The annual sonic bacchanal known as South by Southwest goes down March 12-16. Every year, several thousand music-biz types, musicians and ordinary mortals with more money than sense descend upon downtown Austin, Texas, cramming five months of musical activity into five days. I'll be blogging about all the awesome and heinous stuff I see/hear while I'm there, but for now, here's a lil' sneak preview of the festivities.
OC/LBC bands making the trek to the Lone Star state's capital include Free th
Los Angels hipster haven Spaceland has Monday night residencies too, much like our Detroit Bar (which is hosting Dynamite Walls and Midnight Hour, the latter of which we wrote about here, this month). And on Mondays in January, Spaceland will be hosting Long Beach's Rocco DeLuca of Rocco DeLuca and the Burden (and I Trust You to Kill Me fame); not to be confused with celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito.For more info, check out Spaceland's site. Listen to "Colorful" by Rocco DeLuca and the Burden belo
Monday isn't typically a great night for live music (or much of anything--just ask Garfield!), but there's several things on the docket today.We've got a record release show from San Diego screamo-ers In Fear and Faith at Chain Reaction, seen rather nattily dressed above. On their MySpace you can listen to their rather unique cover of Coolio's "Gangsta Paradise," which is some good fun.There's also the first night of the January Monday night residency at Detroit Bar, where the same bands play a
Today is a day to very much live in the present, what with a historic event of some kind going on in Washington DC, but since we're obstinate like that, let's look a couple months into the future--specifically March 13-17 in Austin, TX, for South by Southwest.We wrote a couple weeks back about the lack of Orange County/Long Beach bands on the initial crop of announced bands, but that's no longer the case, thankfully, as we've got quite a few of our favorite sons (and daughters) among the much, m
