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8:00pm

Ceschi

8:30pm

Bleubird
    Wednesday March 14, 2012 8:30pm - 9:05pm @ 512 Rooftop (408 E 6th St)
    Calling Bleubird an MC doesn’t feel complete. Storytellers draw from varied impulses, and Bleubird’s vision is oddly utopian. He takes mere observations, gift-wraps them and re-presents them as spectacles. It’s the type of satire that can only be born of a wide-eyed-yet-wary appreciation of modern day landscapes and the people who walk through them. He claims (somewhat disingenuously): “I hide behind my humor because it’s truth that I fear,” but even in his darkest humor he betrays himself. Those who listen can tell that even at his most caustically comical and sarcastically potty-mouthed, it’s all for love.

    Artists
    Calling Bleubird an MC doesn’t feel complete. Storytellers...


    Type Band, Official
    Hashtag #sxsw #Bleubird
    Tags 21+, Hip-Hop-Rap
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MS17658


9:10pm

Dark Time Sunshine

9:50pm

Blue Sky Black Death

10:30pm

Sole
    Wednesday March 14, 2012 10:30pm - 11:10pm @ 512 Rooftop (408 E 6th St)
    Sole, aka Tim Holland, put out his first vinyl at age 16.Since then he has been at the forefront of independent rap. In '98 he launched the label anticon and helped spearhead a genre of alternative hip-hop. Sole’s first two official albums Bottle of Humans and Selling Live Water solidified his status as indie rap trendsetter and achieved critical success in magazines like Playboy, Spin, Rolling Stone, etc. In 2003 sole moved to Barcelona and spent two years touring his motherland and recorded his 2005 album Live From Rome.

    Artists
    Sole, aka Tim Holland, put out his first vinyl at age 16.Since...


    Type Band, Official
    Hashtag #sxsw #Sole
    Tags 21+, Hip-Hop-Rap
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MS17649


11:15pm

Paranoid Castle
    Wednesday March 14, 2012 11:15pm - 11:55pm @ 512 Rooftop (408 E 6th St)
    Bay Area emcee Kirby Dominant and Canadian producer Factor have both been at it for a decade plus, putting out consistent quality material on their respective fronts. In 2001 they found common ground, began recording together under the moniker Paranoid Castle and eventually released their debut collaboration One Way Ticket on Side Road Records in 2004. Kirby’s path to the fruits of the now was a bit bumpier than that of his contemporaries. By the age of 17 he had already been selling dope, locked up and shot. He was able to drastically shift gears and move forward at UC Berkeley, where he spent his financial aid checks on making an album. A string of successful releases on Rapitalism Records along with his Dominant Mammals collabo with Moka Only brought Kirby to the forefront of west coast indie rap and drew praise from the likes of URB Magazine and the San Francisco Guardian.

    Artists
    Bay Area emcee Kirby Dominant and Canadian producer Factor have...


    Type Band, Official
    Tags 21+, Hip-Hop-Rap
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MS20048


 
 

12:00am

Busdriver
    Thursday March 15, 2012 12:00am - 12:50am @ 512 Rooftop (408 E 6th St)

    Possessing a hyper-literate, intellectual style of rapping augmented with dizzying elocution that would tongue-tie even the fiercest auctioneer, Busdriver is eclectic and eccentric enough to cite vocalese jazz singer Jon Hendricks as a primary influence. Born Regan Farquhar, the Los Angeles MC was introduced to hip-hop culture early -- his father wrote the screenplay to one of the earliest films focusing on hip-hop, Krush Groove. He began rapping at age nine, releasing his first record at age 13 with his group, 4/29, named after the 1992 L.A. riots. By the mid-'90s, Busdriver was a regular at the Project Blowed open mic, where he would meet future collaborators and underground luminaries like Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, and Freestyle Fellowship. And shortly after, the vinyl did flow.

    Artists
    http://busdriverse.com/


    Type Band, Official
    Hashtag #sxsw #Busdriver
    Tags 21+, Hip-Hop-Rap
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MS17650


1:00am

Astronautalis
    Thursday March 15, 2012 1:00am - 1:50am @ 512 Rooftop (408 E 6th St)
    Once you find out that Astronautalis was born to a Texas train man with a nose crooked from bar fights and a pretty Kentucky girl who ran away from home at 17 to become a photographer, it becomes clear that he didn’t stumble into the life of a drifter, he was born into it. With a poet uncle who lived off horse betting and hitchhiking, grandfathers who were spies, sailors, and test pilots, and over 500,000 miles of touring under his own belt, you have to wonder where the tales in Astronautalis’ music end and the life of Andy Bothwell begins. Currently settled (for now) in
    Minneapolis, by way of Seattle, by way of Dallas by way of Jacksonville Beach, FL; Bothwell has spent almost every waking
    moment of the last 7 years, on the road, playing shows, earning scars, collecting/giving tattoos, grinding out a cult like fan base, and living up to his proud, storied, and whiskey soaked blood line.

    Artists
    Once you find out that Astronautalis was born to a Texas train...


    Type Band, Official
    Hashtag #sxsw #Astronautalis
    Tags 21+, Hip-Hop-Rap
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MS17653


8:00pm

Ear Pwr
    Thursday March 15, 2012 8:00pm - 8:40pm @ 512 Rooftop (408 E 6th St)
    Since 2006, Devin Booze and Sarah Reynolds have been actively recording and performing as EAR PWR, a project crafted around Booze’s instrumentation, Reynolds’ lyricism, and the two’s creatively synergetic interplay. Booze’s training at the Bob Moog founded music technology program at UNCA lays the sonic groundwork upon which EAR PWR is ultimately realized. Utilizing a collection of analog synthesizers and miscellaneous live percussion, the two explore and invent densely textured soundscapes. Following a short-lived stint in Baltimore, EAR PWR returned to the mountains of their native North Carolina to get to work on their sophomore record with a more grounded and earnest approach than was seen on their off-the-cuff and dance-heavy Carpark debut. Booze’s handwritten musical compositions--compiled while touring Europe and the US with friends Future Islands and labelmate Toro Y Moi--are overlaid with Reynolds’ naturalistic allusion and everyday sentimentality, blossoming into ten diverse tracks of tactile electronica, spattered percussion, thematic depth and lyrical melody that attest to the transformation enacted by these two over the last year and a half. Emerging from this sea change is a unique creation brimming with joy, contemplation, and an energetic spirit harnessed in Booze and Reynolds’ collaborative commitment to one another in their maturing musical endeavor. In May of 2011 EAR PWR will have the honor of performing at the ATP Festival in England curated by Animal Collective.

    Artists
    Since 2006, Devin Booze and Sarah Reynolds have been actively...


    Type Band, Official
    Hashtag #sxsw #EarPwr
    Tags 21+, Pop
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MS16037


9:00pm

Prince Rama
    Thursday March 15, 2012 9:00pm - 9:40pm @ 512 Rooftop (408 E 6th St)

    Drawing from a collective mine of times and spaces, Prince Rama (made up of sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson) takes the threads of ancient symbolism and ritual and weaves a surreal universe that is wholly their own. Their often-unpredictable live shows graze the space between psychedelic ceremony, performance art and initiation rite. TRUST NOW, their 5th full-length album and 2nd album to be released on Paw Tracks was born out of this fantastic ritual space. Spawned from the vernal heat of the Florida swamps amidst swirling patterns of pine orchards and pre-Columbian artifacts, Prince Rama was whispered into the ears of Taraka Larson, Nimai Larson, and Michael Collins in the summer of 2007 by the clanging of prayer bells and goat-skin drums. They left the Hare Krishna farm where they were living to attend art school and form a creative nucleus in Boston. The visceral, devotional and raw “Threshold Dances” and “Zetland” were released as the culminations of those early collaborations. At this time Taraka also began working for the controversial visionary artist Paul Laffoley, and inspired by his architectural diagrams of utopic space, composed Architecture of Utopia. After a series of extensive tours (one of which resulted in a tragic car robbery where all their equipment got stolen), the trio moved to Brooklyn, rebuilt themselves from the ground up and wrote “Shadow Temple”, which was released on Paw Tracks in September 2010. Produced with the help of Avey Tare and Deakin of Animal Collective, the album rose to #3 on the New Age Billboard charts.

    Artists
    “What the hell is that?” is a question pretty familiar to...


    Type Band, Official
    Hashtag #sxsw #PrinceRama
    Tags 21+, Rock
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MS19219


10:00pm

Young Magic

11:00pm

Class Actress
    Thursday March 15, 2012 11:00pm - 11:40pm @ 512 Rooftop (408 E 6th St)

    Elizabeth Harper, a former drama major from Los Angeles, had been writing delicate, wistful songs of longing and detachment for several years when she met musician & psychoanalyst-in-training Mark Richardson in 2009 and asked him to remix one of her tracks. Their creative chemistry was instantaneous – Mark’s production style was cerebral but sensual, relying heavily on vintage synths and drum machines, and influenced by ‘80s bands like Human League and Depeche Mode while still conscious of modern club sounds steeped in hip hop and house. It perfectly complemented the melancholy undertone in Harper’s songs and revealed in them an urge towards ecstatic abandon.

    Artists
    Elizabeth Harper, a former drama major from Los Angeles, had...


    Type Band, Official
    Hashtag #sxsw #ClassActress
    Tags 21+, Pop
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MS15379


 
 

12:00am

Dent May
    Friday March 16, 2012 12:00am - 12:40am @ 512 Rooftop (408 E 6th St)

    Jackson, Mississippi native Dent May grew up singing in local church groups, acting in school plays, and performing at nursing home gigs with a recorder choir. In high school, he wrote synthy power-pop with his band The Rockwells while recording erotically charged novelty tracks with friends on the side. After three unsuccessful semesters at NYU's film school, May moved to North Mississippi where he helped found the Cats Purring arts collective and formed a country-rock band called Cowboy Maloney's Electric City. In late 2007, inspired by Serge Gainsbourg and Lee Hazlewood, he began performing as Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele and released a digital E.P. of cheeky lo-fi tunes, A Brush With Velvet. The title is a reference to The Partridge Family, episodes of which May obsessively collected and organized on VHS tapes as a teen. His debut album, The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele, was recorded with Rusty Santos in May's home, a double-wide trailer in Taylor, Mississippi (population: 300). He continues to perform with Cowboy Maloney's Electric City, and recently began recording dance music under the moniker Dent Sweat.

    Artists
    In the years since signing with Paw Tracks in 2009, Mississippi...


    Type Band, Official
    Hashtag #sxsw #DentMay
    Tags 21+, Pop
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MS15396


1:00am

Cloud Nothings
    Friday March 16, 2012 1:00am - 1:50am @ 512 Rooftop (408 E 6th St)

    In 2009, Cleveland’s Dylan Baldi began writing and recording lo-fi power-pop songs in his parents’ basement, dubbing the project Cloud Nothings. His music quickly started making the Internet rounds, and fans and critics alike took note of his pithy songcraft, infectiously catchy melodies, and youthful enthusiasm. Baldi soon released a string of 7”s, a split cassette, and an EP before putting out Turning On—a compilation spanning about a year’s worth of work—on Carpark in 2010. January 2011 saw the release Cloud Nothings’ self-titled debut LP, which, put next to Turning On, found Baldi cleaning up his lo-fi aesthetic, pairing his tales of affinitive confusion with a more pristine aural clarity. In the interval since the release of Cloud Nothings, Baldi has toured widely and put a great deal of focus on his live show, a detail that heavily shapes the music of his follow-up album, Attack on Memory.

    Artists
    Cloud Nothings was founded in the late 2000s in a Cleveland basement...


    Type Band, Official
    Hashtag #sxsw #CloudNothings
    Tags 21+, Punk
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MS15381


8:00pm

Antoine Reverb

9:00pm

Bishop Morocco

10:00pm

Zeus

11:00pm

The Darcys
    Friday March 16, 2012 11:00pm - 11:40pm @ 512 Rooftop (408 E 6th St)
    THE DARCYS are an art rock band from Toronto. Their self-titled Arts & Crafts debut was produced by Murray Lightburn of The Dears and released on October 25, 2011 as a free download and on limited edition vinyl. It is the first in a trio of planned full-length records. Second in the trilogy is AJA, an interpretation of Steely Dan’s 1977 studio masterpiece that was produced, arranged and recorded by the band. It was released January 24, also on limited edition vinyl and as a free download. A third original studio album is planned for late 2012.

    Artists
    THE DARCYS are an art rock band from Toronto comprised of Jason...


    Type Band, Official
    Hashtag #sxsw #TheDarcys
    Tags 21+, Rock
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MS17282


 
 

12:00am

Eight and a Half

1:00am

Dan Mangan

8:00pm

Thee Attacks

9:00pm

Shuga
    Saturday March 17, 2012 9:00pm - 9:40pm @ 512 Rooftop (408 E 6th St)
    With Shuga it’s all in that name: saccharine and brutalized. They are essentially sweet; a simple, stripped-down, loved-up rock n roll combo, but like their spelling, they’re also fucked up. A rowdy London three-piece who make timelessly lovesick, grunge-slathered, punked-up pop songs, they also benefit from that special kind of alchemy that touches bands who are fronted by young and beautiful are-they-aren’t-they lovers. Emma Chitty (vocals, bass) and Luis Felber (vocals, guitar) have each other’s names tattooed on their arms. They’ve been inseparable since they were kids. They’re sweet on each other, and in Shuga they’ve given birth to a kind of aggy problem child. They’ve created a little monster.

    Artists
    With Shuga it’s all in that name: saccharine and brutalized...


    Type Band, Official
    Hashtag #sxsw #Shuga
    Tags 21+, Punk
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MS16562


10:00pm

Jenny O.

11:00pm

Hands & Teeth
 
 

12:00am

Hatcham Social

1:00am

The Hounds Below
 
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