Austra

and Andrew Sacher Ex Cops DJing at Other Music, RSD 2012 (more) We’re about a week out from Record Store Day 2013. When it began in 2008, RSD was a celebration of brick-and-mortar stores in the face of digital downloads, offering up exclusive releases to get people out to stores…

Austra @ BVSXSW 2013 (more by Kevin Figueroa) Austra‘s new album, Olympia, isn’t out for another two months (6/18) but folks who are in NYC can get a very early legal listen tonight (4/10) at an official listening party at Chinatown club Le Baron…

& Kevin Figueroa Thanks again to our SXSW 2013 partner mophie for not only keeping the entire BrooklynVegan team charged, but for hooking up artists who played our shows (like the legendary Robyn Hitchcock), handing out discounts at our party, and for making some very-limited-edition custom BrooklynVegan mophie iPhone charger cases (only seven exist)…

SXSW and Sarah Frankie Linder Maya Postepski, who you may know as the drummer of Austra and/or one half of the duo TRUST, now has her own solo project, Princess Century, and she’ll release her debut LP for that project, Lossless, on April 29 via Kennington Recordi…

This year at SXSW, we encouraged people to tweet their pictures from all BrooklynVegan shows with hashtag #BVSXSW, We sweetened the deal by offering you the chance to win a pair of kicks from Creative Recreation…

We wrapped up our stay at The Main and The Jr (aka old Emo’s) with our fourth and final BrooklynVegan SXSW day party on Saturday (3/16). Unfortunately, Foxygen had to drop off at the last minute because the singer lost his voice…

House of Vans took over The Mohawk for the entirety of SXSW‘s Music portion, becoming ground zero for shows with Show No Mercy (Pitchfork), True Panther, The Paradigm Agency, Windish, The Onion AV Club, IAMSOUND, Ground Control, and of course the Vans Official showcase…

VICE is coming to Austin for SXSW and will be taking over 401 E Cesar Chavez for VICELAND, which includes events from March 8-11 during the interactive portion, and from March 12-16 during the music port…

This is Day 4 of four BrooklynVegan SXSW Day Parties this year… As you know, BrooklynVegan is returning to Austin for SXSW this year and throwing four days of day parties at The Main & The Jr aka 603 Red River Street at the corner of 6th aka the old Emo’s location…

Austra has announced their sophomore album, Olympia, which will be released on June 18 via Domino. Unlike 2011’s Feel it Break, which was made primarily alone, Olympia was a band effort with all instruments played live in the studio with no programming or loops used…