Marfa’s own Celia Hollander quietly released an album under her 3:33 guise last month, available to stream or download at her Bandcamp page.

The Texas-based audioblog Gorilla Vs. Bear called the cryptically titled $ . “beautifully disjointed + hypnotic” while yvynyl says it’s “as fresh as a springtime desert bloom.”

Hollander’s compositions range from maniacal piano passages, damaged pink noise and sounds not far removed from the spectral synth and vocal workouts we heard when Julia Holter got together with Jib Kidder last year. Plus the sort of disjointed take on trap beats and Houston’s slowed and throwed vibes that we’ve come to expect from occasional Marfa visitor Matthewdavid.

And now we know what Hollander has been doing all winter long in the chilly makeshift studio over behind the old lumber yard.

Meanwhile, across town …

… the Past Life Billionaires are mashing up Jean Cocteau and David Lynch films to accompany their Trans-Pecos riff on the deconstructionist R&B sounds popularized by Bon Iver, Autre Ne Veut and How To Dress Well. “Weeeeeeeeeeeeee’re all alonnnnnnnnnnne!” [Via Big Bend Now]

Dan sent this to me last night. All I want to listen to is this kind of music, world beats, The Men, Arthur Russell and the occasional Jayhawks song (shrug).

ps: RELEVANT: their tags on Bandcamp: rock jam party psychedelic pulled pork sandwich Philadelphia

Kahil El’Zabar & Hamiet Bluiett posters printed and ready for shipping. Arriving next week. Awesome. Designed by Brice Beasley. Available here.

Jeff Mangum live in Athens, GA in 1997

Ballroom Marfa and Tiger Mountain are pleased to announce that we have added a second Jeff Mangum performance on March 31, 2013. Doors for this later show will open at 10pm at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas.

Mangum is the singer and principal songwriter of the legendary band Neutral Milk Hotel. Tickets for the 7:30pm Marfa show are sold out.

Tickets are $20, and are available from the Ballroom Marfa online shop and at the gallery starting at 12pm CST on Friday, February 22, 2013.

Please note: No photography and no recording permitted during the show, including cell phones. $1 from each ticket goes to benefit Children of the Blue Sky. Special thanks to Jennifer Bell, Daniel Chamberlin, the Crowley Theater, Rob Crowley, Tim Crowley, Marfa Recording Company and Jack McFadden. Photo of Jeff Mangum by Corey Greenwell.

I’ll Never Be Happy Again looks just like this. instagr.am/p/WAO3ClNLBq/

— Eleanor Friedberger (@EleanorOnly) February 21, 2013

Now available in the Ballroom Marfa store: The new Eleanor Friedberger 7-inch single recorded at the Marfa Recording Company, featuring a crew of Marfa players — the Cashiola brothers, Chris Hillen and Brian LeBarton — known from local bands like Candles and Hotel Brotherhood. Colt Miller of the Cobra Rock Boot Company accompanies Eleanor with banjo and pedal steel, adding the finishing touches to the session’s classic West Texas vibes. Click here to read more.

“I’ll Never Be Happy Again” b/w “Dallas,” is out now in a limited edition of 500 on Ballroom Marfa. The A-side is also available as a download on iTunes.

For more information, please visit Eleanor Friedberger on .

Psychic Ills are returning to Marfa this weekend, playing at Padre’s on Friday. Since their inception in 2003, the New York-based band has moved from spaced-out improvisational skronk through soothing ambient synth-work and zonked ragas to land in the desert blues territory of their last two albums. They’re also Ballroom Marfa alums, having performed at the opening of Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe, and Alexandre Singh’s 2008 installation, Hello Meth Lab in The Sun.

Their most recent effort, One Track Mind, was produced by Neil Hagerty (see: Royal Trux, Howling Hex or Pussy Galore) and imports the astrally-inclined aesthetic of their earlier work to the sort of goner rock grooves explored by Kurt Vile, Dinosaur Jr. and the aforementioned Hagerty projects. For those considering ponying up the $7 cover charge, we offer the pretty beachfront psychedelia of “Mind Daze” from their 2011 album Hazed Dream as evidence of the impending good times. You may also stream their new album in its entirety at Spin.

They’re joined by Austin psych-rockers Holy Wave, who have tunes available for preview on Bandcamp.

Not really a true for Two for Tuesday, just two songs that keep catching my ear: The Men’s “Open Your Heart” (which sounds like something? The “I’ve been riding” part? What does it sound like? Also how dope are the Sacred Bones album covers? Especially this one with all that PURPLE) and Royal Headache’s “Never Again.” TWOZ FOR TUEZDAY.

Open your heart to me / I’m lost I’m found / I’m tugging at your sleeve / There are no mirrors here / Do what you want be who you want to be

Scenes from Ballroom Marfa’s Valentine’s Dance with Gary P. Nunn, 15 February 2013. All photos by Lesley Brown.

The Gary P. Nunn performance was made possible by the generous support provided by Janie and Dick DeGuerin.

Special thanks to David Beebe, The Big Bend Sentinel, Biff Bolen, Primo Carrasco, Ross Cashiola, Daniel Chamberlin, Rob Crowley, Dirk Fowler, Cristina Garces, Marfa Public Radio, Marfa Recording Company, Tom Michael and Gary Oliver.

Beer generously donated by Big Bend Brewing Company.

Primo Carrasco & Friends, 15 February 2013. Photo by Lesley Brown.

Lots more photos after the jump!

“I thought … I want to make a kind of music that had the long now and the big here in it. And for me that meant this idea of expanding the music out to the horizons. In terms of space, you were not aware of the edges of the music. I thought, I want to make a music where you just wouldn’t know what was music and what wasn’t. Where it was a plateau …”

— Brian Eno in the 1989 documentary Imaginary Landscapes [via Root Blog]

The Lost Gonzo Band featuring Gary P. Nunn, performing his “London Homesick Blues” in 1974 at Willie’s Second Annual Independence Day Picnic in College Station, Texas. HISTORY.

Don’t miss Gary with Primo Carrasco & Friends here at Ballroom Marfa tonight! 7pm doors; 8pm show. Tickets $10 at the door. [en español]