Red tide
Riot grrrl becomes Screaming Female becomes Noun, DIYer Marissa Paternoster’s new solo act wherein she occasionally trades in bloody-fingers guitar theatrics for piano odes seemingly about sexual-identity reawakenings.
From Getting High to High Art: The Strange Journey of Dock Ellis
Focus
Have you heard the one about the pitcher who hurled a no-hitter on LSD, in effect influencing the black power movement, the war on drugs, baseball’s free-agency era, plus a host of characters including skate and punk rock photographer Glen E. Friedman, Squiggy from “Laverne & Shirley,” and Jackie Robinson? Well, a movie about it is in the works.
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Reynolds packs musical skill, not musician attitude, into Leatherbag
Four eyes
Finnegans Wake, Book 1, Chapter 1: “Mick Mac Magnus MacCawley can take you off to 36 the pure perfection and Leatherbag Reynolds tries your shuffle and cut.”
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All Roky Erickson Needs Is Love
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
Roky Erickson pointed to the ATM and asked what it was. He wanted to know if it dispensed free ice cream.
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Easy as 1-2-3: CocoRosie –> “Lemonade”
You hold it. No, you.
CocoRosie‘s song “Lemonade,” from the album Grey Oceans, in three sentences:
1) A test of idiosyncratic taste in the realm of Joanna Newsom and Bjork, with synthesizers, piano, and horns that get danced on by beats.
2) Just when you’re too scared to listen any further, the other song in this two-for-one — the one by the other Frida Kahlo lookalike in this sister act of American-born, French expats — turns on a million night lights with Doris Day cheer.
3) Vocal affectation riddles the story, but someone definitely “sat and watched the summer corn grow” and “ate ice cream in a desert dream,” while someone else is concerned about a speeding ambulance and an enflamed engaged couple.
“Lemonade”
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SXSW: At SXSW, the bands played on
Swing low, sweet chariot
My final words on SXSW 2010 (featuring the Low Anthem, the XX, Carolina Chocolate Drops, and Quasi). Now I’ll shut up.
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SXSW: In the Octopus Project’s Garden
Blinding me with science
On the fringes of the SXSW Music Festival, in the Whole Foods parking lot, occurred a spectacle called Hexadecagon, produced by Austin instrumental rock band the Octopus Project and their buddy Wiley Wiggins (Mitch Kramer in Dazed and Confused ). Step inside and let this 16-sided beast reveal itself.
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