The Daily Texan has a story about Harvey Milk, which is playing in Austin tonight.

When the members of Still, Small Voice & The Joyful Noise take the stage sometime late tonight at the 40 Watt, they’ll not only have a new song or two to preview but they’ll also welcome a founding member back into the fold. Mikey Dwyer, the band’s original drummer has returned. “It’s great, it’s beautiful,” says bassist-vocalist Trish Scurry, who along with guitarist-vocalist Chip McKenzie and Dwyer started the band in 2004. “We played a six-song set at Kingpins (on Sunday), which was his official return to the band. It’s really exciting.” Read the full story…

We Versus The Shark’s newest CD “Dirty Versions” gets reviewed in The Onion’s AV Club and on Pitchfork. Harvey Milk’s “Life, the Best Game in Town” gets the Pitchfork treatment.

One of hip-hop’s most celebrated and respected factions will ascend upon Athens on Saturday to help commemorate a weekend honoring one of the city’s most celebrated and respected teenagers. The Grammy-nominated Nappy Roots, considered one of the Dirty South’s important hip-hop groups, will play a key role in providing entertainment for Darius Goes West Day, which recognizes Athens resident Darius Weems, the subject of the acclaimed documentary “Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life.” Creators of unforgettable songs like “Po Folks” and “Awnaw,” the five-piece ensemble will perform at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday at Farm 255 after the final screening of “Darius Goes West” at nearby Ciné. Read the full story…

Of Montreal has announced dates for its fall tour, which begins Oct. 7, the same day the band’s new album, “Lamping,” is due out. Athens is not on the itinerary. Bummer.

After years of professional exertion had placed a tremendous strain on his personal life, singer-songwriter Glen Phillips (playing Friday at the Melting Point) has found a happy medium, with an emphasis on the “happy.” “My goals are fairly modest,” says the former singer for Toad the Wet Sprocket, who hit the charts in a big way in the mid-1990s with pop classics like “All I Want” and “Walk on the Ocean.” “I’ve been beating my head against a dying music industry for too long. I love music and I love doing shows, but the rest of it I don’t like. “What I want to do now is keep making music and spend more time with my family. I’ve figured out how to stop trying to ‘make it’ and to just take what happens and deal with it.” Read the full story…

There may be nothing new under the sun, but as a kid, Diplo wasn’t looking for that anyway. Growing up amongst strip malls and retirement communities, the Florida-raised DJ sought out history in stacks of records at swap meets. “I would go to the flea market because there was s–t there that would make me feel real,” says Diplo (aka Wes Pentz). That’s how I got into collecting records and collecting music.” Four years after working with M.I.A. on her critically acclaimed album, “Arular,” a collaboration that brought the Philadelphia-based jock wide recognition, the famously innovative DJ (performing Friday at the 40 Watt with Dark Meat) is busy producing fresh sounds from old materials. Read the full story…

Nearly 20 years after their initial performance in Athens, it’s safe to say that the days of heavy touring are over for the “y’all-ternative” duo Stewart & Winfield. “These days, we’re more interested in the quality of gigs over the quantity,” says Stewart Marshall, who with Winfield Smith has logged untold miles performing thousands of concerts in Southeastern college towns, as well as in the ski towns of Colorado, since 1999. “We’ve had some incredible gigs over the last five years.” Read the full story…

Listen to “We’re In Trouble Now” from “Sandy Britches”:

Listen to “Sometimes” from “Sandy Britches”:

Grab your Quidditch Goggles and a juice box. The Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo 2008 is coming to town! The Expo, billed as a “do-it-yourself traveling summer camp circus and crazy rock tour,” stops at the 40 Watt Wednesday with promises of:

1. giant monsters

2. inflatable monkeys

3. songs about wizards

4. Kool-Aid

5. rock ‘n’ roll aerobics

6. name tags

7. a sock puppet cover of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”

The folks behind the Expo go so far as to stand behind this pledge: “This is a home-made summer tour where anything is possible and the power of rock and roll can, and will, change our lives.” Read the full story…

Widespread Panic will extend its record this weekend with its 32nd consecutive sellout at Red Rocks ampitheatre in Denver. As this story mentions, at 9,250 tickets per show, that’s 296,000 tickets sold. Not bad for the house band from the Uptown Lounge, eh?