Rockfeedback Presents: Episode 5, SXSW pt.2 TONIGHT (13/8), MTV2, 9.30pm
By: Thomas Hannan
Tonight, 9.30pm, MTV2 - it's the second part of Rockfeedback's documentary on the SXSW music conference in Austin, Texas. Doing our best to aid the local cause of 'Keep Austin Weird', we feature a smile-inducingly diverse line up of unsullied new talent (Cut Copy, Liam Finn [pictured bottom], Langhorne Slim) in alongside near mythical scene figureheads like record producer Kim Fowley (pictured below, mid interview) and, in some of the greatest footage we've shot to date, Jeffrey Lewis giving us an illustrated lecture on the history of communism in Russia.
Also expect the likes of an exclusive, tear inducing Jeffrey Lewis cover by Laura Marling and Johnny Flynn (pictured top), Two Gallants playing an outdoor acoustic set just for us before we got down and dirty with The Kills and These New Puritans as the Domino Records bands rocked Antones (perhaps the best place for a hoe down in all of Texas). That, plus Ed Harcourt serenading us on the weirdest taxi journey of all time, and MGMT (pictured below) playing to a packed audience in an Urban Outfitters store. Clothing outlets - it's the new CBGBs, we're told.
One more show in this series to go, airing next Friday, when we recount what exactly went down when Future of the Left played in our living room for a post Camden Crawl house party. It's a good job we filmed it, because we can't remember a thing.
