SXSW 2012 Show Listing

Here is the full listing of what we saw this year:

Tuesday march 13th @ Mohawk
(Pitchfork)
Teengirl Fantasy
Star Slinger
Bear in Heaven

Wednesday 3/14 @ Red 7
(Sony Club)
Roll the Tanks
Tennis

Thursday 3/15 @ 1100 Warehouse
(Mess with Texas)
Girls
Cults

Friday 3/16 @ Frank
(Merge Records)
Hospitality
Eleanor Friedberger
The Love Language

Saturday 3/17 @ Urban Outfitters
Grimes

Saturday 3/17 @ The Parish
(Captured Tracks)
DIVE
Blouse
Soft Metals
Widowspeak

[What we're into right now]: Musical Update Edition

Going back, this is a list of albums that have spent a long time being dumped out to the iPod and in the CD players.

The Black Keys – Brothers: Wonderful Bluesy Deliciousness

PJ Harvey – Let England Shake: Explorations of England and the First World War

LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening: An exhibit to flaunt a knowledge of musical history

[What we're into right now]: Arcade Fire

It’s been a while since we’ve written anything in these series of posts, but we’ll try to keep them going.

I had resisted the Arcade Fire for a very long time now. If fact, I began to do it stubbornly so simply maintaining that I did not care for them and leaving it at that. However the album The Suburbs had come into my house and I had spent some time hearing it as it was played here and there. Eventually, I had sat down to listen to it in it’s entirety and it has since grown on me. In fact, this may have been one of the best albums to come out last year.

Arcade Fire has surrounded this album with suburbs of it’s own giving it a monumental scale. This album is meant to be a statement. From the website to a short film directed by Spike Jonze that premiered at SXSW this year. There is even HTML5 interactive web site where you can type in your childhood address and it creates a film using Google Earth to the song “We Used To Wait”. Of course, any album called The Suburbs is going to ignite emotions from almost anyone. Suburbia in America has become a barometer of sorts for so many social/economic/political views. The most prominent of which is the urbanite looking down on the manicured lawns as a sign of emptyness and soul-crushing sameness, so often something akin to the militant ex-smoker.

The album opens with the song “The Suburbs” where the levity of the music and tempo mask the lyrics over it, and the songs that are still to come. It builds slowly until becomes momentous arena-rock. So much of this album is infused with the feeling of disillusionment and the nostalgia for the escapement and innocence of your childhood. Of course, as a child the boredom seemed insufferable in the suburbs, and you would daydream of the time for you to escape to someplace more exciting. Now looking back, by the time that it’s your time to have children, you realize that perhaps you haven’t changed that much from your parents. Personally, much of the feeling of the album is wrapped up in the lyric “But do you think your righteousness could pay the interest on your debt? I have my doubts about it.” from “City With No Children”. Perhaps you yourself are caught in the same trap as your parents where you worry about the circumstances of your life, but see that you cannot necessarily change it without giving up everything.

SXSW 2011 Show Listing

Here is the full listing of what we saw this year:

Thursday March 17th @ Swan Dive/Barbarella
(Brooklyn Vegan Day Show)
Yuck
Obits
Screaming Females

Thursday March 17th @ Auditorium Shores
The Strokes

Friday March 18th @ French Legation Museum
(Other Music / Dig For Fire Lawn Party)
Lower Dens
Grass Widow
The Ghost of a Sabertooth Tiger

Friday March 18th @ Cedar Street Courtyard
(The Orchard)
Keepaway
The Generationals
The Dodos

Saturday March 19th @ East Side Drive-in
(Mess with Texas)
Strange Boys
Lemuira
Surfer Blood

My Realtor Was On TV Yesterday Morning

Well, not really my realtor, but the realtor that’s supposedly trying to sell the condo that we’re renting. She was performing on the local morning new show here in Austin. She’s also in the new Robert Rodriguez movie Machete.

Ke$ha

Crap. Nuff said.

SXSW 2010 Show Listing

Gemma Ray @ The Tap Room at Six (SXSW 2010)

Here’s the full listing of what we say this year:

Wednesday March 17 @ Stubbs
(NPR Music)
Spoon
Broken Bells
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
The Walkmen
Visqueen

Thursday March 18th @ French Legation Museum
(Other Music and Dig For Fire Lawn Party)
The xx
Dum Dum Girls
Yellow Fever

Thursday March 18th @ Emo’s
(The Bowery)
Rogue Wave

Thursday March 18th @ Galaxy Room
(Sub Pop/Hardly Art)
Dum Dum Girls
The Duchess and the Duke
Avi Buffalo

Friday March 19th @ Club DeVille
(BrooklynVegan Day Party)
MNDR
Zola Jesus
Joe Mande
Katie Stemanis

Friday March 19th @ Encore
(WFMU/Aquarius)
Sonny & the Sunsets
Home Blitz

Friday March 19th @ Barbarella
(Anticon.)
Dosh

Friday March 19th @ Galaxy Room
(Frenchkiss/Mom + Pop)
Les Savy Fav
The Antlers
Local Natives
Freelance Whales

Saturday March 20th @ Cheer up Charlies
(Force Field)
Moon Duo
Woven Bones
Yellow Fever
Tyvek
Broken Records
Vivian Girls

Saturday March 20th @ Red 7
(Woodsist)
The Bitters

Saturday March 20th @ Tap Room at Six
(Blurt/Second Motion)
Gemma Ray

Saturday March 20th @ Barbarella
(PPM)
No Age
Abe Vigoda
Best Coast
KIT

SXSW 2010

The Walkmen

SXSW kicked off yesterday. We went to Stubb’s to see the NPR music showcase. Great show. Visqueen, The Walkmen, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Broken Bells, Spoon.

My realtor’s day job is at night

The realtor that’s selling the condo that we’re renting is playing at the Continental Club tomorrow night. Apparently, she’s fairly well known. I just love the pictures. She even has her own iPhone app.

So, get out there and support your local realtor.

Guilty Pleasure of 2009

By far the biggest guilty pleasure of the year. The Fame is just completely addictive. One song after the other is making it to number 1. Besides, if nothing else, just watching her show up somewhere is worth it.