SXSW is way over, and we have no intention of posting about it anymore. Except for oh yeah this last splurge of live videos that never made it onto these pages last week. The final crumbs from our SXSW '08... CONTINUE READING LAST OF OUR SXSW VIDEOS, PROMISE: EVANGELICALS, HIGH PLACES, YEASAYER»
Posted on March 25, 2008 in Video (11 comments)
Tags: Evangelicals | High Places | SXSW | Yeasayer
It's always fun watching Randy and Dean go to town with that special No Age oomph. How do vegans have so much energy? Regardless, the duo played our Saturday Volume party (from which we've also posted the beloved circuit benders... CONTINUE READING NEW NO AGE - "ERASER" (& "BOY VOID"), LIVE IN AUSTIN»
Posted on March 21, 2008 in Video (13 comments)
Tags: No Age | SXSW
Of all the bands at our SXSW party, Blitzen Trapper seemed most likely to collapse the Volume stage. Yes, more so than HEALTH -- there are more people, you see. The six Portlanders crowded onto the riser and proceeded to... CONTINUE READING BLITZEN TRAPPER MEET CARRIE BROWNSTEIN, PLAY THE STEREOGUM PARTY»
Posted on March 20, 2008 in Video (8 comments)
Tags: Blitzen Trapper | Carrie Brownstein | Sleater-Kinney | SXSW
It was love at first sight for us with Justin Vernon. For Emma, Forever Ago is a great listen top to bottom, but we've noted that some of its songs -- "Skinny Love" and "The Wolves (Act I & II),"... CONTINUE READING BON IVER SHOWS THE MOHAWK PATIO WHY HE'S SO GOOD LIVE»
Posted on March 21, 2008 in MP3, Video (9 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver | SXSW
Most everyone that was lucky enough to be standing in the vicinity of HEALTH's frighteningly awesomely set this past Saturday were equally dumbstruck, sweaty. The HEALTH set easily landed at the top of our list of favorite sets of the... CONTINUE READING HEALTH TEAR UP THE VOLUME STAGE AT STEREOGUM'S SXSW PARTY»
Posted on March 20, 2008 in Video (8 comments)
Tags: HEALTH | SXSW
One of the most inspired SXSW sets occurred at high noon on Saturday at our party with PASTE. The slow-build brilliance of Bristol duo Fuck Buttons' psychedelic, sometimes straight-up noise-pop Prurient-isms is what made us label Andrew Hung and Benjamin... CONTINUE READING FUCK BUTTONS LIVE FROM STEREOGUM'S SXSW PARTY»
Posted on March 19, 2008 in Tour Dates, Video (32 comments)
Tags: Fuck Buttons | SXSW
In addition to shooting a ton of performances in Austin last week, we subjected many of our favorite acts to Texas music trivia. You saw part one. In this follow-up, we test the smarts of Islands, My Brightest Diamond, Peter... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM'S TEXAS MUSIC TRIVIA - ROUND 2»
Posted on March 19, 2008 in Video (2 comments)
Tags: Born Ruffians | Colour Revolt | Islands | My Brightest Diamond | Pattern Is Movement | Peter Morén | Rogue Wave | SXSW | The Big Sleep | The Cribs | The Ringers | YACHT
At different times and for different reasons, everybody in Austin seemed to be talking about Lou Reed and Moby this year: It was Lou's year to be honored with keynote speaker status, and the FADER Fort hosted its own version... CONTINUE READING LOU REED & MOBY PERFORM "WALK ON THE WILD SIDE"»
Posted on March 18, 2008 in Video (3 comments)
Tags: Lou Reed | Moby | SXSW
This is it everybody, the last photo post of SXSW '08. That means it's time for our superlatives, so welcome to our list of the SXSW 2008 Top Five. These are the bands who delivered sets we could not stop... CONTINUE READING SXSW: SATURDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on March 17, 2008 in Concert (7 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Black Ghosts | Blitzen Trapper | Cut Copy | Diplo | Flosstradamus | Fuck Buttons | HEALTH | Jim James | Kevin Barnes | M. Ward | My Morning Jacket | No Age | of Montreal | Santogold | Sia | SXSW | The Breeders | The Cribs
Between all the video we're posting and every other site's A/V archives, this year's trip to Austin's easily and obviously the most archived South By yet. As mentioned, we'll have the rest of our video clips throughout this week, but... CONTINUE READING HEAR NEW MMJ AND R.E.M. TUNES, PLUS STEREOGUM'S FRIDAY PARTY, AT NPR»
Posted on March 17, 2008 in Concert (2 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver | Liam Finn | My Morning Jacket | R.E.M. | Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin | SXSW | The Weakerthans | The Whigs
Indie rock has collectively returned from its annual pilgrimage to Austin which, lucky for your eyes, means seeing the letters S, X, and W a whole lot less. But as you may have noticed over the past few days, we... CONTINUE READING SXSW: KAKI KING PERFORMS AT PASTE/STEREOGUM PARTY»
Posted on March 17, 2008 in Video (9 comments)
Tags: Kaki King | SXSW
The people of Austin are nice enough to welcome thousands (and thousands) of vagabond music fans into their city for a few days each year, so we decided to pay their stomping ground homage with a friendly game of Texas... CONTINUE READING SXSW: STEREOGUM'S TEXAS MUSIC TRIVIA - ROUND 1»
Posted on March 16, 2008 in Video (6 comments)
Tags: Colour Revolt | My Brightest Diamond | Simian Mobile Disco | SXSW | The Ringers | Wye Oak | YACHT
As previously mentioned, Peter Morén brought a blissful, mellow close to the opening day of our Volume party. Tunes from his prematurely enjoyed Last Tycoon sounded great live, especially with the addition of local strings players. (Probably cheaper than bringing... CONTINUE READING SXSW: PETER MORéN PERFORMS AT PASTE/STEREOGUM PARTY»
Posted on March 16, 2008 in Video (10 comments)
Tags: Peter Morén | SXSW
Popular Brooklynites and Pete pals Nada Surf buzzed our day party on Thursday with a three-man acoustical jam. We showed you images earlier ... now we bring you the sounds. Here's Let Go's "Happy Kid" and its "I'm just a... PASTE/Stereogum Party'">CONTINUE READING SXSW: NADA SURF'S ACOUSTIC "HAPPY KID" AT PASTE/STEREOGUM PARTY»
Posted on March 16, 2008 in Video (3 comments)
Tags: Nada Surf | SXSW
Miles from their beloved Baltimore, Wye Oak's Andy Stack and Jenn Waster gamely jumped into an air-conditioned Yaris outside a Merge Showcase and played us an intimate, stripped-down and strummed "I Don't Feel Young" from their forthcoming debut If Children.... CONTINUE READING SXSW: WYE OAK PERFORM "I DON'T FEEL YOUNG" IN A YARIS»
Posted on March 16, 2008 in Video (6 comments)
Tags: SXSW | Wye Oak
The original plan on Friday was to see Zooey and Matt Ward (the she and him of She & Him) at Merge's 12AM showcase at the Parish, because she's got a good voice and he's cute. And vice versa. But... CONTINUE READING SXSW: FRIDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on March 16, 2008 in Concert, Video (3 comments)
Tags: Handsome Furs | Liam Finn | Lykke Li | M. Ward | Pissed Jeans | She And Him | Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin | SXSW | The Whigs | Zooey Deschanel
This South By, Man Man were good good (last time we make that joke). We caught the face-painted Philly boys twice this week -- both outdoors -- once at Cedar Street Courtyard as part of the Anti- showcase (great), then... CONTINUE READING SXSW: MAN MAN DO AN OUTDOORS "MISTER JUNG STUFFED" & "HURLY / BURLY"»
Posted on March 15, 2008 in Concert, Video (5 comments)
Tags: Man Man | SXSW
Bands can't survive on nachos and Fuze alone, so we sent our friend Shea Hess to procure delicious local cuisine for some of our fave new artists playing SXSW. Stereogum Artist To Watch El Guincho was excited but scared to... CONTINUE READING SXSW: BREAKFAST TACOS WITH EL GUINCHO AND THE MAE SHI»
Posted on March 15, 2008 in Video (5 comments)
Tags: El Guincho | SXSW | The Mae Shi
It's in the blogger code to toss out superlatives with reckless abandon, but really -- we weren't lying when called Islands set at Cedar St. the best of this fest. (OK, maybe Fuck Buttons @ Volume today is a contender.)... CONTINUE READING SXSW: ISLANDS ARE AWESOME»
Posted on March 15, 2008 in Concert, MP3, Video (17 comments)
Tags: Islands | Subtitle | SXSW
Interested in filling a rock club to the rafters? Simple: Just have Nada Surf and Destroyer play back to back sometime. People were stuffed asses to elbows at Volume night club for the first day of the Stereogum/PASTE party, although... CONTINUE READING SXSW: THURSDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on March 15, 2008 in Concert (1 comments)
Tags: Destroyer | Dr. Dog | Ezra Furman | Islands | Joseph Arthur | Lou Reed | Lykke Li | Mark Kozelek | Moby | Nada Surf | Oh No Oh My | Peter Morén | SXSW | Thurston Moore | Yo La Tengo
Age old question, we know. Stereogum scammed an invite to last night's party at the 301 in Austin, featuring an awkward mélange of musicians (MGMT, Moby, and the sexy Frenchies of Justice), Playmates (Miss May '08! Miss Feb '01!), and... CONTINUE READING SXSW: ROCK STAR OR PORN STAR?»
Posted on March 14, 2008 in Video (9 comments)
Tags: SXSW
It turns out Shara Worden, aka My Brightest Diamond, was the perfect choice to play the first slot of our three-day Stereogum/PASTE party. Armed with only her voice and guitar, the karaoke star and major rock 'n' roll supporter eased... CONTINUE READING SXSW: MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND COVERS ROY ORBISON»
Posted on March 14, 2008 in Video (10 comments)
Tags: My Brightest Diamond | Roy Orbison | SXSW
Hours before this performance, we met with Jack Barnett and his New Puritans on Red River St. Video camera on, mic in hand, we asked about TNP's first trip to the States (because we care). Actually they didn't give the... CONTINUE READING SXSW: THESE NEW PURITANS DO "ELVIS" @ ANTONE'S»
Posted on March 13, 2008 in MP3, Video (9 comments)
Tags: SXSW | These New Puritans
We're rolling with a camera crew at this year's fest, capturing our favorite performances, interviewing bands, and getting advice from festival goers on successfully navigating South By Southwest 2008. Yaris/Free Yr Radio kindly lent us wheels to get around. Here... CONTINUE READING SXSW: TALKIN' TO RANDOMS ON RED RIVER AND A CHICKEN»
Posted on March 13, 2008 in Video (12 comments)
Tags: Kosha Dillz | SXSW
Welcome to our night one photo spread. Every year we forget that we can't be in every place at once ... until we wind up waiting in line for two hours. But at least for last night, the lines were... CONTINUE READING SXSW: WEDNESDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on March 13, 2008 in Concert, Video (3 comments)
Tags: Emmy The Great | Lightpseed Champion | Simian Mobile Disco | Sons And Daughters | SXSW | The Kills | These New Puritans | Times New Viking | Yeasayer
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