SXSW 2012

Live music and beer. 

JC Brooks & Uptown Sound
Peelander-Z
Guns Of Navarone 

12:00 PM: Body Language
12:45 PM: Trust
1:35 PM: Niki & The Dove
2:25 PM: Hooray for Earth
3:15 PM: Reggie Watts
4:05 PM: The Love Language
5:00 PM: The Drums

12:00 PM: Choir of Young Believers
12:45 PM: Slow Club
1:35 PM: Com Truise
2:25 PM: Zambri
3:15 PM: Taken By Trees
4:05 PM: Bear in Heaven
5:00 PM: Chairlift

12:00 PM: Django Django
12:45 PM: Lost in the Trees
1:30 PM: Cymbals Eat Guitars
2:20 PM: Deerhoof
3:10 PM: La Sera
4:00 PM: Youth Lagoon
4:50 PM: of Montreal performing The Sunlandic Twins (only SXSW 2012 performance of the album)

Lost in the Trees
A Church That Fits Our Needs 
Release Date: March 20, 2012
 
Lush  clusters  of  piano,  a  mysterious  sound  that  might  be  something  being  unwrapped,  or  paper  crushed  for  kindling,  and  A  Church  That  Fits  Our Needs,  the  second  album  by  North  Carolina  group  LOST  IN  THE  TREES,  is  underway,  announcing  itself  as  a  work  of  vaulting  ambition,  a  cathedral built on loss and transformation.  In the summer of 2009 Ari Picker – writer, 
composer,  and  architect  of  the  band  –  lost  his  mother,  an  artist  in  her  own 
right,  when  she  took  her  own  life.    Picker  was  in  the  midst  of  releasing  his  band’s  debut  album,  All  Alone  in  an  Empty  House,  a 
collection  of  folk‐inflected  songs  that  surprised  with  its  orchestral  arrangements,  to  an  acclaim  usually  reserved  for  seasoned 
veterans:  “both  heart  wrenching  and  beautiful,”  said  Paste,  while  the  Huffington  Post  called  the  album  “spellbinding  in  its  musical 
ambition,  touching  in  its  intimacy,  and  often  overwhelming  in  its  emotional  honesty.”    Picker  took  the  loss  of  his  mother  and  set 
about transforming the events into a tribute, composing, writing lyrics, his mother’s picture above his writing desk: the same picture 
that  now  graces  the  album’s  cover.    “I  wanted  to  give  her  a  space,  in  the  music,  to  be,  and  to  become  all  the  things  she  didn’t  get  a  chance to be when she was alive.”

La Sera’s Sees The Light follows 2011’s masterful self-titled debut with ten new tracks of peppy break-up pop brimming with defiance and bitter sweetness. On album opener “Love That’s Gone,” the vocals and drumbeat linger for seconds, swaying in the wind while the guitar cuts through, charming you, pulling you by your shirt and telling you that it is time to move on. This is a break-up album for the best kinds of break-ups. There's a lightness of touch, too, that surround the harmonies throughout and makes one yearn for the days of Donna Lynn, Julie Ruin and The Shirelles. But before you can settle into your seat, La Sera delivers a one-two punch - a rip of rolling snare and sending you speeding off in a fast car. Seize the light.

Performing The Sunlandic Twins (only SXSW 2012 performance of the album)

From Greg Beets, The Austin Chronicle:

Sudakaya's infectious fusion of reggae, ska, and traditional Latin American sounds has adherents far beyond its Quito, Ecuador, home base.

Celebrate another SXSW and Saint Patrick's Day at the Flamingo Cantina on 6th Street in Austin, TX!
This event is free to the public. No SXSW badge required! 21+

Line-up: Abandoned Pools
Paranoid Social Club
Aaron Lee & The Love Vigilantes
KB Jones
& More TBA