"The Winter of Mixed Drinks"
Frightened Rabbit
"The Suburbs"
Arcade Fire
"Soundtrack To The End"
Communist Daughter
"Crazy For You"
Best Coast
"Treats"
Sleigh Bells
"Silver Soul"
Beach House
"Little Secrets"
Passion Pit
"Unhinged"
Eels
"Black Smoke"
Tindersticks
It’s a tradition at South by Southwest: Japan Nite, where bands from the bustling island nation descend on Austin with their take on rock ‘n’ roll. This year’s Japan Nite showcase, happening Friday at Elysium, kicks off with the Osaka band JinnyOops!, a girl group that describes itself as “genreless” and as having “produced Real [...]
A lot of people write songs in their bedrooms when no one else is listening, but most of them aren’t writing songs as good as Penny Hill’s. It’s the musical alter-ego of Hilary Pitchlynn, who eventually ventured out of her room and onto stages in her hometown of Norman, Okla., where she caught the attention [...]
San Francisco indie-rock band Beulah never really settled on a single definitive lineup, and singer Miles Kurosky wrote most of the songs anyway, so it’s not such a surprise that the end of Beulah would mean a solo record from Kurosky. It sure took him a while, though: Beulah broke up in 2004, and Kurosky, [...]
We’d been wondering what had happened to the Golden Filter, and now we know: The New York electro duo finally releases its debut album, “Voluspa,” June 15 in the U.S. About time. Listen, Dammit, saw Penelope and Stephen (they’re informal like that) perform last year at South by Southwest, and that shit was off the [...]
Who knew those crummy little Casio keyboards everyone had in the late ’80s and early ’90s would turn out to be so influential? Not only did they inspire the names of bands like Norwegian electro-pop group Casiokids (and also Chicago’s Casiotone for the Painfully Alone), their tinny beats and relatively primitive synthesizer functions resonate in [...]
It’s a fact of South by Southwest that sometimes you pick bands to see based solely on their names. For example, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness in 2003, or I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House in 2007. Not only does Ratas del Vaticano have an excellent name, the Mexican punk band [...]
After releasing “Living With the Living” in 2007, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists got off to a fast start on the follow-up. It also proved to be a false start. Recording sessions went nowhere, prompting the band to take a year-long break from the studio — just in time to spend the summer opening for [...]
House music may have originated in Chicago, but it was New York City’s Deee-Lite that put it on the map. A trio comprising vocalist Lady Miss Kier and DJs Towa Tei and Dmitri, Deee-Lite dropped their début “World Clique” in August of 1990. Best known for the hit single “Groove Is in the Heart,” featuring [...]
Pairing Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton with Cee-lo Green in Gnarls Barkley seemed natural. Setting him up with Beck, the Black Keys, MF Doom and Gorillaz made sense, too. But putting Danger Mouse in a recording studio with Shins frontman James Mercer is a less intuitive choice. No one’s saying the Shins aren’t soulful in their [...]
Not only is their second album a delightful leap forward, She & Him is bringing it to you live with a handful of shows at SXSW that come as part of a spring tour. Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward have outdone themselves on “Volume Two” (due March 23 on Merge): the vintage-style pop songs are [...]
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