Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Har Mar Superstar
In a 2004 piece, London’s The Independent was quick to point out that Har Mar Superstar (Sean Tillman, also known from his Sean Na Na project) almost resembles porn star Ron Jeremy, and Wikipedia went...
View ArticleStay Current with the Pick of the Day: Caitlin Rose
Indie-country songstress Caitlin Rose comes to Limelight supporting her painstakingly gorgeous third album The Stand In. Rose’s momentum is rising sharply on the merits of her beautiful voice and...
View ArticleStay Current with the Pick of the Day: Thump210
Since its debut show this past April, Thump has quickly established itself as SA’s go-to event for enthusiasts of electronic music, DJ culture, strobe lights, and bumping and grinding alike....
View ArticleStay Current with the Pick of the Day: Moodie Black
Whether you call it noise rap, industrial hip-hop, or freaky-urban, the music of Arizona’s Moodie Black (pictured) is sublime in a deeply unsettling kind of way. Well-crafted and apocalyptic lyrics...
View Article10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
1. Mole Throwdown Thu, Oct 17 Befitting its complex flavor profile, mole boasts a complicated history, with the Mexican states of Puebla, Oaxaca and Tlaxcala all claiming to be its birthplace....
View Article10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
Fri 1/3 Moodie Black “This is a celebration of the emerging shift of consciousness in human beings, and the ascent into the unknown,” says Arizona noise rapper/producer Moodie Black (Chris Martínez)...
View Article5 Things You Have to Do This Week
Mon 1/6 – Wed 1/8 Free Week Looking to fill the post-holiday void with live local music, Transmission Events founder Graham Williams launched Austin’s Free Week back in 2003. Since then, the annual...
View Article10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
Thu 2/6 – Fri 2/7 “IBUYHOUSESCASH” In 2012, mixed-media artist Mark Johnson helped inaugurate Austin’s N Space (a collaboration between architectural firm Nelsen Partners and arts nonprofit Co-Lab...
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Thu 2/13 “Texas Draws III” Inaugurated in 2009, the Southwest School of Art’s “Texas Draws” series functions as a biennial survey of “eloquent, expressive drawn works that reveal the power of a simple...
View ArticleMiniature Tigers at Limelight: Anything but small
For a bleary Sunday night, Limelight was awash with warmth for a swell lineup of young indie pop rockers and nouveau-grunge kids. I was pretty impressed, in particular, with the over-the-top pop punk...
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