
The penultimate day of my fourth SXSW was definitely the longest in my history of SX's. Arriving at 10:30am at the Elvis Presley-themed Beale Street Tavern to host a show, I was out on the town for 16 hours to follow. Opening the morning, Austin's Indie-meets-retro rock quartet, Ghost Bunny, and solo, blues-rock multi-instrumentalist and loop-master, Walker Lukens, got the ball rolling. Most attendants woke up and arrived for a bevy of Brooklyn bands: Black Taxi , The Courtesy Tier , and The Click Clack Boom . The string of East Coasters was broken by LA- born [...]
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Ghost Bunny is an assured collection of minor-key pop gems that will slink into your head and haunt you. Staten Island's Ghost Bunny has reportedly gone through many changes over the years. Not only have band members come and gone, but the band name itself has metamorphosed in time -- they used to be known by the slightly more morbid moniker Dead Rabbit, as well as the more ordinary group name the Rabbits. Given their final choice, it will surprise no one that this quartet plays an American Gothic style of keyboard-driven indie rock....