I am super excited about Chris Pureka's show at SPACE on Wednesday. How I Learned to See in the Dark is one of my favorite albums of 2010 so far, and I'm sure the live show will be great.

So traffic's moving along and I'm thinking about the video for "Tightrope" and something occurs to me. Monáe's collaborators include Big Boi (of Outkast). While I'd stop short of calling the "Tightrope" video derivative, it shares certain similarities with the video for Outkast's "Hey Ya".

This Week in Great Music: 5/31 - 6/6

And so it begins - the slow trickle of bands, big and small, making its way to our fair city after playing a ridiculous amount of shows in a ridiculous amount of venues in Austin. The month is only going to get busier, so hang on, it'll be a wild ride.