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by **DonGately** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:42 pm

Great posts!!! I always look forward to this thread. Now I have a bunch of new bands to go check out. Thanks, as always...

by **Frau_Blucher** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:46 pm

[quote][i]Originally posted by DonGately[/i]
<br>Great posts!!! I always look forward to this thread. Now I have a bunch of new bands to go check out. Thanks, as always...
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I wish they were more representative of what's out there. It's an incredibly narrow slice of what was at SXSW. I wish I had a time machine to go back and do each South-By 3 or 4 more times in a totally different way. The various Spin, Pitchfork, Filter, Under the Radar, etc reviews might be more broadly informative.

by **plagiarism** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:10 am

Frau: Do you think it's even possible for these lo-fi surf bands to sound good live? I like a few songs in this genre, but when making my lists of bands to see, I kept asking myself "why would I want to go see them?"

Also, did Richard Barone/Vanessa Hay play any Pylon songs?

by **Frau_Blucher** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:33 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by plagiarism[/i]
<br>Frau: Do you think it's even possible for these lo-fi surf bands to sound good live? I like a few songs in this genre, but when making my lists of bands to see, I kept asking myself "why would I want to go see them?"
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They should be able to sound good. They did back in the old days. I'm not sure which all from SX would fit into that lo-fi surf description though. No Age I guess, but not sure beyond that. I know they suffered from Red 7's sound and noted that. I definitely also thought "why would I want to go see them or anyone else like this anymore?" during their gig. I guess I wouldn't. I would even expand that umbrella to all the surfy bands that seemed everywhere last year - really sick of it. The lo-fi stuff I had an ear out for would have something more akin to Pavement, Mercury Rev, etc. Does that make any sense?

by **Frau_Blucher** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:58 am

To add to my follow-up to Don, some interesting postscripts I saw about SXSW:

Irish Times re 20 up-comers:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/the ... 98436.html

For Bay Area folks like Don:
http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_17684903

For MN folks like Tiger:
http://www.startribune.com/entertainmen ... 89984.html

This rubbing in that I didn't even know Delorean was at SX:
http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/immaculate- ... -wild-flag

Decent one from Spin:
http://www.spin.com/articles/spin-staff ... -sxsw-2011

WUBR DJ's seem pretty well attuned:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/03/21/sxsw-music-critics

Boston Phoenix's spin:
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/music/1175 ... TOPCONTENT

A bit from Popmatters:
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/article/13 ... -a-moment/

by **coop41** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:22 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by plagiarism[/i]
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Also, did Richard Barone/Vanessa Hay play any Pylon songs?
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they did, the only song she sang was "Cool" by Pylon.

Barone played songs from the Bongos and his solo stuff and it was just him on guitar and a violinist. He seemed to be having a lot of fun and the crowd was pretty into it

by **Frau_Blucher** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:59 am

Finally sitting thru the whole Dead Milkmen rant video Coop. Freakin hilarious. I must have been in a really cynical mood about the past to have missed the Fleshtones, Dead Milkmen, AND Ric Barone.

by **Frau_Blucher** » Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:16 am

Anthony Fantano/Needledrop's video blog of SXSW. It seems he saw a lot of the same shows the Coop did. Couldn't agree more with his take on Deerhunter - absolute aural abuse live; quite different than on 'record'.

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iC7a1-RLiCo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

by **the_moth** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:47 am

an unknown non-jewish goth-reggae troupe at sxsw:

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmcUTwyUJUg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

by **Frau_Blucher** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:44 am

Odd that I didn't even think to check out Men Without Hats. Forgot they were there until you posted the vid.

by **coop41** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:26 pm

ya didn't even see them on my list after I got there even though they were before. Ironically my favorite song of theirs too for the encore.

by **the_moth** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:40 am

'twas men without hats' first concert in 20 years or so. However not the original lineup and the moniker befits them no more. Hats off.

by **Frau_Blucher** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:50 am

I forgot that I saw Nico Stai. He was, um, forgettable. C-.

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