A growing figure in the Austin art scene, Shyama Golden never expected she would be able to attribute her success to social media. After joining Twitter, Facebook and Dribbble, a website that allows designers...

Thumping bass, melodic synths and flashing lights exploding in all directions. Welcome to Deadmau5’s musical carnival. Joel Zimmerman, better known as Deadmau5, will be performing at the Austin Music...

Austin’s aesthetic is that of a place where countless, seemingly disparaging styles converge. While this is usually the product of a virtual shopping scavenger hunt, Atown attempts to put a little...

British electro-indie pop quartet Ladytron takes another step away from the mainstream and into a world of abstract sound with their fifth album, Gravity the Seducer. Ladytron uses a cohesive concept...

MonstrO is heavy. Whether or not they have a strange fascination with the whale of the same name from Pinocchio, this psychedelic hard rock quartet goes up to 11 and then some. They are masters at manipulating...

Hip-hop has never been associated with hundreds of kids in mob formation chanting a band’s name on the verge of a violent riot in the streets of a major metropolitan area. In contemporary music history,...

Techland’s "Dead Island" is a video game about zombies, but its refusal to take risks in that increasingly complex subgenre mires it in mediocrity. “Dead Island” isn’t...

Editor's note: The following red band trailer contains graphic content. “The Last Circus” certainly won’t be curing anyone’s clown phobia, but there’s not much else it...

Even in Austin — a city often characterized as a bubble for its liberal mind-set encompassed in a conservative state — it hasn’t been easy for those in the LGBT community. As hundreds...

UT psychology professor James Pennebaker, author of “The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us,” developed a program with his research team called Linguistic Inquiry and Word...

In a city saturated by aspiring musicians and overwhelmed with music venues and concerts, surprisingly, a good live set can be hit or miss. But in the case of Wild Frontier Fest, however, there will be...

50/50 In theaters Sept. 30 Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen, “50/50” is arguably the starting gun for this year’s Oscar season and almost certainly the first film to justify...