Foburg Festival, the indie music fest scheduled around the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas, has announced its 2012 lineup, with Maps and Atlases, Japanther, J. Roddy Walston & The Business, and Big Freedia headlining. Foburg Festival, now in its third year, will take place Friday, March 9 through Sunday, March 11, and [...]
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STRFKR + Painted Palms + Alexico at One Eyed Jacks: Photos
January 20, 2012 – 6:57 pm
Tuesday, January 17, Portland, Oregon’s STRFKR/Starfucker played One Eyed Jacks with Painted Palms and Alexico opening. In his review of the show, Sam Primeaux writes that STRFCKR played an “energetic set of synth-aided, danceable indie pop.” Here are photos of Painted Palms’ and STRFCKR’s sets. All photos by Caitlyn Ridenour.
Community Records Block Party DVD Release and Screening
December 12, 2011 – 4:36 pm
Back during Springtime, Community Records held a successful Kickstarter campaign to raise money for recording their annual April Block Party festival (photos from this year’s Block Party) for an eventual DVD release. After long wait, on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 13 and 14, the local punk/ska/indie record label is throwing release parties for the DVD. [...]
Big History, All At Once EP (Independent)
December 1, 2011 – 12:58 am
So, just for fun-shine and joy-bows, indulge me in a hypothetical. Imagine you have the power of a major international media conglomerate fully behind you. Right at your fingertips: record label, television networks, publishing, film studio, web presence and functionally unlimited funds. Imagine that you can more or less fabricate pop culture movements on a [...]
Lykke Li Is a Work in Progress
November 17, 2011 – 10:58 am
If Lykke Li could go anywhere with anyone for the rest of time, it would be on a sailboat going into the unknown with all her best friends and family. She doesn’t even really know how to sail. “I just imagine it would be quite romantic,” she says. This tendency towards the sentimental and poetic [...]
King Rey, Street Friends EP (Independent)
November 1, 2011 – 12:48 am
How do you like your indie rock? Does the recent trend toward lo-fi garage psychedelics led by Deerhunter, Ty Segall, Kurt Vile, Girls and Wavves irritate, or do you happily envision a world in which Their Satanic Majesties Request would be as influential as Exile on Main Street? Your answer to that question will play [...]
Sondre Lerche at One Eyed Jacks November 13
November 1, 2011 – 12:27 am
We all, presumably, like songs. We like there to be dedicated, sensitive souls to write them and then to sing them, yet, there is something about the term “singer/songwriter” that sets the most open-hearted of us on edge. Maybe it’s how a singer/songwriter lays bare the process of writing and you sometimes feel you are [...]
GIVERS Remain in Light
November 1, 2011 – 12:14 am
I’m going for the drugged-out look because we’re a pop band.” Tiffany Lamson is leaning against a door frame in Dockside Studio’s control room looking wan and disaffected as she and the rest of GIVERS pose for photos. She’s playing, but not entirely. Rebecca Nicholson of The Guardian wrote of the band’s debut, In Light, [...]
Soundgarden After the Break-Up: Interview with Kim Thayil
November 1, 2011 – 12:13 am
Soundgarden defined grunge. It’s not the band that made it huge, but it’s the band whose sound comes to mind when you think of the word. 1989’s Louder Than Love opens with a solid, thudding, nodding groove, over which a guitar played up the neck buzzes in your ear. It settles into a methodical riff [...]
St. Vincent’s Strange Mercy
October 26, 2011 – 9:30 am
“That’s not relevant.” Annie Clark—St. Vincent—slyly dismisses a question about her time with the Polyphonic Spree, preferring to talk instead about St. Vincent and her current album, Strange Mercy. Born in ’82, Clark was raised in Texas. Prior to her solo career as St. Vincent, Clark was a member of the Dallas-based symphonic pop rock [...]
