Garage Revivalists by D. Patrick MacCready [Given the recent success of The Strange Boys and the release of their new album, here's a look back at a heretofore unpublished review of their first full length, as a precursor to our upcoming review of their sophomore album. All photos taken by Francis Joseph Cruzada at the [...]

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 [...]

A pair of comedy profiles by Andy Gately A reigning figure in the “alternative comedy” scene, Patton Oswalt has established himself as an indie rockstar of a new breed of stand-up that gigs at hipster dives as often as Chuckle Bucket’s. With an acerbic delivery and a social conscience, his work is as rife with [...]

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 [...]

by Stacy Demetri The musical about love, The Color Purple, was a beautiful story of triumph! The beginning was hard to get through, only because the content was heart-breaking. I did, however, leave the show feeling good. It was a journey of ups and downs with giggles and near-tears too. The music was diverse but [...]

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 Hannah Smith I recently went to see The Trey McIntyre Project perform at the Bass Concert Hall. It’s a real treat to attend a performance there because one, it has the warm nostalgic feeling of being in college again, and two, it makes me feel RICH. It’s a beautiful concert hall; traditional, spacious, diligent [...]

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

by Caitlin Leach [Spring Awakening is the Tony Award-winning rock musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s 1891 German play of the same name. It premiered Off-Broadway with a new soundtrack by indie singer/songwriter Duncan Sheik, and is now playing in Austin. While the setting of the play has been updated, the story of teenagers discovering their [...]