We're having a yard sale today so I can raise a little extra spending money before I head down to Austin next week (I'm already doing well, and I've been calculating how many crunchy chicken cones I can now buy at the festival). But I thought I should run inside between customers to give you your daily dose of ACL previews. Remember you can check out the full list of previews on my ACL... more ›

Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week's collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week's choice posts from across the Gothamist network. Torontoist (where it's 75 degrees F as of this writing)... more ›

Tomorrow night, Liz Phair will be in town playing at La Zona Rosa. The last time we saw her in concert we had just bought her very poppy eponymously-titled album. It didn't seem that many in the audience (she was opening for Jason Mraz, ugh) were familiar with her music - until she broke out into "Supernova." Some die-hard fans will argue that Liz can never surpass her excellent first album, "Exile In Guyville." We love her enough to say that as long as she is making music, we'll be eager to listen to it and try to catch her in concert. more ›