Showing All "Austra" Posts
Jun 18th 19 Comments
Music critics make mistakes all the time, and I made one two years ago, when I reviewed Austra's debut album Feel It Break for Pitchfork. I gave that album a positive review, but it was one of those… Read Story »
Jun 10th 1 Comment
To date, Austra's Feel It Break followup Olympia has released two singles -- "Home" and "Painful Like" -- finding root in Chicago house and Detroit techno respectively, both landing squarely on their… Read Story »
Jun 7th 4 Comments
A few days late but stacked with excellence, here is your collection of May's absolute jams. For optimal ease of consumption, you'll find it here in three forms: a 12-track downloadable zip of the… Read Story »
May 30th 2 Comments
Katie Stelmanis's Austra project will release the followup to Feel It Break just next month, and as we heard on its first single "Home," the forthcoming Olympia is the sound of a band consciously… Read Story »
May 21st Comment
Austra and Ital are both feel-good stories about the nice things that can happen when punks pick up computers. Austra's frontwoman Katie Stelmanis was a shining light of Toronto's art-punk scene for… Read Story »
May 14th 3 Comments
Back in 2011 Austra released Feel It Break -- a wonderful bit of gothy electro-pop weirdness that would ultimately become one of that year’s most beloved releases (especially for those with a… Read Story »
May 14th Comment
On Record Store Day, the great Toronto electro-pop crew Austra hooked up with Gina X, a culty German late-'70s/early-'80s postpunk singer, to release a 12" single of a new track called "Mayan Drums."… Read Story »
May 3rd 5 Comments
You know this was a good week for music videos when 4Minute made a K-pop video with dancing zombies in it, one where they fight the dancing zombies by spraying hairspray at them, and it didn't even… Read Story »
May 1st Comment
A few years ago, the operatic Toronto art-punk veteran Katie Stelmanis put together the witchy synthpop band Austra, and their excellent debut album Feel It Break was one of the great surprises of… Read Story »
Mar 29th 19 Comments
Remember last month when we made a hand-wringing post about the death of the MP3 and thereby the end of the downloadable Monthly Mix? Well, fuck it -- ZIP FILE BACK. Thank you for your comments and… Read Story »
