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An experience beyond the music

Inside the House of Lepore

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Over the weekend, Stereogum headed to Austin’s Oblivion Access to catch heavy and experimental sets from bands like Godflesh, Chat Pile, Mamaleek, Faust, MSPAINT, and many more. Yellow Swans played their first show in 15 years! A couple got engaged during Drain! Everyone performed in a sauna! In between gigs, we enlisted local photog Jay Ybarra to capture portraits of over three dozen acts on the lineup. Check those out below and find our reviews from the fest here.

Oblivion Access Festival went down in Austin, Texas this past weekend. See standout moments and photos from the festival in our recap, from Chat Pile to Earth.

Highlights from year two of the underground Austin music festival

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...

At Oblivion Access, we went to see the implausible, unclassifiable Hattiesburg, Mississippi quartet MSPAINT.