6:00 PM
to 7:30 PM
Librar* Drinkup
45 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Unofficial Party
event::about
Librarians, Info Pros, Data Hounds, information Enablers...
Simmer down after a day chockful of panels and awesomeness that is SXSWbefore gearing up for the fullnight ahead.
We're holding a repeat of last year's successfully mellow meetup at the Lustre Pearl.
- talk, share, enjoy a cold beverage on the patio, grab a taco from the truck, amaze each other...
7:00 PM
to 11:00 PM
Team Android at SXSW
150 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Unofficial Party
event::about
Android and Me (and friends) will be invading downtown Austin on March 13th, during SXSWi, for a full night of Android fun and debauchery. We'll have new phones, an open bar, and all the socializing you can handle!
Multiple manufacturers will be on-hand to demo the newest Android phones, tablets, and accessories.
We've reserved our favorite bar, Lustre Pearl, for the whole day and we'll be rockin' til close. Come by and join us for an open bar, Bomb Tacos, and all the Android goodness you can handle.
Website http://androidandme.com/sxsw/
6:00 PM
to 10:00 PM
The SpiceRex Party
50 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Party, Interactive
event::about
Let your inner geek shine - enjoy free drinks and celebrate SXSW with a bright orange T-Rex!
12:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
San Diego Hoe Down 2011
85 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Unofficial Party
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
UME, Silent Comedy, Little Hurricane, Leslie & The Badgers, Writer, Saint Motel and American Royalty.
event::about
There is no better way to start off your wild and exciting week at SXSW than with free beer and tacos and great music courtesy of the San Diego Music Foundation and several wonderful sponsors.
Featured musicians at the San Diego Hoe-Down include UME, Silent Comedy, Little Hurricane, Leslie & The Badgers, Writer, Saint Motel and American Royalty.
Do you miss the months between SXSW each year? We’ve got your fix at the Hoe-Down -- mix and mingle with San Diegans and find out more about their wonderful San Diego Music Thing conference which is held annually. This year’s conference takes place on September 9 and 10 and will feature panels from music industry professionals, performances, mentoring sessions and more.
Admission to the Hoe-Down is complimentary with your SXSW badge or please RSVP. This year’s Hoe-Down is sponsored by the good folks at Bar Pink, BMI, The Casbah, Front Gate Tickets, Hi-Speed Soul, The Ruby Room, San Diego City Beat, North Park / San Diego Music Thing, Soda Bar, and the San Diego Music Foundation.
event::tags Free beer, free tacos
8:00 PM
to 9:00 PM
Nelo
16 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists Nelo
event::about bio: Nelo Nelo performing at Austin City Limits Music Festival in October 2009 Background information Origin Austin, Texas, United States Genres Alternative Rock Years active 2005-present Website www.nelomusic.com Members Matt Ragland Reid Umstattd Brian Donohoe Ryan Jacobi Sean Jacobi Former Members David Long Chris Hill Stephen Goodson Nelo (band) is an alternative rock band formed in Austin, TX in late 2005. The band is composed of songwriter/ guitarist Matt Ragland, singer Reid Umstattd, saxophonist/ keyboardist Brian Donohoe, drummer Ryan Jacobi, and bassist Sean Jacobi[1]. • • • History Nelo was officially formed in 2005, but Ragland, Hill, Long, and Goodson started playing casually together years before in Dallas, TX, where they attended the same high school. During these years, Ragland began writing songs and found an unsuspected singer in Umstattd, a long time friend at a summer camp in Burnet, TX. Ragland and Umstattd later became college roommates and started playing around Austin as an acoustic duo. After graduating college, Ragland brought the entire group together, with the addition of Mike St.Clair on bass. Upon the formation of the band in September 2005, Nelo immediately moved to Athens, GA and began playing at DT’s Down Under, an underground bar that Ragland managed. The band later moved on to regularly play other local venues including the 40 Watt Club and the Georgia Theatre. In the spring of 2007, the group moved back to Texas to begin work on what would become their self-titled debut album in Austin. Recorded at Willie Nelson’s Pedernales Studios and released on Justice Records, Nelo was composed of songs written largely by Ragland and road tested over the previous years in Texas, Athens and across the Southeast. In April 2008 the record debuted at #21 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers Chart[2]. The band spent the year touring to support the album. In October 2008 Nelo traveled to New York City to play the CMJ Music Marathon. They returned to Pedernales Studios that December to record Two Years Ago, an E.P. produced by Doug Lancio[3]. The band and original member David Long parted ways at the end of 2008. Nelo began touring in January 2009 in support of Two Years Ago, which was released by Justice Records one song at a time on iTunes beginning in March and ending as a completed E.P. on July 14. The E.P. was made available exclusively online and at live shows. In March 2009, Nelo played the SXSW Music Conference in Austin for the second time and added saxophonist Brian Donohoe to the band. Nelo performed at Austin City Limits Music Festival on October 2, 2009[4]. Soon after, the band and former members Chris Hill, Mike St.Clair and Stephen Goodson went their separate ways. Later that month, Nelo announced their intent to go back into the studio in 2010 to record their second full length studio album. The new record, "Ordinary Scene", debuted at #6 on iTunes rock chart. Discography •Nelo (2008) •Two Years Ago EP (2009) •Ordinary Scene (2010)
event::tags 21+
9:00 PM
to 10:00 PM
The Last Republic
19 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists The Last Republic
event::about The Last Republic are many people’s tip to become the next big band to emerge from Wales. With soaring, bittersweet vocal melodies set against a sonic landscape of distorted grandeur, The Last Republic’s anthems for a generation and call-to-arms manifesto question the industrial illusion and the perceived progress of the modern world. The Last Republic formed in 2008, after meeting at the infamous rock venue The Duke of Wellington in Neath, South Wales. After gigging their way around Wales’ and London’s club circuit, they forged a reputation as a ‘must see’ live act and soon scored their first big break after entering Virgin Media’s ‘The Road To V’ competition. After weeks of TV coverage and seeing off competition from over 3500 bands, The Last Republic followed in the footsteps of The Young Knives and Bombay Bicycle Club to win the competition. Receiving 20,000 votes in the final, the band earned the right to play on The Main Stage at the V Festival alongside the likes of Oasis and The Killers in front of 10,000 people each day. Despite overtures from the music industry’s old guard, The Last Republic opted to accept an attractive offer of specialist music business investment in order to remain independent. The band have received airplay from Radio 1 DJ’s Zane Lowe and Huw Stephens, been playlisted by XFM and awarded the ‘Record of The Week’ on NME Radio. In addition to playing a sold-out support show at London's O2 Arena, The Last Republic have supported The Charlatans and Placebo, toured with the inspirationally independent band The Levellers, completed their own five-week headline tour and performed at festivals across the UK and Europe. The Last Republic recorded their debut album at the famous Monnow Valley Studio in Rockfield, Wales, with Chris Sheldon (Radiohead, Biffy Clyro, Foo Fighters) & Tom Manning (The Enemy, Broken Records, Feeder) during the winter of 2009/10. Entitled ‘Parade’, the album was mixed by Chris Sheldon, Andrew Scheps (U2, Metallica & The Mars Volta) and Dan Austin (The Doves, Cooper Temple Clause). It was released to much critical acclaim on 1st November 2010. Discography: Someday We’ll Be Waiting Single Released 12th April 2010 (C’Mon) Flood The Gates Single Released 14th June 2010 CCTV Single Released 25th October 2010 Parade Album Released 1st November 2010 “...speaking of the future, here are a band who have a big part in it.” – Zane Lowe – BBC Radio 1 “The Last Republic are making a name for themselves as purveyors of soaring epic anthems...Catchier than the clap and dressed sharper than razors, it's clear that The Last Republic have the proverbial 'bigger things' lined up squarely in their crosshairs.” – Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 1 “The Last Republic – a band whose potential for broad appeal is complimented with grand guitar riffs, beautiful soaring melodies and a healthy punch of attitude” – Kerrang! Radio “The Last Republic have unbelievable vision.” - XFM (Manchester & London)
event::tags 21+
10:00 PM
to 11:00 PM
Orbit
13 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists Orbit
event::about Orbit's SXSW set coincides with the band's long awaited release of "the lost album" on A&M Records. Boston's Orbit was formed in 1994 by principals Jeff Robbins (guitar, vocals) and Paul Buckley (drums). They released their first CD La Mano on their own label, Lunch Records, in 1995 and signed to A&M Records. Orbit's debut record, Libido Speedway (released in January 1997) spawned the Top 30 Modern Rock smash "Medicine" and earned them an acclaimed spot on that year's Lollapolooza Festival, landed them on MTV, and played over 400 shows crisscrossing the United States. But the story of the band lies in the band's second album for A&M Records ' Guide to Better Living. GTBL was completed prior to the Polygram / Universal's merger and the band was dropped in early in 1999. Besides a handful of promo copies fans were lucky enough to get their hands on, the album has never seen the light of day ' until now. In March of 2011, in true coup de theatre, Universal Records will finally release Orbit's second album, Guide to Better Living (now titled "the lost album"). In conjunction with the album's release, Orbit will be playing exclusive live dates in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and at this year's SXSW with the band's original line-up, Guitarist/Vocalist Jeff Robbins, Bassist/Producer Wally Gagel and Drummer Paul Buckley. www.orbitband.com ORBITOGRAPHY: ALBUMS Libido Speedway-A&M Records, 1997 XLR8R- Lunch Records, 2001 (the lost album) ' Universal Records, 2011 EPs La Mano Lunch Records, 1995 Medicine EP -A&M Records January 1997 (Promo only) Western Medicine EP & 7 -A&M/Lunch Records-February 1997 Tonedeaf EP- Lunch Records, September 1999
event::tags 21+
11:00 PM
to 12:00 AM
Dikta
2 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists Dikta
event::about Dikta was founded 11 years ago in a garage just outside of Reykjavík. It still consists of the same four members, childhood friends Haukur, two Jons and Skuli and it's still surrounded by the same passion and soulful atmosphere it was formed in. 2010 was a good year for Dikta. Well, let's say quite good. Their third full-length, 'Get It Together', reached Gold in their home country, received four awards at the Listener's Choice Awards, their song 'Thank You' became the most played song in Icelandic radio history, the re-release of the 2006 album, 'Hunting For Happiness' peaked at number 4 on the album charts and in the meantime they played non-stop all across the country. 2011 will take Dikta to new crowds on the mainland of Europe and the US. 'Get It Together' is to be released in February in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and Dikta will embark on an anticipated Europe tour.
event::tags 21+
12:00 AM
to 1:00 AM
Evaline
12 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists Evaline
event::about An iconic band can come from the unlikeliest of places and from the scorched fields of Modesto, central California, comes EVALINE –think Radiohead and add in a helping of Jane’s Addiction. Fresh out of school, Evaline’s earliest recordings found their way to The Used’s Quinn Allman who produced the EP: Postpartum Modesty, A Portrait of Skin - released on Maverick in 2006. This was followed by two Warped Tours and a Taste of Chaos tour, which quickly attracted a loyal and ardent fan base in USA. Now in their early twenties Evaline are Richard Perry, (Vocals, Cello and keys) Dominic DiCiano (Guitar), Steven Pedersen (Bass), Christian Lewis (Guitar) and the Petersen brothers Greg (drums) and Dan (guitar). After that Evaline reevaluated their sound a returned with a full quota of startling tracks, playing their unrivalled rock songs using layered sounds, intense guitars and swooning vocals. By late 2010 the band has finished recording a stack of new songs for their forthcoming debut album with Dan Austin (Doves, Cherry Ghost, QOTSA , People in Planes), which will bring their thundering guitars and unique melodies to many more. The first fruits of their labour were heard in the form of the beautiful and powerful track ‘Beneath the Fire’ initially available as a free download. This was followed by the digital release of the EP PATTERNED in summer 2010 which contains Beneath the Fire along with the radio friendly track HOURS and the live favourite PATTERNED. The album will be released in late Spring 2011.
event::tags 21+
1:00 AM
to 2:00 AM
Alpha Rev
38 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
3:00 PM
to 4:00 PM
3:00 PM
to 7:00 PM
Dickies @ SXSW
300 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Unofficial Party
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
Givers (6pm), The Head and the Heart (5pm), The Naked and Famous (4pm), We Barbarians (3pm)
4:00 PM
to 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
6:00 PM
to 7:00 PM
9:00 PM
to 10:00 PM
Nive Nielsen
16 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists Nive Nielsen
event::about We ´re Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children, from Nuuk, Greenland. Yup, North Pole! We ´ve been playing for about a year and a bit now - made a record back home (produced by john parish and with help from howe gelb & friends from a.o. the black keys, hrsta, wolf parade and other awesome folks), traveled super much playing our songs (which is good cause I always wanted to be an adventurer... I thought that was a real job. This here playing music thing comes pretty close!). We ´re 8, there´s horns and kazoos and ukuleles and drums and more drums... we sing about ghosts and bugs and ghost bugs and also about naughty reindeer and being in love while it snows. Yup... Eskimo indie! Snow songs! Come check us out!
event::tags 21+
10:00 PM
to 11:00 PM
DeVotchKa
384 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists DeVotchKa
event::about For more than a decade, DeVotchKa has been melting its sweeping collection of influences into an authentic and totally original blend of rock 'n' roll. With the release of the band's fifth album, "100 Lovers" (Anti-, February 2011), the band has headed back to the romantic influences of the Arizona desert with producer Craig Schumacher (Calexico, Neko Case) to create a compendium of short stories inspired by the varied moments the band experienced since the release of A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti-, 2007). Like many bands, DeVotchKa spent much of their early years traveling the highways and byways searching for gigs and a musical direction. As time went on, the band began to foster important musical collaborations with the unequivocal Calexico and the seminal gypsy punks Gogol Bordello. International tours with Gogol and recordings with Calexico have helped spread the band’s sound around the globe. DeVotchKa's first big break happened when Nic Harcourt, former music director for KCRW, introduced his listeners to a then unknown rock band of worldly sounds on his daily radio show, "Morning Becomes Eclectic". Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, who were listening that day, stumbled upon the sound for their movie, "Little Miss Sunshine". A critical and box office hit, the film was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and, for DeVotchKa's soundtrack, a Grammy. The little gypsy wedding band from Denver was suddenly known all across the nation, playing large venues and major music festivals, including Coachella, Bumbershoot, Lollapalooza, and Mile High Music Festival. After years of toiling in obscurity, the band was selling out shows at the Fillmore in San Francisco and First Avenue in Minneapolis, with breakout performances at Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits Music Festival. The love spread to Europe, which has become a yearly destination for the band. "100 Lovers" is the album DeVotchKa had always wanted to make. "How it Ends" was recorded and mixed in only nine days, mainly due to lack of funds. On "A Mad and Faithful Telling,” the band had more time and conducted complex arrangements and experimental recording techniques. For "100 Lovers", DeVotchKa spent over a year defining their sound, taking multiple trips to the desert studio to craft twelve new recordings. The final product is the bands strongest album to date, filled with songs fans will love, songs to draw in new listeners, and exciting numbers that fit nicely into their rousing live sets. Guests on the album include members of Calexico and Mauro Refosco, David Byrne and Thom Yorke’s go-to percussionist. With a full tour lined up for the spring and dates booked all over the world, 2011 is gearing up to be the biggest year for DeVotchKa yet. DeVotchKa is: Nick Urata: Vocals, guitars, Theremin, trumpet, piano Jeanie Schroder: acoustic bass, sousaphone Shawn King: drums, percussion, trumpet Tom Hagerman: violin, viola, accordion, piano
event::tags 21+
11:00 PM
to 12:00 AM
Phantogram
259 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
12:00 AM
to 1:00 AM
Cold War Kids
539 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
3:00 PM
to 4:00 PM
3:00 PM
to 7:00 PM
Dickies @ SXSW
249 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Unofficial Party
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
Dum Dum Girls (6pm), Liam Finn (5pm), Alex Winston (4pm), The Fresh & Onlys (3pm)
4:00 PM
to 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
6:00 PM
to 7:00 PM
9:00 PM
to 10:00 PM
Noah and the Whale
243 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists Noah and the Whale
event::about Noah and the Whale Last Night on Earth In the early January of last year, Charlie Fink set to work on Noah and the Whale's third album. Holed up in a synagogue in East London, he had little to begin with - a few fragments, a sketch for a 10-minute song that resembled Street Hassle, and a set of lyrics begun on a New Year's Day train from Wales to London. But what little there was seemed to suggest the beginnings of something quite special, something markedly different to the songs they had written before. The continued maturation of Noah and the Whale has been a pleasing thing to follow - from the joyous burst of their debut, Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down, through the lovelorn sobriety of The First Days of Spring, it now reaches a kind of fruition on Last Night on Earth. Where The First Days of Spring was a contained and inward-looking record that moved at near-underwater speed, Last Night on Earth possesses a curiosity and a vibrancy, a romance and a restlessness, and a clutch of songs that mark out Fink as not just as one of the best songwriters of his generation, but also as a supremely gifted storyteller. These are tales of youth and ageing, of optimism and running away, as well of failure and pride. 'And it feels like his new life can start,' runs the chorus of No Distance Is Too Far. 'And it feels like heaven.' The album's strong narrative thread was in part inspired by Lou Reed's 1973 album Berlin as well as Tom Waits' 1992 record Bone Machine, and a little Arthur Russell thrown in for good measure. 'Just people songs,' is how Fink describes it. 'These are simple stories, so you could tell them in hundreds of different ways, and the way you tell them, that's sort of the music.' The way he tells them is at times broad-skied and anthemic - particularly on tracks such as L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N and Tonight's The Kind Of Night, while at others there are strokes of unabashed pop - Life Is Life, for example, or Just Me Before We Met. And at others still, such as on final track Old Joy, there is a sweet kind of wistfulness. Lyrically, they range from the nostalgic to the vital, songs charged with an urgency, a sense of movement, and an appetite for adventure and the unknown. It is, in many senses, a true coming of age record. 'I don't think that coming of age thing has been in anything I've done before,' Fink says. 'But from the beginning I wanted to write a record that had that excitement of being young and being in the night. I think it's that naivity - that feeling that things are happening everywhere except where you are, wondering what's out there in the wide world. It's when you're on a bus, you don't know where you're heading, you don't know what's at the end of it, and you have this fantasy that whatever's at the end of it is going to be remarkable and magnificent.' Certainly Noah and the Whale as a band now seem to have come of age. As the leaders of the same British folk-rock scene that spawned Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons, and Emmy the Great, with this album they appear to stand perhaps a little taller and a little broader than their peers; these songs possess a maturity, and a new kind of wisdom: 'Tall buildings and a wife won't be enough for me,' Fink sings on Old Joy. 'There is more in the world to be found than dreams.' The personnel shifted a little for Last Night on Earth. Drummer Doug Fink left the band last year to concentrate on his medical career. 'He's my older brother, and there's so many roles he fulfils on the road, not just the drummer, so it's kind of hard,' Fink says of his absence. 'But he's the first person I go to if I need to consult someone, if I need someone's opinion, so he's still been a big part of this record Â
And I think he will come back eventually.' Co-produced by Fink and Jason Lader [Julian Casablancas, The Mars Volta] in Los Angeles, Last Night on Earth features backing vocals by Jen Turner from Here We Go Magic, and gospel vocals by the legendary Waters Sisters, who famously provided backing vocals for Michael Jackson's Wanna Be Starting Something. 'I was teaching them the vocals for Old Joy,' Fink recalls. 'One of the sisters came in and asked for a latte with six sugars  six sugars! - and she downed that, went in and gave the best vocal take I've ever heard.' Elsewhere, the record features Adam MacDougall of The Black Crowes on Moog and Rhodes, and legendary percussionist Lenny Castro. There is a strong cinematic element to Last Night on Earth - from the deliberately Twin Peaks air of Wild Thing to the album's cast of richly-drawn characters. In part this was fed by Fink's experience of directing the short film that accompanied The First Days of Spring. 'Film is such a different writing process, it infiltrates the way I write songs,' he explains. 'And a lot of them I imagined as scenes - Tonight's the Kind of Night I imagined as this guy running away from home and getting on a busÂ
' It is also a richly poetic record: last year, Fink read the work of Frank O'Hara for the first time, and fell in love with his poem Having A Coke With You. 'I wanted Life Is Life to have a feel of that, or a tempo. Just the notion of it. Having A Coke With You is I think a very romantic poem, and that's the only outwardly romantic song on the album, and so I wanted it to have the same approach.' The album's title is also a nod towards Charles Bukowski's poetry collection The Last Night of the Earth - Fink says he was attracted to the sense of 'loser's pride' in Bukowski's work. 'In my head,' he says, 'there is a link between Lou Reed's Berlin, and Bukowski's poetry.' The track Life Is Life, is another Bukowski reference, its title tipping its hat to his poem The Laughing Heart - a poem whose final lines seem to sum up this record quite perfectly: 'Your life is your life,' it runs. 'Know it while you have it. You are marvellous. The Gods wait to delight in you.' www.noahandthewhale.com
event::tags 21+
10:00 PM
to 11:00 PM
Gayngs
236 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists Gayngs
event::about When Ryan Olson decided to make a record with Solid Gold members Zack Coulter and Adam Hurlburt, it was clear to them what the result would be: a collection of drugged-up keyboards and slick bedroom production almost exclusively inspired by 10cc's "I'm Not In Love." To be fair, they weren't entirely off. What they didn't know was that it would spiral into a project of epic proportions, enlisting the talents of over 25 musicians from various scenes around the country, relocating the base of operations from Olson's Minneapolis bedroom/studio to the Wisconsin-based studio April Base, and the genesis of a musical family, GAYNGS. From the moment anyone heard Olson, Coulter, and Hurlburt's rough version of their first composition "The Gaudy Side of Town," they wanted in on it. To most of the players involved, this genre of music was quite foreign yet entirely familiar. Olson knew this, and began calling upon an eclectic cast of contributors whom he thought would share his vision, and relish in the idea of exploring uncharted musical territory within them. The first people to join the cause were North Carolina's Megafaun (Joe Westerlund, Brad Cook, Phil Cook), and with them came Ivan Howard (The Rosebuds), and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and Mike Noyce. By mid-2009 the studio sessions were becoming more and more frequent, bouncing back and forth between April Base and Olson's bedroom. In Minneapolis, Olson brought in Rhymesayers rapper P.O.S and his fellow Doomtree artist Dessa, psych-rockers Jake Luck and Nick Ryan (Leisure Birds), song-birds Channy Moon-Casselle and Katy Morley, jazz-saxophonist Michael Lewis (Happy Apple, Andrew Bird), retro-pop duo Maggie Morrison and Grant Cutler (Lookbook), and slide-guitarist Shön Troth (Solid Gold). Vocally, GAYNGS is a triumph. Zack Coulter (Solid Gold) shines from the jump, floating over the record with his airy, haunting melodies. Fans of Bon Iver will recognize Vernon's familiar falsetto, but will flip when they hear his Bone Thug's-style R&B. Ivan Howard sounds right at home with his sensual and breathy leads, while P.O.S. abandons his genre entirely for a soul inspired tenor. With over a dozen people contributing vocals, its incredible how cohesive the album sounds. After a year of tracking and mixing, GAYNGS is officially ready to release the album, entitled "Relayted." The initial goal was achieved perfectly, yet "Relayted" sounds refreshing and modern. With each song written at 69 BPM's, and tripped-out transitions from song to song, it is truly an audio experience from start to finish.
event::tags 21+
11:00 PM
to 12:00 AM
The Black Lips
317 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists The Black Lips
event::about 200 Million Thousand What do you do when your sixteen and in deep shit? You're looking out at the world from the strip-mall and the detention hall, from the basement and the cul-de-sac and it just looks like there is a wall around you. Everybody tells you and your friends that you're going nowhere, that your lives are already ruined. What the fuck do you do? You hang around and smash stuff and get high and try to be a bad-ass, that's what you do. You steal and drink and smash up the car your mom gave you and pull your pee-pee out in public. You work at sandwich shops and fast-food joints and try to screw private school girls because they think your tough and the girls at your school think your gay because you pretended to give your friend a blowjob at the junior prom. You fuck it all up as ugly and as dirty as you can because, why the fuck not? Your parents and teachers and sandwich-shop supervisors look at you and think, "What happened to the kid? He has all the advantages in the world and he has chucked it all in the shitter. Doesn't he believe in the inherent goodness of our enlightened society? Doesn't he believe in any thing at all?" It is this question, the question of belief, nay, the question of faith, that is the crux of the matter. It is this question that was asked of the Black Lips. And the Black Lips have answered it. They have answered it in their songs and in their actions. They have answered it for every shit-assed, burned-out brat that staggers out of the suburbs. They have answered it resoundingly and continue to answer it. "Where is their answer?" you may ask. Do those psychedelic swamp guitar drones bear witness to a faith of some kind? Does the quasi-violent sexual comedy of their stage show underscore a deeply held belief system? Does their commingling of Deep South, big-tent revival rhetoric with hoary-throated, drug-haze mumble truly mean anything, to them or to anyone else? You bet your ass it means something to them. How would they have persevered through all the drudgery and threats of doom if it didn't mean a goddamn thing to them? Their adversaries have been formidable and numerous, and they have bested them all. Why, even in their earliest days, death itself reared its ugly head to attempt to halt their progress, and was dismissed directly. How, without faith, could the Black Lips have carried their message forth into the four corners of the earth? And so, on the eve of the release of their fifth album, the faith abides stronger than ever. A host of influences have passed through their gullet and provided the sustenance to keep their faith alive. The dusts of a southern back road and the big-city gutter puke crackle in the grooves of this record as it did in the previous ones. The shouts and moans and static continue to bear witness. "But faith in what?" the fathers, mayors and captains of industry might continue to ask. Well, if you've never been one of those shit-assed brats looking out into a world you were already excluded from, a world that sickened you, but for which there was no alternative, then you may not understand. But, through the eyes of one whom, like them, was a go-nowhere from the get-go, the Black Lips represent the faith that it takes to reject that world of sterile, futile, servile, silliness and forge your own world based on bravery and bad-ass-ness. They have carried to fruition the plan that has been hatched, and will continue to be hatched in the minds of dizzy, dumb and desperate youth the world over. Now they carry their message of faith to the world. FEAR NOT! BE BRAVE AND TAKE HEART! THE WORLD IS YOURS IF YOU ACCEPT THE POWER OF FAITH!!! (As I record these words a purple and orange fog engulfs the bay below me. The gin gimlets glide down my throat and I ponder the freedom that I, myself, have wrenched from the 'enlightened society' that once oppressed me. It is good and right that we should live free. I know this, the Black Lips know this, and the gulls in the bay below know this. Take this knowledge and go in faith.) Baby Gusty Accra, Ghana December, 2008
event::tags 21+
12:00 AM
to 1:00 AM
Little Dragon
119 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
2:00 PM
to 3:00 PM
2:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Dickies @ SXSW
298 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Unofficial Party
Speaker/Artist(s) Info
Okkervil River (5pm), Tapes 'n Tapes (4pm), Pac Div (3pm), Asobi Seksu (2pm)
3:00 PM
to 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
to 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
8:00 PM
to 9:00 PM
A Classic Education
33 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists A Classic Education, !!!
event::about A Classic Education is a band that formed in 2007 in Bologna, Italy although singer Jonathan Clancy is from Ottawa, Canada. The rest of the band is formed by Paul Pieretto, Luca Mazzieri, photographer Giulia Mazza, Federico Oppi, Stefano Roveda. Their music is a mix of dreamy guitars, sixties melodies, psych-pop, garage and classic songwriting. The band has put out releases on Bailiwick, Holiday Records and now Lefse Records.
event::tags 21+
9:00 PM
to 10:00 PM
Tim Easton
29 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists Tim Easton
event::about Tim Easton is from Akron, Ohio and currently lives in the village of Joshua Tree, CA. After wandering around Europe for 7 years as a part time gypsy/full time troubadour, he moved to California to make several folk and rock albums for New West Records. In 2011, he will have two independent albums out. A solo acoustic album called TIM EASTON-SINCE 1966, recorded by the campfire in his high desert yard, and BEAT THE BAND, a lushly arranged rock and roll album recorded in Nashville, produced by Aaron Lee Tasjan, Mark Stepro, and Alex Livingstone, AKA THE FREELAN BARONS, who will join Tim as his backing band for his set at SXSW 2011.
event::tags 21+
10:00 PM
to 11:00 PM
Robert Ellis
13 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists Robert Ellis
event::about The New York Times recently proclaimed that Houston, Texas native Robert Ellis sounds Âequally inspired by Jackson Browne and George Jones. Not a bad reference point for an artist only twenty-two years old. Ellis cut his teeth performing the songs of similar luminaries around town, most notably at the neighborhood beacon, Fitzgerald's. His ÂWhiskey Wednesdays at that club are regularly packed with punkish newcomers and graying locals sharing a mutual interest in artists ranging from Ray Price to Buck Owens to the Rolling Stones. Ellis has songwriting ability equal to his encyclopedic knowledge of these greats and it shines on his upcoming New West Records debut, Photographs, due this July. The young songwriter's second release is an impressive and diverse concept album split between five breathtaking folk songs and five soon-to-be country standards. Listening to Photographs, one finds it difficult to pigeonhole Robert Ellis. It's even harder to remember that he's barely just begun.
event::tags 21+
11:00 PM
to 12:00 AM
Holy Sons
16 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists Holy Sons
event::about Emil Amos, world renowned as drummer of the illustrious experimental rock groups Om and Grails, has an increasingly prolific, though relatively unknown, solo career under the moniker Holy Sons. Home recording over 1000 songs since the project's inception in 1992, Amos has spent the better part of the last two decades honing his song writing and production skills over a wide swath of genres in a mission to capture his internal world sonically. Only a handful of shows have ever been played under the name (including opening stints for Quasi, Devendra Banhart, Will Oldham, J Mascis, Daniel Johnston, and a show at a community center in Dharmasala, India) and none of the records have been traditionally promoted, developing a dedicated underground fan-base through word of mouth alone. Survivalist Tales! is Holy Sons' 9th record, and represents the apex of Emil Amos' obsession to push stylistic genres to their breaking point while wrenching psyche-anthems out of the darkest frontiers of self-confrontation. The songs are a seemingly impossible blend of nightmarish Blade Runner-esque moog music with the darkest side of 70's easy-listening psyche and feature some of the most unabashedly soaring choruses Amos has ever put to tape. Combining avant-sound collage with lyrics culled from the hard-won truths of self-exploration, Survivalist Tales! builds a beautiful imagining of future music. For the first time ever Amos is poised to present the project publicly; this upcoming tour can legitimately be described as Holy Sons' first tour. Select Discography of Emil Amos: Holy Sons Criminal's Return (Important Records '09) Om God is Good (Drag City '09) Grails Acid Rain (Temporary Residence '09) Holy Sons Drifter's Sympathy (Important Records '09) Jandek Portland Thursday (Corwood Industries '09) Grails Doomsdayer's Holiday (Temporary Residence '08) Holy Sons Decline of the West (Partisan Records '08) OM Gebel Barkal 7' (Sub Pop '08) Grails Take Refuge (Important Records '08) Yellow Swans At All Ends (Load '07) Grails Burning Off Impurities (Temporary Residence '07) Dolorean You Can't Win (Yep Roc '07) Grails Black Tar Prophecies (Important Records '06) Holy Sons Warm Coals 10' (Morc Tapes '05 Netherlands) Grails Interpretations EP (Southern Records '05) Holy Sons Bread Tribute (Badman '05) Grails Black Sabbath Tribute (Temporary Residence '05) Holy Sons Holy Sons/Dolorean Split 7' (Sctas.com '04) Grails Red Light (Neurot '04) Dolorean Violence in the Snowy Fields (Yep Roc '04) Holy Sons I Want to Live A Peaceful Life (Film Guerrero '03) Grails Burden of Hope (Neurot '03) Holy Sons Enter the Uninhabitable (Red 76 records '02) Holy Sons Staying True to the Ascetic Roots (Pamlico Sound '01) Holy Sons Lost Decade (Pamlico Sound '99)
event::tags 21+
12:00 AM
to 1:00 AM
1:00 AM
to 2:00 AM
Deer Tick
350 schedule::attendees
Location
Lustre Pearl
eventtype Music
Artists Deer Tick
event::about DEER TICK: THE UNLIKELY SAVIOURS OF LIVE MUSIC by Finbarr Bermingham Remember the good ol' days? You remember, back when Pluto was still a planet? People used to laugh, regularly. They would shout, maybe have a little drinkie and, y'know, enjoy themselves? Oh, nostalgia! And, sometimes, people would go to concerts and shows and they would have what was known as "a good time". Man, those were the days. Sometimes, even the band would join in. Maybe they'd had a tipple, too. They would play their instruments out of tune and at breakneck speeds. Occasionally, there might be harsh words exchanged... fisticuffs even. But they didn't give a fuck, and that's why we loved them, why we wanted to be them and why we wanted to be with them. Then something very bad happened. In a heinous, puritanical move designed to destroy rock and roll abandon, a witch hunt ensued. Spearheaded by a MOR music media, the "rock-star stereotype" gradually became a bad thing. The Evian sponsored falling star of flamboyant excess was soundtracked by a lead singer hell-bent on explaining how the agonizing autumnal hues really remind him of his missus slipping off with his best friend last September. Iggy Pop was stripped for parts and sold off to an insurance company and Johnny Rotten was bartered off to the jungle in exchange for his weight in butter. Even Ryan Adams was manhandled onto the wagon for long enough to make a couple of horrible records. Last week, in the unlikely setting of leafy Mancunian suburbia, I had a stick of dynamite inserted in my asshole, courtesy of Rhode Island pseudo-hillbillies Deer Tick. I was blown away. It didn't take a genius to work out that John McCauley, lead singer, band leader, guitar virtuoso and self-appointed class clown was completely slaughtered. Nor did his Old Glory, blazing guitars adorned, threadbare t-shirt leave us in any kind of doubt as to what we were to expect... he looked like he'd just crawled up the banks of the Mississippi. He announced he'd been drinking vodka all day. We all cheered. He stuck his head in an ice box full of beer. We cheered louder. He announced he was going to take his pants off. And, well, you get the picture. There are many reasons why Deer Tick are an excellent band. Here are mine. Firstly, they have great songs. War Elephant is a great album. The follow up, Born on Flag Day is just as strong. Alt-country is a curious genre, often misconstrued, misrepresented and misunderstood. Well, for me, this lot here's a contemporary blueprint. There's country (duh), punk, blues, folk, grunge and garage rock. Hell, even their choice of cover versions - Replacements, Michael Hurley, John Prine, The Sex Pistols and Chuck Berry - goes a long way to pinning down their sound. McCauley's voice is a hybrid of Kurt Cobain and Gary Louris from the Jayhawks. Sometimes he sounds like he's been gargling gravel with moonshine. He can croon, he can yelp and he can shout. He's a superb lead singer, backed by a talented, if mostly acquiescent unit. They recently recruited guitarist Ian O'Neil from New Jersey noiseniks Titus Andronicus, which allows McCauley more freedom to noodle, drink more beer, or, um, get his cock out. They know how to play their songs live. By that, I don't mean they can robotically churn out high fidelity renditions of their records, which I am pretty sure they can. In the flesh, these guys sound completely different than they do through your speakers. It sounds like a lazy observation to make, but when Deer Tick play live, they sound live. They sound louder, rawer and more raucous than anyone who's heard their records could've thought possible. They improvise, they play requests, they invite people onto the stage, they throw balls to the wall, and it all sticks. Here is a band awake to the raison d'etre of a live show - to entertain. Sometimes, they (see: McCauley) act like douchebags. They kick each other in the ass when performing an acapella encore. Hell, the drummer even takes off his boots so he can aim a better pot-shot at his singer's rear. When the audience ask something of them they respond, no matter how ridiculous the demand. One excited, most likely traumatized, reveller barks an order to play some Sex Pistols, in honour of his mother, who died yesterday. It raises a slightly confused smirk from McCauley, who launches into a solo take on Holidays in the Sun, barely an eyelid batted. When the support act, Megafaun, join Deer Tick on stage for a rollicking cover of Can't Hardly Wait, McCauley proudly announces he's going to do it in "true Replacements style", which as far as I can tell, is shorthand for "sans pants." Watching him thrash about the stage with his jocks round his ankles is bizarrely refreshing. He looks like he might fall on his face, but it doesn't stop him from shuffling about, duelling guitars with O'Neil and generally acting the maggot. And this is what I've missed about live music. With Deer Tick, there was no self-consciousness, no posturing, no agenda and no bullshit. They didn't give a fuck, and I loved it. Maybe it was partly due to the unlikely venue - the overpriced beer, the tasteful artwork, the polished finish on the bar-top - but this disgustingly ramshackle performance took me by surprise, and reminded me that not all live shows turn out to be a damp squib. The histrionic resent I felt when listening to Nirvana Live at Reading on its release a few weeks back has slowly subsided. A bunch of scrawny, drunk kids from Rhode Island have rekindled my appetite for live music. And it didn't even need the chicken wire. FB
event::tags 21+
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