www.sxsw.com Those Sarah McLachlan SPCA commercials make us damn near weep, but we watch them anyway. Changing the channel seems akin to turning our backs on the plight of innocent cats and dogs, so it only feels right to suffer through a montage of sad eyes and droopy tails before telepathically se...

Editor's note: Pastiche is a (mostly) bi-weekly column exploring the diversity within the Austin music community. The views expressed in Pastiche are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the outlook or beliefs of anyone else in the IST network. Used to be the word “garage&...

Image via Cut Copy's MySpace page. Photo uncredited. After causing a modest stir with album Bright Like Neon Love and tour support slots for Daft Punk and Franz Ferdinand, Melbourne's Cut Copy finally hit their stride in 2008. Their latest album In Ghost Colours went to #1 in the group's native Aust...

Aishwarya Rai, in an interview with CNN-IBN, says: He [Abhishek Bachchan] is the real ‘Padma Shri’ and I’m his ‘Padma Shrimati’ (giggles). Immensely cloying cuteness, but they’re a young couple, so fine, we can forgive them that. But if we are to take this line of...

On February 28, 2009, ABS-CBN’s Maalaala Mo Kaya aired ‘ Blusa’ an episode about a supposed summa cum laude graduate of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) . Nemie, portrayed by Angel Locsin, finished UPLB’s B.S. AgriBusiness program, was only able to get a job as a stripper,...

Chad Wadsworth You know we're only a week out when suddenly a vast majority of Austinites are using adspace and RSVPs as legitimate currency. We've worked hard to make this week full of freebies, but we aren't the only ones sweetening the bottomless pot in preparation for music week -- SPIN is stepp...

Art & Anarchy is unleasing an anti-Olympic art show this week. In combat against the Culural Olympiad, the weeklong event features revolutionary art made by anti authoritarian artists: paint, theatre, sculpture, performance, carvings and song, all situated to confront the Olympics and destroy ca...

Image from Transmission Entertainment’s MySpace The F Yeah Fest, along with Transmission Entertainment, presents the third annual Mess With Texas on Saturday the 21st at Waterloo Park. This is the ultimate spot for Saturday -- the last day of day show mania -- a shindig where you can fill in t...

Little Hells was released March 3 on Kemado The Morning After features thoughts on a quick tryst with a just-released album. No regrets. Report Card: B Marissa Nadler’s built a nice little scaffolding of critical acclaim from her last couple albums, and during this time she’s admirably f...

This Gameboys is ready to rock in Reformat the Planet Reformat the Planet Tuesday and Wednesday, March 10th and 11thAlamo Drafthouse Downtown (320 E 6th Street)$8.50, 9:45pm and 7pm, respectively[info] | [tickets] Feverishly pounding the buttons on your Gameboy, your heart spikes along to the punchy...