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Hope to see you in Austin this year at the Hype Hotel, friends! 

1:00pm Car Seat Headrest
2:00pm Whitney
   DJ Japanese Breakfast
3:00pm Mitski
   DJ Gilligan Moss
4:00pm Lower Dens
   DJ Your Friend
5:00pm Alex G

3 weeks ago

The last performers I saw at SXSW before I had to hustle back to catch my plane. Rat Fist (aka mem LA’s No Age Randy Randall + Philly’s Pissed Jeans Sean McGuinness) were slamming out some heavy in a the smallest room at the Mohawk possible. The band was hoping for some crowd surfing action and they almost got it from back to back bodies. 

After squeezing out of the tightly packed shows, I was ready for some fresh air. the soggy couple of days were wearing thin on my enthusiasm, and a warm, boring airport actually sounded somewhat appealing. Until next year, my friends!

1 year ago

That first image is blurry for a reason. Big Sean’s set at the FADER FORT was packed, and I couldn’t squeeze through a tackle block. both because it was raining and because the man who’s got 6.6 million Twitter followers has an audience to recon with, all of whom felt like were there in under the tent top. The performance was fast. His rapping is fast. The stage lights were fast. The cheering is, well, fast. If you were looking for energy, this was the place.

1 year ago

I walked into an explosion of sound at the FADER FORT on Friday afternoon. Viet Cong was lighting matches to kerosene with two drummers and dramatic guitar riffs that elevated into a frenzy that everyone in the audience clearly wished wouldn’t end. I don’t think I found another outfit hitting harder punches. You have to wonder how a band can pull that much energy out at the last performance of their 6 shows in 3 days.

Between sets, the mall of capricornia from brand sponsors whereas smart. Tippicly, I would have snubbed my nose as such obvious commercialization but I can’t deny that free Converse and selfie machines didn’t have an allure. #smartbranding

1 year ago

Push play. I forgot that I used two types of ‘new’ creative picture taking at the rained-in part of PRTLS party. In case you missed the first one, make it BIG.

1 year ago

Everyone was hoping for perfect weather for today’s backyard party. The forecast was hit or miss, and as it turned out, those of us who got up early to trek out of town to a surprisingly rural pocket of Austin, we were rewarded with a couple early sets the felt downright heady. 

Girlpool - a duo who live near blocks from me in Philadelphia but only met here in Austin - started first, and energy around the yard was a mellow high. 

While we filled out bellies with ‘portable pizza’, et aliae played us some perfectly elegant electronic that seemed to put out view of the darkening sky at ease. Perhaps too early. 

Tyler Andere, creative director of the PRTLS crew stayed calm. He knew that it wouldn’t matter what comes. Little did he know… 

1 year ago

The difference between a good day and a bad day can be pretty striking.

Last night, Yumi Zouma’s stuff got the entirety of their band gear stolen from them just an hour before one of the biggest performances of their lives. A crushing blow to any artist, but these folks had more than that: they flew in from New Zealand, had their first shows in the US, the sound was poorly mixed, and despite cheers of encouragement, they slogged through only a three or four songs set and apologized off stage with distress.

By contrast, Leon Bridges performed right after them. He’s been slaying every audience who have bowed before him, and exploded the room here at the Hype Hotel. It was packed. The energy was palpable.

Probably it’s not fare to compare the two shows, though anyone who was there and felt the pain and anguish knew what it meant.  

1 year ago
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