The weather in New Jersey was treacherous on Saturday, but we were lucky enough to escape for SXSW in time with no problems. Traffic from the airport in Austin slowed things down to where we missed out on some of the panels we wanted to catch, but Saturday night was full of great events. We saw the unveiling of the new Digg at Diggnation at Stubbs . The audience of 1500+ was screaming in delight for Kevin Rose [...]
We're in Austin for the South by Southwest Festival . We have lots of things planned this week. You can bookmark this page and our Facebook page to check out live video feeds, interact with Synnners that are in the land of BBQ and get minute by minute updates of our journey. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you SYN by Southwest Get the Tweet Blender widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox ! Not seeing a widget? ( [...]
2009 was another great year for music in the WOXY Lounge. And it was another great year for our lounge recordings during SXSW 2009 as well. We were back at EAR studios again this year for a new record 27 live sessions. I put together a quick batch of some of our favorites from our week at EAR earlier this year, and wrapped zipped it up for you to download. All at once or each track by itself. I am also preparing a best of the Lounge CD for you to consume later this week [...]
[Micachu and The Shapes at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort in Austin, TX] You might say Micachu raised some eyebrows down in Austin during SxSW in March. People were either peeing their pants or on one another each time the Londoner and her Shapes kicked out helpings of their schizo-pop. Words and phrases like "fresh," "yikes," and "oh, good heavens," were thrown around with equal abandon. BBQ sauce was spilled. Chaos ensued. All that's bound to happen again this summer when Micachu returns for a set of US tour dates. The wave [...]
Secret Garden Video Series: Fanfarlo (SXSW Edition) from hoovesontheturf on Vimeo . The amazing Fanfarlo (special shout out to Rachel P. for introducing me to their music) did a show at the Red House Pizzaria (you may remember I saw Jay Jay Pistolet there) and you can read allll about it here .
[Photo by Hatnim Lee ] So remember when we spoke with the Black Lips after their show with GZA at this year’s SxSW ? Well, we used this intro when we posted the MP3 and we're re-using it now to show you the video for the version of "Drop I Hold" that GZA does not perform on. Get over it. Black Lips & GZA - "The Drop I Hold"
SXSW 2009 ligt alweer even achter me, maar ik moest toch weer even aan het festival denken toen ik deze week de EP van Precious Blood in de bus vond. Precious Blood is namelijk de band van Amy Annelle en Ralph White en Annelle gaf een van de meest opzienbarende optredens tijdens het festival. Dat het optreden opzienbarend was lag niet zozeer aan Amy Annelle, maar aan de planning van de festival-organisatie. Annelle speelde solo in The Music Gym , een soort keet, terwijl tegelijkertijd op het buitenpodium de rappers van [...]
There has been a load of hype swarming around Grizzly Bear's new record, Veckatimest , since the beginning of the year, and the album hasn't even come out yet (but it's not like we haven't heard it already). Grizzly Bear has announced the first single from the album will be "Two Weeks" and will be released on May 18. Live performances of the song have been filtering around the internet for quite some time now (i.e. the Letterman performance, and the performance with Victoria [...]
What kind of name is Pete & The Pirates anyway? Dare I say it conjures the image of either the band in the Free Credit Report commercial or some swingin' hepcats from 1958 rockin' out in full buccaneer attire. Arrrgh! Well, these pirates (including two real-live Petes) hail from Reading, England, and make terrific, classically British indie pop that we've been into for a while. I'd be lying if I didn’t say that we made booking a session with them at SXSW a priority and thankfully, they're nothing like [...]
Having a session with The Rosebuds is one prime example of why we go to SXSW every year and do what we do. You see, we have always been fans of the band, and have played music from each and every one of their studio releases. But for whatever reason, tour routing, lack of a show around us etc., we have never had the pleasure of hosting Ivan & Kelly in the WOXY.com studios. So, it was a natural fit to have them close out one of our days at EAR studios during SXSW [...]
How we stumbled upon The Distant Seconds is probably not unlike how you've come across a band or two: we found them online. Matador Records chief Gerard Cosloy, an Austin resident, raved about them during an interview , leading us to make direct contact for a copy their freshly minted debut Spectral Evidence . Recalling the nervy guitar work of the likes of Television, Bottomless Pit, and even Spoon, the disc quickly made its way onto our playlist and became one of WOXY's most played records during [...]
When we were investigating some local bands for our SXSW bookings this year, we came across a great record called Space Punk Starlet from The Frontier Brothers . While the band have called Austin home since 2006, they have quite an interesting mythology. You see, the Dallas Observer have already called them "the love children of Randy Newman and Stephen Malkmus", but it goes farther than that. Much farther in fact, as they claim to be from a planet over "700 billion light years away" in our interview where every band sounds like U2. [...]
Start with Day 2 Day Parties I had exactly 12 seconds to hit my room, clear the day's photos off the camera, and run back across to the faaar west side of town. Night Two in Austin was going to start with a one-two shot of Silver Lake, CA. 1. Eulogies Eulogies was a band I'd heard a ton of good things about from reviewers outta Silver Lake. Makes sense as the reviewers I know gotta thing for fuzzy shoegazey stuff with chimey guitars (but who doesn't [...]
This San Francisco trio have been playing together since 2006. Roland Curtis & Chris Crawford became friends when they were working in a record store together. They met singer Jason Heiselmann soon after and worked through a few setups before settling on playing together as a trio. All three guys have recording & engineering experience, but decided to hit the studio with Trans Am's Phil Manley so that they could capture their live sound with a little outside input from someone who is genuinely a musical hero for the guys. Late last year those recordings became their self-titled debut cd [...]
I don't usually get that excited about new music, but I've seriously been on Mayer Hawthorne's nuts since I first heard his single . I saw him at SXSW (his second live show ever) and it was totally dope despite the fact that it was at the Purevolume House, which essentially represents everything that is wrong with the festival and human beings in general. I waited for about an hour for the venue to open before Hawthorne's booking agent walked down the line of 150 people asking if anyone was there to see the bands. I said [...]
We decided to take in a nearly a full week's worth of Austin this year, so we set our course for EAR Studios once again, focused on bringing WOXY listeners SXSW 2009. Since we were starting our live broadcasts two days prior to the official start of the music portion of the festival and before most bands hit town, we sought out a few of the city's finest to begin our week. Being the "Live Music Capitol of the World" and truly one of the globe's music centers, the local scene in Austin easily ranks with those [...]
For last year's SXSW Lounge Act sessions, we invited A Place To Bury Strangers to EAR Studios and they definitely turned out to be one of the loudest sessions that week. This year, we followed up with some good friends of APTBS, Atlanta's All The Saints. Both bands were initially labelmates on Killer Pimp before All The Saints found their debut record Fire On Corridor X reissued through Touch & Go in 2008. In 2004, Matt Lambert, Titus Brown and Jim Crook relocated to Atlanta, GA from Tuscaloosa, AL. While they had known each [...]
feat: The Shaky Hands, Max Tundra, Crocodiles, Wavves, Explode Into Colors, Pocahaunted, Pete And The Pirates, and Telepathe Sorry (again) for tardiness, it took me longer than expected to process all of the music (on a crappy computer) and whatnot and other real-life things. I can't be bothered to lookup song titles, so if somebody wants to post any setlists or titles in the comments section (or any other comments) it will be appreciated. Eventually I'll get around to posting the two other days of SXSW I recorded, but until then - these recordings from the Wednesday SXSW [...]
Aaaaand that's why they're my favorites.
Born in Alabama, Dorothy Mae Whitsett (aka Lady Dottie) got her start singing in a gospel choir. She was raised in a family of 14 but it's hard to imagine that she ever had trouble being heard with her powerful voice. Her musical prowess knows no bounds. She started singing the blues at age 20 and, at one point, even performed jazz standards in a piano bar. Along with her band The Diamonds, Lady Dottie has become a San Diego staple, serving up a raucous mix of the blues, soul, and rock with three current weekly [...]
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