Imagine, if you will: buckets overflowing with mint-flavored Trojan Condoms, the ever-suave northKOREAN duo spinning everything from I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness and Caribou to Out Hud and Quasimoto, hundreds of sweaty, sexy Austinites and festival attendees and an assortment of ACL bands lounging about – this was the spectacle that was Austinist’s Local Music is Sexy party at the Velvet Spade, which we hyped for ages and, thank god, for good... more ›

We'd like to say thanks to everyone who came out to our Local Music Is Sexy party last night and made it a mind numbingly huge success. We love all of you, and hope you had as good a time as we did. We'd also like to thank Trojan Condoms for their support (and the 4000+ free condoms!), Sumo for the beanbag chairs, The Daily Juice, Music Lab, DJ Shane, Peel, The Interest Kills, The Visitors, Belaire, The Black Angels, and The Velvet Spade for working with us to put on such a fantastic party. more ›

: : FRIDAY : : [music] The Zippo Hot Tour Semi-Finals featuring Fractious, 9pm @ The Backroom - FREE! [film] A Bunch of New Movies Open! @ your local theater [film] QT6, 7pm & 9:30pm @ Drafthouse Downtown: Grindhouse Triple Feature also Saturday [music] Mike Graff, 8pm @ End of an Ear [dance] Refraction Arts presents "Shish-ka-bob! An Inventory of Works by Amy Cone," 8pm @ The Blue Theatre [music] Palaxy Tracks, The Glass... more ›