Monthly Archive: May 2014

Weekly Movie News Rundown

Time for your weekly movie news update!  Below you’ll find a slew of sentences meant to provide a brief glimpse of what’s been going on over the past week in movieland.  If something leaves you...

Hip Hop Hooray (Leah)

Hip-hop, as you likely know, is a new genre, with only 40ish years under its YSL belt.  The journey from outdoor block parties and gym-floor dances hasn’t always been smooth or unobstructed for the style,...

Walker Lukens (Video Premiere)

Austin’s own Walker Lukens is having a busy week.  He just put out the Devoted Remixed EP, and then tomorrow night he’s set to celebrate its release at Stubb’s with Hello Wheels and Ruby Jane. ...

Stream This

From the depths of the SOTO inbox, I present to you your weekly serving of the latest and greatest album streams and videos.  Enjoy. FULL ALBUM STREAMS Please note that the majority of the streams...

Movie Breakdown: A Million Ways To Die In The West

People are doing traditional-style reviews all over the web, so we decided to try something different.  In each “breakdown” we’ll take a look at what a film’s marketing lead us to believe, how the movie...

Throwback Thursday: The Hold Steady

Separation Sunday and Boys And Girls In America are the only two albums that people ever talk about if you bring up The Hold Steady, and I think that’s just silly.  So for this week’s...

Bishop Allen

When I think back about the early years of SOTO (2006 through 2009), one of the bands that stands out is Bishop Allen.  During that period they had a slew of very good indie pop...

Startographers, Gentlemen Rogues (Jennifer)

Get your earplugs out for a show tomorrow night at Spider House Ballroom. Local indie rock quartet Startographers headline the four-band lineup. I’ve been wanting to see them play again since I first saw them...

OBN IIIs (Dan)

When people ask me my favorite band, the answer is easy – it’s OBN III’s. So I’m obviously pumped they have just released their appropriately titled third LP, Third Time to Harm on Tic Tac...