SeeSawAustin

by: Laurie Lyons There’s nothing like a new love…that feeling of anticipation when you know you’re about to see one another again, that little bit of sweatiness that helps to keep you at the top of your game, that bliss that comes with spending time together. My new love happens to be a building with [...]

by: Laurie Lyons For me, the night before Fun Fun Fun Fest, my favorite music festival, is more exciting than Christmas Eve or any of that crap. I am more than happy to have live music be my gift when I wake up in the morning. Like the teaser gift that your parents give you [...]

by: Laurie Lyons and Amber Kokas You can’t start a weekend of music without a few good kick-off shows, so here are a few you won’t want to miss (sorry for the redundancies in names, totally not my fault): D-Train Presents: ACL Kick off Party at Hudson on Fifth 8pm Free Show Hudson on Fifth-301 [...]

by: Laurie Lyons I really can’t even begin to explain to you how insane tonight is going to be at Beauty Bar-you’re really going to have to trust me on this one. You’ll get the gritty details from the Facebook invite after the jump, but the quick and dirty is this: 1. New project by [...]

by: Laurie Lyons The booties, they will be rockin’ everywhere, oh yes, rockin’ everywhere as Knuckle Rumbler takes over Beauty Bar this Saturday night with their first big dance party throwdown since March. The flyer is sick; the lineup is sicker: Gobi, ULovei, Sebastian Nebula..that’s just the beginning. After alllll that beautiful mess comes Mochi [...]

by: Laurie Lyons With the weather taking a sharp turn for the awesome, avoid the natural urge to cuddle up on the couch in your pjs, and instead head to some of the badass events happening tonight that, whether they like it or not, are wonderful warm-ups to the main event this weekend: Fun Fun [...]

by: Laurie Lyons, Katie Schnack Amanda Blank at Scoot Inn She’s the badass that Ke$ha wishes she could be, the version of Peaches who you can listen to with your windows rolled down without eliciting strange looks, and she’s the girl with the balls to cover LL Cool J’s “I Need Love”-flawlessly. Besides a lyrically [...]

by: Laurie Lyons, Katie Schnack Talib Kweli at Scoot Inn I could so easily sit here and say that the Talib Kweli show at Scoot Inn this Thursday is your “warm-up to ACL” or some other crap like that, but the fact of the matter is, this show will be nothing like ACL. There will [...]

by: Laurie Lyons Sure, it’s rough for us 9-5ers to make it out during the week, but this Tuesday is so tempting that you’re just going to have to sacrifice a bit of sleep and sobriety to it. The night is thoroughly packed with awesome events, and the best part is that with a little [...]