A Green Guide To SXSW
So if it wasn’t St Patrick’s Day tomorrow, we’d be pretty inconsolable about the fact we’re not hitting this year’s South By South West which rolls into Austin tomorrow. Nevertheless, we thought we’d give a shout out to some of the parties that are making us most jealous, and that you should definitely roll up to if you’re lucky enough to be in barbeque central this week.
Perhaps making us most green is the party being thrown by without doubt one of our favourite new record labels on the map, NYC’s 2syllable. They’re taking over the Scholz Garden on Thursday 19th along with I Guess I’m Floating and the whole affair promises to be pretty smoking with a lineup including the always excellent Women, Parenthetical Girls and Fanfarlo. Highlights however have to be 2syllable’s own New Villager and Bell. The former’s psyched out, mesmeric new age orchestral hip-pop and the latter’s dreamy, fizzing bjork-worthy freak-folk are only two reasons why this label is set to blow so if you don’t know already, get to know now.
A slightly more obvious tip but one worth making all the same is the massive party Gorilla Vs Bear are setting off the same night (Thursday 19th) at the Peacock. Alongside some of 2008’s most handsome heroes and heroines (White Denim, Vivian Girls, Wavves) are San Francisco’s Girls, fresh from completing their debut LP, and Brooklyn’s Here We Go Magic. These guys are getting some collars seriously sticky at the moment and it’s not hard to see why with songs as majestic, tense and teasing as ‘Tunnelvision.’
Here We Go Magic – Tunnelvision
Another show that is unmissable is Ducktails with Blank Dogs and Woods at 2908 Cole Street, also on Thursday. I’ve been bobbing about in the warm current of Ducktails’ blissed-out squall and swell for a good while now and Woods’ LP is a charming, intimate little dusty gem. Do the right thing!
Meanwhile, I Am Sound Records are hosting a pretty mad event with the UK’s Little Boots and Micachu being joined by Telepathe, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and past blog favourites Glasser and Suckers. Both have new releases on the way courtesy of True Panther and I Am Sound respectively and are well worth copping.
Finally, our friends Chess Club are flying the flag for London and bringing some of their ever growing roster to the Friends bar on Wednesday 18th. Check out, this, the latest single from Post War Years out on CC to get you amped:
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