No, I am not done yet. This one and a gallery of the showcases is all that is left. If I can muster it, I'll do a best of post. Best-ofs are easier well removed from a festival because lasting memories help define what really got you going. Anyway, this giant gallery of daytime show goodness includes some candids and portraits from around the conference during the unofficial events. Highlights include Wax Idols , Nobunny , The Soft Moon , Criminal Hygiene , Bleeding Rainbows , that band Thurston Moore is [...]
Finally, it's over. After over a 100 bands, 100 beers, a few tacos, we're back to the daily grind. The beast that is SXSW is officially behind us now, so we'll be spending a bit of time highlighting our own individual thoughts on the festival. We're not trying to inundate you with the next big thing, we just want to recap what we caught. I'm on first! Best Bands: Wax Idols dominated their set at Red 7 for the ForceField PR Party. Sure, the bassist [...]
Behold! A big screaming pile o' punk 'n' roll in a house that won't know what hit it! Free to go and free to get tattooed—that's a deal you don't get anywhere besides the federal pen! Come get all squooshed up with these bands that you know we L-U-V!
The music portion of South by Southwest 2013 begins in just nine days, yet the Austin-based festival continues to expand the lineup. According to Billboard , Dave Grohl's Sound City Players will play at Stubb's on Wednesday, March 14th. Joining Grohl for the star-studded performance will be Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty, Rick Springfield, Corey Taylor, Alain Johannes, Rage Against the Machine's Brad Wilk, Fear's Lee Ving, and more. (Grohl is also this year's keynote speaker .) Also, according to Austin's KVUE.com , Justin Timberlake will play a [...]
Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed. • Even though Riot Fest 2012 wrapped up in September, it is never too early to start thinking about 2013. Brooklyn Vegan Chicago has the new dates and information on how you can get your discounted passes. • Chicagoist's Jon Graef keeps us abreast of the latest Chief Keef drama. This time Pitchfork Media has been drawn into the [...]
Total Trash , how I missed thee. All ages shows are getting harder to come by. There are many theories on this. Shannon and her Clams delivered the full Misfits catalog and the fans lapped it up. Nobunny hopped through a set of Halloween classics that woulda made any KALX DJ proud. Yes to "Monster Mash" and "Purple People Eater" but also Roky Erikson's "2 Headed Dog," The Cramps' "Goo Goo Muck" and favorites of Lux and Ivy like "The Crusher." For "Ghostbusters," [...]
Another exhausting Rocktober has finally come to an end. Of course, who better to close it out than R Kelly? Thursday, October 25th An Evening With Public Image, LTD at The Regency Ballroom Sure, it's not The Sex Pistols. However, Johnny Rotten's post-Pistols New Wave project may not have the historical gravitas of his first [...]
If (like me) you missed out on tickets to The Coachwhips ' sold out show (Saturday, October 27th at the Verdi Club), listen up! A second Coachwhips show has been added!!! It will take place on Sunday, October 28th at Oakland's edgy Lobot Gallery . Before there were Thee Oh Sees, there were The Coachwhips. John Dwyer's frantic guitar and vocals were every bit as tasty. The band was deeper in the garage as this was the early part of the Millennium, a primordial version of Thee Oh [...]
If it had been any other lineup, I probably wouldn't have attended Chicago's Riot Fest 2012 - simply because of its location(s). For one, I loathe the Congress Theater. I'll never forget how their bathrooms look like set pieces from Seven or Saw , or how they let Man Man sound piss poor that one time, or when they closed coat check during a bitter cold New Year's Eve party. The latter which resulted in yours truly getting heat sores all over his chest, all from having to wear a leather jacket on the dance [...]
For the past eight years, Riot Fest has slowly evolved into one of Chicago's most intriguing festivals -- not only because of it's consistent slant towards punk and metal, but because it was in the fall and in a slew of our favorite locals clubs. This year, Riot Fest mastermind Mike ‘Riot’ Petryshyn has taken the growing event to the next logical step -- out of the clubs and expanding into a full fledged multi-day, and (sort of) multi-city festival. The kind that, if this year's edition proves [...]
Slap-bracelet koozie // Photo by Jeremy D. Larson There's some vestiges of Magellan that still run through our blood, but the pioneering spirit in music has a habit of leading to dead ends, or sending us around in circles, or retreating toward the safety of civilization. Loathe as I am to say, there is a large circle of people who will never read this - people who don't possess that need for discovery at all, and who see music as a passive or incidental thing in their life like the hum of cicada or the refrigerator kicking in at intervals. I [...]
Coachwhips – "I Made A Bomb" Hats off to the folks at Total Trash for getting John Dwyer's Coachwhips back together for their first show in seven years. It's part of Total Trash's Halloween Bash weekend , two great-looking shows featuring a whole bunch of local garage groups. Tickets for both shows are on sale right now! TOTAL TRASH HALLOWEEN BASH SATURDAY OCTOBER 27TH HAUNTED HOUSE!!! COACHWHIPS TRADITIONAL FOOLS MOONHEARTS AMPLIFIED HEAT OLNEYVILLE SOUND SYSTEM [...]
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars In the brief bio on Sub Pop 's web page for King Tuff , and his new self-titled album, it alludes to the fact that the entirety of the record is just rock n' roll and that you can't really listen to it with critical ears. For what it's worth, the bio is pretty spot on, as King Tuff is something you're just going to have to experience for yourself. But, I'll do [...]
Podcast #19 is available for streaming online or downloading and listening at your leisure! Live broadcast radio shows are 9pm Thursdays (EST) on PMCRadio.org . Track List: 1) CocoRosie We Are On Fire Single Tearz For Animals 2) Savages Savages Single Flying to Berlin 3) The Bell Your Fair Share of the Bell Wanna Go 4) Churches Churches [...]
Podcast #18 is available for streaming online or downloading and listening at your leisure! Live broadcast radio shows are 9pm Thursdays (EST) on PMCRadio.org . Tracklist: 1) Teepee Time Meant Nothing Single Time Meant Nothing 2) Still Flyin' On a Bedroom Wall Elsie Dormer 3) Nobunny La La La La Love You La La La La Love You 4) Holograms [...]
Yesterday, we published Volume 1 of IRC's Record Store Day 2012 recap coverage, featuring digital versions of limited edition vinyls from The White Stripes, The Flaming Lips with Bon Iver, Wilco, Beach House, J. Mascis with Built to Spill's Brett Nelson, Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, and Real Estate. Just as with Vol. 1 - which [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
This Saturday is Record Store Day 2012 , a time to celebrate independent record stores and break the bank snatching up exclusive, limited edition releases. Among the many, many tantalizing offerings coming out on Saturday are the following ten with Bay Area connections. For the full list of RSD releases, head here . Rhymesayers is releasing a 103 picture disc featuring artwork by SF's Jeremy Fish , and new songs from Atmosphere and The Uncluded. The latter is the duo of [...]
Easter is almost here, and punk rock bunny Nobunny has two holiday treats for you to get ready. The 73-second pop nugget "At the Mall," off his forthcoming Record Store Day 7-inch MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL EP, is one (stream below). The other is the on the cover of that record. See if you can spot it below. The masked rocker has a full-length due in June on Goner and no scheduled gigs coming up besides an April 8th show in Baltimore. Of that, he writes, "Here we am heading into the 2nd quarter of 2012 and [...]
Meeeeow! Or whatever sound it is a leopard makes... Nashville's Heavy Cream played second at the Bottom of the Hill on Wednesday for the first of MANY Burger Boogaloo events this week. Jessica (pictured here) prowled around the stage singing, screaming and spitting into a fury of hard rockin' milky goodness. Shannon & the Clams kicked it all off. Cody (aka King Lollipop) delivered the Buddy Holly meets Mortimer Mouse treasures. [...]
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