This Tuesday, it’s won’t be business as usual for a quartet of local bands looking to escape the drudgery of the bar/venue scene. Mo Pair, Some Say Leland, The Blue Hit and Infinite Partials are planning what will be the seventh in a series of “secret shows” that take place all over Austin in diverse locals like sewers, next to old Cottonwood trees, and now, on an island on Ladybird Lake. ...

The Secret Show is a collective of Austin musicians who are dedicated to bringing music to the most out-of-the-way and beautifully unusual corners of Austin. Their 4th performance in the series took place on Tuesday night, in a drainage ditch behind Ricky Guerrero park, with a wall covered in graffiti as a backdrop and a few dozen fans and friends in attendance. The shows are always performed with short notice, announced on the group's......

FRIDAY: Mohawk: Cracker / Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit Club Deville: Robbers on High Street, Great Northern - FREE! Sponsored by The Onion/Sweet Leaf Tea Beauty Bar: DJ Tim Sweeney (DFA records), Learning Secrets, Farah SATURDAY: Red 7: The Paper Chase, Stinking Lizaveta, Death Is Not A Joyride Club Deville: Mates of State, Small Sins, Immaculate Machine Mohawk: Murder City Devils, Those Peabodys Beauty Bar: Bus Driver, Daedelus, Antimc (DJs Mel and Klassen)......

Since their inception in 2001, Portland's The Decemberists have channeled a unique and wide-ranging set of influences (be it R.E.M., Irish folkfore, or Russian literature) into classic indie-pop that has found a large and fervent fanbase. The group's 2006 major label debut The Crane Wife both amazed and shocked music critics, who loved the material but could hardly believe the band's audacity, as two 11-plus minute epics were featured on the disc. The bold......

Would you like to film a secret show at a downtown Austin venue this Friday Night? SUPER!ALRIGHT! media is offering a rare chance to see a monster band in a small intimate setting in exchange for your video footage. Show up with your equipment, get into a show, film the event and receive a free ticket to the show (duh), 2 drink tickets, a t-shirt (they've assured us it won't be off their back......

M O N D A Y [ 1 7 ] music · Elizabeth McQueen (of Asleep At the Wheel) and Jason Roberts begin their new Monday night residency at Threadgills - they're sharing a band and splitting the night. (8pm-10pm) music · Ethan Azarian at Waterloo Records (5pm) music · The Sad Accordions with Just Guns at Emo's music · The Drafthouse Downtown screens "Rock & Roll Invaders: The AM Radio DJs" - a documentary......

Über-hipster magazine, VICE, has a surprisingly large presence at this years music convention. Their party schedule features Bloc Party, Death From Above, and the creators of [adult swim]'s Aqua Teen Hunger Force. For some reason, we have an image in our mind of these parties being filled with drunk trailerpark residents with bad teeth and torn jeans, carrying jug bottles that say "XXX" on the side. Maybe this is because we've seen lots of......

We here at Austinist value knowing something that nobody else knows pretty much above all else. Why else would we write for a blog like this? The inside line, people! The inside line! Invite us to your parties. Ahem. There is an old saying about SXSW which we coined two years ago after missing an unlikely but totally real secret show by Blur: If you hear about a secret show at SXSW, no matter how......