Music today is all about having your cake and listening to it, too, in at least a couple of formats. Artists have found that putting their music up online can be enough, but it also frees them up to play with more dormant, personal artifacts to house their music. Take the new release from Lew (formerly lead singer of Wild America) under the name breatherholes, entitled give it to u. You can download the new album, or you can pick it up on tape at Trailer Space Records. Futuristic and antiquated both, see? more ›

While we here at Austinist primarily review music on CD, digitally, or on eight-track cassette, we do have a longstanding love of vinyl. Here we’ll take a look at five recent “7 singles put out by musicians both local and from afar. more ›