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Now We're Talking: Andy Bell at Austin Pride

Can't lie. We're a bit beside ourselves. Erasure's Andy Bell has been announced as this year's headliner at Austin Pride. Read More | Comment »

11:40AM Wed. Jun. 19, Kate X Messer

An Arc of Crystal Clarity

Gavin Russom has been part of New York's underground dance scene as a artist on DFA records for years. Last year his music was taken to the next level through collaboration with new partner Viva Ruiz. The Crystal Ark was born. In anticipation of their DJ set this Saturday we spoke via Skype of telenovelas, Kraftwerk, and the body's connection to dance. Read More | Comment »

5:10PM Thu. Jan. 10, Rob Cohen

Sorry, Charlie, Too Much Cheer

A neighborhood disagreement over the interpretation of a sound ordinance further restricts how late Cheer Up Charlies may play music, possibly reducing the East Side late night hot spot to an afternoon-only hangout. Will it – and by extension, the rest of East Sixth Street – be able to survive? Read More | Comment »

9:40AM Fri. Aug. 17, 2012, Tyler Pratt

Katy Perry's Licking Stick

There were children dressed as peacocks and peppermint. There were tiny puffs of disco cotton candy for sale, with twitching french tickler rainbow lights in them. And a giant French boudoir curtain. No one told me I was going to a slumber party. A dirty, slutty slumber party. Read More | Comment »

5:06PM Wed. Aug. 3, 2011, Kate X Messer

'Strange Powers' Ticket Giveaway!

Strange Powers, the documentary about the Magnetic Fields and frontman Stephin Merritt is back in Austin at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz and ends its run tomorrow night, Thu., Dec. 9. Read More | Comment »

3:11PM Wed. Dec. 8, 2010, Kate X Messer

Magnetic Fields Party & Ticket Giveaway

Strange Powers, the new documentary about the Magnetic Fields and frontman Stephen Merrit will screen in Austin for a three-day stint at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, Nov. 7, 8, and 10. Read More | Comment »

11:26AM Fri. Nov. 5, 2010, Rob Cohen and Kate X Messer

Tweet This Mess Around: Fred Schneider Tells It Like It T-I-Is! Part 1

Fred Schneider, the iconic yelp-yap-yowl of the B-52's and all-'round great fella cum bon vivant paused for a Q & A on the brink of a special B's show next week in Galveston, Texas (to where we are headed, hell yeah) and on the occasion of the release of a Christmas album, Destination… Christmas! by his other band, the Superions. Read More | Comment »

9:27AM Fri. Nov. 5, 2010, Kate X Messer