Even though most of America has turned down the volume on their radios long ago and pressed play on their iPods, community radio is still chugging along in an age where digital music was supposed to have killed the radio star. Luckily, for us in Austin, we still have the brave and adventurous programming of KOOP radio. If you've never tuned in KOOP, you've been missing out on a tremendous amount of noise, avant-jazz, neo-classical, reggae, and progressive talk radio. more ›

Even with only an earlier EP under their belt, The Authors' first full length release Get Haunted is a formidable thirty-eight minute force. The album was tracked at Elmwood Recording Studio in Dallas with Grammy winning producer/engineer Stuart Sikes at the helm, and, out just in time for Halloween, Get Haunted scares up some quality tunes. more ›

What has made Adi’s visage so recognizable in the Austin underground music landscape? Is it his unpretentious smile and jersey-clad frame? Perhaps it’s because he’s involved in one capacity or another in nearly every major music event this town has to offer? Either way, he’s not in it for the inevitable fame or name recognition. He’s just bringing important, fun local music to your eyes and ears because he genuinely cares, and he wants you to participate. more ›

Austin’s adventurer, bringer of mirth and lover of all things football (the non-American kind), Adi, brings you something straight from his mind and totally cool. It’s the kickoff of his new From The Mind Of Adi residency series Wednesday at the Mohawk. more ›

What’s the Deal: There have been many comparisons of this Boston area fivesome to Arcade Fire and The Shins and other bands of that ilk, running in similar circles and whatnot, but we’re not going to do any of that (kinda did right there). They’re far too strange, quirky and a little experimental to be lined up among those usual suspects. And really, it’s a hell of a lot easier to just describe what they sound like than try to siphon out their influences. At times a little techy, at others really creative, they use a wide range of noises, two drum kits, guitar and melodic choruses to get their lush, evolving sound. more ›

She Sir are preparing the release of their 7" EP, Yens, due digitally on Jan. 15 and on vinyl February 15. more ›

WEDNESDAY [9] books • Amy Guth presents Three Fallen Women at BookWoman (7:00pm) comedy • Jimmie Roulette at Cap City Comedy Club film • Texas Doc Tour: "Ten Under Ten 2007" at Alamo Downtown film • "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" with Golden Ticket Giveaway at Alamo Downtown film • Weird Wednesdays: "Cop Killers" at Alamo Downtown food • Angel Valley Organic Farm Farmstand at Asian American Cultural Center, 11713 Jollyville Road (10am-2pm) food... more ›

FRIDAY [27] music • While You Were Out, presented by Bueno Music Bureau, with The Unbearables, She Sir, The Scripts, Friday After Dark at Club de Ville ($5) books • Anita Gonzalez, Ph.D., presents Dancing Between Myth and Reality at CAAAS (UT - Jester A232) (3:00pm) comedy • Tig Notaro and Steve Burr at Cap City Comedy Club comedy • Punchline, open mic stand up comedy at ColdTowne Theater (10pm) dance • Fetish and Other... more ›

Austin’s got a new agent all up in the local scene’s Artist Management: Bueno Music Bureau. And Bueno’s got some local talent that they think you should be bragging to your friends about listening to. Something like that. So they’re having a little thingy-thang at Deville this Friday (tonight, for most readers) to showcase that talent. There will be some doin’s-a-transpirin’. Specifically: four bands with their own instruments and haircuts for the pleasure of... more ›

FRIDAY [15] music • Ghostland Observatory and Thee Emergency at The Mohawk (912 Red River) ® party • Earthdance at NiaSpace (7:30pm-10pm, $15) party • Eastside City Limits party with Pink Nasty, Tnlons Fort, I Kill Cars, Missing Tapes, Brothesr and Sisters, Til We're Blue or Destroy, The Black at Red Scoot Inn and Old Austin Daze Compound (9pm-4am, FREE) ® party • Teleport Door presents the Pop Yo Colla' party with DJs Daniel... more ›

THURSDAY [7] music • Shoot For the Stars and Kill Them VS. Cry Blood Apache, and Coma in Algiers at The Parlor food • Austin Farmers Market at Plaza Saltillo, 5th and Comal (4-7pm) film • TerrorStorm with Alex Jones Live at Alamo South (7pm) film • The Wire Season 4 Sneak Preview at Alamo Downtown (7:30pm, $10 food voucher to reserve) film • Raiders of the Lost Ark at Paramount Theatre (7:30pm) film... more ›

KUT's Laurie Gallardo dishes about local bands more ›