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SXSW 2009 Day 4: Saturday, 3.21.09, Austin TX
We woke up early on an overcast Austin Saturday morning to meet with Silversun Pickups and shoot them for our feature in a friend’s nearby loft. The setting: the Silversuns lounging on a luxurious, Victorian carved bed, was quite cozy indeed, but it was too bad there wasn’t time to chat about their new songs [...]
SXSW 2009 Day 3: Friday, 3.20.09, Austin TX
Friday afternoons at SXSW are the most party-packed, but why pussyfoot around when Spin Magazine takes over Stubb’s, bringing on their annual bash just past noon, with a lineup more mouthwatering than the BBQ and slaw? This year, the unstoppable Crystal Method spun for the lunch crowd, (which included Bloody Social singer/Calvin Klein model Jamie [...]
SXSW 2009 Day 2: Thursday, 3.19.09, Austin TX
Why dare to dream away the morning when there were spicy Bloody Marys, PBR tallboys and bands to be had just past noon at the Little Radio Party at Red Eyed Fly? We entered to hear the sunny, synth sounds of a New Wave act with hair (both bleached and unbleached) that was, admittedly, more [...]
SXSW 2009 Day 1: Wednesday, 3.18.09, Austin TX
A few minor catastrophes like storm clouds over Houston and flight delays may have gotten us into the thick of SXSW a few hours later than planned on opening day. However, after racing to get fitted with wristbands, we found our way over to Latitude 30, once again, the British Music Embassy’s official clubhouse, for [...]
A Pre-SXSW Chat with London’s The Chap
Mega Breakfast indeed, old chaps. I first stumbled across London pop quartet The Chap and their startlingly uplifting song, “Proper Rock”, while rifling through mp3s of seas of international acts playing SXSW 2009. Not only did they stand out for their witty, Flight of the Conchords-like lyrics, but their keen, almost dadaist, sense of play. [...]
A Pre-SXSW Chat with New Zealand’s Cut Off Your Hands
Since we first caught New Zealand’s Cut off Your Hands at a NYC CMJ showcase two years ago, around the time their Shaky Hands EP had just landed, it seems apropos that they’ve not only become one of our favorite festival acts, but one of our favorite international bands, as well as one of the [...]
Fever Ray: Burning From the Inside
Ominous, effective, uplifting, vibrant, elegiacal, anxious: such are a few words that only begin to describe the dramatic intensity of the songs of Fever Ray, the latest solo project from The Knife’s Karin Dreijer Andersson.
So Percussion: The Game of Modern
Recently, prevalent notions of creative society as expressed in mournful entries, smacking blog comments and sudden revelations of conflict have often been that of an argument between art and finance. These include caricatures depicting those who endeavor to achieve something which may have no definitive end but has an inspired beginning, or point to the idea that if money was not a stone wall, then we could do anything, or if people would listen, (for what it’s worth), there would be no communication barricade.
Love Is All: Love and Insomnia
Love Is All’s latest release, A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night, is is a devilishly contagious amalgam of pop and punk, done sublimely, as only this bustling Swedish five-piece can. Seeing them live, whether at a secret show inside a remote Brooklyn gallery or at a proper downtown venue, confirms them as all the more flawless, since one of the best facets of their music stems from the band’s quirky collective personality.
Midnight Juggernauts: Changing Things One Beat at a Time: Sentimentalist Magazine Online Exclusive
Australian acts have historically had a harder time getting exposure than their north of the equator counterparts, so it’s fitting that futuristic electro-rock Melbourne trio Midnight Juggernauts are changing things.
