SXSW 2013 Saturday Night: Peace, White Lung and the Warlocks, 3.16.13
It’s the third and last day of my stint at SXSW 2013, and I’m already feeling the effects of the heat, the lines, and the day-drinking. Today’s plan: head out early to one spot and stay there. So after quickly pondering some schedules, I decide on heading over to the Brooklyn Vegan event. I’m hoping to catch White Lung…
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Prog Rock to a Certified Party Girl, It’s SXSW 2013, 3.15.13
I start the day with a quick trip to the Fader Fort Presented by Converse. It’s just nearing brunch time, so no lines, no crowds. Once inside, the corporate messages surround me, but in a way that makes me check it out instead of turn me off. I make my way over to the stage, and settle to the front to check out the first band of the day, the 1975.
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Ex-Pistol Redefines His Public Image
I interviewed John Lydon 2 days before he kicked off his US tour for Public Image Ltd (PiL), a tour that was set to begin in Orlando. “I don’t like Orlando, there is nothing to do,” he told me, “And Disneyland is hardly my universe.” Well that’s for sure, especially after he told me his Goofy-assaulting story from 25 years ago.
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Adam Green’s ‘Cartoon and Complaint’ at the Intercourse Art Gallery, Through July 10th
Adam Green has expanded on his other career, his oeuvre of painting/drawing and papier maché, building on his personal set of symbols to take his art to the next level with a reductionist palette of wines and “bruises”, partly inspired by Georges Rouault, tarot and tribal art.
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The Radical Departure of Emmanuelle De Héricourt, or EDH
I met with Emmanuelle De Héricourt, aka EDH, and her band mates Elmapi (drums) and Karen “Renka” (keyboards) in the backyard of a Brooklyn pub for our chat about her new album, Yaviz, and her upcoming debut shows in New York. By the time we were on the last sip of a beer, we were all exchanging tips…
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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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The Futuristic Psychedelia and Research Methods of Kasabian
This week, I had a chance to chat with Kasabian’s always-guitarist, sometimes-vocalist, songwriter Sergio Pizzorno. The chatty, upbeat Brit made for one of the easiest interviews I ever got, connecting all of the dots between my less connected stream of questions (we had to make the best of just a couple of minutes)…
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Christine Owman: Now Hear This
The term “multi-instrumentalist” doesn’t really begin to describe the unconventional, über-talented Swedish singer/songwriter Christine Owman accurately. Owman is a one-woman show-stopper who takes on not merely a few, but almost twelve, instruments on her most recent album, Throwing Knives.
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Sentimentalist Magazine Calls Out Top Twelve Releases of 2011
Why do the year-end lists always seem to come in tidy sums of ten, twenty-five, fifty, or a hundred? I would have gone and given you a baker’s dozen but I stopped myself at twelve, for fear of being overbearing. You know how overarching these lists can be.
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