Rockfeedback SXSW Red House Pizzeria Patio party in assoc. with Music For Listeners + Transgressive
Friday 19th March, 2010
The Red House Pizzeria
1917 Manor Road, Austin, Texas, Texas
12:00 p.m. / Free
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Not content with just hosting our own showcase at Texas’ South By Southwest festival, we here at Rockfeedback have decided to chuck the cat out with the cooks and throw a full-on party as well. In association with San Antonio radio station Music For Listeners, we’re putting on an evening of some of our favourite bands, all in a Pizzeria in the middle of Texas. Excited? Sure, why, yes we are. Aaand here come the bands….
6:00 p.m. – Bear in Heaven
Bear in Heaven started out as Jon Philpot, alone, in a studio, after hours, in Atlanta Georgia. Then he moved to New York and it was him, all alone, in his room, unemployed, trying to figure out how to make music in his bedroom and get a job. Though not quite coming out of nowhere, BIH have a surprise gift - a striking consolidation of spiky psych-prog tendencies into a pop framework.
5:00 p.m. – Lovvers
Based nowhere and residing pretty much everywhere, Lovvers is compromised of four ambitious nobodies who have tellingly appeared at a moment in musical history that can only described as a yawning deluded mess. Lovvers are a strange mix of music's forgotten / blank generation, re-calling the spirit of Darby Crashes' Germs, the weirdness of Flipper, Wipers style pop and the careless attitude of The Replacements; at one show a girl was so confused / annoyed that she wrote to KERRANG! describing this music as highly offensive, wanting to erase them from her mind. We however love ‘em so much that we let their drummer Steve write for us from time to time.
4:00 p.m - Lawrence Arabia
Lawrence Arabia is the pseudonym of James Milne, born 1981 in Christchurch, New Zealand. James has already established a rich musical resume as a former member of the Brunettes, The Ruby Suns and one time touring member of Okkervil River. He has also produced for films and theatre and wrote the score for the indie film hit, Eagle vs Shark. His music has got that lazy-feel pop touch, with gentle African and Hawaiian hints wandering amongst the rhythms and the guitars.
3:00 p.m. The Smith Westerns
Chicago's The Smith Westerns are a fuzzy lo-fi band that has lots of pretty (and slightly psych-y) melodies floating in and around some serious (mostly) garage-rock goodness. But this isn't garage-rock in the aggressive "my riffs will start a fire and make even this here pile of greasy rags EXPLODE!" kind of way. This is the garage in the sensitive hearts "tool box, everything I do, I do it for you" kind of way.
2:00 p.m. Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit
Britain has a long history of producing bards and troubadours. From Shakespeare to Strummer, the nation has spawned countless tale-spinners whose words resonate with drama and humor, knife-twisting wit and unabashed romanticism -- a lineage that's been transported into the new millennium by Johnny Flynn, a South African emigre whose flair for blending folk tradition and decidedly of-the-moment perspective marks him as an artist capable of captivating at first listen and for the long haul.
1:00 p.m. – Soko
half folky / half punky
half french / half polish
half actress / half music-nerd
half singing / half talking
half dreaming / half dancing
half joking / half deep
half tearful / half crazy
half wise / half child
totally wild
totally vegan
always unpredictable
12:00 p.m. - Stricken City
Indie in the old-fashioned 'look at us we design our own t-shirts and our guitarist learnt to play in a week' sense, Stricken City's sound recalls all sorts of lovely things put out by Rough Trade and Postcard in the mid-80s. 'Songs About People I Know' oozes with fun and spontaneity, like 'Gifted', an a capella ditty recorded on a London bus. Kind of wonderful.
All this along with guest DJ Ali from Dance To The Radio Records. It’s going to be a gas.
