SCHED* SXSW 2011

Who: Entrepreneurs, startups, press, lurkers, and ambitious upstarts. How: Beer, awesome interviews and amazing people.   Details Think of it as the Mixergy you love...live and in person...with top interviewees...and drinks.   Making it possible Three people offered to sponsor the event and make it possible. Chris Savage, Wistia's founder, volunteered  to sponsor before I even knew where or when it'll take place. (Wistia is the video platform I use for all of Mixergy's videos. Try it and you'll see why.) Ben Welch-Bolen, CEO of Site5 Hosting, is a guy I personally asked over dinner to do a Mixergy interview but he refused because he's not ready to reveal how well Site5 is doing. (If you come, please help me persuade him.) Josh Kaufman is the author of Personal MBA, the Amazon.com Business Management Bestseller. After spending 5 minutes on the phone with him, I practically begged Josh to teach me. I think you'll want to grab his book. Todd Garland, the Founder of BuySellAds.com, bought my last sponsorship spot. How fitting! Did you know there's a page on his site where you can see how much ad money he generates for every one of the publishers in his network? Before you buy or sell an online ad, check this page out.   Credit where it's due The idea for this event wasn't mine. These two guys cooked it up and are helping me put it together. Noah Kagan - the founder of Killer Web Deals site, AppSumo.com and RewardLevel.com Damon Clinkscales - a software developer and community shepherd in Austin who is also a huge Mixergy fan. He loves to bring people together.

Pat Ramsey, of the Austin WordPress Meetup, and I agreed that SXSW Interactive 2011 would be the perfect place to host another party. I then contacted Jason and Aaron at WP Engine, and they said:Count us in!

We picked a date and I contacted John Wickham to reserve Elysium for the event. When you combine Austin's WordPress community with all the WordPress users coming to Austin for SXSW, you'll need a big venue. Elysium is 3 blocks from the convention center, has a great stage and sound system, and can hold hundreds.

 

http://wordpressparty.eventbrite.com/

Like last year, there will be no schwag and no social media people -- just Data Geeks talking about Data. We know that quite a few people weren't able to attend last year because we maxed out the venue. So for the 2011 party, we've reserved Elysium for the evening. How many hundred Data Geeks fit into Elysium? Play it safe and RSVP now. The party will be free for all SXSW Interactive attendees.

http://dataclusterparty2011.eventbrite.com/

SXSW Interactive is the week immediately following DrupalCon Chicago, and we're going to both. You should too.

DrupalCon ends on Thursday. SXSW begins on Friday, and runs until Tuesday. We're throwing the party on a Monday night, so you'll have a few days to recover from DrupalCon. Good luck with that.

Austin is home to SXSW Interactive AND the largest DrupalCamp to date. We expect this to be a huge bash, so we reserved Elysium -- which is three blocks from the convention center and holds a whole lotta people.

Hope you can join us!

 

http://drupalparty.eventbrite.com/

Romulus Ate is a performance group that came together in the University of Texas Department of Theatre and Dance. Formed in 2010, Romulus lives in the space between performance art, a dance concert, and a rock show. The music combines elements of pop, rock, and ambient electronic genres. The company of 5 dancers, 2 lighting designers, 4 musicians, a makeup artist and a costume designer perform an energy filled set with flashing lights, thumping music, and sweaty bodies. The show was designed with the idea of combining a professional theatrical production with the grittiness of a rock show, and creating a performance world in which anything can happen. During the set, traditional boundaries of performance, gender, and musical genre are subverted and reinvestigated through the passion driven work of the company.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS13433

Born out of desperation in the brutal Canadian winter of 2009, Robert Alfons and Maya Postepski began writing songs about nostalgia, lust, and erotomania. TRUST combine dark synth arpeggios, live and programmed drum beats with haunting, effected vocals. What begins in the genre of minimal synth progresses into a sort of slow-techno that is equal parts introspective cold-wave and extroverted 808 dance beats. TRUST have already begun to draw huge support in their hometown of Toronto where they have opened for Glass Candy, Hercules and Love Affair, Washed Out, and Zola Jesus.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS14920

With only a few sporadic recordings to document the hyperdelia nosebleed fixture that is the nomadic force of Future Blondes, only a select few have actually witnessed the collective myth that is only enhanced by the renegade trip that has been crafted by outsider artist Domokos and his Future Blondes creation. Previous endeavors with Helios Creed / Chrome, and current life threatening duties as evangelist for Rusted Shut, Future Blondes is a step sideways and around. They have seen their sound evolve into part dance / part happening / part metaphysical freak out, taking place, with the help of Book of Shadows... gears often reverse to reveal the sound of one's higher self into the ethereal realm of white light... Ryan Martin Dais Records Robert and Leopold
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS14937

Since their formation in January of 1987, Texas space rock legends ST 37 have released 4 LPs, 2 double LPs, 7 CDs, 4 7's, 6 CDRs, 3 double CDRs, 5 cassettes, and appeared on 39 compilations and collaborations. They've played 386 shows and toured extensively all around the United States. The band has shared the stage with artists like Sonic Youth, Acid Mothers Temple, Bardo Pond, the Butthole Surfers, Hawkwind, Chrome, Helios Creed, Indian Jewelry, Suisho no Fune, and many more as well as playing festivals like Terrastock, SXSW, Strange Daze, Weedstock and Flaxfield. They have scored and performed live original soundtracks to the Fritz Lang films Metropolis and Destiny (Der Mude Tod). Critics have had the following to say: ST 37, long-running specialists in bubbling-mercury riffage and German-flavored trance rock... - David Fricke (Rolling Stone) These Texas astronauts stuff their hash pipes to the brim and pay homage to Can, Amon Duul and Chrome...their psychedelicatessen of originals is stocked with brain-melting skree...- Fred Mills (Magnet) My favorite track on the album is "Concrete Island, an adaptation of J.G. Ballard...on first listening...I recalled reading this book so vividly and so perfectly, I was amazed. This recollection was unlike any feeling I have previously known or felt from music...- Adam Strider (StriderNews) From the moment the credits open, the band launches into a continuously evolving and strangely beautiful ethereal drone lasting the duration of the 1926 silent film classic. (from a review of ST 37's soundtrack to Fritz Lang's "Metropolis") - Michael Bertin (Austin Chronicle) A friend of mine said I would get a "kick" out of it...I did. - Byron Coley ..paint-blistering guitar and some elegant phased bass work poised atop droning vocal splendor... - Phil McMullen (Ptolemaic Terrascope) The piledriving Hawkwind-y/Wipers stuff near the end is still my favorite. - Jello Biafra ...real mindblown 1990s American garage sputter here! - Chris Stigliano (Your Flesh) Into the likes of Viv Akauldren, Loop, Chrome et al.?...wailing distorted guitars, effects and electronics...I await further releases with interest. - Alan Freeman (Audion) Twistedly psychedelic and swirling in a cyclonic stew...one of the most infectiously woven slabs of noise- as- music released since the 60s drug boom. - Andrea 'Enthal (Alternative Press) Melting Euphoria and the Texan band ST 37 are the two best working psychedelic bands in America today. - Andre (Crohinga Well)
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS14952

Psychic TV was first born in 50 Beck Road, Hackney in 1982 following his tennination of Throbbing Gristle in 1981. Six months later the duo completed the nucleus of the new unit with ex-TG'er Peter Christopherson. By that time Genesis had already conceived, named and pioneered the genre "lndustrial Music" wtth Throbbing Gristle. Along with the Velvet Underground, Throbbing Gristle is and remains one of the most Influential rock groups of the last 30 years; if you haven't heard their music, you will certainly have listened to someone who has. In Throbbing Gristle, Genesis and company synthesized the influences and philosophies of Gen's close friends and collaborators, including Beat writer William S. Burroughs; Beat poet and painter Brion Gysin; psychedelic shaman Dr Timothy Leary; queer activist film maker Derek Jarman; and those of legendary occultist Austin Osman Spare, theorist John Cage and various seminal underground authors, thinkers, artists and film makers. The group "TG" produced some of the most unsettling and thoughtprovoking music of all time. Their pioneering "Industrial" sound and self-sufficient approach to record disbibution has had a profound impact, becoming key elements of underground music production and distribution ever since. Right from the outset, Psychic TV in tum made highly innovative and unflinchingly provocative music blending elements of psychedelia and dance with Industrial sounds (named "HYPERDELIC" by Genesis). As with TG, the details of Psychic TV's packaging, marketing and the radical lifestyle of the musicians were all treated as equally crucial components of the final aesthellc statement. Psychic TV created the template for the current avant-dance stance popularly labeled "Electronlca" as well as having an undeniable Inftuence on the emergent "Rave" culture; the group released the world's first 12 inch single with the words "ACID HOUSE" in the title, "Turn On Tune In To The Acid House." The label depicted Superman as a tab of LSD emblazoned with their logo the Psychic(k) Cross and biggered a suppressive lawsuit making this withdrawn icon a rare collectible! For some 14 odd years, Psychic TV recorded and released dozens of live and studio albums ending up in the Guiness Book Of Records for releasing more albums in one year than any other artist (even Elvis!). Psychic TV was terminated in the mid 90's as Genesis pursued further musical goals with his spoken-word and expanded poetry/video installation project Thee Majesty. In 2003, Edley ODowd of New York City's legendary rock band Toilet Boys gently but persistently persuaded Genesis to rekindle her rock spirit and Psychic TV. Edley succeeded and they played their first public show that December. Once PTV3 reached the recording studio, ODowd played a crucial part in pushing Genesis and the other musicians to give their very best, and then some, getting stellar performances out of all concerned as a result. The reactivated ensemble led by ODowd, has been touring the US, Europe and Russia and releasing music ever since. The full history of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and her varied seminal musical exploits of the past three decades as well as her soclo-cultural (or should that be politico-sexual? Or all the above!) adventures would easily fill a book (and has ... Soft SkulVShortwave Books published "Painful but Fabulous: The Lives and Art of Genesis P-Orridge" in 2003 and more recently with "Thee Psychick Bible" in hardcover in 2009 and paperback in 2010). Genesis continues to exhibit artwork around the globe (Most recently at Art Basel Miami and The Serpentine Gallery, London). Already living a creative further chapter of her "life" book Genesis continues to provoke and explore in her very public private life; from replacing all her healthy teeth with solid gold permanent replicas in an homage to Pierre Clemente in Luis Bunuel's "Belle De Jour." Littering the dictionary and culture with new words for new, original ideas Genesis can be said to follow the serious process and joy-filled strategy of "When there is no example imagine it, when there is no word for it invent one."
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS14924

Chicken Ranch's annual day party!  Free BBQ while supplies last and great bands.  Sponsored by Big Red Retro and Newtek.

http://www.chickenranchrecords.com/rxcr2011/

Chicken Ranch's annual day party!  Free BBQ while supplies last and great bands.  Sponsored by Big Red Retro and Newtek.

http://www.chickenranchrecords.com/rxcr2011/

Chicken Ranch's annual day party!  Free BBQ while supplies last and great bands.  Sponsored by Big Red Retro and Newtek.

http://www.chickenranchrecords.com/rxcr2011/

Chicken Ranch's annual day party!  Free BBQ while supplies last and great bands.  Sponsored by Big Red Retro and Newtek.

http://www.chickenranchrecords.com/rxcr2011/

Chicken Ranch's annual day party!  Free BBQ while supplies last and great bands.  Sponsored by Big Red Retro and Newtek.

http://www.chickenranchrecords.com/rxcr2011/

Chicken Ranch's annual day party!  Free BBQ while supplies last and great bands.  Sponsored by Big Red Retro and Newtek.

http://www.chickenranchrecords.com/rxcr2011/

Chicken Ranch's annual day party!  Free BBQ while supplies last and great bands.  Sponsored by Big Red Retro and Newtek.

http://www.chickenranchrecords.com/rxcr2011/

Chicken Ranch's annual day party!  Free BBQ while supplies last and great bands.  Sponsored by Big Red Retro and Newtek.

http://www.chickenranchrecords.com/rxcr2011/

She weighs half as much as her keyboard but she could punch out your Dad. Yes, she is a female singer songwriter…but she’s not shy and retreating or cute. BUT: she’s not 10 tons of slut in a mini skirt and nipple tape, belly dancing on a crucifix. Her voice will stop you in your tracks. It brings grown men to tears on live television (seriously). It soars, then falters, then soars again and it is full off sorrow even when it is full of joy (soft, broken, soaring, sorrow, spitting, sneering, smiling etc etc etc). And she can dance. She grew up in Papua New Guinea, so she is a wild girl that knows which tree has water in it’s trunk, but she speaks French and wears couture even though she can’t afford groceries. She was Triple J Unearthed. She’s the Vanda and Young Song Writing Competition. She’s an APRA Ambassador. She now has 6 ARIA nominations and a Gold Record under her belt. She made an album called “I Believe You Liar” and it’s not like other records. It’s better and it’s hard to tell why exactly. They’re all pop songs but not like you think. They are really, REALLY wordy twisty complicated key changing sons of bitches that you’d have to go to music school for 6 years to play (she did) but after they’re done you can remember every chorus and every hook, and on the second listen you may be able to sing back most of the words. “I knew as soon as I heard Megan choosing not to rhyme “Clementine” with “wine” that here was someone unpredictable. Australia, you have a new and original troubadour to lift your spirits and warm your hearts.” Tim Finn (Crowded House / Split Enz)
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS14092

Furland is: Silva! = Guitar, banjo, harmonica and lead voice. gü! = Bass, contrabass, acoustic bass and chorus. Jacinto = Synths, melodic and chorus. Ricardo = Drum and chorus. Furland sounds like: Cosmic Folk Pop Biography: Furland is an indie pop band from Mexico City formed in 2006. The band iniciated while the four of them were studying music at the music academy Fermatta. Back then the band only had two members, but at the end of that year the four of them become one experimental pop project and released their first EP called A Casa Voy with Emi Music. From this first album two singles got released “Lámpara de Lava” and “Tour de France”, but their very first song ever listened was “Robot”, part of the ¿Cuál es tu rock? independent compilations. Furland creates new worlds were La Bola de Pasto (The Grass Ball) lives, this is actually a ball made of grass that lives in Furland, a far far away magic and cosmic land were the members of the band get inspired to write their songs. This sound and style created by Furland also has other important influences as Super Furry Animals, Wilco, The Beatles, Flaming Lips, Supergrass, Doves and many other bands. Furland in stage with: The band has had the oportunity of sharing the stage with internacional and mexican bands such as Razorlight, The Whitest Boy Alive, José Gonzalez, Chetes, Joselo, Bengala, Liquits, Ely Guerra, Porter, Hello Seahorse, Austin Tv, Volovan, Zoe, Café Tacvba among others. Furland has also participated in some festivals like Neurosis Colectiva and Vive Latino. Furland sound has neither virtuosity nor complex levels on it´s composition, it is merely an orchestral pop with melodies and ambients combined with sentimental lyrics which can move from love to music to a nostalgia migration to a new planet.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS11036

• The Hellboys, was his first punk rock band, (Album "Mutant Love" Bonus Track Records) they played more than 150 shows. • The European release of his debut album named "Etoile Eternelle" (Dreyfus Music), featuring the famous Arthur H and Giovanni Mirabais, Adanowsky, played over 200 shows in just 1 year. • In 2008, Adanowsky released his first solo album titled: "El Idolo" in countries such as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Spain and Mexico, were he also toured. • On December 2008, "El Ídolo" came to Mexico, offering his first show at El Lunario del Auditorio Nacional. Considering it was his first performance, having great success and a significant attendance. • In 2009, Adanowsky performed at the Vive Latino Festival and for the second time at El Lunario del Auditorio Nacional. The show "La Muerte del Ídolo" was sold-out, leaving quite a lot of concertgoers outside the venue. This performance is considered one of the best shows in Latin America ever. • His show, "La Muerte Del Ìdolo" received a nomination for Best Live Show at the Indie Music Awards 2010. • After the show "La Muerte del Idolo" (the first character of the Adanowsky trilogy) "Amador” is born, being the name and character of his second solo album. • "Amador" was co produced by Rob (Phoenix keyboardist and composer) and mixed by Noah Georgeson (guitarist and producer of Devendra Banhart, Little Joy and Adam Green). • “Amador” was presented with great success in a full Lunario of National Auditory, in front of an astonished and grateful public for the new and spectacular theatricality of the new character. • Adanowsky was the special guest of Phoenix at the Sport Palace show in September 2010, he played in front of more than 10,000 people, who received him very warmly in the expectation of being the concert of the year. (In their own words, Phoenix said this show is on the Top 3 of their entire career). • Adanowsky has performed in the most important festivals in Mexico, such as Hellow fest, in Monterrey with Zoè and Devendra Banhart, also at Corona Capital Fest, featuring James, Interpol and Pixies. • Adanowsky's musical talent, coupled with his pleasant personality and excellent staging, are the elements that lead to the success of their live performances. • He was invited by huge Spanish star, Enrique Bunbury to close the final show of a series of presentations held at the National Auditorium in Mexico City. Both artists performed to an audience estimated at more than 10,000 people. • “Amador” was released in Spain, where Adanowsky did a serie of specials presentations, which reaffirmed his position as one of the most important emerging artist of the decade. • Adanowsky is releasing his third single in the coming days, entitled “Un Sol Con Corazón”, whose video directed himself and soon will reach the specialized television channels. • The musician prepared big surprises for 2011, with full shows in Spain, Argentina, Chile and USA. Discography: -“Étoile Éternelle” (2006) -“El Ìdolo” (December, 2008) -“Amador” (June, 2010)
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS15234

In 2006 Diego composed and co-produced the critically acclaimed “Greatest Hits” with Los Dynamite, an album that allowed them to play for 4 years all over Mexico and the US, touring with Zoe in the Rockampeonato Telcel Tour as well as to share stages with the likes of Interpol, Bloc Party, The Killers and Fat Boy Slim. After ending his cycle with Los Dynamite Diego started writing the songs that would end up creating Rey Pila, the self-titled, solo album recorded in October 2009 at the New York studio of producer/engineer Paul Majahan (TV On The Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars). Ranging from psychedelia to Detroit's old sound of Motown Rey Pila holds 10 precious tracks (6 of them in English, 4 of them in Spanish) with huge choruses, squalling dissonance and sheets of twinkling electronic ambience all of them composed and co-produced by Diego.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS10727

The music of We Are Hex recalls classic Joy Division, the Cure, Killing Joke and PJ Harvey, but combines those sounds with the modern ferocity of the Liars or Grinderman, without losing the urgency of classic punk. We Are Hex came together in 2008 and moved into a foul Indianapolis neighborhood where they locked themselves away in their studio space, dubbed the Hex Haus. In the spring of 2009, the band released their self-recorded debut full-length, Gloom Bloom, to positive reviews. After a summer of touring, they returned to the Hex Haus to create a new, very different record.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS14675

The MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND third disc is revealed: "SOY SAUCE." It's funny, but never really thought I would have three albums. Thus passed many shows, many trips, many movies, many friends. We play from Rotterdam to Albuquerque without stopping. Of all the places in the world have written to connect to me.."Piñata", the second album was a bit more planned. I did team with my dear friend Holger Beier from Le Hammond Inferno and had a memorable recording sessions. For this record was a guest Chris Frantz of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, Adrian Dargelos of Babasónicos, Tanaka of Fantastic Plastic Machine, Joselo and Quique Rangel from Café Tacuba. The Liquits ... well ... tons of nice people. With this album has been complete madness. We toured around and has been the most fun to me happened in my life. Now we are with "Soy Sauce." According to me is my best album. I recorded it in 3 stages in Mexico City with Holger Beier, is already a tradition. This time besides the Liquits studio also visited the studio of Molotov, was fun to be there. I have less guest this time. Ad Rock of Beastie Boys rapping on a version of Alocatel. Joselo Rangel also recorded some great guitars and my dear drummer Paco also got his own. Julian Placencia with which play live was the super engineer with Paolo Morabito. The album is more eclectic: it has Mariachi, Hip Hop, Soul, French Chanson, Punk, Ska and Cumbia. I hope you enjoy it like me. Camilo Lara
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS12908

housemeister - update yourself or "who is that noize?" born on november 11.th 1977 in northern germany the berlin dj is living in the capital since 25 years. little housemeister was 11 years young when the wall came down. he grew up in east-berlin where the rebuild socialist living squats after the turn about gave a whole new perspective...a bit anarchy, constant change, disorientation, smoking weed, spraying and listening to music... summarized to a mix of confusion and new playgrounds! in his youth-club 36er, where mostly hip-hopper and sprayers spend their time, housemeister had his first contact with turntables and discovered his love to music! the rave began with loveparade94 and mayday.150bpm every week-end- bunker, walfish, linientreu and later e-werk, tresor, electric ballroom. those times meant to steel out of the house under age, faking id's and of he went. taking no prisoners! in 1995 he leaft the house of his parents and moved into an apartment in kreuzberg 36 with his friend alex- central berlin. the legendary hardwax right around the corner. the en vogue clubs also not really far, he bought himself turntables and starte to mix non-stop. for the time being for the mix-tape supply of friends. and today? who doesn't know him. the berlin dj and producer ... since '99 member of the bpitch collective housemeister is playing since the mid 90's around the world and in berlin-his non-reversible dj sets that can be heard everywhere, producing 4 maxis on bpitchcontrol- the first licensed by karl lagerfeld. all in all he can look upon 17 records that he can proudly call his. in 2005 housemeister release his first album "enlarge your dose" on boysnoise records, which inter alia brought him the cover story of the de.bug magazine germany and a remix for the english band the client. every week-end he's touring through europe... german, france, spain, italy, portugal, greece, holland, hungary, switzerland but also played in tokyo, russia or turkey. since 2005 one can experience housemeister also as a live-act. playing with his 45 kilo (100 pounds) giant case filled with the finest machines an synth's in clubs like the "studio88" in france, "the arches" in glasgow or the maria in berlin. in 2006 along with his friend dirty döring he founded the label allyoucanbeat. up to today they have 8 releases on their account and on it's way- the new housemeister single "radio for you" will be released in september 2007. housemeister never sleeps! hyperactive! if he's not sitting in his studio producing, he's designing the artwork for his label allyoucanbeat, is making paper cuts, cutting stencils or designes new stickers-probably his favorite hobby=) housemeister has his own view of techno which you can hear. as a dj and producer he is filling the gaps between techno, electro and punk, brilliantly working his sets with passion to the music. always experimenting and always forward he adds the certain spark to the experience that a party needs to make it worth while. New Album will be released in May 2011 on Boysnoize Records. First Singles will be coming soon (Feat. Boys Noize)
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS13379

ZUKUNASISTERS is a Japanese female soul band consisting of four classmates in university: emi, spicy-marico, 238 and Akane. Having been strongly influenced by black music, ZUKUNASISTERS’ music is a blend of 60’s to 70’s R&B, soul, and gospel. The band’s unique groove and dramatic chorus work is indeed the product of members’ chemistry. Emi’s singing which is often referred to as Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin, and the band’s tireless energy and vibes inflame and thrill the audience – the performance you will never forget. In 2005 the band signed with UK Project and released “GOTiSOUL”. In 2007 the band began a bimonthly one-man live show at Shibuya BYG. The show has been taken place at Shimokitazawa CLUB QUE since 2009. ZUKUNASISTERS has appeared in a number of Japanese music festivals including FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL (2006, 2009), SUNSET LIVE (2006), ARABAKI ROCK FESTIVAL (2009), EARTHDAY TOKYO (2009), MINAMI WHEEL (2008, 2009), and MANGETSU-SAI (from 2006 to 2008, 2010). In 2011 the four girls fully prepared for the upcoming US tour, decided on calling themselves “ZUKUNASISTERS” to identify themselves in overseas markets, while keeping “ZUKUNASI” strictly for the Japanese market. Believing in the power of music, ZUKUNASISTERS keeps on creating compelling melodies and great beats. Real soul music & women’s power at its best yet, ZUKUNASISTERS is bound to be a central figure in the music scene of the new decade.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS11279

Electronic/Rock unit white white sisters, formed by vocalist/guitarist/ programmer Yuya Matsumura and drummer Kazumasa Ishii formed in Japan in 2008. They released 1st mini album [euphoriaofeuphobia] in July 2010. They absorbed both electronic and rock elements to create a completely new and unknown beautiful edgy sound, which at the same time has contributed to boost their profile as one of the most distinguished music producers and event organizer in Japan. They play with VJ art director (Kouta Tajima) in their live performance. VJ represents extreme emotion with using only line,dot and plane with " MAX/MSP" software. They played at SUMMER SONIC 2010(Tokyo) largest festival in Japan 2days, and MINAMI WHEEL 2010(Osaka) and SAKAE SP-RING 2010(Nagoya).At this time they are most popular bands in some large festivals as new commer artists in Japan. They will play at Canadian Music Week(CMW) and South By Southwest(SXSW) Japan Nite in March 2011.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS12241

oh sunshine was formed by mikio hirama and emily connor in 2010. they are releasing their first album on Jan 26, 2011. The album is available on iTunes worldwide.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS11268

The monster rock band is from Japan which the clearance of new music scene, and they have a music history of good quality. Their glamorous and another dimension looks will must be shocked everyone. Sometimes their sound slashes with audience like a KATANA, and sometimes it brings in sweet and devilish kiss. They are proper for the pioneer of 10’ new age. The identity of the monster band is the four girls from the little island country Japan. When they started the band activity, the four lost their ego, because of the reaction of spending in the dark, and they headed for on the stage after going mad and shouting. The vocalist, Inko provokes audience with the dance, called “Inko dance”, and she sings songs with venting her frustration for the world. She has the outstanding sense of pops, so her unforgettable melody will come around in your mind. It seems as if she is a “crazy clown”. Beside Inko, the guitarist called Youkaku plays the guitar as she is obsessed by something. Warping her body, she gives the noise with her fiery eyes. Her play of the guitar with cramping is the image of chaos. Then the bassist, Yukary is the essence of the band. Her face is veiled with her forelock, and it doesn’t have expression. But the roaring bass phrase is violence, so the audience cannot help dancing. The drummer, Lyn keeps the rhythm with Yukary. She embodies the rhythm by using her all body, so her performance will entertain not only your hearing, but also your sight. Her arms move like a living snake, and make the great grooves. Their music based on the garage punk of new wave style, and they take in also the variety of elements such as R&R, psychedelic rock, and dance tune and so on. And their stage is the entertainment with strange atmosphere. Is it the movie from behind the screen, or the shed of spectacle? They are raved by the media in Japan, and their impetus doesn’t stay in Japan. So, it runs over the world. There will be many addicts of them throughout the world soon. The goal of them is only the turnover the world by their music, and the day approaches. They played at SXSW2010 !!!
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS12313

Lolita No.18 is an all-girl Japanese indie punk band. They have played at 1st and 2nd SXSW Japan Nite in 1996 and 1997.They have toured all over the US, Europe and Asia. Joey Ramone produced their 4th album and Toy Dolls, Olga produced the next one.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS12687

MO' SOME TONEBENDER was formed in Fukuoka City, Japan. Members are Kazuhiro Momo, Isamu Fujita, and Yasunori Takei. Since their unity in 1997, the band has reigned over the the Japanese alternative rock scene. Even after releasing more than 10 albums, they resist to stay in one spot and continue exploring for a new sound. They have performed on the main stages of major festivals in Japan such as Fuji Rock Festival, Summer Sonic. They have supported the Japan tour of GUIDED BY VOICES, The PIXIES, The Libertines, and some of the domestic bands that they have toured with include Yura Yura Teikoku, GuitarWolf, Polysics, and Numbergirl. "Mo'some Tonebender have the distinction of being one of maybe a dozen bands of their time that really lived up to the "alternative" part of alternative rock. The group used the abrasive, fuzz-driven sound reminiscent of Hüsker Dü as a springboard, mixing it with about any other influence that stirred their fancy, from punk and industrial to synth pop and bits of jazz. This catchy, mildly demented concoction didn't bring them huge sales, but was hardly expected to, anyway, and their reputation as a hidden treasure of J-rock can still be envied by many bigger and blander acts. " - by Alexey Eremenko
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS12899

The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger are Sean Lennon & Charlotte Kemp Muhl. Their debut album, Acoustic Sessions, shows their love of quirky and whimsical '60s folk pop, reminiscent at times of Syd Barrett, Incredible String Band and Simon & Garfunkel.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS11832

6-year-old Eden Rice (the romantic) and 4-year-old Kemp Muhl (the cynic) first met while playing with ducks by a lakeside, and grew up together in a Norman Rockwell painting in the heat of suburban Georgia. Sharing a fascination with nature, birds, fairies and Shakespeare, they developed into creative and slightly eccentric teenage outcasts. They painted side by side, exchanged talents, shared secrets and made up their own imaginary language. In their early teens, Eden, a classically-trained choral singer and Kemp, a self-taught guitar plucker, wrote dozens of songs. Then fate intervened, and they were separated...Six years later, after a bit of exposure to the world and to proper guitar chords, they came together again to record their childhood songs.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS13560

Vocalist Petra Haden with Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto, Yuko Araki & Shimmy Shimizu of Cornelius. Special SXSW guests include Nels Cline and Trevor Dunn. Debut album out March 22. Sail away on scintillating solar winds. If By Yes is guaranteed to seduce you with their utterly exquisite and playful sensibilities, futuristic rhythms, and other-worldly sounds.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS11833

An improvisational project by Sean Lennon (The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger) and Greg Saunier (Deerhoof). With video projection by Martha Colburn.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS13561

New project from Yuka C. Honda (Cibo Matto, etc.) and Nels Cline (Wilco, etc.)
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS13559

mi-gu is Yuko Araki (drum / vocals) with Hirotaka Shimmy Shimizu. Araki & Shimizu are also members of Cornelius group, Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, If By Yes, and Brother's Sister's Daughter (with Mike Watt).
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS13562

From her pioneering work in the Fluxus movement of the 1960s to the recent Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, Ono's art has challenged and informed, melding the personal to the universal in simple and unique ways. Her marriage and creative collaboration with John Lennon was a love story played out on the global stage. Ono's music laid the groundwork for the sounds of punk rock and new wave. Recently, Ono has had five consecutive dance singles charting at #1 on the top of the Billboard Dance Chart. In 2009, she received Mojo Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award, and she assembled a new PLASTIC ONO BAND for her latest album, Between My Head And The Sky, co-produced with son Sean Lennon, on his Chimera Music label.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_MS13271