Don’t call it a comeback: Despite having been absent from performing in the hip-hop world for some time now, legendary rap originator LL Cool J has been around for years, rocking his peers and putting suckers in fear. And, at last night’s Red Bull Thre3style event at SXSW, after an…
Gossip, gossip — if you’ve been following our daily power rankings of buzz at SXSW 2011 over the past few days, then you know that, yes, indeed, Kanye West has had it all week long at this year’s annual festival in Austin.And, after briefly losing the top slot in our…
Well, we made it through another SXSW alive — and not without seeing some of the best performances we’d seen all weekend on Saturday night.So, on that note, after the jump, we once more hit the ol’ 140-character show review model we’ve been trusting all week to evaluate what we…
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…
Well, mercifully, the last night of SXSW 2011 is finally upon us. And, on this final day, in which luminaries such as Kanye West, Perez Hilton and Rachel Ray are finally letting their presence be known, we finally have a new act sitting atop our buzz power rankings.That’s right: Later…
Seems our incessant festival coverage over the past few weeks has indeed caught up with me; I’m sorry to say that I’m holed up in my hotel at the moment, fighting off some sort of bug that my beaten immune system is having trouble shaking.Nonetheless, I did catch a few…
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…
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;…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys formed Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in 1978. Within a couple of years, the duo had grown into a quartet and released “Messages,” the first of several hit singles that brought the band fame and critical kudos. Yet, after seven successful albums, Humphreys left the…
Thursday at SXSW 2011 has come and gone — but Kanye remains solidly in his spot atop our buzz power rankings, as determined by chatter we’re hearing on the street. His lead is shrinking, though — Odd Future is hot on his tail, proving once again that this is an…
Oftentimes, the hype an act has built up heading into South by Southwest can be so overwhelming that it creates an insurmountable hurdle for an otherwise pleasing, if hardly life-changing, outfit (see: Vampire Weekend, circa 2008). And no doubt this was the theoretical case heading into this year’s festival for…
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:…
A night that began with Austin-Houston locals Ume, whom we last saw at our St. Patrick’s Day Concert, ended with DJ Lo Down Loretta Brown–Erykah Badu–at the Austin Music Hall. And somewhere after The Strokes ended their outdoor SXSW show, and the fireworks brightened a night-screened Lady Bird Lake, The…
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…
A busy, busy Thursday evening tonight as the weekend cranks up a day early. SXSW crossover travel is certainly adding to our own scene’s musical hustle and bustle…..
It’s not every week that the best show also takes home the nod for best poster. But, make no mistake, that’s exactly what’s happened this time around…
