Oddly, whilst listing to the SXSW bittorrent I’ve decided that I like bands that self-identify as Electronic, but actually use a liberal amount of guitar.
On exhibit: Capitol K from London - Drum St Song[mp3]
As a foil, here’s a self-identifying Rock band with electronic elements. Excellent as well. Cassettes Won’t Listen - Paper Float [mp3]
I love how California Punk means Teen Pop.
Exhibit A: Army of Freshman, Ventura, CA.
Co-founders of the “Get Happy Tour”. Why are they listed at SXSW as Punk?
I don’t know why, but UK’s Bearsuit [mp3], with it’s orchestral poppiness is reminding me of Houston’s Black Math Experiment, which is neither orchestral or poppy.
I think perhaps because they both wear their geek on their sleeves.
“OMG, he broke up with me…”
“… who’s that girl on his myspace?”
Emo Phillips (it’s the name of the song)
Carl and Arrah signed up for open mic night back in December of 2005 without having any songs written. They quickly gathered to prepare (while a certain vegan friend of theirs was being dumped in the other room). To their surprise, they made a little “evan on earth,” thus wanting to share the experience with their best friend in the whole wide world, David Segedy. With much cajoling, Arrah and Carl got Dave to join the open mic adventure. One would think it ended there but no, it was just the beginning. Shortly after, the bandname was prescribed–making it official. It was a band. It was love.
And then they added a forth member, a swanky bass player, in the summer of 2007. His name is Joey Patrick. He’s orange and everyone loves him. He makes a great fern (the tallest fern of them all), and hopefully you will agree.
The last few years I’ve downloaded the bittorrent feeds from the SXSW site, and listened to (at least to the first 30 seconds of) every song. The Metal is usually quick to be culled.
This year they didn’t provide one, but someone stepped up to the plate, so I’ve pulled it from him. I put the pictures and the text from SXSW’s site into each song - I’m debating providing that back to the hard worker.
So, a listening I will go. There’s 763 songs in the feed. If it’s like the past, more will get released closer to mid March.
Woo hoo!
This year you had to register for a lottery with your credit card with an Austin billing address. All wristbands are tied to a name, and you could only order two. South By Bob Noxious did the heavy lifting and I win.
I’d like to hear how many people signed up for wristbands, and if we got lucky or they successfully scared away all the people they were trying to. But I have a wristband with my name on it.
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