Last minute news about a cool show tonight at the 29th Street Ballroom, featuring some of Austin's premier ambient sound collagists. more ›

Halloween is just around the corner, which, of course, means the annual twinning of creative costumes and drunken debauchery that so colorfully marks the welcoming of All Saints' Day. It's always great fun, as long as you avoid certain areas of town. And, well, what if you could pair all this with live music as performed by some of Austin's most terrifying, trance-inducing bands? What if?? more ›

To tide us over before the early 2012 release of his second full-length, the one-man bedroom-recording project that is Silent Land Time Machine released a batch of six songs under the name Summer 2011 Tour EP. Each piece begins from a single point - a plinked piano melody, a smirch of guitar feedback, a soft drum beat, an open space of whooshing silence - and builds upwards from that point, layering doleful viola, violin, cello, accordion, wordless vocals, percussion, ambient found sound and various other electronics until the original source is obscured in the electro-acoustic maelstrom. The results are haunting ear worms that feel ethereal and nearly fleeting, like you're remembering these songs as they bloom into existence. more ›

Sunset are one of the busiest bands in Austin, so it's no surprise that they're continuing to host shows at their east side studio Baby Blue and have a new release planned for the near future - an album entitled Gold Dissolves to Gray out on Autobus records. According to the band's blog, a vinyl form of the album (with a cd version included) will see release on November 24th. more ›

Though the man behind Silent Land Time Machine keeps the project slightly mysterious, the music he produces lands squarely in the familiar. Eerie synths, weeping viola, violin, guitar, accordion, piano (and dozens of other instruments) fit neatly together creating tightly wound but ethereal compositions. &Hop Still earns references to A Silver Mt. Zion and Do Make Say Think -- fairly -- but for us its most reminiscent of Scenic's Aquatica. more ›

It's no secret that we in Austinist really crush on Balmorhea. Perhaps it's our gloriously out-of-the closet predilection for hooky, pop-sensible instrumental music. Perhaps it's the great art direction and atmosphere they conjure. Hell, perhaps it's the wonderful folks in the saddle. more ›

The mysterious and (and mysteriously soothing) instrumental project Silent Land Time Machine will release its debut album &hope still in conjunction with a performance at The Parish alongside Silver Pines and Andrew Tinker, the latter being one of millions formerly in The Polyphonic Spree. more ›