Few bands have put out albums in the past year that have shimmered quite so much as Lanterns on the Lake’s utterly sublime Until the Colours Run. In terms of shimmer it was close to Radiohead’s level; a band who themselves are arguably only out-shimmered by, say, Cocteau Twins. Snowbird is a supergroup: one that comprises members of Lanterns on the Lake, Midlake, Radiohead, and Cocteau Twins.

Lila is a confused fifteen-year-old torn between introversion and a desire to share the same sexually adventurous experiences as her best friend.

We begin this recap of SXSW 2014 with a classic caveat: It’s not you, it’s me. Really.

Visceral and juvenile; hypersexualized violence and hyperimaginative pseudo-sci-fi—Prison Pit has it all. Really, do you want to see a crystallized power penis jabbing through people? Does anyone? Well, yeah, Johnny Ryan wants to see it, and draw it, and it’s quite kinetic and crazy and a lot funnier than it sounds. I promise.

As the vocalist for The Cardigans, whose success with “Lovefool” and “My Favourite Game” put the group in mainstream pop consciousness, Nina Persson‘s voice has a larger presence than the individual behind it. Working with A Camp, her other band, as well as Cake Sale, and numerous other guest appearances, Animal Heart is Persson’s first wholly solo album.

In 1992, a young Queens couple—Thomas and Rosemarie Uva—held up a handful of mafia social clubs and came away with hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Staff writer Austin Trunick spent six days in Austin, Texas, taking in this year’s South By Southwest.

Since venting all his mature and folky instincts on 2011’s solo LP Demolished Thoughts, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore has not only U-turned into rockier territory but also made tentative steps into the uncharted world of proper-mega-heavy-shit.

Two men are roped into a series of escalating dares and bets that progress from hilarious to disgusting to sadistic as the night goes on.