time of year. There's more than enough to choose from this week, but here are the theater picks that top our list. ProArts Collective wraps up the Black Arts Movement Festival with Incognito on Thursday at 8pm, and Spoken Word Caravan on Friday at 8pm. The former is a one-man drama, performed by author Michael Fosberg, about a man who grew... more ›

Tonight's eagerly anticipated launch party for KLRU-TV's Downtown has been rescheduled to tomorrow night, due to the heavy thunderstorms and flash floods that are expected to slam Central Texas. "Rain, hail and thunderstorms don't make for a good party when it's being held at a power plant," as someone our awesome friend aptly put it. The original lineup will remain intact, with featured guests from past episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series performing throughout the... more ›

TUESDAY [24] party • KLRU, Downtown Austin Alliance and Action Figure host a party for Season 3 of "Downtown" at Seaholm Power Plant (7:30pm, Free, Bring a Canned Good) POSTPONED books • Rob Neyer and Jim Baker present Baseball Prospectus 2007 at BookPeople (7:00pm) comedy • Tig Notaro and Steve Burr at Cap City Comedy Club film • AFS Essential Series: "Funny Games" at Alamo Downtown film • "Shaft" with Free 40! at Alamo... more ›

Seaholm Power, LLC has released new renderings of the proposed Seaholm Power Plant redevelopment, which it will present to City Council tonight. The site plan includes an extension of the city street grid, filling the gap in Third Street, connecting West Avenue to Cesar Chavez and adding a new street, Seaholm Drive, between Third Street and Cesar Chavez. Both new streets get pedestrian/bicycle crossings at their intersections with Cesar Chavez, to help integrate this... more ›