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Three Things The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards Results Can Tell Us About Pop Music Right Now

The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards were handed out on Thursday, March 13, and though it was happening right in Austin I'll forgive you for not noticing. In any case I'm not sure how you can have an awards show at SXSW without handing out a prize for Least Essential Social Media App To Receive Venture Capit ... More >>

The Five Biggest Sellouts at SXSW

SXSW is not a music festival so much as it is an experiment in excess. If Coachella is a glass of water that keeps getting bigger until it more resembles a kiddie pool, then SXSW is a flood with a neglected cup somewhere in the middle. The natural result is rampant crowds and ever more rampant lame ... More >>

Five of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Best Coast, The Octopus Project, Brad Paisley and More

Best Coast Tuesday, May 28, at Granada Theater, $24 L.A.'s surf-pop duo Best Coast blew up on everyone's radar in 2010 when they were one of the most blog-worthy bands around after releasing their debut LP Crazy for You. Then, last year they had an equally as powerful follow-up with The Only Place, ... More >>

Chaos in Tejas Leaves a Trail of Bruises and Scars

Chaos in Tejas Brings Out the Tribes

The scar ran from behind his right ear to the center of his cheek, pink and waxy in contrast with his dyed black hair. His skinny arms were covered with crude tattoos, and he was wearing a black t-shirt inside out, black jeans and black boots. He stood about 6-feet-1, which left me eye-level with th ... More >>

Best Coast's Bob Bruno On Working With Jon Brion and Why Everyone Wants To Sing About California

Every few years there's a new it girl, and Best Coast's leader, Bethany Cosentino, is one of them. That's not to say the talented California native, who has a new line of clothing to her name, is an empty vessel who just happens to play guitar. Cosentino and her multi-instrumental partner in crime, ... More >>

This Weekend's Best Concerts: KXT's Summer Cut, Meltdown Music Festival, the Avett Brothers, Japanther and More

Summer Cut w/ The Flaming Lips, St. Vincent, Fitz & The Tantrums and moreFriday, June 1, at Gexa Energy PavilionHere we are, fully immersed in this year's summer festival season, and we're already peaking. It's going to be hard to outdo The Flaming Lips, St. Vincent, and everyone else KXT 91.7-F ... More >>

The DC9 At Night/Good Records Challenge #2: The Mohicans

Aaaand we are back with the second DC9 At Night/Good Records Challenge. Once again, we're making a sport out of shopping for art, finding any excuse we can to create our own version of Supermarket Sweep. For those who don't remember the rules, we give our favorite artists and Dallas personalities $5 ... More >>

Best Coast, Nick Lowe and This Week's Show Announcements

​What's it like to go from a tiny stoner, scuz-pop act, to a veritable brand in the matter of just a few years? Just ask California's Best Coast, who, just weeks ago, announced that the band's singer Bethany Cosentino teaming up with Urban Outfitters for a clothing line. All this ex ... More >>

Saturday's 35 Denton Review: Bun B, Best Coast, Rain and Rap

Live your life like it's one in, one out. That's a motto I've started living by this weekend. Last night especially, as the rain upon Denton reached Biblical proportions. I imagined a scenario in which Denton flooded and hundreds of drunk, high fans were washed away in the most epic fashion. But the ... More >>

Street Style: The Friday Fans of 35 Denton

Name (from left to right): Bonnie Rue, Chris Flemmons Style influences: Bonnie: "I used to have a fashion line called Model Citizen Clothing, but that project's currently on hold. When it's cold I wear dark colors." Chris: "Family Dollar." At 35 Denton to catch: Bonnie: "The Baptist Generals, wh ... More >>

Our 34 picks for 35 Denton

How To Sniff Out the House Party and More Tips For 35 Denton

It's festival season! At this point, all you are doing at work is planning your 35 Denton schedule or RSVP'ing for SXSW parties (always be RSVP'ing!) or planning your weird festival outfits. We know daydreams of free day parties and tallboys are dancing in your head, so we are going to capitalize on ... More >>

Jessie Frye Covers the Mountain Goats' "The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton" (NSFW)

Denton's own Jessie Frye tackles the latest installment of 35 Denton's cover series with perhaps the most Texas-referential one yet, reinterpreting the Mountain Goats' "The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton," off 2002's Emperor Jones LP, All Hail West Texas. Gone is John Darnielle's small-town st ... More >>

Nervous Curtains Calculate Infinity

Best Coast Added to 35 Denton, Announced With a Video of Good-Looking People Making Out

This Valentine's Day installment of 35 Denton's latest line-up announcement comes with quite the appropriate video to make you all jangly in the pants. California trio Best Coast has been added, along with Teengirl Fantasy, Typhoon, Millionyoung, Cowboy and Indian, David Ramirez, Pond, the Rassle, A ... More >>

Listomania: Ten Best Indie Christmas Songs

​It's that time of the year where you're sure to hear all the classic Christmas songs -- the exact same songs you listened to the year before. Snooze! Enter the indies, adding their own twist to your holiday favorites so you don't get sick of them. Okay, so we threw in a couple oldies, but the ... More >>

Ty Segall

Saturday, February 19, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton

Five Traits Shared By Every Beach Pop Buzz Band

Best Coast Evoke The Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer.

Happy Birthday, Residual Echoes, Fungi Girls

Thursday, August 5, at The Nightmare