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Polaroids from some of the best sets we saw in Austin this year, featuring U.S. Girls, Faye Webster, Hater, Forever + more. All photos by Patrick Waites on Polaroid Originals film.

Featuring Sudan Archives, Men I Trust, Helena Deland, Anemone, Barrie, True Blue + more. All photos by Patrick Waites:

Austin's Sun June call their beautiful debut LP Years a "we’ve-been-broken-up-a-long-time" record, and the video for their new single "Young" couldn't possibly be a more perfect or lovely intro to the band's dreamily bittersweet "regret pop"...

The official Gorilla vs. Bear x SXSW 2018 showcase goes down on Friday night, March 16th, at Seven Grand in downtown Austin. Featuring the best official SXSW showcase lineup I've ever seen in my life, starring: Hinds, Faye Webster, Men I Trust, Helena Deland, Sun June, Hater, and Forever...

Austin's Caroline Sallee aka Caroline Says follows up one of our favorite songs of the year -- the softly sparkling "Sweet Home Alabama", thankfully not a Skynyrd cover -- with another absolutely lovely track from her forthcoming album No Fool Like An Old Fool, due next month on Western Vinyl...

We're psyched to be presenting a rare TX run by the incomparable John Maus next month, including a stop at Club Dada in Dallas on Friday, February 2nd, then at Barracuda down in Austin the next night. We're giving away a couple pairs of tickets for each date; to enter, just tag a homie on our instagram post and we'll pick the winners the week of the show...

Austin's LEVITATION 2018 is now officially only 100 days away, and to get y'all even more psyched for this year's fest, we're premiering volume I of the always epic annual official LEVITATION mixtape by Al Lover, featuring over an hour and a half of deep jams from this year's performing artists...

Parisian born, Austin-based ballerina and pop artist Lou Rebecca's debut EP is out today on Austin label HOLODECK, and it's one of our favorite releases of this young year. We're psyched to share her dreamlike self-directed video for the EP's entrancing opening track, the late-night dance-pop anthem "Tonight", starring Lou Rebecca & Ramesh Srivastava...

Lou Rebecca in Austin, TX // shot by p waites on polaroid originals instant film:

We're extremely psyched that LEVITATION will be back in 2018, taking over your favorite downtown Austin venues (the Mohawk, Cheer Up Charlie's, Barracuda, Empire Control Room, etc.) from April 26-29. We're honored to be presenting the Panda Bear + Geologist show at Mohawk on April 27th, and we'll have more details on that in the near future, but in the meantime you can check the full schedule/line