Annie Ray photographed the Austinist pre-ACL party, and the entire set is brilliant: engaging, unique and addictive. I clicked through every single photo even though I didn’t recognize half the people (but hey, thanks for coming to our party!). A few recognizable faces emerged with patience, though, as I finally stumbled across this adorable shot […]
There’s a really interesting article at Retrospectacle about the formerly accepted use of LSD as a prospective treatment for Autism in children in the ’60s. Albert Hoffman’s discovery of LSD in 1941 was quickly realized as having “fantastic pictures, extrodinary shapes, with intense kaleidoscopic play of colors” as a ’side-effect’, and after initial trials on […]
If you’re an Austin photographer and was shooting at the Kimya Dawson show at the Mohawk on Monday night, please email me!
paige@flux-rad.com
You might already know Alex Ross’ work at the New Yorker, where he critiques and muses about music regularly, but please check out The Rest is Noise (I am ordering my copy today), which “aspires to be not just a history of 20th-century music but a history of the 20th century told through the history […]
Battles’ Mirrored has made Top 2007 buzz conversations more difficult since it came out, forcing people to try and describe the music to those uninitiated using words like “jazz-prog”, “robot rock” and perhaps even more awkwardly “avante art jazz.” The record is worthy of all the trouble, though, as the seemingly complex descriptions tend […]
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