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…
SXSW Artist Spotlight: Body Language Brooklyn indie band Body Language make funky dance pop, and this year the band returns to SXSW for the third time with every intention of getting people moving to their music. Recently The Horn’s Lee Ackerley spoke with the band’s lead vocalist Angelica Bess about past SXSW experiences, life on…
SXSW Artist Spotlight: Metz Alex Edkins, Hayden Menzies and Chris Slorach are Metz. The Canadian trio specialize in delivering brutal, heavy riffs that knock you down. Having played just about every type of venue there is to play, Metz will be stopping in Austin for several SXSW shows. Recently bassist Chris Slorach took the time…
Interview by Lee Ackerley They say that trends are cyclical, and the L.A.-based group, Foxygen, has unabashedly brought back the 60’s sound in a way that only a group of Beatles-obsessed, 20-year-olds could have done. Sam France and Jonathan Rado have the savant-like ability to channel fuzzy, feel-good, 60’s nostalgia into a more modern and…