Austin.com is a web address that you'd think would have a built-in, if perhaps unintentional audience. How many people have typed in the web address just out of curiosity, or how many web un-savvy folks have gone to the domain thinking it was something official? Either way, it's hella easy to remember, at the very least. more ›

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While lead singers and center stage guitarists tend to stick to the ribs of our collective show-going subconscious more easily, drummers are an afterthought all too often. Every frontman winking to a gal in the audience or enjoying a particularly dramatic solo / facial expression combo is supported by what all too often becomes a side note: a good drummer. more ›

Update: THE SHINS are playing ACL! South by Southwest ended a mere month ago, but there's already an online frenzy building up for this fall's ACLFest -- which, dudes, is still five months away! Early-bird tickets came and went (in less than an hour, much to the chagrin of most people who received their notification emails later that evening), and the regular lot of full-price passes are selling at a healthy clip. So you've... more ›

Rags-to-riches success stories are few and far between these days, particularly the sort punctuated with "dot com" and "latest buzz" - two phrases that cropped up seemingly everywhere you turned only a few years ago. Which is why we're thrilled to announce that our former editor, one-time publishing mogul, general tech impresario and self-proclaimed Internet Rock Star has accomplished what none of us dared to imagine. Ladies and gentlemen, Ben Brown sold out to... more ›

OMG, we are so late writing our weekly recap of The Real World that for a while we were considering not even doing one. I mean, how relevant is a recap once the episode has been aired three hundred and fifty times? But then we realized that this episode has another few thousand runs in it's lifetime, which means that our grandchildren will probably be watching it on their Lazer Vision 8000-X Holographic Brain... more ›

We have no idea how to do anything like save the bits of a streaming MP3 so that you can download it and play it whenever you want without having to, we don't know, stream it again. But some people do, and those people have web sites. more ›