Let’s Rename Robert E Lee Road to Robert Plant Road
If you don’t think this is the best idea you’ve ever heard of, you’re a racist. Or anti-Zepplinist. Or both, which makes you twice as bad. #robertplantrd [...]
Austin Music
Submit now for the Austin Music Video Festival – June 8th deadline!
The Austin Music Video Festival isn’t happening until September, but right now is the time to submit if you’re a musician or director and have a banging video you want to enter. You can win cash [...]
The Octopus Project’s ‘Memory Mirror’ Multi-sensory Menagerie…thing
The Octopus Project is a really cool, really experimental band banging around Austin. They’re described as an “indietronic” band, which, alright, that’s a thing. I’d call them a mix of [...]
ACL Lineup – 2017
So, the ACL Festival lineup is out, and it’s…fine. Yeah, I’m okay with it. To be honest, I was more psyched about the fake lineup that was “leaked” a few days ago [...]
Make Way for the SXSWers
South by Southwest 2017 starts in fewer than 48 hrs. YES, 48 hrs! I know this because I set an countdown timer as to when I need to leave the city. Like all Austinites, I have a love/hate [...]
Hey, It’s Shakey Graves Day
Today is Shakey Graves Day. Shakey Graves (a “gentleman from Texas”) is a local musician with a national following because he is wildly talented, insufferably good-looking, and somehow [...]
Sofar Sounds Austin: You Need to Get in on This (Fans AND Musicians)
I am currently obsessed with Sofar Sounds. It’s just a super cool, super neat concert series that is cool and neat for both the fans AND the musicians. First, read an interview I did with the [...]
What to do this weekend: Halloweeeen
Our weekly suggestions of Austin- and Texas-centric music, by no means exhaustive or complete. For full listings visit http://do512.com/. Mind where you step in the vomit-filled gutters downtown this [...]
Alternatives to the ACL Festival
Hey, do you hate ACL as much as I do? (jk jk jk I love u ACL please continue to give me press access). But big festivals like Austin City Limits aren’t for everyone, it’s true. The [...]
The Austin Music Video Festival 2016
Today, Sept 7th, through Saturday, Sept 10th, is the 2nd annual Austin Music Video Festival. Get ready for 4 days of videos, virtual reality, concerts, panels, parties and an awards show, spread out [...]
ACL Festival Late Night Shows announced
Hey, it’s the best time of year for those of us who hate festivals but love music: the ACL Festival Late Night Show lineup. Many of the most popular artists who play at ACL during the day also [...]
What to do this weekend: 8/12-8/14
Our weekly suggestions of Austin- and Texas-centric music, by no means exhaustive or complete. For full listings visit http://do512.com/. Friday, 8/12: Hear some Afro-Chicano-Futurism from Cecilia [...]
What to do this weekend: 6/30-7/4
Our weekly suggestions of Austin- and Texas-centric music, by no means exhaustive or complete. For full listings visit http://do512.com/. Thursday, 6/30/16 The 2nd Annual Lone Star Beer Heritage [...]
Review: Black Pistol Fire @ Emo’s
Black Pistol Fire is a banging two-man band from Austin via Toronto that just released their second (and even better than the first) album Don’t Wake the Riot (2016). Did you miss their album [...]
ACL Festival 2016 Lineup
It’s the happiest day of the year: the official Austin City Limits Festival 2016 lineup announcement! I called Radiohead, like, 2 days ago, people. I have my finger on the pulse in this city [...]
Record Store Day (Austin 2015)
Dudes, I was SO THRILLED when a record shop opened up in Shanghai (What up, Uptown Records! Hope you’re still around). And I was also really psyched when they started recognizing Record Store Day, [...]
Review: Yes, I finally saw Shakey Graves so please stop asking
Shakey Graves is the guy everyone in Austin has a story about – how they used to see him at this tiny place back in the day that you’ve never heard of; how he totally played a house party they [...]
Review: Reservations (bad name, good band)
I went out last Friday to see Elaine Greer, a singer/songwriter formally of Austin who now lives in Nashville. She was hyped up to me by a friend but doesn’t get around to these parts too often [...]
Review: Americana for the win
I’ve been pretty stingy with my pennies ever since coming Austin, partly because I’m cheap frugal, and partly because I’m ever-so-gainfully unemployed. There’s tons of good [...]
Brass for people who don’t like brass
Have you recently heard a brass band? You know, a band with…nothing but brass. Trumpets, trombones, sousaphones, French horns, mellophones, tubas, and — if we’re being a little [...]
Smack Madness 