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a speech. There is a kind of sober, well-adjusted
joy about the way they handle their instruments
proficiently while laughing at each other's antics.
They play dynamic, beautiful, textured songs. I
want alt of their albums.
More, more, more. Charalambides has packed
the room. I can't see the woman, but her voice
is like a fairy in a movie. The man is playing
chuggy. delayed guitar solos and he looks like a
cross between Jesus, and a face cut out of a tree.
They're slow, ethereal and they make the room
sound like glass. At times, the repetition of their
lyrics gets a little indulgent (and Renn Fest-con-
juring with the nature themes), but her voice is
barely human, it's so clear.
Over to the Blender Bar Balcony, and The
Ponytails are playing super-fast math rock while
the drummer rides the cymbals. There is no prop
er vocalist, but a girl who moves and sounds like
a five-year-old throwing a tantrum. It's youthful,
annoying, cathartic and interesting. I want to
watch her antics because she's just spazzing out
so thoroughly, and the bandmembers are feeding
off of each other's energy.
Indian Jewelry follows, and when I first lis
ten to it, my brain cannot process it. By the end
of the set, it is one of my favorite shows. This
band produces a throbbing gush of consuming
sound. The blackness and the strobe light guard
their resources, so I'm not sure how their compo
nents are working. The drumming is cymbal-free,
driving and more melodic than any other part
of the noise. This band doesn't feel like music,
it seems an installation, or something built for
more than just my eyes and ears.
DAY 4: SATURDAY. MAR. 17
I'm outside in the Spring Break sun at a stu
dio in front of a baseball diamond. I'm listening
to the experimental violin escapades of Burning
Starcore. An Asian kid is abusing a violin with
effects pedals, and I feel like I should be sitting
outside of X-Ray Cafe. This display is more art
than music, and if I were on drugs, I would be
crying. His violin doesn't sound anything like a
tender string instrument—it sounds like listening
to the screams of a medieval torture chamber.
Now he is shaking his face and cheeks into
the microphone. He sounds like a 1920s record
ing of a cartoon dog attacking a cartoon baker
while the recording equipment is being de
stroyed. I love it.
Slaraffenland is playing, and I love the
weather, but my selfish ears wish they were in
a room this sound could take over. This band is
amazing at breaking down melodic songs and
massaging little experimental pieces of each
melody until they're just so tense and intricate.
Heading downtown and back towards the
action, De Novo Dahl is playing in the most
hideous Elvis outfits. Theses guys are consum
mate performers, but this hot, empty parking lot
doesn't give anything back to them from the au
dience. I'd usually be dancing to every note, but
it's just so disgustingly hot.
By 7 p.m., Earl Greyhound IS BLOWING MY
MIND. I'm sad I missed them at Tasty World a
few weeks back. You should be, too. The woman
in this band is dressed in a mini-dress, boots,
has an afro with a feather in it, and is playing
a gigantic bass. On her knees. While WAILING
harmonies. The drummer looks like a linebacker
in a dashiki and he is destroying the biggest
drum set I've ever seen. The skinny, long haired
guitarist is conjuring Robert Plant and George
Harrison, and I can say that without feeling shy
because he is ripping through his songs like I
have never seen a human being from this day
and age do. I feel like if I listen to their record
backward I am going to hear satanic messages. I
have never, never seen anyone rock so soulfully
in real life. I am probably getting pregnant from
just watching this show. I don't know why they
aren't all millionaires with gold records and bad,
bad drug problems. I am exhausted and my ears
are throbbing.
I end up seeing about 75 other bands I don't
have space to write about here, and my packed
notebook proves it. The streets are so littered
with energy and bodies and pamphlets and CDs
and smells and odd costumes that Austin looks
like an apocalyptic, hedonistic nightmare. It's St.
Patrick's Day and you can hardly move through
the freak show. I have seen every kind of person
imaginable, most of whom are costumed or bare
ly dressed, uniformed, crary, or drunk, and all
melted from the heat of the day. I feel like Mad
Max is going to motorcycle down the street, and
honestly, no one would really even notice him.
We're capable of so much ugliness here, but
that isn't all there is to it. If you can ignore the
logistics, the panic and the filth and listen to all
this creativity, it isn't ugly at all.
Bunny Mcintosh
Home Team Away!
HOW ATHENS MUSICIANS
FARED AT SXSW 2007
T he big news coming out of Austin this year,
at least in terms of Athens bands, was the
lack of representation in the official confer
ence showcases. The annual Texas independent
music festival-slash-conference features hun
dreds, if not thousands, of bands performing over
five days in almost 100 venues around Austin.
A large number of Athens-based acts did make
it out to Texas and played day shows, parties and
showcases, though only three Athens acts this
year—one of which doesn't really count—made
it past SXSW's acceptance committee. That wasn't
just a problem for Athens, though, as there was
much grumbling that this year's festival was too
focused on big names and nostalgia acts, al
though there was much proof to the contrary.
The Whigs were accepted to the confer
ence/ festival, and that makes sense given their
growing profile over the past year and a half.
Summer Hymns were a late addition to the line
up, but that band's psychedelic country-folk has
never been a stranger to Austin, and the band's
label Misra is based there. Ruby Isle, the new
project featuring former I Am The World Trade
Center guy Dan Geller and two collaborators
based out of Milwaukee performed its second and
third shows ever at SXSW, and with two-thirds of
its membership based out of town, it's hard to
chalk one up for the home team.
And speaking of The Whigs, the band contin
ues to ride its wave of acclaim and acceptance.
Only weeks after Esquire heralded Whigs beat-
keeper Julian Dorio as the Best Drummer (one
assumes in... the country?), the trio rocked
three shows in Austin with healthy crowds sing
ing along. New multi-instrumentalist Sam Gunn
(an occasional Flagpole contributing writer)
is the temporary fill-in after the departure of
longtime bassist Hank Sullivant, and Gunn's
talent seems to have injected the band with a
little more creative energy, and vocalist-guitar
ist Parker Gispert seemed particularly ener
gized at Saturday night's show following Daniel
Johnston. Fans of the band should keep an eye
on Rhapsody.com; while out in Austin, The Whigs
recorded live versions of four old tracks and one
new one that should soon make their way onto
the online music site.
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