Slothrust – Best Dark Songwriting/ Best Drumming
Elephant Stone – Best Surprise Band /Best Use of Sitar/Best Tame Impala Follow-up
PMS and the Mood Swings – Best Name
Deftones – Best Show of SXSW/ Best Ray LaMontagne Cover Band/ Best Showmanship
Lower Dens – Best GI Jane Look-A-Like
Bloc Party – Best Phone-It-In Performance/ Best at Letting Down Longtime Fans
The Kills – Best Looking Lead Singer/ Best Pure Rock Performance
While SXSW features exotic music like throat-singers from the steppes of Mongolia or flute bands from the peaks of the Andes, we must not forget that some of most exhilarating music comes from our own backyard. Here are 11 bands that will be slaying at SXSW this week. 1. Mobley (Post-Genre Pop) Cutting vocals in the woods behind…
PWR BTTM – NYC Eschewing mediocrity for a full-on queer punk motif, PWR BTTM is a punk duo sodomizing the status quo. Energetic and positive, the message of their music is uplifting which pairs well with a en eye-full of DIY showmanship that grips it’s audience. Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce plan on shocking at…
In it’s second year, Day For Night is the festival that Houston deserves. Appropriately held in the abandoned Barbara Jordan Post Office downtown, the building projected the industrial grittiness of Houston, with its precarious lighting and dark swaths of space connected by dank metallic staircases. Occasional wafts of rotten seafood and sewage competed against the…
ShareShare on FacebookTweet about this on TwitterShare on Google+Share on LinkedInEmail this to someoneShare on StumbleUpon Float Fest is a bold endeavor that has paid off once again. Bringing thousands of music-loving Texans to the Cool River Ranch in San Marcos, in the middle of a scorching deadbeat summer, has liability written all over it….
