The AV Club has launched a new web series in which noted contemporary musical groups come into their Austin office-turned-recording studio and lay down a cover version of a classic (or not so classic) track, chosen from a list which they are provided with upon arrival. Check out episode #1, in which Ted Leo & [...]

by Jami Villers It Came From Detroit is the ultimate look into the Detroit garage rock scene. From the early days of Motown to the hugely influential band The Gories, from The Dirtbombs and The Hentchmen to the mainstream wunderkinds The White Stripes, this documentary provides an in-depth examination of the music of Detroit Rock [...]

by Jeremy Van Doren If academia were to be represented by a film genre, it would be the indie comedy. Every year, dozens of entrants vie for a place among the respected few. They strive to cover new territory in a wide variety of ways; from boisterous absurdism, to meticulous quirkiness, to wit as dark [...]

FERAL CINEMA #1: The Quickening The third Thursday of each month I Luv Video, The Austin Chronicle, The Onion & The Austin Underground Film Society will present Feral Cinema Double Features — rare, freakish & often damn near impossible-to-find cult classics from the wild fringes of pop culture. Hosted & curated by Marc Savlov of [...]

by Jeremy Van Doren The Scenesters opens with a trailer for Wallace Cotten’s new film. It’s about three hipsters who sit in a kiddie pool in their backyard and discuss their lives, and its trailer touts the film’s accolades from mainstream media. Like its mumblecore brethren it captures the sentiments of a generation, or at [...]

by Jeremy Van Doren The fascination with the end of time must be almost timeless. Even while humanity spends the length of its existing honing and retelling stories about where we come from and where we’ll go when it all ends, another somewhat more modern faction of storytellers focus on those who manage to be [...]

All Tomorrow’s Parties Music Fest Doc | Film Review

We’re back with our catalog of hobo flicks, and the next one’s a humdinger: Bill Daniel’s WHO IS BOZO TEXINO? (2005). By turns lyrical, blunt and beautiful, it involves the search for its namesake’s famous graffiti artist, whose handiwork can be seen on tens of thousands of boxcars. The act of taking on a moniker [...]

You know you’ve fantasized about it. Running away from home, hopping the first freight you see, and embracing all the adventure that such a life promises: living rent-free by your wits, crisscrossing the countryside in an open boxcar, appreciating its majesty as it whips by at seventy per. Professional hoboism. One conjures up the image [...]