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View ArticlePrint PREORDERS OPEN | NEW MERCH | AUGUST 28th Release SHOW
It’s all happening! Check out our new shop in the header above or just click this. Preorders are now open for the Junkie Business print along with new shirts put together by FSG Prints and buttons. As...
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View ArticleHalloween Visuals Mixtape 2019
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High Fashion Halloween: DIY Fashion Show | Drag | Dance Party If Jackson Montgomery Schwartz does not top your list of favorite fashion artists then obviously you have yet to see any of his work....
View ArticleVideo Premiere: Crocodile Tears –“Tuned Out”
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View ArticleAlbum Review: Schwein – Easy Does It
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View ArticleMixtape Monday: Bearclaw’s Stash by Alex Barclay
This week we asked Alex Barclay of Texas Psychedelia to put together the mixtape. Those of you unfamiliar; Texas Psychedelia began as a communal space online for those in this corner of the world to...
View ArticleNew Music Video: The Sun Machine –“Drugs”
The Sun Machine – “Drugs” We have been saying it. We are going to continue saying it. The time has come for The Sun Machine. They are dialing in their sound, growing into themselves...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Attic Ted –“Kafka Dreaming”
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View ArticleNew Music Video: Lo Country –“Black Cloud”
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Alex Paradox – Punks Alex Paradox Setting out to capture with nostalgic appreciation the staying gold glory days of Roberta Bayley and David Godlis when they first lit the eyeballs of the world on fire...
View ArticleNew Single: Half Dream –“Strange Lover”
As if experiencing intimacy were not already a heavy confusing mess of emotions, “Strange Lover“—the new single from Half Dream—is a humble crying out to the wilderness of introspection. Where sadness...
View ArticleNew Music Video: Holy Wave –“I’m Not Living in the Past Anymore”
Has it really been two years since the last Holy Wave album? Even if it were only two weeks it would feel too long. “I’m Not Living in the Past Anymore” is a legit continuation of expectations. With a...
View ArticleNew Music: Country Legend Roky Moon –“Choo Choo”
It seemed impossible to love Roky Moon any more than we already did. We were wrong. Following in the trajectory that happens to pretty much every great artist who soaks their bones in Austin for an...
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“Bloom” by Brat Baby Beauty Photographer: Alex Paradox Wardrobe| Modeling: Lauren Mahoney of Oddball Vintage Concept | Makeup: Madi Anderson of Brat Baby Beauty I began this project wanting to show off...
View ArticleNew Music: Billy King and the Bad Bad Bad –“Tiger’s Den”
Billy King and the Bad Bad Bad by Lucifer Sam Billy King and the Bad Bad Bad – “Tiger’s Den” by Jay Armstrong Some bands get it. The fact that selling your soul for rock n roll is about one-third what...
View ArticleNew Video: Dry Guy –“Something To Do”
Disaffected. Restless. Malcontent. If the collective unconscious had a talent beyond stoking the coals beneath our neurosis and honing in on the malaise of our be-here-now reality—learning bass...
View ArticleNew Video: Louisianna Purchase –“Girls Just Want to Have Fun”
Louisianna Purchase – “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” Fresh, inventive, inspiring; no one has hit the fashion world with the passionate, affecting, force of Jackson Montgomery (JXNART) in as long as our...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Andrew Cashen – Guava Jazz
Not Everyone Can Be Andrew Cashen By Jay Armstrong Often from the first moment someone grabs a guitar and feels the holy enlightenment of offering something straight from the mind into the universe...
View ArticleNew Music Video: The Sour Notes –“Peak”
The Sour Notes continue earning believers with their heads down and hearts full. Their latest single”Peak” has a warmly fitting video directed by everyone’s favorite familiar face Matzoh Ball to go...
View ArticleNew Music: Kay Odyssey –“No Birds Sing”
So maybe you were thinking this mood to put on some Mazzy Star in your search for self-motivation while floating across the sea of emotional confusion called for something more of the moment; escapist...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Sailor Poon – Sailor Poon’s First Album
Everybody’s Gotta Have A Gang but None Are Half As Tough As Sailor Poon By Jay Armstrong Sailor Poon have been pissing off self-righteous entitled mediocre boys in bands since day one. Things are...
View ArticleArtist Spotlight: Virginia (Vajaja) Meza
Artist Spotlight: Virginia (Vajaja) Meza If you are not familiar with the art of Virginia (Vajaja) Meza, chances are you already have been guided in vibe by way of the drumming put in with Kay...
View ArticleNew Music: Blue Jean Queen
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View ArticleMixtape Monday: Holy Sex by JXNART
What if god loved you in the way you REALLY wanter her to? In anticipation of our featured interview with Jackson Montgomery (JXNART) coming out tomorrow, we asked if he would be up to put together a...
View ArticleExploration, Optimism & Fashion: An Interview With Jackson Montgomery Schwartz
Exploration, Optimism & Fashion: An Interview With Jackson Montgomery Schwartz by Jay Armstrong Jackson Montgomery Schwartz Few have offered exciting positivity to fashion photography the way...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Seth Gibbs: A Tribute Album
If what we create in life were to be more than a whispered glimpse of our true selves, we would rejoice in contentment looking back at our lives having done even a third of what Seth Gibbs did. Boldly...
View ArticleNew Video: Calliope Musicals –“Color/Sweat”
Photo by Kate Blaising The video for “Color/Sweat” bridges the rift over an acute understanding of the psychological functionality by way of psychedelics through the eye of the user and nineties...
View ArticleNew Video: Dena Hope –“Stay”
Mentally synth. Viscerally glam. Dena Hope’s video for “Stay” is one hundred percent pop in as comfortable and relaxed sense possible. It is all looks and lighting on this Samara Simpson directed...
View ArticleNew Video: Loteria –“Rhythm Revue”
New Video: Loteria – “Rhythm Revue” by Jay Armstrong Should it be surprising with all things considered that a video featuring our favorite spots, in our favorite city, overlain by the sweet sounds...
View ArticleNew Video(s): Lord Friday the 13th –“Bigots Beware”
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View ArticleNew Music – Blue Jean Queen Explodes Our Hearts With “Wild Wild Woman”
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View ArticleNew Video: Attic Ted –“I Need A Holiday 2020”
Typically the intelligent realists among us can be a bit tiresome. We love them and agree with their take on existence but manage to remain lighthearted as we face it. Most years it is a fifty/fifty...
View ArticleNew Video: Casey Seymour –“Installations”
No one should be surprised by the well-deserved hype going Casey Seymour’s way as the tickled ear smile crosses those first listening through his Hidden Hills EP. All that nice-guys-finish-last...
View ArticleNEW MUSIC PREMIERE: The Dead Coats –“Forsake My Name”
In the context of growing up, most bands never survive past their terrible twos. All the initial, “we’re gonna be great,” “they’re gonna loves us,” wears off into the realization that playing music...
View ArticleMixtape Monday –“Aunt Mable’s Mixtape” by Nicholas Fong
As far as looking on the bright side goes; last year gave us a wonderful opportunity to experience the depth of Billie Buck (Sailor Poon) and Nicholas Fong’s (Loteria/Bad Lovers) eclectic record...
View ArticleNEW MUSIC PREMIERE: Christine Renner –“Drown”
New Music Premiere! Christine Renner – “Drown” After tickling the better parts of our heart during her set for the Australian wildfire benefit show at Barracuda (r.i.p.) last year, we have had nothing...
View ArticlePremier: Sweetfeed –“Highway of Hearts”
Sweetfeed – “Highway of Hearts” By Jay Armstrong What a relief! Not for Justin Smith stepping into the spotlight as Sweetfeed—that certainly is cool and many of us find ourselves rejoicing with a...
View ArticleSkate or Dye: Local Crew Warmly Supports Community With Latest Project
Last year at the onset of the pandemic, three best friends looking to cope with our dauntingly unfamiliar reality, slipped on rollerskates for the first time and began a journey none of them imagined...
View ArticleVideo Premier: The Stacks –“Chicon”
Photo by John Bergin Those of us having been born in the fire of Austin over the last decade have a shared sentiment growing heavier by the minute. A gut-wrenching fear doth harken. Our spirits once...
View ArticleNew Video: Baxu –“X-Rated”
Baxu – “X-Rated” by Jay Armstrong Between glitch apps and the often safe visuals thrown up behind bands with holier-than-thou pretension in the name of psychedelia, one is left with the impression that...
View ArticleNew Video: The Bright Light Social Hour –“Guillotine...
In internet time, having come out two weeks ago, the latest Bright Light Social Hour video is old news. Sue us for finally pulling it up this weekend. While we are intrigued by going longwinded on the...
View ArticleArtist Spotlight: Sean Sczepanik
Artist Spotlight: Sean Sczepanik Often when we ask an artist to tell us a little about their work what we get back is a long articulated meandering on blossoming lilies representing oppressed labor...
View ArticlePhotography: A Giant Dog | Pleasure Venom | Dregs @ Hotel Vegas
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