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MISSIVES NOT FROM SXSW: THE TXT I GET FROM LYLE AT 3:20 AM LAST NIGHT.


Posted by Hartley On Mar 19, 2010

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This is what comes up when you do a Google Image search for "SXSW." 

That's right jules and gents your trusty BRM blogger is decidedly not in Austin right now with the rest of the music industry at the infamous SXSW music festival. I'd be "totes jealous" if I hadn't scored an amazing tan yesterday whilst running laps around Central Park in the unseasonably 60 plus degree NYC weather. SO TAKE THAT MUSIC INDUSTRY LOSERS! I'm so not jealous of all the schmoozing, business card trading, "hey man can I give you my cd-ing," "do I really have to wait on this line for an hour to see the biggest band in all of indie rock that nobody will care about almost immediately once SXSW 2010 is over (REMEMBER THE PIPPETTES!?). I risk my case.

Also, I'm kosher. Which means that like any good Jew I lust after delicious BBQ like Tiger Woods in a School For Girls, but unlike Mr. Double Life Par 4 I ain't touching any. The lack of Austin's famous burritos is another story altogether. Having said that, it's not called SXSW FOOD AND ARTS FESTIVAL now is it? I risk my case again. 

So what happens besides eating, awkward once-a-year incestuous inner-industry hook-ups, and public drunkeness by 2 in the afternoon at this thing? Music. Supposedly. Most of which will make you resent G-D for creating hearing or at least guitars. And so you say to me: "Come on Hartley, there's some good bands at SXSW don't be so positively meh about it all." Fair enough. But even the good bands we probably won't give two scheckels about in a even a month from now. No matter, let's discuss those bands because we are in an industry that needs content and the next big thing every other week to fill up blog hits so some ad man at Samsung can justify his expanding online budget. 

But I digress.

According to my Blackberry at 3:20 AM I receive this message from Bank Robber Lyle:

It has been a couple days here! Phantogram were so great! Just saw them for the second time....so good, wish you could of seen 'em (but i'm sure they will keep rolling), but way sexy and loud and great. also saw superchunk who were obviously amazing as usual and let's wrestle and uh, oh yeah, that peter wolf crier band was very v/g.

now i gotta get some sleep.

x,

lyle 

Oh Lyle, You are such a rock star partying all night with the BRM crew. I was most certainly asleep at that wee early morning/late night hour and you were pogo-ing to Superchunk. At 29 I'm two steps away from the retirement home...What you are really wondering about this email, though, is WHO ARE THIS PHANTOGRAM!? LET'S WRESTLE!?!?!? PETERRRR WOLF CRIER!?!?! WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE!?

In the eloquent words of some hippie-stoner serving me tempeh at Whole Foods: "Phantogram are fucking awesome man." And they are. A guy-girl duo making Portishead-like jams like it's 1994 again. I SMELL A TRIP HOP REVIVAL and it starts here. Somehow these two landed on Barsuk Records (who we LOVE and say Mates of State/Phantogram/She and Him BRM GUY/GIRL LIVE TRIPLE HEADER. Gotta happen.) Check out "Mouthful of Diamonds" off their perfectly titled debut, Eyelid Movies (Barsuk).

 

Killer, right? Uh, yeah? LADY GAGA replacements - BRM got you. 

As for the English four-peice/recent Merge signees, Let's Wrestle - dig on this rad video:

Merge just reissued the band's twee-meets-Frightened Rabbitt (!?)-like debut, In The Court Of The Wrestling Let's, and they will be ALL OVER YOUR FAVORITE BLOGGS IN THE 2010. Guaranteed. Heard it hEAr first.

*stay tuned for more "Missives NOT from SXSW" and perhaps even a few from Austin SOOOOOON. 

 

 

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