cred: the lovely geoff geis
MillionYoung – Sunndreamm
Truman Peyote – Beantown
Pizza! – Be a Man
WAMPIRE – Orchards
Idiot Glee – I Want The Night To Stay
Magic Man – South Dakota
I Am The Dot – Love Song For Camus
Philip Seymour Hoffman – everything in my cupboards is moldy
Dead Gaze – You’ll Carry On Real Nice
Mistlefinger – Cardboard City
Big Whup – Yaaaay!
EASYBOY – Wrenchin’
see you there, babes.
At Dominican Joe in Austin on Saturday March 20 we’ll be hugging it out with new and old frnds from all over the country, and we really hope that you’ll be there with us to rawk out. Here’s a peek!
MillionYoung, Truman Peyote, Wampire, Weed Diamond, I Am The Dot, Magic Man, Idiot Glee, Philip Seymour Hoffman
More info coming soon…
MillionYoung – Sunndreamm
Truman Peyote – New Wife, New Life
Weed Diamond – Let’s Burn One Down
WAMPIRE – Orchards
I Am The Dot – Love Song For Camus
Magic Man – Like Sailors (via birp)
Idiot Glee – It
Philip Seymour Hoffman – duckfangs tickle my ankles
It’s rare when a band completely stops me in my tracks, and that’s exactly what BLK JKS have done. The South African quartet has definitely been shaking up the scene ever since they performed at SXSW earlier this year. Back in ‘07, they released a vinyl-only 10″ that caught Diplo’s attention while touring S. Africa. After a bunch of shows were arranged in the states, things have absolutely taken off for them. They’ve often been compared to TV on the Radio, and Vampire Weekend; but their heavy Afro-pop guitars, hints of jazz and ethnic African music makes their sound completely unforgettable.
Back in march, they released their 4-song debut called Mystery EP on Secretly Canadian, and it’s definitely turning heads. We always like to keep our ears open for new tunes from around the world, and BLK JKS are definitely a gem. Keep your eyes peeled for these dudes, because they’re making their way up and down the coasts this summer.
SXSW was a blast. The crowd was enthusiastic, the food was savory (thank you Pita Pit), and discovering new music in a live setting is definitely preferred over a computer screen. I’d just like to give a HUGE thank you to everyone who took the time to come out, we never expected to reach capacity so quickly! Also, an equal in size thank you goes out to Sneak Attack Media, Tierra Productions, UV Vodka and Hi-Lo for sponsoring the event as well as Honey Claws, Ninjasonik, TheDeathSet, The Hood Internet, DD/MM/YYYY, Fol Chen, Rumspringa, Cerebral Ballzy, The Hungry Villagers, Madi Diaz, and Reverse X Rays for playing. Big apologies to those of you who came out for Youth Group on Thursday, hopefully you were able to catch them at the Australian music showcase.
In an effort not to flood this page with photos, follow the link below the tunes to see some of the adventure.
Ninjasonik – Art School Girls (RAP RMX)
The Hood Internet – The Next Collarbone (Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre vs Fujiya and Miyagi)
The Death Set – Listen To This Collision
Rumspringa – Shake ‘em Loose Tonight
Honey Claws – Shout Out (highly rec’d for Animal Collective fans)
DD/MM/YYYY – Infinity Skull Cube
Fol Chen – Cable TV
Cerebral Ballzy – Got 2 Bucks (DJ Teenwolf RMX)
Ninjasonik & TheDeathSet – Negative Thinking (About Tight Pants)
Citing Queen LaQueefa and Queefer Sutherland as influences, The Coathangers must be the cutest girls in Atlanta – but if you tell them that they’ll certainly tell you to shut the fuck up. After stealing hearts and rocking back to back parties at SXSW I think The Coathangers deserve a serious toast for bringing their raw and shrill front to steady beats and rhythms. Bad ass, talented and down right raunchy? We’re interested. Keep an eye out for their new album, Scramble, due April 7 on Suicide Squeeze Records.
If you happen to be in the ATL on April 7, there’s a record release party and in-store at Criminal Records.
The Coathangers – Don’t Touch My Shit
The Coathangers – Shut Tha Fuck Up
The Coathangers – Nestle In My Boobies
The Coathangers – Parking Lot
And if you catch your head bobbing then check out fellow Georgians Cars Can Be Blue. Photos of The Coathangers at SXSW after the jump (thanks Impose and Hatnim Lee).
We’ve been soaking up some serious rays at SXSW and after a week of partying with our FRNDS and favorite bands it’s time to get back to a reality where you don’t run into Annie Clark (St. Vincent) on the corner or spend hours gazing at gorgeous could-be Jenny Lewis’…depending on what you do with your time.
First on the agenda is an awesome representation of Wavves’ “No Hope Kids.” Matched with the eerie visuals of a British railroad safety PSA from 1977, it’s surprising to see how well Nathan’s energy correlates. To everyone who caught Wavves at SXSW, how was he? Playing 10 shows per day can certainly try a man’s spirit, unless you’re one of the blogodome’s most beloved and have figured out a method of feeding off of that! Check out Wavves on Hipster Runoff here.
Next up is the enthralling magic of Sigur Ros and the way their spirit carries over onto video with the help of Vincent Moon and his always praised Take Away Shows. Performing “Við spilum endalaust,” enjoy.
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tip: If you find yourself in NYC tomorrow then there’s going to be a screening of the long-anticipated Gorillaz documentary, BANANAZ, at the NYC Soho Apple Store TOMORROW, March 24th, at 6:30 PM, followed by a Q+A session with director Ceri Levy. If you miss this, you’ll have to wait until it’s released publicly on April 20.
check it: Before Oh My Rockness became the apple of my eye, I was living in Los Angeles and relied on Los Anjealous for my show-going recommendations. Looks like they caught onto what we’re doing and stopped by our show with The Bird and The Bee, Haim, The Damn Sons and [Post-foetus] last week. Big thanks to Mark for contributing an awesome review to the site!
I learned about FMLY that evening, described by Gray on the staircase as “a music collective, an art collective, basically throws shows, dedicates itself to bringing music back into prominence and is for the people.”
Catch the rest here.
Owen Ashworth, better known as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, has one of the best set-ups I can think of. He uses a wide array of battery-powered keyboards to make his heartwarming electro pop songs. For those of you not familiar with Casiotone keyboards I’ll give you a rundown of the basic features of most of them. Their super-cheap, often have cheesy drum machine beats that can be used, and they can make you feel like you’re playing the Legend of Zelda on your Super Nintendo. The Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard is one of Owen’s particular favorites. This small keyboard allows you to sample a short loop with an internal microphone and then play it with the keys. It’s soooooooooo lo-fi. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone are playing a free, all ages show at Ms. Bea’s tomorrow night at SXSW. If you’re in Austin you should check it out and of course check out FMLY’s shows the 19th and 20th at HiLo as well.
So tomorrow we head down to Austin for our two day BLOWOUT. Pulling together pals as far out as Australia and our homies as close as Austin, we’re doing SXSW the way we want to…unofficial. Come out to HiLo for two free nights of free music, free UV Vodka, and priceless memories.
Thursday, March 19. Night One.
Elevaters (Los Angeles)
Hungry Villagers (Houston)
Madi Diaz (Nashville)
Rumspringa (Los Angeles)
Fol Chen (Highland Park)
Youth Group (Sydney, Australia)
Friday, March 20. Night Two.
Japanther (Brooklyn)
Reverse X Rays (Austin)
DD/MM/YYYY (Toronto)
Ninjasonik (Brooklyn)
Honey Claws (Austin)
TheDeathSet (Sydney, Australia/Philly/Brooklyn/Bmore)
With DJ’ing by The Hood Internet (Chicago)
Brought to you by FMLY, HiLo, Sneak Attack Media and UV Vodka. We capitalize on good times.
RSVP at www.thefmlyaustinblowout.com
Check us out on The Hood Internet’s flyer!
Japanther – Challenge
Ninjasonik – Negative Thinking (About Tight Pants)
Fol Chen – Cable TV
The week is SXSW, St. Patrick’s Day and Spring Break, which are three huge reasons to what? Road trip, or as I like to say, Bro Trip.
When the night sets in, drivers on the road wear thin, your pals pass out and you’re battling drowsiness, a great playlist is key towards making it another hundred miles or so. This week’s Flashback! Party Sequence is dedicated to the drivers traversing new territory this week. Good luck, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
To start is one of the greatest travel songs of all time, as dubbed by Wes Anderson. Hot off the Darjeeling Limited soundtrack is the Kinks’ “This Time Tomorrow,” moments this epic can only happen once per day.
Just because an epic Kinks moment can only happen once per day doesn’t mean that these memory-makers are over, we’ve got lots of eras to cover! Another awesome and universal roadtrip tune is the Smashing Pumpkins’ “Today.” Yes, the song may be written about suicide, but when you compose a piece that gets as Titanic as this it really belongs to our global society for interpretation, lets just say it’s about a roadtrip that will change your life.
But, as far as road trips go, nothing beats a great time with your pals and, of course, Neil Patrick Harris.
FMLY’s Road Trippin’ MiniMixtape
The Kinks – This Time Tomorrow
The Smashing Pumpkins – Today
The Thermals – Our Trip
Adventure – Travel Kid
Peter & The Wolf – Safe Travels
Fruit Bats – Traveler’s Song
Animal Collective – Sweet Road
Nephews – Sorefinger Road (Live on FMLY Radio)
The Robot Ate Me – On Vacation
nordloef – these streets belong to us
Related:
F!PS 14 – Hole, Baby Bash, Boyz II Men, Coolio
F!PS 13 – Pharoahe Monch, Blackstreet, Ginuwine, Klaxons (covering Blackstreet)
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I take off on an 1800mi road trip to SXSW in several hours, so farewell for the next week or so. Gray and Matte will continue to keep your ears occupied.
It’s an honor to present an interview with Tobacco covering the dichotomy between Tobacco and Black Moth Super Rainbow, as well as touching upon earlier works and hinting towards the future. As satanstompingcaterpillars, an introduction to lo-fi synth-pop was made and as Black Moth Super Rainbow grew from the ashes, several good men and women stronger, the music has not only gained in appreciators but taken on a unique form of production different from any other music being made today. Without spilling our collective hearts out and continuing with words which do no justice, lets get on with this.
FMLY: I’d like to begin by clearing the fog. Thanks to Impose magazine it’s acknowledged that you, Tobacco, are Black Moth Super Rainbow (outside of live settings). During the time of satanstompingcaterpillars, when was it decided with Power Pill Fist that you would take composition and recording duties? If it wasn’t decided, and you feel comfortable doing so, I’d like to know about the transition into BMSR and what provoked it.
Tobacco: It’s just sort of how it always was. I’m bad at collaborating with people, and I thought it was always easier to work alone. I think I get most inspired alone, and less self conscious of what I’m doing. We’ve written a few songs together as a band back in all the different bands, and it always feels great when it happens, but I never push it to keep happening. I had started off really noisy and abstract with Allegheny White Fish. We were all so happy with ourselves for coming up with that name in 10th grade, but it wasn’t too funny 4 years later. Then ssc [satanstompingcaterpillars] was like my way to be more melodic all the time, and a little more serious. Then when it started to shift again into something I might be a little more comfortable performing live, I brought in the rest of the band and we changed over again. I’ve always felt like these ideas shouldn’t outstay their welcome. 3 or 4 records is enough, because I get really bored, and I like to keep these bands and ideas as pure as I can, in their places in time, until it seems like I’ve finally gotten it right.
FMLY: Your sound evolved tremendously with Falling Through A Field. Was this due to new software, new instruments, new friends to play with, an acid trip or just a new vision of swampy pink meadows and multicolored waterfalls? Do you and PPF continue to make music together on the side? I’m a big fan of his Atari work, were you two into video games when you were young or is it only appreciated as an instrument? Related, why the decision to use many tracks from satanstompingcaterpillars?
Tobacco: Falling Through A Field was like a weird best-of record at the time. Some of my favorite stuff that I thought was still relevant from ssc, mixed with where it was going with the vocoders and analog synths and beats. It was all fueled by the idea that these synths were available and we were figuring out what they did, plus the idea of the vocoder was really appealing because I didn’t have to be so self-conscious about my voice anymore. PPF and I haven’t made anything in awhile, but like I said, I’m just not much of a team player. I think he’s taking the Atari stuff somewhere really interesting for his next record. I’ve only heard one song, but it was definitely different.
FMLY: After speaking with The Octopus Project I was surprised to find out that The House of Apples and Eyeballs was an online project and that you hadn’t actually met before recording. Had you listened to tOP before this collaboration and who initiated the process? Do you still maintain a relationship with them and was the rest of BMSR involved during the recording process or only at your live performance of the album at SXSW?
Tobacco: I had the cd with the mannequins on the cover, and I had no idea how much they’d changed since then. I didn’t know they were more of a rock band, so that was a good surprise. I think Ryan from Graveface just went to a couple shows of theirs and had the idea on his own to put it together. We see them like once a year now, because we usually stay with Toto when we play in Austin.
I had all these random parts recorded with everyone from BMSR over a couple years that we were able to incorporate into that album. The whole point of it was trying to make something out of stuff both bands had lying around and didn’t know what to do with, so it ended up being kind of a good exercise for me in listening to some of the garbage I make and figuring out how to make it work on some level. I think everyone makes at least one appearance.
FMLY: There’s no denying the role that your music has played in many people’s lives, but more specifically those who dabble with acid, shrooms and other mind -altering drugs…or just straight up weed. What you may consider to be a subtle portion of a track could influence one’s entire trip. Do you take this into consideration when crafting an album?
Tobacco: I’m sort of learning this more and more over time, but everything I make is pop to me, and it’s the only way I know how to make it. So drugs have absolutely nothing to do with it for me – it’s just what I think sounds good at the time. I’m not much of a psychedelic music fan, and I’ve never aspired to be psychedelic. I think it’s just my ear being wrong. I really think I’m making hooky pop music, but then it comes out, and everyone’s like, “no, it’s this…”
satanstompingcaterpillars – Goodbye Method (from Flower Slides)
satanstompingcaterpillars – The Autumn Kaleidoscope Now Has Hips (from The Autumn Kaleidoscope Got Changed)
satanstompingcaterpillars – Black Snow (from The Most Wonderfulest Thing)
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Boxphones (from Falling Through A Field)
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Smile Heavy (from Start A People)
Black Moth Super Rainbow + The Octopus Project – Spiracle (from The House Of Apples & Eyeballs)
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Sun Lips (from Dandelion Gum
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Just For The Night (Laura Burhenn, BMSR remix) (from Drippers)
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Eating Us medley
Next weekend join us at the Tricot Showroom [map] for a night of amazing music with The Bird and The Bee, Haim, The Damn Sons, and [Post-foetus] as well as a fashion show and a couple of suprises. Tickets are $15 at the door but you can save some money by getting them in advance here. Remember; When you are coming to the Tricot Showroom, you will enter through the alley. There is a parking lot on Main and 9th. Take that alley between 9th and 8th to get into the show.
The week after, we will be heading down to SXSW to throw a two night party at HiLo. The party will feature your best friends and FREE UV Vodka all night. Both nights start at 8 and go till we can’t stand up anymore.
March 19
DJ’ed by FMLY
March 20
DJ’ed by The Hood Internet
BOTH NIGHTS ARE FREE AND NO WRISTBAND IS REQUIRED. THOSE WHO RSVP GET PRIORITY.
RSVP at thefmlyaustinblowout.com
It was public transportation in elementary that introduced me to the folk styles of Tupac and Biggie, but in middle school it was the first mixtape I was ever given that introduced me to the alternative and underground grace of Pigeon John and the LA Symphony (Christian hip-hop group, not the orchestra). Since then I’ve been rockin’ both Pigeon John and LA Symphony – together and in their respective albums. It’s been a minute since they’ve been on the same track, but Pigeon John and former LA Symph member Flynn Adam have teamed up for some LA style break-beating club-pumping, and they call themselves Rootbeer.
Rootbeer’s debut, Pink Limousine EP, drops March 10 and the duo are slated to appear multiple times at SXSW. Info here and on their MySpace. Listin to title track “Pink Limousine” below, there’s a sick transition at 2:39 that pretty much got me AndySamberg&JoannaNewsom’ing in my pants. Plus, any song that talks about Gary Busey gets an A+ in my book. Oh, and if any labels catch this post…they’re unsigned, just tell ‘em FMLY sent ya.
