T ia Carrera boasts members who shaped some pretty cool bands in their past lives (the Butthole Surfers being a particularly cool reference for me). What you have here is an album of such lolloping 'I am fucking cool and you WILL love be God damn you' riff and jam that you will wonder if this is the primordial soup from which all things Earthless and Mammatus were formed. Fuzz Rock shouldn't be packaged and over processed and falsified and this record is perfect proof of why because when [...]
Back in September 1968, Jimi Hendrix was touring the US West Coast with The Soft Machine and Eire Apparent . Vanilla Fudge 's mafioso managers thought they should also be that tour. An offer was made that could not be refused and The Fudge was on the bill. Carmine Appice has told many stories of all the times he played with Jimi and Fudge bassist Tim Bogart at soundchecks and late night jam sessions. No tapes of these mythical jams have surfaced, but the new album from Tia Carrerra [...]
Dead Confederate just announced a new tour that will tackle both U.S. coasts, and swing through Austin for a SXSW performance or two. We were lucky enough to host them at our blogger party last year, the day after they opened for REM, and they blew the roof off the place. Above, check out some live footage from their KEXP studio performance, and hit up WOXY for another live show. The tour dates are posted at myspace , and the little tune below is one of the many good parts of [...]
Foto: Ellen Allien Antes de que la fiebre MXBeat09 comience. El 18 de Febrero tendremos de visita, tras haber transcurrido unos 10 años, a Ellen Allien; ¿que ha pasado con ella en 10 años?, creo que principalmente una evolución en cuanto a la percepción musical de ésta tia ya que tune tras tune muestra una constante retroalimentación con su entorno resultando de ella sonidos y texturas aunque oscilantes en el mundo del Techno tienden a proponernos atmóferas imposibles de encerrar en un sólo género. Durante su carrera Ellen Fraatz ha sido [...]
I have been really tied up with work and having too much fun at Free Week, but I will commence to regular blogging soon enough. I hate not having a bunch of tunes up here for you to check out. Here are a few things I have been meaning to post: Tonight I'm going to catch SuperLiteBike and Tia Carrera , then Ume and El Paso Hot Button on Thursday . I haven't had a chance to see The Strange Boys since ACL, so I will do that on [...]
Updated: January 4th Artists in RED are confirmed officially by SXSW. Otherwise the rest are just confirmed by the bands themselves. Artists in BLUE are local. Artists in GREEN are ones we recommend. Artists in PINK are recently updated. Artists in BOLD are bigger name acts. 19 Dirty Queens (Cardiff, UK) 8Ball & MCJ (Memphis, TN) A-Trak (Montreal, [...]
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new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
Friday Five: Surf Songs
