Highlights from Thursday's festivities

AEG-owned space will host first concert on Monday night

The benefit will again help the Emergency Foodshelf Network

Thank you, NPR Music, for conveniently lining up several of this year’s indie buzz bands on one bill. After a particularly tedious day of traveling difficulties I wasn’t feeling particularly adventurous when I rolled into Austin last night, but I was pleasantly surprised by the array of talented acts I was able to witness by…

He'll tour the Twin Cities and Chicago through next weekend

Mark Wheat and Andrea Swensson call-in live from Austin

Andrew Bird's bandmates talk about Dan Deacon and appearing on The Colbert Report

Lizzy Grant's Lana Del Rey persona may be new to the broader world, but she's been singing for years and even released an album prior to 2012's already controversial "Born To Die." With her quick rise-to-fame came stringent criticism, throngs of battling publications looking for their next angle, and a warring music community.

Booking/sound guy Trevor Engelbrektson talks memories and local music

In addition for being the inspiration for Jeremy Messersmith’s morbid-chic pop album The Reluctant Graveyard back in 2010, the Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery in South Minneapolis is also one of Minnesota’s 10 Most Endangered Places. Messersmith himself performed a benefit concert for the cemetery last summer with Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles, and the…