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Spend Your Easter Weekend With the 90s Fever Dream That Is the Indigo Girls-Led ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
It hooked me from the opening staging — that chugging rock guitar, the Pure Moods candelabra in the background, the of-a-specific-time aesthetics and choreography (“The Temple” includes inflatable sex dolls being tossed through the air like beach balls) that makes the whole thing feel like a pile of “Keep Austin Weird” t-shirts gained sentience.
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Thank you, Chester Bennington: The Queer Strength I Found in Linkin Park
“Chester Bennington’s anger was so present and so empathic. It told me it was okay that I had it too— that I wasn’t alone, that my feelings were normal. It replaced my fear, and it helped me survive.”
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Leaders Of The New School: 15 Queer Female Hip-Hop Artists You Should Know
They’re from all over the globe kickin’ ass and takin’ names one record at a time. Hear them. See them. Support them!
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SXSFAIL: A Queer Takes on The Madness of Austin
A photo diary of Najva’s SXSW experience, in which she did (almost) everything wrong and still had a great time.
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Music Fix: Sleigh Bells, Garbage, Jack White, Butterfly Boucher, More
Hear the Sleigh Bells’ entire new album, a teaser from Garbage, and new tracks from Jack White and Butterfly Boucher.
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SXSW 2010 Captain’s Log #1: Hipster Spring Break Begins
Music blogger and SxSW warrior Stef has descended on the music capital of the world to bring us full reports on the happenings and hype acts of this year’s South by Southwest music festival. Highlights from Day 1 include Roky Erickson, the Muffs, the Depreciation Guild, Zoë Keating, and Audiostraddle favorite Hesta Prynn.
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SXSW Captain’s Log #2: Kid Sister, Duchess Says, Ukuleles & Random Acts of Rock ‘n Roll
On Day Two of South by Southwest; Stef sees Kid Sister, MEN, the Oh Sees, The Scanners, The Generationals, the Vivian Girls and finds a gay bar, a cute drummer, an illegal party on a pedestrian bridge, Nigel Harrison from Blondie, the Ukulele Festival, a DJ she met ages ago at a Lady Gaga gig. Also she falls in love with Duchess Says.
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Beat on the Street: SXSW Captain’s Log #1
In between being delayed in airports forever and drinking, Stef manages to rock SXSW with Little Boots, Todd P, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Box Elders, Telepathe, Those Darlins, An Horse, Hesta Prynn, and A HALF POUND HOT DOG. (That is not a band but the actual food product.)
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Beat on the Street: SXSW Captain’s Log #4 [Last Day!] – I Can Only Move to the Beat
Rachael Ray, Magic Tomato (it’s a food, not a band name), Girls Gone Wild, PJ Harvey, Rye Rye, Solange, BFF Little Boots, Perez Hilton dropping the C-word, the Kanye West Surprise, Yelle, and the drunken end of SXSW. There were alcoholic sno-cones!
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Beat on the Street: SXSW Captain’s Log #3 – Long Day’s Random Musical Journey Into Night
Discussed: SXSW can be really Random, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, I wanna take you to a GAYYYYY bar, War Tapes, White T-Shirts for Black T-Shirt People, useful swag, the School of Seven Bells, the kinds of bands you need to see when it’s dark out, our new favorite bar the Rusty Spur, the AKAs, pasty palors, Echo and the Bunnymen, Priceless Abortion, Girl in A Coma, Graham Coxon’s New Stuff, Tricky, DEVO. Also, TAYLOR F*CKING HANSON.