Moonlandingz – Best Use of Peanut Butter On The Face/ Best Song About Donald Trump
Iggy Pop – Best Transformative Experience Since Birth
Astronauts – Best Band To Literally Space Out Too
Moving Panoramas – Best Local All-Female Shoegaze
PWR BTTM – Best Punk Duo Dressed In Drag Singing About Love & Sodomy
SXSW Artist Interview: Poolside Jeff Paradise, Filip Nikolic, Michael Gold, and Jason Pipkin are Poolside. These Californian lounge lizards create ‘Daytime Disco” that is the perfect score to an afternoon lounging by the pool. Their new album, Pacific Standard Time, was one of my favorite albums of 2012 and it was a blast getting to…
Two days of recovery from the first round of ACL was all but lost after the marathon dance party that took place at the Emo’s on Wednesday night. “Chill wave” connoisseur, Chaz Bundick of Toro y Moi, and L.A. pop electro savants, Classixx, came together in a showcase that was as danceable and funky…
Skylar Spence promised he wouldn’t “Suck so bad next time he comes to Austin”, when he was actually the highlight of the night. Madeon got college kids and people with their brains melted by ecstasy to jump up and down to his electronic button-pushing;)
The languorous ripples in Lady Bird Lake hide an undetectable lysergic compound that has turned the Violet Crown city into a lush and fertile culture for psychedelic music to flourish. Roky Erickson, The 13th Floor Elevators, Shiva’s Headband, and other 60’s psych bands germinated Austin’s psychedelic seeds decades ago. While many other analagous bands…
I found myself backstage at Emos during SXSW 2013 with two of my favorite electro-Aussies who made a rare American appearance in Austin.
