Steve Austin founded Today Is the Day back in 1992 in Nashville, quickly getting a good reputation in the metal/hardcore underground for their debut, How to Win Friends and Influence People. ...

Supporting what is undoubtedly one of the finest metal albums of the year (Hydra Head's Meanderthal), Torche will perform at Red 7 tonight....

The 2008 Fun Fun Fun Fest kicks off tomorrow at Waterloo Park and we hope you’ve been enjoying our artist profiles and interviews. The revelry actually starts tonight! First up, our esteemed music editor Paige Maguire leads a fantastic team of panelists for After The Jump: Following Bloggers Into Mainstream Media, presented by Austin CVB and Transmission Entertainment at Club de Ville on Friday at 7 p.m. Immediately following that, The Mohawk is the place to be for our very own Local Music Is Sexy bash. This year, Brothers and Sisters, The Lovely Sparrows, Leatherbag, and The Eastern Sea do our city proud on the outside stage before Foot Patrol (also from Austin) and a special guest move the party inside at midnight. Club de Ville hosts the soul samplings of the Waxploitation DJs after the aforementioned panel. On Saturday, finish up your day of unending live music with White Denim for a special Exposion release gig at The Mohawk....

Two bands with funny names that start with T, both playing at venues booked by Transmission Entertainment? Who else smells a conspiracy here? At Mohawk, the up-and-coming quintet of New Jersey hellions in Titus Andronicus bring their much-heralded set of raucous anthems to the indoor stage. Titus have drawn comparisons to both the Velvet Underground and the E Street Band, so expect art-school angst and blue-collar catharsis in generous supply. Beforehand, local heroes The Midgetmen stir up punk, indie, and psychedelia into their own slurry brand of "slop-rock." ...

The indie pop of this Austin symphonic sextet is often quite charming like on “Tarzan” where the strings and flute weave brightly and an echoey, Band of Horses-esque vocal track sings over a slightly somber number about a forlorn stuntman having trouble giving up on an old role. Jeff Luna sings, “He used to be Tarzan, now he’s just Steve.” The disc is at times funny, at others really pretty, sometimes lightly clever and occasionally a little unpolished. ...

As we mentioned last week, Jay Lindsey's performances are always top notch. This one was no different. Photos courtesy Austinist contributing photographer, Nash Cook. ...

Why one of the world's greatest living songwriters--not punk songwriters, I mean out of all of them--continues to use a goofy stage name he came up with when he was 15 is a mystery for the ages. Then there's the mushy English accent, the infatuation with cock-rockin' Flying V guitars... But the man his mother knows as Jay Lindsey has spent over a decade recording symphonic lo-fi pop punk almost entirely by himself--his discography on Wikipedia runs about three pages--so we can assume there's some kind of method at work. ...

Ukh, sorry--couldn't resist that headline. Unfortunately, San Francisco's late city supervisor (the first openly gay politician elected to office) is gone for good, but his namesake, the Southern-metal three-piece from Athens, GA, are currently enjoying the greatest popularity of their careers....

There's a reason they call it Killadelphia. Although technically the tech-metal three-piece Dysrythmia currently reside in Brooklyn, Philly is both the band's original hometown and the home of its label (the indie powerhouse Relapse), and no matter how sophisticated the playing, Dysrhythmia keep both feet planted firmly in the street. ...

So you’ve just moved closer to downtown to be near your institution of employment or what have you. The five minute drive to work in the morning is priceless but damn that late night rock music coming from the bars in the vicinity. Or maybe you've always lived there and you've always found the nightly din a bit much. Well, you’re going to have fight (not literally we hope) the artistic community and the related downtown service industry that thrives on Red River St. (and the adjoining areas) for your voice to be heard....