We’re insanely jealous that freelancer Mark Stock spent last week in Austin for the Austin City Limits Festival. Luckily, he was willing to share a few stories with us. Here’s his report on M Ward’s show, the first of three LocalCut at ACL installments.
In the land of salt and twang, M. Ward could not [...]

And now, the time has come to say goodbye. On this final day of September, we close out the Computerization Cut of the Day series that has occupied each Tuesday for the past month. In a circular fashion, we end on the note of which this project began. While this is the last Computerization track [...]

Yeah, it’s no real surprise that a collaboration like this might happen in music scene that is notoriously tight-knit and, well, pretty darn incestuous. Still, this is BIG news: former Best New Band winner Marius Libman, the one man keytar and synth machine behind Copy, is all set to rock another instrument as the new [...]

Writing about music (or, hell, any form of art, it’s nearly impossible to escape comparing one band to another. Though often misguided, almost everything you read about music—be it an album review in Spin or a Pop Music Conference thesis on doubling and the body as a sexual object—is based on the same formula: band [...]

Did you know Seaplane now has two locations on 23rd? I didn’t until Friday night, when I ventured into NW to catch Love Menu and Horse Feathers performing in Seaplane’s “Pop-up” location on 23rd and Lovejoy—just a bit further down the block from its flagship store. So why exactly were the two acts performing inside [...]

And they’re off! Well, not just yet, but come mid-November, the Builders and the Butchers will embark on a just announced 20-date strong tour in support of Amanda Palmer. Yes, the Dresden Dolls’ female half is taking off on a winter jaunt across the US to promote solo offering Who Killed Amanda Palmer and [...]

With a slow news day and an even slower computer, I thought this would be as good a time as any to reintroduce Nilina’s Best of the Bulletins feature—where we scroll through our seemingly never-ending list of MySpace friends to find some news that hasn’t been covered by every other blog. And away we [...]

9.21.08
Hi there,
I’m writing to you all from the Carlsbad Inn in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Sarah and Lou are watching the HBO show True Blood which is about vampires. We went for a night swim in the Carlsbad Inn heated swimming pool which was not really heated at all. There were birds squawking in the trees [...]

Slightly evasive when it comes to the origin of his DJ name and unwilling to disclose his real name, DJ Monkeytek keeps a mysterious profile. Guess you’ll just have to hunt him down behind the decks to find out his true identity. Luckily you’ll find out some info, such as just where he spins [...]