The unorthodox Fugitive Dreams taps into the wounded psyches of two drifters with primal bravery. From the start, you know this is not an objective reality, but rather one filtered through the subconscious minds of an oddly coupled pair.

First disc since 2014, Delta Spirit’s fifth LP What Is There leans hi-fi, lo-fi, DIY. “The song cycle seeks to make sense of the past decade for [bandleader Matthew Logan] Vasquez, and sonically unwinds itself from the high tension A-side to smoother, more assured back-half,” wrote Doug Freeman in a Sept. lead review. “It also works back the band’s sound.”

Character is everything, and in professional wrestling its called a gimmick. In Ale, finding that gimmick becomes a question of finding yourself.

Everyone must perform blood penance for the sins of the fathers in this twisty tale of family ties that mortally bind both parent and child.

There’s a famous photograph by onetime Austin photographer Ken Hoge of Roky Erickson, Doug Sahm, and Jerry Jeff Walker onstage together locally at Gemini’s in 1977. There may be no better encapsulation of Austin in the Seventies than that photo.

“I’m not an advocate of people dying, but in this case, it’s okay.” The experience of watching Murder Bury Win can be summed up in this single line spoken by aspiring board game designer and accidental criminal Chris (Mikelen Walker).

Everybody's been there. You move to a new city, you make some new friends, and it turns out that one of these perfect strangers is actually a maniac determined to turn your life upside down. OK, maybe that doesn't happen to everybody, and Austin-to-L.A. transplant Vincent Van Horn had a much easier transition.

"I still have PTSD from making that movie." So sayeth Richard Linklater about Dazed and Confused, and he gets to relive that trauma with an upcoming book and special virtual signing event, hosted by Austin Film Society.

“Be Like the Water,” today’s second drop from the upcoming solo debut by Jonas Wilson, delivers a double barrel curl. Most importantly, inside the guitarist’s Science Fiction Post Blues dwells all the right ghosts in the machine. That the aqua reverberator simultaneously courses through a 20-minute tease of Bastrop distributes justice for all.