SXSW 2012: Are We There Yet?

Posted on | November 2, 2011 | No Comments

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South By Southwest time already?

If already means 5 months away (or 132 days) to you then yes, we’re almost here.

Back to hot, Texan sunshine right in the middle of our usual cold and dreary Marches, the thought of delicious breakfast Tacos in my belly sustaining me in the mornings and seeing bands 12 hours a day, for 5 days straight, appeals to my music nerd sensibilities.

Lest we forget, spending a few hours in my favorite movie theater in the whole wide world, the Alamo Drafthouse.

So many good times ahead.

It is already that time of year where the very preliminary lineup of artists who will show their faces on 6th street from March 13 – March 18, 2012 is revealed to us in small doses.

Akina Adderley & The Vintage Playboys (Austin TX)
Against Me! (Gainesville FL)
Agent Fresco (Reykjavík ICELAND)
Ambition (Halifax CANADA)
ANR (Miami FL)
Antoine Reverb (Guadalajara MEXICO)
Avalanche City (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Balthazar (Gent BELGIUM)
Bare Wires (Oakland NY)
BeatauCue (Caen FRANCE)
Bestial Mouths (Los Angeles CA)
Big Deal (London UK-ENGLAND)
Big Scary (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
The Black and White Years (Austin TX)
Black Books (Austin TX)
The Black Ryder (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Michael Guy Bowman (Los Angeles CA)
Cashier No.9 (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND)
Class Actress (Brooklyn NY)
Cloud Nothings (Cleveland OH)
Com Truise (Princeton NJ)
Delay Trees (Helsinki FINLAND)
Delhi 2 Dublin (Vancouver CANADA)
Marianne Dissard (Tucson AZ)
Duck Fight Goose (Shanghai CHINA)
The Ettes (Nashville TN)
Fanzine (London UK-ENGLAND)
Fat Tony (Houston TX)
FEAR (Los Angeles CA)
Free Blood (Brooklyn NY)
THE GRANNIES (San Francisco CA)
Guadalupe Plata (Andalusia-Ubeda SPAIN)
He’s My Brother She’s My Sister (Los Angeles CA)
Howler (Minneapolis MN)
Ice Choir (Brooklyn NY)
I Got You On Tape (Copenhagen DENMARK)
il abanico (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Matthew Perryman Jones (Nashville TN)
Jonquil (Oxford UK-ENGLAND)
Just A Band (Nairobi KENYA)
Marit Larsen (Oslo NORWAY)
Letting Up Despite Great Faults (Los Angeles CA)
Library Voices (Regina CANADA)
Love Inks (Austin TX)
Maxim Ludwig & The Santa Fe Seven (Silverlake CA)
Mahogany (Chicago IL)
Marmalakes (Austin TX)
The Men (New York City NY)
Mind Spiders (Forth Worth TX)
Motopony (Seattle WA)
Mujeres (Barcelona SPAIN)
Musikanto (Chicago IL)
My Education (Austin TX)
Niki & The Dove (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Not In The Face!! (Austin TX)
Of Monsters and Men (Reykjavík ICELAND)
120 Days (Oslo NORWAY)
Outfit (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND)
The Parlotones (Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA)
Parlovr (Montreal CANADA)
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (Waitsfield VT)
Pure Love (Brooklyn NY)
Molly Rankin (Charlottetown PE)
ROGe (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL)
Peter Rosenberg (New York NY)
Rosie and Me (Curitiba BRAZIL)
Royal Canoe (Winnipeg CANADA)
Gabriel Santiago Quintet (Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL)
Sauti Sol (Nairobi KENYA)
Say Hi (Seattle WA)
The Scoundrels (Las Vegas NV)
Shout Out Out Out Out (Edmonton CANADA)
Skewby (Memphis TN)
Skinny Lister (London UK-ENGLAND)
Soft Metals (Los Angeles CA)
Some Community (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Something Fierce (Houston TX)
Sore Losers (Lancaster TX)
SPEAK (Austin TX)
Spectrals (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Spycatcher (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sudakaya (Quito ECUADOR)
Talking To Turtles (Leipzig GERMANY)
Team Me (Elverum NORWAY)
Telebit (Bogotá COLOMBIA)
Thee Oh Sees (San Francisco CA)
THULEBASEN (København V DENMARK)
Timbuktu (Toronto ON)
Truth Universal (New Orleans LA)
Turbogeist (London UK-ENGLAND)
Uncle Bad Touch (Montreal CANADA)
Uncle Lucius (Austin TX)
UV POP (Doncaster UK-ENGLAND)
Vampillia (Tenjinmachi JAPAN)
V for Volume (Bogota COLOMBIA)
VHS or Beta (Brooklyn NY)
WAX (Dunkirk MD)
We Are The Ocean (London UK-ENGLAND)
We Barbarians (Brooklyn NY)
The Wedding Present (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Chelsea Wolfe (Los Angeles CA)
Young Magic (Brooklyn NY)
Yukon Blonde (Vancouver CANADA)
Yuksek(Paris FRANCE)
The Zoltars (Austin TX)

Now, crossing my fingers the flight prices to Austin will drop back down by Christmas
and for me personally, getting my hands on a badge and or wristband.

That would be the cherry on top of the SXSW Sundae.

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MVs Collection #53 ( Halloween Edition )

Posted on | October 29, 2011 | No Comments

Watch 10 more scary/frightful music videos from last year’s edition.

HEALTH – “We Are Water”
Directed by Eric Wareheim.

Rob Zombie – “Living Dead Girl”
Directed by Rob Zombie.

Misfits – “American Psycho”
Directed by John Cafiero.

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – “Sweet’N’Sour”
Directed by StyleWar.

Masia One Feat. Death From Above 1979 – “The Hazing”
Directed by Matt Burke.

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Trailer Thursdays: Chronicle

Posted on | October 27, 2011 | No Comments

Cast : Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, Dane DeHaan, Ashley Hinshaw, Michael Kelly
Director : Joshua Trank
Release Date : February 3, 2012

Synopsis :

Three high school buddies gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery.
Has they become more comfortable with their new found powers, they find their lives
spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.

Haven’t done a Trailer Thursdays in awhile only because no trailers were worthy
of my precious time in writing about them.

Saw this trailer a few days back and I am totally on board with this concept.

It’s one of those found footage films a la “Cloverfield” or “Paranormal Activity” shot POV style.

It’s just 3 dudes getting superpowers (we don’t know how) who at first, are just goofing off with it, pranking people just for shits and giggles but then it’s used in a nefarious way with deadly results and it all turns to shit.

Definitely a new take on the “teen with powers” genre.

Directed by Joshua Tranks, a first time director for the big screen and Max Landis (son of John), Also, first time screenwriter.

It all looks very promising.

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CMJ Music Marathon 2011: The Videos

Posted on | October 26, 2011 | No Comments

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My 3rd CMJ Music Marathon was a blast.

More so things I did around it which is stuff like attend tapings of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report (so awesome!) meeting tons of new people (you know who you are *winkyface*) and the very few bands I was excited to see.

Not has much photo taking as previous years but I did shoot video footage of a few bands which hopefully you’ll enjoy.

This year’s CMJ discoveries includes:

New Zealand bands The Golden Awesome, Pikachunes and Popstrangers.

Also, The Lighthouse And The Whaler, Quiet Company and The John Steel Singers which will all make their way to an upcoming podcast.

The Videos:

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MVs Collection #52

Posted on | October 22, 2011 | No Comments

GusGus – “Over”
Directed by Ellen Lofts & Thorbjörn Ingason.

SBTRKT Feat. Roses Gabor – “Pharoahs”
Directed by Tim Brown.

Darkness Falls – “Hey!”
Directed by Katja Boom.

The Horrors – “I Can See Through You”
Directed by White Rabbit.

MUTEMATH – “Blood Pressure”
Directed by Claire Vogel & Darren King

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