Subject: South by Southwest Festival

• South By Southwest, Part 1

  Well, it's 8:35 Austin time and I've finally got my room, internet access, and festival badge. Haven't had a chance to see any actual music yet, but I've certainly seen plenty of jaded industry types, giddy young music writers, and desperate publicists. I'm headed out into the evening to actually find some material on which to write, but in the meantime, I'll leave you with a quote from page 209 of Lone Star Swing, Duncan McLean's book on his travels through Texas searching for the original perf

  March 14, 2007

• SXSW: Ms. Bea's Backyard Report

  SXSW can have a curious numbing effect on the unprepared. The overstimulation is so pronounced, eventually one's body can't tolerate any more and it begins to withdraw. Even a sweet-tooth can only eat so much candy before the sickness sets in, and SXSW practically shoves it down your throat. It's more interesting sometimes to walk down 6th St. at 11:30 p.m. and watch the faces of the zombified attendees than it is to watch many of the bands that are actually playing. The official shows don't st

  March 16, 2007

• SXSW: OC Weekly Exclusive Part II-Virtual Girl Talk and Incidentals

  OC Weekly exclusive video of Girl Talk's performance at last night's Diesel jeans party here. If you put on your headphones, get your face right up next to the screen, and dowse yourself in other people's sweat, it'll be just like you were there. Below: You know how we do at SXSW. No one parties like music journalists party (i.e. prowl through town searching for free booze, get drunk, complain about how the band they were in in college never made it despite being more talented then 90 percent o

  March 17, 2007

• SXSW: OC Weekly Cover Boys dios Tear it Up

  Just returned from the dios set (see Chris Ziegler's 2004 cover story here) at the Chuggin' Monkey (located a few blocks from Mooseknuckle's and Uncle Flirty's Loft...seriously). Despite undergoing some lineup changes over the past few years, the band continues to amaze me with how ferociously they can perform live. [Full disclosure: I have at times played Guitar Hero and been entertained by the card magic of founding member Jimi Cabeza de Vaca.] The previous bands went a little long, forcing di

  March 18, 2007

• OC Weekly's SXSW Concert Lineup Announced

  LA's HEALTH bring their beneficial noise to SXSW. If you're down in Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest conference/festival, please check out this outstanding bill and mingle with the VVM music editors (you will never encounter so much charisma in one room). The Black Keys Health The Cribs Soundtrack of Our Lives Friday, March 14 12:00pm - 5:00pm La Zona Rosa 612 W. 4th Street Austin, TX 78701

  February 14, 2008

• Looking Ahead to South by Southwest

  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

  March 3, 2008

• What you missed over the weekend: Part XIII

  Patrick Chavis got a taste of Pinoy pop culture at UCI Friday night, where he caught Bambu, Rhythm Natives and the Fighting Cocks. Pat also ran into a tagger who dreams of letters. Read his review and see some photos here. Rich Kane spent his Saturday morning reviewing the past week in the Orange County Register. The Reggie didn't fare very well. . .click here to see why. Rich will check in with the Reg-O-Meter next Saturday, so do drop by to see if our favorite local daily can rise from the gr

  March 10, 2008

• Norwegians Do It Better

  Austin, Texas - First day of SXSW is always stressful. So are the second, third and fourth days. No matter where you are at this huge musical clusterfuck, you're always haunted by the thought that something better is happening somewhere else. Unless you've mastered the ability to be in five places simultaneously, you have to settle for one performance at a time. Humans are so limited... I arrived late Wed. evening and didn't get my badge till 9 p.m. My plan to was to make a beeline to the Thir

  March 13, 2008

• Funking Up the Future

  Day 2 of SXSW In my last post, I predicted Holy Fuck's set would be very hard to surpass. Well, I think it was at least equaled by a few artists on the bill at Barcelona—all instrumental hip-hop artists, in fact (Nosaj Thing, Free the Robots, Gaslamp Killer and Flying Lotus). Who would've thought such types would be standouts at SXSW? I mean, there wasn't a guitar to be found in the joint all night... But first some gigs that preceded the Barcelona extravaganza. At Soho Bar, Blues Control—

  March 14, 2008

• Crystal Antlers and Banana Hammocks

  The problem with blogging SXSW is that every second spent blogging is a second spent not seeing something that you might want to blog about. Having arrived late Wednesday night, while the festival was already in partial swing, and trying (unsuccessfully) to catch up on some lost travel sleep Thursday morning, this is literally the first time I have been able to stop to catch my breath and reflect on what I have seen. Some argue that the festival is suffering from its own success: that its imme

  March 14, 2008

• SXSW Day 3: Pushing Fuck Buttons

  March 15, 2008

• SXSW Day 4: Seeking the Elusive Black Moth Super Rainbow

  March 16, 2008

• What you missed over the weekend: Part XIV

  Dave Segal and Tom Child spent the weekend in Austin for the South By Southwest Festival, which they live-blogged out of Heard Mentality. Browse the SXSW blog for their coverage here, and do scroll down and flip through some slide shows while you're there. Chelsea Ide wraps up the SXSW weekend quite nicely over here. Once again, the Reg-O-Meter (which now has a snazzy new logo - thanks, Steve!) went negative after Rich Kane fed it this week's notables from the Orange County Register. Check back

  March 17, 2008

• The Juan Maclean at Continental Room April 10

  The Bizarre Love Triangle crew has booked DFA Records producer the Juan Maclean for a DJ set at Fullerton's Continental Room Thursday April 10. This New York musician—who used to play guitar in Six Finger Satellite—has great taste as a selector, if his set at SXSW I caught in 2006 is any indication (and I think it is). Expect hot trax from the underground-disco, house, techno and krautrock genres—and probably more. Hardy support comes from BLT regulars Scotty Coats, AM180, Beef, Dijon

  April 7, 2008

• Earache My Eye!

  April 13, 2000

• Feel the Gastro-Ambient Love!

  May 25, 2000

• Accidentally Legit

  March 29, 2001

• Welcome to Schmoozeville

  March 29, 2001

• Whooooooooooooo!!

  March 29, 2001

• SXSW Slices

  March 29, 2001

• OC/LBC Bands Head to South By Southwest

  March 12, 2009

• 'Heard Mentality': Definitely Not Going to SXSW

  A lot of people are packing up and headed to Austin, Texas as we speak, but none of us here at OC Weekly are among then. I know, sad, right? I've never even been to Texas. I'm not even sure it exists.

  March 17, 2009

• TONIGHT: Eugene & the 1914 at the Prospector

  There's not a lot going on around town these next few days, show-wise. Is it spring fever? The fact that everybody is at SXSW? Camping out to see Duplicity (OMG! Julia Roberts Clive Owen = Adorable!)? But there are a few shows here and there worth going to, like LA's Eugene & the 1914 at the Prospector in Long Beach tonight. I stumbled upon them mostly by chance, but was soon won over by their charms, which you can check out at the MySpace link there. Fun and folksy, and what's better than

  March 19, 2009

• A pocket-full of SXSW videos

  Okay, so another SXSW festival has come and gone. You weren't there, we weren't there...boo-hoo. But it's time's like these where we bow and thank the Lord for You-Tube. I'm not sure whether it was boredom or sheer curiosity that led me to reexamine a previous post I made about OC and LB bands heading to Austin this month, but I decided to check out the list again and see if I could dig up any videos. Obviously I didn't get them all, maybe that's just because well, we're dealing with musicians h

  March 25, 2009

• [Sprawl of Sound] Dave Does SXSW

  March 20, 2008

• OC Bands Free the Robots, God's Good Soldiers, Dusty Rhodes and the River Band at South By Southwest

  March 6, 2008

• But What About the Hip-hop, Tom?

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  March 15, 2007

• SXSWXOC

  Our annual South By Southwest report

  March 25, 2004

• Name Dropping

  June 22, 2006

• Letters

  'How DARE you call the film phony. This is a war against the Vietnamese community. We will organize a major protest against OC Weekly'

  April 5, 2007

• Endless Music Vs. Endless Promotion

  Recapping South by Southwest

  March 22, 2007

• The Awful Truth in Austin, Texas

  The case against Michael Moore and for B-list celebs at SXSW

  March 15, 2007

• Screw the Industry Weasels

  Think small (bands) and youll have a good time at SXSW

  March 15, 2007

• SXSW Report

  March 23, 2006

• Give Him Some Water so He Wont Die

  March 24, 2005

• Low Ball Ass Chatter

  March 10, 2005

• South By Southwest

  April 3, 2003

• Dance Disaster Movement

  April 3, 2003

• Buchanan

  April 3, 2003

• Do Not Disturb the Sexy!

  September 26, 2002

• Texas is the Reason

  March 21, 2002

• Fear the smoking police!

  September 20, 2001

• Supernova

  September 14, 2000

• Oregon Bound

  September 28, 2000

• Grandaddy at This Ain't No Picnic

  July 6, 2000

• Our Annual South by Southwest Report

  March 30, 2000

• DIY or Die

  March 2, 2000

• Vacation, Baby

  October 21, 1999

• Guest Blogger: Sameer Gadhia of the Jakes Shares Thoughts on First Night of eVocal Residency

  Keith MayEach Tuesday in May, Newport Beach's the Jakes will be playing--along with a rotating cast of bands from OC and beyond--at eVocal. And also each week this month, Sameer Gadhia, lead singer of the Jakes (pictured) will be sharing his thoughts on the shows. Here's the first installment:BY SAMEER GADHIAWelcome to the first of four blog spots that have been gifted to me by the local music enthusiasts at the OC Weekly who have helped generate buzz about our May KROQ "Locals Only" residency a

  May 7, 2009

• TONIGHT: Japanese Motors at Avalon Bar

  In the past six months Costa Mesa's Japanese Motors have played CMJ, SXSW and toured the country with Modest Mouse, but tonight they're back in their hometown, playing a gig at the cozy Avalon Bar. They're on the radio on Sirius XM, they've been covered by Pitchfork, etc., etc.--the point is that the place will probably be packed (it's not a very big place!) and it's a neat opportunity to see a hometown band in an intimate setting, an opportunity that may not happen much more if their career kee

  April 6, 2009