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Our review of the Austin music fest celebrating the heavy, experimental, and unclassifiable.

It’s hot. That’s all anyone can talk about. The second that you step outside in Austin this week, you feel like a used dishrag. The heat suffuses your entire being; it’s like a miasmic blob has swallowed you. A hot day in Texas is not exactly a stop-the-presses event, but even the people who live in Austin seem unmoored by the constant sauna-blast sensation of the current climate. That heat is not pleasant, but it has its upsides. In a hot enough room, full of enough moving bod...

Austin’s Oblivion Access Festival will take place this year from June 15 through June 18. The lineup as it stands already includes performances from Faust, Duster, TR/ST, Godflesh, Tim Hecker, clipping., Earth, and much more. Today, the organizers are revealing some of the art events and after-hours programming that will also happen during the festival.

Established veterans continue to make noise and more than 30 new concerts are coming to Milwaukee in this week’s Shepherd Setlist.