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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 [...]
The Chap at The Cake Shop, NYC, Saturday, 3.28.09
Cheers to The Chap, London’s own “experimental pop outlaws,” for bringing a hot taste of Texas back to NYC at Cake Shop on a cold and drizzly Saturday night. They’d been on the top of our list as a British band not to miss on the first night at SXSW, but pity us and our [...]
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 [...]
