Marc Hawthorne's posts

The shuffler: Craig Billmeier, a.k.a. Hot Lixx Hulahan, reigning World Air Guitar Champion. After advancing from the…

The annals of rock history are filled with tales of behind-the-scenes debauchery, but it’s unlikely any of them…

Formed in 1983, NOFX is one of punk’s longest-running entities and has, in turn, gone through several stylistic and…

Dave Dictor has called John Wayne a Nazi, sung about killing cops, and been beaten up by Klansmen, skinheads, and…

Since there were so many of us blogging SXSW Music (not to mention Leonard Pierce’s film coverage), there’s probably…

I suppose it depends on how often you’ve taken advantage of the free booze and the 4 a.m. parties the previous three…

Okay, full disclosure: I’m a Third Eye Blind fan. Some people might even say fanatic. And not in a nostalgic,…

It’s hot right now in Texas, which is obviously nothing new, but it’s hard to remember the last time it was this hot…

With the dawning of another SXSW, so many questions come to mind: Is Kanye West going to make any of his rumored…

Vinyl collector and Echo And The Bunnymen acolyte Kelley Stoltz has cut a wide swath through the local lo-fi scene…

David Foster Wallace, John Hodgman, and George Saunders have all sung the praises of local sketch-comedy quartet…

Formed in 1988 at NYU, sketch-comedy group The State eventually hit it relatively big in the mid-’90s with an…

In a city that prides itself on being politically correct, it’s hard to believe that one of the rudest, dirtiest,…

Red House Painters released an excellent two-disc retrospective in 1999, and Mark Kozelek has kept his Caldo Verde…

When it comes to how people feel about The Killers, it's hard to find anyone on the fence, and barring a major shift…

Loquat's debut album, 2005's It's Yours To Keep, was a pleasant-enough slice of electro-dusted pop whose songs…

Known back in the day for promoting American indie-rock acts overseas and more recently giving the world heavily…

Anyone who's been predicting Rilo Kiley's demise has a few logs to throw onto the fire, not the least of which is…

1. Teenage Fanclub, "Is This Music?"

Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon) and Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service) are…