Moth!Fight! are a band who have had a much longer gestation period than most of their peers, a time in which one can assume songwriter and “conductor” Kevin Adickes painstakingly perfecting both the rumpled antique aesthetics that dominate his band’s look, performances and sound – the latter of which calls to mind both the inspired trippy noise-pop of The Olivia Tremor Control, but which also speaks in the lexicon of the band’s clear, more current... more ›

This Saturday at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, there will be badass doin’s a-transpirin'. We have various Blanton parties. We had the whole Radical NY! at the AMOA (which the writer who posted on it completely ruined by misspelling the names of extremely popular artists, and just appearing to be a twat of an art icon ignoramus in general), and if you attend(ed) these events, you’ve likely felt the energy surrounding the concept:... more ›

Alright. Gloves off. We’ve been snarked on in the past for flippantly referring to productions at the Vortex as “naked theatre”. Taking that into consideration, we’d like to bring to your attention some “adults only” (read: probably naked) theatre opening this weekend. Bell(e): The Museum of Suicide Machinery is a “mesh of performance art, visual installation, experimental theatre, and sound montage” from Austin’s purveyors of the out-there-experimental, Ethos. Anne Marie Gordon designs the scenery... more ›

The Museum of Ephemerata's new MACHINES Show is going on now. According to the museum's curators, MACHINES

...surveys technology from the industrial revolution to today, with an emphasis on wondrous instruments, technological utopias, and forgotten industries. A cylindrical Edison phonograph and stereoscopic photography appear beside a dream machine and nanopuppy in our Machine Arcade. The last part of a trilogy with Skin & Bones and Crystallization & Drift, MACHINES confounds the very idea of its topic: What are machines, precisely? On what do they depend? What do they produce? How is a museum a machine? What happens when machines malfunction? Nanotechnology's invisible objects and molecular biology's talk of ribosomes as machines fall in line with the Museum's vision.

Austinist has just returned from a romp around Auditorium Shores, one of Austin’s leashless dog parks, where we were greeted by an interesting display. We’d heard about the Coexistence Exhibit, but what with all the debauchery (and subsequent recovery) these last few weeks we hadn’t made it down to see it just yet. The Museum on the Seam, an organization in Jerusalem, produced the exhibit that is in Austin through the month of May. It’s a series of posters depicting artists’ conceptions of what coexistence looks like. more ›