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 [...]
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SXSW DAY 1: FEEDING PEOPLE, JAILL, HANNI EL KHATIB, THE FACELESS, KID INFINITY, PRINCE RAMA
March 18th, 2011 · No Comments
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 [...]
WHITE NOISE AT SXSW 2010
March 15th, 2010 · No Comments
MESS WITH TEXAS 4 LINE UP
March 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Mess With Texas 4 Friday, March 19 Man Man Billy Bragg Man or Astroman? Frightened Rabbit Black Angels YACHT The Bronx Grupo Fantasma Brazos Jail Weddings Jeff, The Brotherhood Mariachi El Bronx Hacienda Suckers DJ Spooky w/ GHP Admiral Radley (Members of Grandaddy & Earlimart) Woah Hunx Oh No Ono OFF! (Members of Circle Jerks [...]
SXSW 2010 BAND APPLICATIONS DUE FRIDAY NOV. 6!
November 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Are you in a BAND? Do you want to play alongside like 2,000 other bands? Then get your application in for SXSW 2010, which happens March 17-21 in Austin, TX! Application fee is $40, which is nothing compared to the $billions you’ll make on your world tour after this. Applications are due THIS FRIDAY, November [...]
MIKA MIKO: WE BE XUXA
June 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments
On the surface, We Be Xuxa almost seems like a retread of old school American punk, but actually it evokes without constant copying—it’s fresh-faced punk, yet my heart hears Born Innocent-era Redd Kross in their sisterly choruses, and early early Black Flag or even Ramones in their strumming (minus Greg Ginn’s noodling) and Wipers downturns on the chords, and a Darby Crash-like insistence on writing lyrics too self-referential and profound to sing straight into the microphone. And there’s even a Urinals cover!?! And there’s a Beach Blvd-esque melodicism to Jessie Clavin’s bass lines, one that perfectly matches their Descendants-like love of making up pragmatic gerunds such as “Totion.” A lot of reviewers have said these gals (et dude) sound like X-Ray Spex, but that is a lazy lie!
