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Just Announced Paul F. Tompkins gets intimate at the United States Art Authority

The United States Art Authority becomes Tompkins' personal Freak Wharf June 5.

by Erik Adams

March 15, 2010 | 2:15pm -
Just Announced Conan O'Brien gets sweet, live revenge at Austin Music Hall

Rubbing Leno's face in it at a venue near you.

by Sean O'Neal

March 11, 2010 | 10:06am -
Just Announced Of Montreal at the Mohawk, May 23

Gather your glitter and pig masks.

by Erik Adams

February 26, 2010 | 1:36pm -
Just Announced Limited tickets available for The Cool Kids at Mohawk

They say if you got $10, then come through to their party (but get bent before you come, because for that liquor they'll be charging).

by Erik Adams

February 19, 2010 | 9:15am -
Just Announced NPR considers all songs for SXSW, chooses Spoon, Sharon Jones, Surfer Blood

The line at The Parish has already started.

by Erik Adams

February 17, 2010 | 11:10am -
Just Announced Elton John at Frank Erwin Center

"Tiny Dancer" likely; tiny ticket prices unlikely.

by Erik Adams

February 16, 2010 | 9:13am -
Just Announced Eugene Mirman to host SXSW Film Awards, probably confuse some people

Comic offers some tips for "keeping Austin weird" involving cats, robots, tampons—the usual.

by Sean O'Neal

February 5, 2010 | 10:32am -
Just Announced "Weird Al" Yankovic (possibly) at the Alamo Drafthouse

"What rhymes with 'Drafthouse'?" he wonders, before writing "fat mouse" then hurriedly scratching it out.

by Erik Adams

January 27, 2010 | 10:09am -
Just Announced Help Austin Help Haiti stages massive 10-hour benefit this Sunday

You've got two ears and a heart, right?

by Sean O'Neal

January 21, 2010 | 11:40am -
Just Announced Spoon kicks off tour with SXSW show at Stubb's, Shearwater does Red 7 and The Parish

A pair of the '00s best start the '10s off right.

by Just announced: Spoon at Stubb's, March 17.

January 11, 2010 | 3:00pm -

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a.v. picks

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Mar 21
- High Times Magazine Doobie Awards Emo's, noon
  Cypress Hill frontman B-Real dropped his first solo album, Smoke N Mirrors, in the early ...
  
  Spells, The Stuffies, Terrible Twos, Dikes Of Holland, Love Collector, Digital Leather, and Moth Fight Beerland, 10 p.m.
  
  Alejandro Escovedo and Dan Miller Continental Club, 10 p.m.
Mar 22
- Wale, PRGz, Camp Lo, Big Sean, and Shawn Chrystopher Aces Lounge, 8 p.m.
  Wale's clever wordplay and polymathic samples have garnered him quite a cult following. After ...
Mar 23
- The Ganjas, Intimate Stranger, Casino, L. Stadt, and Funky C The Parish, 8 p.m.
  Effortlessly transplanting the we-opened-for-Oasis, arena-destroying swagger of his former IV Thieves project, immigrant Englishman Glynn ...
  
  Gilberto Gil UT Hogg Memorial Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Mar 24
- Pee-wee's Big Adventure Quote-Along Alamo Drafthouse Village, 10:30 p.m.
  Defined by the cartoonish personality of Paul Reubens’ character, the funhouse music of Danny Elfman ...
  
  James McMurtry and Jon Dee Graham Continental Club, 10:30 p.m.
  
  Dale Watson Broken Spoke, 9 p.m.
Mar 25
- Clipse, Kevin Jack, Vonnegut, and The League Of Extraordinary G'z Aces Lounge, 9 p.m.
  Minus some early-career Billboard chart success, Virginia-based rappers Clipse have mostly eluded the mainstream spotlight ...
  
  Red X Red M, The Gary, and Scan Hopper Emo's Jr., 10 p.m.
  
  AFF Presents: Bring It On + Jessica Bendinger Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 7:30 p.m.
Mar 26
- Evil Dead Triple Feature Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 7:30 p.m.
  Spider-Man director Sam Raimi established the blueprint for young filmmakers with small budgets, clever ideas ...
  
  White Denim Antone's, 10 p.m.
  
  Megadeth, Testament, and Exodus Stubb's, 6 p.m.
Mar 27
- Daryl Hall And John Oates The Long Center, 8 p.m.
  Daryl Hall And John Oates wisely reunited a few years back, and while Oates has ...
  
  Dean Dirg, Criaturas, and Women In Prison Beerland, 10 p.m.
  
  The Seventh Annual Bollywood Bash Mohawk Patio, 9 p.m.