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Interview Breaking the ice with DJ Spooky

"In Antarctica, every 10 feet you get down into the ice, there's a couple hundred thousand years of history... It's like a record, these eerily layered aspects of the planet."

by Dan Solomon

November 20, 2009 | 12:00am -
Interview Considering the big picture(s) with Deastro's Randolph Chabot

Is the Detroit-based synth savant trying to create "new worlds" within his music? "Who knows what is going on there."

by Erik Adams

November 18, 2009 | 12:00am -
Interview Growing up with The Get Up Kids

“There are no kids in emo bands anymore who want to go play house parties and book their own tour and drive around in a shitty van for weeks at a time.”

by Marc Hawthorne

November 17, 2009 | 12:00am -
Interview The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle learns to trust others

Other musicians, at least.

by Paul Caine

November 16, 2009 | 12:00am -
Interview Converge's Jacob Bannon: Happiness is a warm puppy (also punching another dude)

What makes a guy who writes a song called "Worms Will Feed" smile?

by Kyle Ryan

November 12, 2009 | 12:00pm -
Interview The innocence and experience of Thao Nguyen

She's not fond of Googling herself.

by Rob Van Alstyne

November 11, 2009 | 12:00am -
Interview A.A. Bondy fights your "lonely troubadour" stereotype

"I did this show in Brooklyn one time and this girl was like, 'When you got up there I was like, ‘Oh great, here we go.’ But it was actually pretty good.'”

by Steven Hyden

November 10, 2009 | 12:00am -
Interview Loudon Wainwright III on working with an old friend and playing dress-up in a dead man's clothes

"It was fun to be cross-dresser, a cultural cross-dresser."

by Steven Hyden

November 7, 2009 | 12:00am -
Interview Fun Fun Fun Fest: Don't call Crystal Antlers prog-rock

“Most of our music is just feelings. It’s not that contrived. I cringe thinking about Rush and bands like that.”

by Reyan Ali

November 6, 2009 | 10:00am -
Interview Fun Fun Fun Fest: The slow evolution of Growing

The Northwestern group has metamorphosed beyond mere drone to something far weirder, and all without turning it down.

by Devon Tincknell

November 4, 2009 | 10:00am -

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Nov, 20 - 12:00 a.m.
Music : Bandwagon Fake it like you mean it

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Nov 21
- Fabrication 7 Mohawk Patio, 9 p.m.
  You’d be hard-pressed to find two more adored girls in Austin than Erin Mikulenka ...
  
  Harlem, Americans In France, ST 37, and The Golden Boys Emo's, 10 p.m.
  
  Generationals and The Mercers Stubb's Jr., 9 p.m.
Nov 22
- AFI and Gallows Stubb's, 7:30 p.m.
  AFI has gotten a lot of flack through the years for its increasingly theatrical approach ...
  
  The Last Waltz Live Club de Ville, 7 p.m.
  
  Local H, Kinch, and Murdocks Emo's Jr., 10 p.m.
Nov 23
- Music Monday: Times Square Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 9:50 p.m.
  New York’s Times Square has been Giulianied and Eisnered out of existence, but during ...
  
  Emilie Autumn Emo's, 10 p.m.
  
  Other Worlds Film Series: Forbidden Planet The Harry Ransom Center, 7 p.m.
Nov 24
- Neko Case and Oh No Oh My Antone's, 9 p.m.
  Blessed with the kind of knockout voice a million mewling American Idol contestants would kill ...
  
  Austin Film Society: The Man Without A Past Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - South Lamar, 7 p.m.
  
  Hey Homo!: Grey Gardens Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 7 p.m.
Nov 25
- Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses La Zona Rosa, 9 p.m.
  Ryan Bingham is a Texan singer-songwriter who wears cowboy hats, tours with Patty Griffin, and ...
  
  Pinetop Perkins, Carolyn Wonderland, and Dertybird Antone's, 8 p.m.
  
  Monte Montgomery, Slaid Cleaves, and Lincoln Durham Saxon Pub, 8 p.m.
Nov 26
- Planes, Trains And Automobiles Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 7 p.m.
  A staple in any holiday movie collection, John Hughes’ Planes, Trains And Automobiles pairs comic ...
  
  Wayne Hancock's Dance Your Stuffin' Off Turkey Trot Continental Club, 10 p.m.
  
  Jesse Dayton Broken Spoke, 9 p.m.
Nov 27
- J. Tillman and Pearly Gate Music Mohawk Patio, 9 p.m.
  He's probably best known now as the drummer for Fleet Foxes, but long before ...
  
  A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Mothfight, and Fach Idiot The Ghost Room, 9 p.m.
  
  WOXY Series: Neon Indian + The Tunnels Stubb's Jr., 9 p.m.

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