Let the SXSW Unofficial Day Show announcements begin!
Austinist Teams Up With Windish Agency, Laneway Festival and Eat Your Own Ears
Join us on Wednesday at noon for music from Cloud Nothings, Twin Shadow, Royal Bangs, Givers, Cloud Control and many more, including a special surprise to be announced later. More details, including RSVP links, etc. coming soon. (full story)
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Listen to it here. Doesn’t look like you can skip songs a la Pandora, and clicking on an artist’s name leads you to an AOL search result….
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Three batches before Christmas. Nice work SXSW.
Balmorhea (Austin TX)
The Baseball Project (Portland OR)
The Bears of Blue River (Chicago IL)
Beats Antique (San Francisco CA)
James Blake (London UK-ENGLAND)
Bliss N Eso (Albert Park AUSTRALIA)
British India (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Murphy Brown (Santa Cruz CA)
Brownout (Austin TX)
Canteca de Macao (Madrid SPAIN)
Chateau Marmont (Paris FRANCE)
The Chevelles (North Fremantle WA)
Shawn Chrystopher (Inglewood CA)
Constantina (Belo Horizonte BRAZIL)
Corrosion of Conformity (Raleigh NC)
Cousins (Halifax CANADA)
Graham Coxon (London UK-ENGLAND)
DAM (Lyd PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, OCCUPIED)
Daniel Lioneye (Helsinki FINLAND)
Das Racist (Brooklyn NY) Continue reading
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Here’s the first batch announced. Here’s 95 more:
Alberta Cross (Brooklyn NY)
AM (New Orleans LA)
Asking Alexandria (York UK-ENGLAND)
Bajzel (Poznan POLAND)
Bare Wires (San Francisco CA)
The Bellrays (Los Angeles CA)
Benjamin Francis Leftwich (York UK-ENGLAND)
Beta Wolf (Los Angeles CA)
Bituaya (Caracas VENEZUEL)
Black Gandhi (Barcelona SPAIN)
Bleu Edmondson (New Braunfels TX)
Blue King Brown (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Bowling For Soup (Denton TX)
Carter Twins (Nashville TN)
Casiokids (Bergen NORWAY)
Chetes (Monterrey MEXICO)
City and Colour (Toronto ON)
Colleen Green (Los Angeles CA)
Curry & Coco (Lille FRANCE)
Dame 55 (Los Angeles CA) Continue reading
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Are we ready to begin thinking about this stuff?
Pretty solid first batch don’t you think?
A Place To Bury Strangers (Brooklyn, NY)
Alcoholic Faith Mission (Copenhagen, DENMARK)
Ancestors (Los Angeles, CA)
Apex Manor (Pasadena, CA)
The Appleseed Cast (Lawrence, KS)
Art vs Science (Sydney, AUSTRALIA)
Asobi Seksu (Brooklyn, NY)
Babe Rainbow (Vancouver, CANADA)
The Bees (Ventnor, ENGLAND)
Beni (Sydney, AUSTRALIA)
Black Math Horseman (Los Angeles, CA)
Black Spiders (Sheffield, ENGLAND)
Bombay Bicycle Club (London ENGLAND)
Braids (Montreal, CANADA)
Brandt Brauer Frick (Berlin, GERMANY)
Brother (Slough, ENGLAND)
The Cabriolets (Madrid, SPAIN)
Calder Quartet (Los Angeles, CA)
Candy Claws (Ft. Collins, CO)
Capsula (Bilbao, SPAIN)
Cast (Liverpool, ENGLAND)
Chapel Club (London ENGLAND)
Chico Trujillo (Quilpue, CHILE)
Chikita Violenta (Mexico City, MEXICO)
Clock Opera (London ENGLAND)
Cloud Nothings (Cleveland, OH)
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(Photos of interview by Alysse Gafkjen)
In anticipation of their Columbus show this week at Outland, I caught up with Simon Balthazar, Amos Memon and Leon Beckenham of Fanfarlo while in Austin for SXSW. I must say it’s a bit intimidating walking into an interview being the face of Columbus to a group of musicians who are not only talented and finding success right now, but foreign to our Midwestern scene… quite literally. (Full disclosure: This is due to the fact that I both write for donewaiting and work for Benco.)
Donewaiting: How was Fanfarlo born and how has it developed into it’s current state?
Simon: Ok, so, the short story is.. Fanfarlo used to be a recording project and it kinda came about just before I moved to London [from Sweden]. We pretty much started releasing 7″ on friends labels [in London] straight away before there was really a band. From that recording project, I started meeting people and now it’s become this dysfunctional family of a band we are today.
DW: How long have you been playing together?
Amos: It’ll be the 4th year, later this year together. Originally we were 6, but now we’re 5 people.
S: For the last year, we’ve been playing with guest guitarists.
Leon: We’ve gone through about 6, haven’t we, in the last couple of years?
A: We’ve chewed them up, spit them out.
DW: London seems like a good place to make music, all things considered…
S: It is and it isn’t. It’s a really active scene, there’s all sorts of stuff going on. There’s a very quick turn around, things get old really quickly. And that’s a downside, I think. It’s good in the sense that there’s always something fresh to be excited about. But me personally, I’ve tried to stay a little bit out of the blog bands, you know buzz bands.
DW: In regards to your album Reservoir, how long did it take from start to finish to get out to the general public?
A: I think it was like 7 months.
S: We spent the first two months deliberating over the sequencing, the name and cover art. It’s funny, I mean we did put it out ourselves but I think if we would have had a label kinda whipping us into shape we would have gone through that quicker. I don’t know how interesting it is, you know, the way you sell a record. But for us it was interesting, it was really fun and encouraging to see how many people would get your record directly from you. Continue reading
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Alex Chilton died days before Big Star was supposed to perform at SXSW. Instead of cancelling the event entirely, musicians got together to pay tribute to the man.
Photos by my friend Kristy Duncan.
M. Ward
Evan Dando
We’ve got a ton more.. Continue reading
Cate Le Bon
Despite my confusion about whether I woke up in Columbus or Austin on Saturday morning, I triumphantly braved the cold and put in a good eleven hours of music listening/show-navigating on my last day of SXSW. My day began with a charming interview with the lovely Cate Le Bon (check back for full interview soon) and then took me to the MOG party where I camped out at for a number of hours. While there I caught performances by Dum Dum Girls, Demolished Thought (again sans Andrew WK), Freelance Whales, Broken Bells, The Antlers and The Black Keys.
Completely ignore the fact that I’m an Ohioan for one moment as I crown The Black Keys with the best performance of the party, hands down. Broken Bells was entertaining, but didn’t stray too far from what I might expect from a Shins follow-up of Australia.
The Black Keys
More bands and photos after the jump. Continue reading
Demolished Thought
Though my day actually began at a reasonable hour, my involvement in seeing any music didn’t begin until late afternoon on Friday. I was able to catch up with Fanfarlo at Buffalo Billiards to talk to them about their album and upcoming show in Columbus so keep your eyes peeled for that coming up quite soon.
I caught Wild Sweet Orange at Creekside Lounge who softly reminded me that I was in the south where a voice sang mysterious sounding ballads of struggle. I then popped up to a rooftop to see Andrew WK making his crowd go crazy with his strain of rock and roll fever.
Thoughts on Fools Gold, Demolished Thought, Yacht, Local Natives, Freelance Whales and more after the jump. Continue reading
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings stopped at WOXY during SXSW and recorded a video of “She Ain’t A Child No More,” one of the band’s new songs.
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