Showing All "Austra" Posts
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 »
Mar 7th 3 Comments
A couple of years ago, the ferociously gifted Toronto art-punk singer Katie Stelmanis formed an electro-goth project called Austra, and their debut album Feel It Break was among our favorite albums… Read Story »
Sep 24th, 2012 Comment
Once a year, the roster of the Canadian indie label Paper Bag gets together to cover one complete classic album, with a different label act taking on each one of the album's songs. Last year, it was… Read Story »
Aug 6th, 2012 4 Comments
Feel It Break, Austra's dark and heady electro-pop debut, was one of last year's great grower albums, a slow bubbler that sank under your skin and stayed there. The band recently taped a… Read Story »
Feb 17th, 2012 4 Comments
Robyn and Canadian group Austra both make pulsing electronic pop music. But Robyn's songs almost always have a sense of joyous immediacy, even when they're sad, whereas Austra's tracks have a… Read Story »
