Two entries in "Music"
Brief commentary on the music portion of this year’s SxSW, my first contact.
SxSW is a bit like visiting Six Flags for five days straight, but instead of waiting in line for rollercoasters, rock bands. Fifty-eleven bands are playing at any given moment. At all times everyone is consumed by a sense of anxiety about which bands they want to catch, if they can get into the shows, and where the after-hours hipster pool party is. We played a few shows as well.
Perhaps I would better enjoy the event if I had a personal concierge to make all decisions for me, secure my place on various guest lists and physically escort me from location to location. Without such services I found the experience a bit exhausting.
I did enjoy catching one of The Marked Men sets: four guys from Denton, TX blazing through power-pop tunes.
I’m a bit late to the punch on this one, but I’ve been repeat-listening their latest full-length, Fix My Brain, released on Swami. If you have the exact same musical taste as me, you’ll enjoy it.
Top track: Sully My Name (2MB, mp3). I’m a sucker for anything with double-tracked drums.
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Sigur Ros - Heima
Friday September 21, 2007 - 9 months ago
Posted by Jason Gnewikow / Filed under Film, Music
If you haven’t seen this yet, you absolutely must. The breathtakingly gorgeous documentary film about Sigor Ros’ tour of their homeland by my friend Dean DeBlois.
sigur rós break their two-year silence to release their first-ever film and a companion album later this autumn. filmed over two weeks last summer when the band undertook a free tour of iceland, ‘heima’ stands as a colossal labour of love – not to say grand folly – typical of this most exacting of bands.
while most people set up a few cameras at, say, a festival, and call it a dvd, sigur rós decided they would push the boat (bus and plane) out for their debut venture into live film, hauling 40-plus people round 15 locations to the furthest flung corners of their homeland to create something, well, inspirational.
Inspirational indeed.
