Blogs: Sound & Fury

For their single “Jamie, My Intentions are Bass,” likely my favorite song on !!!’s Strange Weater Isn’t It?, comes this weird video. I’m not sure what’s going on. There’s a pool party, pelvic thrusting, and hot pistil/stamen action. It’s at once literal and totally incpmprehensible, but either way it looks like the video shoot...
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In case you missed it … our local conjunto renegades tore up Arneson Theatre on the River Walk this weekend. (Video by Sonya Harvey.)
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At Austin City Limits festival last weekend, we saw Atlanta funk rock group the Constellations perform live. We had such a good time that when we heard they were swinging down to SA on tour with Electric 6, we immediately asked if they wanted to be the Sound and the Fury’s guinea pigs for...
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I ran into the very nice dudes from Deer Vibes at King’s Court Frankfurter Express last night. They were super stoked to tell me about the ALS Association benefit they’re playing tonight at the 1011, 8pm, $8, 1011 Ave. B, theteneleven.com Unfortunately for them, I had my camera on me. Voila, the good sports...
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Everything about this makes me love the Pixies more than I already do. Last night, the Pixies played Santiago, Chile, the same night the miners trapped for 69 days were rescued. To honor them, they played 33 freaking songs in one set. Here’s what Frank Black had to say via a written statement: “We...
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Here’s what’s in store musically in SA this week, IN ADDITION TO all the stuff we highlighted in our print edition. Always check our calendar for comprehensive listings. Whoa nellie, it’s one of those weeks in music, meaning there’s a lot of damned decent shows. It’s highly recommended that you go and get you...
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Sub Pop sent over the bizarre, beautiful video for the Wolf Parade single “Yulia,” off this summer’s Expo 86 album. Russian cosmonauts, suicide pacts, and glossy visuals set to the insanely catchy song ahead: Wolf Parade – Yulia from Sub Pop Records on Vimeo.
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Devendra Banhart and the Grogs Opening and closing with hits from his break-out album, 2005′s Cripple Crow, Devendra Banhart’s set was everything I expected, and then some. A pioneer revivalist of both freak folk and sunny California pop, without whom fellow ACL acts Local Natives, Yeasayer, and Beach House might not be playing their...
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Bear in Heaven I had written a blog about how interesting Bear in Heaven, the first band I saw entirely was.  (The first band I saw partially was the Very Best, Afro-pop from Malawi, which is indeed the very best music to listen to first thing in the morning.)Alas, I wrote said blog on...
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Hopefully the die-hard Strokes fans got their fix at the ACL pre-party at Stubbs on Thursday, when the band purportedly played a 45 minute set that fans waited two hours to see. On Friday, the band played most of the same songs in the exact same order, with Julian Casablancas delivering some of the...
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Fun fact: my mom regularly does her yoga practice to Vampire Weekend’s self-titled debut. Surveying the vast crowd around me, a lot of other people’s mothers are also into Vampire Weekend. And dads too. I saw more than a couple gray-haired dudes in Wranglers sipping Bud Lights and bobbing along to “Oxford Comma.” Then,...
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OMG! How adorable are Beach House? I’ll tell you how adorable: I had previously thought them one of the more boring bands in existence. But today’s performance totally charmed me, and the several thousand others watching the band. Starting their set with a cheering “peace,love and pizza parties” Beach House took the title of...
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