Monthly Archive: January 2016

The Coathangers

It’s 2016, and that means The Coathangers have now been around for a decade.  Holy cow!  If I were them, I’d totally spend the year napping and watching TV.  They’re not me though (thankfully), so...

Show Of The Week

This Saturday you should head to ABGB for Modern Outsider’s Five Year Anniversary Spectacular!  The show is FREE and has a bill that consists of three great Austin acts – Moving Panoramas (total up and...

BUHU (Album Premiere)

A week or so ago I was sent BUHU’s debut full length, Relationshapes, and it pretty quickly made an impression on me.  It’s a lively bit of experimental pop that moves really well and has...

My Golden Calf (Single Premiere)

My Golden Calf is a fairly new act out of Austin that features Dabney Dwelle (formerly of Quien ‘es Boom), Tim O’Neill, Jonathan Skaggs & John Hale, and today SOTO is premiering the second single off...

Movie Breakdown: Finders Keepers (Noah)

Pre-Screening Stance: Documentaries are at the point of over-saturation right now, but hey, there’s a lot of weird shit in the world and if someone wants to turn a camera on it, I’m okay with...

Top 10 Films Of 2015

Noah and I saw a bunch of terrible movies last year.  You probably don’t care about any of those, so below you’ll find the ones that we liked a lot.  Enjoy. John’s Top 10 Films...

Movie Breakdown: Anomalisa

Pre-Screening Stance: I missed Anomalisa at Fantastic Fest back in September, and I’ve been impatiently waiting to see it ever since.  Mostly because it looks neat and I really dig Charlie Kaufman (he wrote the...

Rain Collectors (Single Premiere)

Santiago Dietche and Blair Robbins are Rain Collectors, one of my favorite pop acts in Austin.  Last year they released a couple of very charming singles (hear Unless here and Lock The Door here), and...

Happy Metal Fun Time (Chuck)

With the New Year brings a new round of Death. Whether we are talking Bowie, Rickman or Lemmy, some of my favorite actors and rock icons have passed away the last couple weeks and it’s...