Pulp at Radio City, with Jeffrey Lewis, 4.11.12
Jeffrey Lewis was the man, opening the evening at 8pm sharp with his bad ass, stickered acoustic guitar and face hidden from the stage lights under a baseball cap. I’m glad the powers-that-be at Radio City were cool with screening his comic book stills, since his final song, “Creeping Brain”, just wouldn’t be the same
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SXSW 2012: $10 Diary Dreams (Thursday and Friday)
I went to SXSW with the same amount of money I always have: none. Thanks to some fancy footwork and swell generosity, I was able to make the trip there happen (thanks Madeline and Dmitri!). Thereafter, I was given a brief word of wisdom: when the sun is out, all is free; when the sun is down, everything costs.
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SXSW 2012: Gauntlet Hair to Guards on a Saturday Afternoon
I slept in, then played a few rounds of Words with Friends before venturing out from Barton Springs on Saturday to see Gauntlet Hair, the band who got their medieval-sounding name from Johnny Winter’s whacky hairstyle, as pictured on the back of one of his album covers.
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SXSW 2012: White Ring Around Austin
It seemed like the White Ring show at Hotel Vegas wasn’t going to happen. Two days ago, White Ring’s Bryan Kurkamilis said that his keyboard went missing, while he was attending to a young woman who was hit while riding her bicycle. “There was blood gushing and it took her a few minutes to regain consciousness,” he later described.
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SXSW 2012: Whiskey with Action Bronson and Mr Muthafuckin’ eXquire
Listening to Action Bronson’s “Brunch” or “Bird on a Wire” goes very well with fairly copious amounts of rum drink, or whatever is at hand, it’s more important to pick the track than the exact choice of beverage. The chef from Queens supplies flows both lyrical and full of a violent punch that jolts me. Obviously the same goes for Mr Motherfucking eXquire, one viewing of his hit “Huzzah!” should be enough to convince you that this is your new grimy drinking song, put yourself into a different state of mind, put on something weird, get out of your usual zone and onto some weird freedom plane.
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SXSW 2012: The Last Day and a Half is Always the Hardest and Sweetest
On Friday, late afternoon, my friends text me while I’m way over on San Jacinto to say “Trust’s on in ten!” I had no choice but to run to Brooklyn Vegan’s Hotel Vegas on East 6th for Toronto’s Trust, who I’d just seen in Brooklyn last week. They were so good then, I ran from west to east to get my fill for a second round. I arrived just as they were into their second song, with Hob Nob wine in hand, ready to dance.
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SXSW 2012: Are Mixtape MCs the New Owl or is Rock Still the Kingpin?
SXSW is many things, with one minor detail being that it’s always a great study in contrasts. There are the badgeless, the wristbandless, and the Austinites who come to gawk at the international crowds and who just don’t care, or those media mavens with every plastic VIP cred swinging proudly on their chest and who scream when they can’t get into a day party they rsvp’d for since their name just isn’t on the list. There are the huge parties boasting free swag, festooned with as many corporate logos as can fit on a beer cozy, cheap bandana or XL tee you’ll maybe use to wash your car, if you have one.
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SXSW 2012: Juicy J
There’s nothing better than being completely wasted in a crowd of people at 2am on a patio in Austin waiting …Read the Rest
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SXSW 2012 Day 1: British Music Embassy, Bleached, Gary Clark Jr., Teengirl Fantasy
Passionate anthems were paired with the day’s first dive into a pre-noon margarita at the East of England Party at …Read the Rest
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SXSW 2012 Users’ Guide (Five Shows)
G-Side (Huntsville, AL) Users’ Guide: Coke, 40s Seductively aggressive, like watching a seal get mauled and eaten by a polar …Read the Rest
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