Best Of SXSW Saturday-Day: Owen Pallett, Rock Screams and Rumors

The final day–and night as Rocks Off discovered–of SXSW was a long one. After perusing an absolutely epic line for Rachel Ray’s Feedback Party at Stubb’s (yeah, you read that right), we ventured over to Peckerheads to meet Dallas-friends Gorilla Groove. While the lineup there doesn’t really rank high on…

Video: Cass McCombs Goes All “Prima Donna” at SXSW

Mexican Summer and Gorilla vs. Bear’s SXSW party yesterday had quite a lineup: White Denim, Fresh & Onlys, Grimes, No Joy, Toro Y Moi and Cass McCombs–who received a lot of buzz in 2009 with his damn good album Catacombs. It was a busy day, but McCombs performance was definitely…

Picture Show: Street Scenes from SXSW

It was perfect weather for taking it to the streets yesterday in Austin, which is why our feet were a couple of blood-filled balloons by late last night. Good thing there’s plenty of street pizza and bizarre performances on 6th street to stop and (rest) watch. Yesterday was no different;…

Best Of SXSW Friday: Cass McCombs, Turbo Fruits and Crawfish

Around 3:30 yesterday, Cass McCombs played a strikingly perfect set at Gorilla vs. Bear’s SXSW Day Party. It was only half way through the day, the place was sweltering, and there was a front row texter requesting songs to the McCombs’s bass player. Cass wrapped up a jazzy, egg-shakey tune…

Photos: Kid Rock Isn’t Messing Around at SXSW

Kid Rock doesn’t seem to be a huge American Idol fan. At last night’s Jim Beam Live Music Series, hosted by Mr. Rock and flowing with copious Jim Beam and coke’s, he ranted against the Fox series-as he’s done in the past, according to the Googles. His anti-Idol rants came…

Spector 45 Bassist Adam Carter is Dead.

Former Spector 45 bass player Adam Carter is dead of an apparent suicide. He was 27. Details are still trickling in, but those close to Carter confirm that he was found dead this evening, 77 days to the date after his bandmate, Frankie Campagna, also committed suicide.He’ll be remembered for…

South-By-Bingo Music: Found Front Row Texter, St. Paddy’s Revelers

We’re so close. You may have noticed yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day. ‘Round one in the morning, there were enough drunk St. Paddy’s day fans wandering downtown Austin to fill a stadium. So, we’re going to consider that space marked. We stopped into Mexican Summer & Gorilla Vs. Bear’s killer…

Good Friday: Bro Fest, Kessler Theater Turns One, Peter Murphy, Roman Numerals, Tombs, Robert Earl Keen, Third Day, Rural Alberta Advantage, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Toro Y Moi, Snoop Dogg, Valient Thorr & More!

This weekend is all about South By Southwest spillover, and the entity that is taking advantage the most is Parade of Flesh, who will be hosting the third annual Bro Fest all day on Sunday at Club Dada. For more information on the 22-band, half-indie, half-metal lineup, check out our…

The Best Of SXSW Thursday: Damien Jurado and Hangover Tacos

Moving forward.There were a number of un-missable day parties with good lineups yesterday, including those from Pitchfork, Paste Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan and, of course, the Village Voice Media SXSW Showdown (with Wu-Tang Clan).So, Pete’s working on Twitter-sized reviews of good chunks of Music Day-Twoish, bingo is starting to take shape,…

140-Character SXSW 2011 Show Reviews: Fergus & Geronimo, Memoryhouse, Obits, Menomena, MellowHype (Odd Future), Wild Flag, Trouble Andrew, Rocky Business, Trae The Truth, Fisbone and Wu-Tang Clan.

Our second night at SXSW was pretty crazy — although pretty much nothing we saw compared to the greatness/madness that was Hodgy Beats and Left Brains of MellowHype from the Odd Future crew’s show at the Brooklyn Vegan party yesterday afternoon.For what it’s worth, this crew isn’t just on-stage talk:…

At The Village Voice Media SXSW Showdown and…Fireworks!

Bones and walls are rattling. There’s thundering everywhere!The bass thunder is coming from the Village Voice Media SXSW party, which kicked-off ’round 5 p.m. with the awesome rock of Ume and will continue with Trae Tha Truth, Yelawolf, Fishbone, and Wu-Tang Clan (!!). We’re sitting next to the Houston Press…