Day 4 of SXSW was perhaps the most fun of all, and it began with the most delicious vegan peanut butter cup I’ve ever had. I washed it down with an agave wheat beer at the Spider House, where Norwegian noisers the Megaphonic Thrift rocked me back to the early nineties with their can’t-quite-put-my-finger-on-it nostalgic [...]
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SXSW DAY 4: MEGAPHONIC THRIFT, ALANA AMRAM, !!!, DEAD MILKMEN, THEE OH SEES, STRANGE BOYS, JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD, WOGGLES, MEAN SIDE, TY SEGALL, QUINTRON, MISS PUSSYCAT
March 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment
KING TUFF: IT’S NOT NORMAL
March 24th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Hold the phone! This is an unscheduled surprise! Discovering that we’re following roughly the same course back from SXSW that King Tuff is taking towards his new home, Los Angeles, we’ve accosted this young man at illegal trainyard shows and Arizona’s The Thing! Tourist trap gift shop to get the real skinny on Burger Records and his time in Witch. This interview by Dan Collins.
SXSW DAY 3 – HERMAN DUNE, ADANOWSKY, SHANNON AND THE CLAMS, GROWLERS, HANNI EL KHATIB, LESLIE STEVENS, GABBY YOUNG & OTHER ANIMALS, TERRIBLE TWOS, CONSPIRACY OF OWLS
March 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments
Does the phrase “ever loving” evoke a furniture store? Because for at least two years in a row, Everloving Records has done its SXSW showcase at Design Within Reach, a hip furniture store in Downtown Austin, which has always seemed like a slightly weird place to pack a bunch of drunken music fans into. Full disclosure: this [...]
SXSW DAY 2: LESLIE STEVENS, ROKY ERICKSON, PEELANDER-Z, THE RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS, THE STROKES, THE STRANGE BOYS
March 19th, 2011 · 2 Comments
When you’re rushing around trying to absorb as many little shows as you can just to be able to say “Yeah, I saw blah dee blah,” you usually end up with the taste of sour beer in your mouth, maybe a few new seven-inches, and emptiness. Your fingers get blistered from texting, and you have [...]
SXSW DAY 1: FEEDING PEOPLE, JAILL, HANNI EL KHATIB, THE FACELESS, KID INFINITY, PRINCE RAMA
March 18th, 2011 · No Comments
Day one of SXSW started not with a bang but with a whimper… of DELIGHT, as I ate a delicious vegan tamale breakfast plate at Boulden Creek Café on South 1st Street, my first meal in days that involved actual protein and vitamins! Of course, being a no-good rocker type, my breakfast started around 2 [...]
PHOTOS: SPOTTED AT SXSW
March 17th, 2011 · No Comments
Outside the Burger Records showcase at Trailer Space East Side Pies Psychic
SXSW DAY ZERO: FINALLY IN AUSTIN
March 16th, 2011 · 1 Comment
A big fat WARNING to party people crossing the desert—there is a checkpoint 90 miles east of El Paso, and they WILL stop you, and they DO have drug-sniffing dogs that will walk around every car as it stops. If you’re packing something you shouldn’t be, you’d best travel through during the busy daylight times [...]
SXSW DAY -1: EL PASO
March 16th, 2011 · No Comments
El Paso only exists on most tours because of how far and desert-y it is to drive straight through from Tucson to the meatier part of Texas (though having seen an El Paso breakfast, they like their meat here, too). It’s a ramshackle but cozy, remarkably safe town, considering that it abuts a foreign murder [...]
SXSW DAY -2: TUCSON
March 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment
We haven’t even made it to Austin yet, but I think I’ve already found my favorite band of SXSW: Feeding People, the hard-driving doom-y psych band fronted by Nick Rachman on geetar and Jessie Carrillo on lead female vocals. With her curls and evil delivery, Carrillo came across like a sinister Edie Brickell, who might have [...]
L.A. RECORD SHOWS AT SXSW ANNOUNCED!
March 11th, 2011 · No Comments
L.A. RECORD AT SXSW: SXSW is around the corner and L.A. RECORD is collaborating with our friends at the Echoplex, Origami Vinyl, SESAC, TicketWeb, Icelandic Glacial, Anti, IHATEROCKNROLL, Generic Surplus Colonel Abe, Everloving ANNNNND Burger records to bring you some free shows with amazing bands! On Wednesday all-day-and-night Burger goes wild at Trailerspace with tons [...]
