Top 5 Petunia & the VipersA Canadian “avant-country” act with a cult following up north that’s just starting to tour the U.S. regularly. Haunting, weird stuff. Ted Jones and the Tarheel BoysOn   More

Top 5 Golden Retriever, Occupied With the Unspoken (July 24)More majestic electronic craziness from these Thrill Jockey signees. There’s a release show for this one at Holocene on Aug. 1. Raymond Byr   More

Top 5 “Youth,” Beat HappeningThis 1984 ditty is a fitting prologue to the whole K story. “I thought there must be more to this world than we’re being told,” Calvin Johnson sings. “When you��   More

Top 5 Fiona Apple, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than...You should drop everything and buy this record right now. Whatever one-hit-wonder associations you have with Ms. Apple are dead wrong. Idler Wheel is a   More

Top 5 Replacements tribute (Star Theater, Wednesday)Chase a screening of the excellent Color Me Obsessed with a musical tribute to the band that made rock ’n’ roll cool again.Joey Porter does Sly and th   More

Top 5 1. Sigur Rós, ValtariBlues and roots seem to be all the rage this week, but there’s still room for weird Icelandic music sung in a made-up language.2. JD McPherson, Signs & SignifiersThis famil   More

Top 5 Santigold (7:10 pm Friday, Sasquatch stage) Well, we’re not above a little stargazing. The Helio Sequence (6:20 pm Saturday, Bigfoot stage) It has been a long time, and we hear great things about the f   More

Top 5 The Shawshank RedemptionThis is the best prison movie ever made. Doesn’t seem like something Stephen King would write, but I loved the short story too. Cool Hand LukeStrange that my two favorite mov   More

Top 5 Teahouses [WIN: PORTLAND]Portland has the best teahouse in the world: the Tao of Tea. We don’t have anything like that in Austin yet. We have great coffee shops, but to really be a tea connoisse   More

Top 5 Portland Cello Project, Homage LPThe local pop-classical outfit tackles such timeless classics as Kanye and Jay-Z’s “That’s My Bitch” and 50 Cent’s “Lollipop.” Starfucker, Heaven’s You   More