Free Week is still kicking -- hard. There's a veritable horde of bands to catch tonight and tomorrow. ...

Saturday June 30th marks the 5th installment to the multi-media spectacle Everyone Knows Everyone, sponsored by The Onion. This event is held twice a year and focuses on the celebration of artistic community in our city. Many have compared it to Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, where visual artists and multi-genre musicians, DJs and filmmakers showcase their talents in front of a live audience. The event is being held on all of Emo's stages......

(FIRST) THURSDAY [7] party • Official Space Launch Celebration at Salvage Vanguard Theater (9:30pm) music • Go Motion! at Beauty Bar music • The Dollyrots, Alright Tonight, The Sweethearts, Abby Birds at Emo's music • Vietnam and Greg Ashley, The Strange Attractors, The Golden Boys at Emo's music • Scott Miller, The Commonwealth, The Gougers at Stubb's music • An Evening with Old Crow Medicine Show at The Parish Room music • Locals @ La......

Along a similar vein as last month's Mohawk Residency Series, the good folks at Do512 and Direct Events have teamed up to host a bi-weekly artist spotlight and competition. Dubbed Locals @ La Zona, the three-round showcase series features a trio of Austin indie bands competing each night to see who can bring out the most supporters. The winners from each evening will move on to Round 2, where they'll compete to win an opening......

A bunch of rabble rousin' DJs in town have unionized, and, collectively, they're calling themselves Mischief & Trouble. Tomorrow night they'll pay homage to the late 90s French house scene with the IHEARTDAFTPUNK Party. Inside at Red7 (next door to Beauty Bar), the Mischief and Troubled—KidIndie, DJ Fuckin' A, Ocelot, and Markus With a K—will spin "only Daft-related songs and remixes," while the generous outdoor stage will showcase a handful of Texas bands—L.A.X., Gazelles, Trilogy,......

*The views expressed in The Laurie Show are those of the author and do not represent Austinist as a whole.* -ed. note I have returned, music lover! Yes, my on-air escapades on KUT 90.5 FM have been scattered about, but I'm actually working my regular shift tonight, 11 p.m. to 3 in the morning, when the peeps are still stumbling out of the cantinas. And once again, my inspiration for tonight's chaos comes from......

TUESDAY [13] books • Ron Jeremy presents The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz at BookPeople (7:00pm) art • Cocktails at the Fielding Lecht Gallery's latest exhibit, "The Exchange" at Fielding Lecht Gallery (free, 5-8 pm) film • Polyester at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown film • Eddie Murphy: RAW at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown film • AFS Essential Series screens Ong Bak: Muay Thai Warrior at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar music • Ours, April Bauer at Stubb's......

Sometimes Austin musicians move on and get signed. Yes, it really happens. Tonight is your chance to see one of these rare creatures in their native habitat! Formerly of Austin’s premier emo-core outfit, Recover, Dan Keyes now fronts the electronic dance-rock band Young Love, appearing tonight at The Parish. Released January 30th, Young Love's Too Young To Fight It (Island) has been generating lots of excitement, most of which is coming from the "mainstream". Some......

Rory of Rory and the Artificial Heart emerges from the void to wish you happy holidays. From EKE 4 last night at Emo's. Rory would probably like us to also tell you he doesn't normally look like Sasquatch.......

FRIDAY [6] agliff/party • here! presents the aGLIFF member mingle at Rain (9pm) theatre • "Psycho Beach Party" at Arts on Real (8pm, $30) theatre • "At Home With Dick 2" at Dick's Apartment (3309 Grooms) (8pm, $10-$25) ® theatre • "Stillborn" at Hyde Park Theatre (8pm, $15) theatre • Zell Miller III: "Mix Tape, Theatre Style" at Off Center (8pm, $10) theatre • "Bitten: A Zombie Rock Odyssey" at Dougherty Arts Center (8pm,......

FRIDAY [8] theatre • Salvage Vanguard Theater's The Intergalactic Nemesis at UT PAC's Hogg Memorial Auditorium music • Ghostland Observatory, Lions, and Crash Gallery at Trophys ($8, 10pm) ® film • Sinus Show: Xanadu at Alamo Downtown (7pm & 10pm, $12.50) film • Raiders of the Lost Ark at Paramount Theatre (9pm) books • Mark Wangrin presents Hook Em Horns: The Story of Texas Longhorn Football at BookPeople (7pm) ® music • Cruiserweight, Rory......

Now in its third instantiation, the multimedia arts showcase dubbed Everyone Knows Everyone brings together some of Austin's creative types, spanning artistic mediums from music to performance art. Drawing on the success of last December's pre-holiday event, the production quality of tonight's EKEIII, at Emo's, seems to have grown tremendously in the past six months: Throughout the evening, sets by Those Peabodys, Visitors, Mars Wars, Young Love, Rory + the Artificial Heart, and Pirates......