1MM: SxSW shots of Yeasayer, MGMT, She & Him, Bon Iver and more
Posted on April 4, 2008
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SHE & HIM: Um, did we say you could come in here?
Last month, photojournalist Alex Marvar wandered around Austin charming South by Southwest’s many bands into posing for impromptu photo shoots. While it was her first time there, she operated like a vet effectively capturing the eclectic spirit of SXSW with the photo essay below.
Marvar shot hyped glam-rockers MGMT, our Brooklyn-based favs Yeasayer, and the hushed folk troubadors Bon Iver among others. We’re personally impressed with her Zooey and Matt shot. In fact, we may blow that one up and hang it on the self-titled office wall.
SxSW Artists We Still Care About: The Spinto Band
Posted on April 2, 2008
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The Artist: Quite possibly the only band worth noting from Wilmington, Delaware.
Their Latest Release: Moonwink (label TBD, 2008)
The Showcase: Some late afternoon party, Creekside Lounge, 3.12.08
The Set in a Sentence: More promising indie pop numbers in need of a label that’ll actually push them.
And a Letter Grade: B+ (would have been an A based on song quality but the sound was awful)
Photos after the jump …
SxSW Spotlight: Fatal Flying Guilloteens
Posted on March 24, 2008
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The Artist: Houston-based anti-heroes with a penchant for stage-diving and mic-swallowing.
Their Latest Release: Quantum Fucking (French Kiss, 2007)
The Showcase: French Kiss @ The Mohawk, 3.12.08
The Set in a Sentence: A blues hammer to the head that left a few bruises and a lot of spilled beer.
And a Letter Grade: A
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SxSW Spotlight: Thurston Moore’s Lou Reed Tribute
Posted on March 22, 2008
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The Artist: The underground’s greatest living guitar god.
Their Latest Release: Trees Outside the Academy (Ecstatic Peace, 2007)
The Showcase: Lou Reed Tribute @ The FADER Fort, 3.13.08
The Set in a Sentence: One of the only signs of life in a rather stale paean to one of rock’s reigning nihilists.
And a Letter Grade: A-
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SxSW Spotlight: Pissed Jeans
Posted on March 22, 2008
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The Artist: Philly’s finest sludge merchants.
Their Latest Release: Hope For Men (Sub Pop, 2007)
The Showcase: Sub Pop @ Bourbon Rocks, 3.14.08
Their Set in a Sentence: David Yow for a Y2K world as led by a guitarist that builds quite a fence of barbed wire chords despite looking like a teddy bear.
And a Letter Grade: A
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SxSW Spotlight: …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Posted on March 20, 2008
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The Artist: Hometown heroes now split between Austin and Brooklyn; currently busy working on a new album in Texas with no label to pay their bills. (Interscope dropped Trail last year.)
Their Latest Release: So Divided (Interscope, 2006)
The Showcase: “The Showdown,” presented by Village Voice Media @ La Zona Rosa, 3.14.08
Their Set in a Sentence: A couple new cuts that suggest the next album’s gonna be gnarly as fuck; lots of catalog-skimming classics to please the fans that stuck with Trail through their poor sales record; and not too much chaos theorizing considering the band’s reputation for destroying their equipment and each other. (Said frontman Conrad Keely, “This is a relaxing afternoon show, so don’t expect us to break anything.”)
And a Letter Grade: B+
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1MM: SxSW So Far (Lou Reed, Trail of Dead, N.E.R.D., Justice, and more!)
Posted on March 14, 2008
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JUSTICE @ the Playboy Party
Sorry we’ve been so quiet this week, but South By Southwest is proving to be as impenetrable and exhausting as ever this year. A full report will be coming early next week and complete photo galleries will be popping up intermittently from this point on, but for now, we give you SxSW in pictures thus far. After the jump please …
