Mixtape Monday: SXSW SPIRIT
"Don't ask me why I obsessively look to rock 'n' roll bands for some kind of model for a better society... I guess I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for a prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since. And perhaps that nothing else in the world ever seemed to hold even this much promise." - Lester Bangs
BEST of SXSW 2019: Show Photos (Part 3)
Best of SXSW 2019 Part 3 Amyl and the Sniffers | The Mystery Lights | Banditos | Leo Rondeau
BEST of SXSW 2019: Show Photos (part 2)
BEST of SXSW 2019: Show Photos (part 2) Banditos | Thelma and the Sleaze | Muther | Surfbort | Annabelle Chairlegs | John Wesley Coleman III | Pscience
Steven’s Visions: Vol. 2 – SXSW 2019
Steven's Visions: Vol. 2 - SXSW 2019 Featuring: Priests | Fontaines DC | Moving Panoramas | Golden Dawn Arkestra | Alex Maas | Frankie & the Witch Fingers | Blushing | Nothing | Thyla
BEST of SXSW 2019: Show Photos (part 1)
Best of SXSW 2019: Show Photos (Part 1)
Mixtape Monday: For Bands In Vans
Once you pass Texarkana and those hazy eyes start getting sick with white line fever, press play on this week's mixtape. We'll bring ya in just right.
10 MUST SEE BANDS AT SXSW 2019
The definitive unarguably best bands you would be an idiot to miss at SXSW 2019.
New Video: Amyl and the Sniffers – Monsoon Rock
As for this moment here now Amyl and the Sniffers are everything.
Missing Pages: Long Way Down and a Love Letter To Stephen Svacina
There was though a spirit crying out to us from the wilderness of our small nowhere nothing nobody towns which tempted us to risk the comfort of the familiar to land in a foreign place of culture shock and suffocating all alone and to know even on the darkest defeated nights that if we kept looking we would find IT. And we did. The worth was and will always be enough for five lifetimes.
La Luz’s SXSW Instagram Takeover
Photo Credit: Vikesh Kapoor Currently based in Los Angeles’ duality of sunny dispositions and dark illusions, La Luz has crafted something special since their inception in 2012. Comprised of singer/guitarist Shana Cleveland, drummer Marian Li Pino, keyboardist Alice Sandahl, and bassist Lena Simon, the band’s surf-rock infested and reverb-drenched melodies maintain a haunting infectiousness while conjuring visions of hallucinatory desert landscapes. Citing inspiration from early teenage garage groups, La Luz’s journey from their first full length off Hardly Art, It’s Alive, through to their upcoming album, Floating Features (coming out on May 11th), has traversed textured terrain, soaking up a variety of genres and exuding complexity while still staying…
SXSW Film Review: The Strange Ones
SXSW Film Review: The Strange Ones by Trish Connelly A thought provoking piece of cinema by co-directors Lauren Wolkstein and Christopher Radcliff, The Strange Ones sheds a veil over matters of truth and trauma, presenting a subjective reality that keeps you guessing throughout the film’s 80 minute run. Initiated as a short and years later coming together as a full length feature, we are introduced to brothers Nick (Alex Pettyfer) and Sam (James Freedson-Jackson), embarking on what appears to be a trip with no end in sight, away from familiar surroundings. Sam suffers from unwanted thoughts constantly picking at his brain, with Nick’s advice being to let go…
SXSW Film Review: Hounds of Love
SXSW Film Review: Hounds of Love by Trish Connelly Ben Young’s Hounds of Love renders as an emotionally staggering directorial debut, illustrating the vicious and cyclical nature of relationship abuse between both lovers and serial killers. Based loosely on true events, the film takes place in December, 1987 in the suburbs of Perth, Australia. Cruising down neighborhood streets, serial killers John (Stephen Curry) and Evelyn (Emma Booth) lure adolescent girls into their car, kidnapping and torturing them before disposing of their bodies in the sprawling woods. One night after an argument with her mother, Vicki (Ashleigh Cummings) leaves her house to go to a party only to find herself…
SXSW Film Review: Us and Them
SXSW Film Review: Us and Them by Trish Connelly A timely film in our current political wake, Us and Them serves as a cathartic viewing between the marginalized working class and the wealthy elite. With the use of flashbacks and screen title cards, Us and Them plays out in a stream-of-consciousness storyline with Danny (Jack Roth) playing leader alongside his blue-collared friends Tommy (Andrew Tiernan) and Sean (Daniel Kendrick), holding a prestigious banker’s family hostage in a continuous gamble of who will get tormented next in order to serve them a lesson and record the entire stunt on video to release to the wider public in the hopes of…
SXSW Film Review: Game of Death
SXSW Film Review: Game of Death by Trish Connelly Vacationing for a weekend getaway, seven teenagers settle at a summer home to partake in drunken shenanigans. Stumbling onto a mysterious board game, the friends read out the rules and we realize something is astray as soon as the game decides to take a pinch of their blood. “24” appears on the board’s counter as the clock ticks down to the number of head counts the players must proceed in killing before the game ends. Quickly realizing the game isn’t playing around as one of their friend’s heads explodes in front of them, the group realizes it’s an impending time…
SXSW Film Review: Inheritance by Trish Connelly An intricately weaved collaboration between writer and director Laura E. Davis and Jessica Kaye, Inheritance is an introspective look into the underlying traumas embedded within families and the difficulty that remains in attempting to escape them. In anticipation of Mara (Jessica Kaye)’s father’s 70th birthday, she brings her recent boyfriend Aaron (Daniel Ahearn) to Belize to celebrate, but upon arriving quickly discovers that her father has passed away. A series of subtle yet significant fabrications spring forth once we figure out that Mara lies about how long she’s been together with Aaron as well as lying about calling her brother Ben (Mark…
Dead Meadow Takeover!
Website || Facebook || Instagram Initially forming nearly two decades ago by guitarist and vocalist Jason Simon, Dead Meadow fuses psychedelic soundscapes with fuzzy rock and drone meditations to make for a transcendent aural experience. Drawing influences from classic acts like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, the three piece take things a step further by incorporating their own musical forces into the mix. Their self-titled album, released in 2000 on Joe Lally (of Fugazi)’s label Tolotta Records, was followed a year later by Howls from the Hills. Post-completion, the band recorded a Peel Session in Fugazi’s home studio, marking the first time a Peel Session was recorded outside the…
SXSW Film Review: The Light of the Moon
SXSW Film Review: The Light of the Moon by Trish Connelly All too often films involving sexual assault/rape scenes seem like a convenient plot point to make a female character complex without ever actually exploring its complexities. Jessica M. Thompson’s film, The Light of the Moon, carefully considers the nuances of one individual’s experience without ever asserting that there is one authentic or correct way to process trauma. It’s clear from the start that Bonnie (Stephanie Beatriz) is an independent and successful businesswoman, poised and assertive, however with some stressors underlying her relationship with her boyfriend Matt (Michael Stahl-David). After leaving a party with her friends one night, Bonnie…
SXSW Film Review: Flesh and Blood
SXSW Film Review: Flesh and Blood by Trish Connelly Mark Webber’s Flesh and Blood interweaves both fictional and documentary-style elements throughout the course of his film, succeeding in both an incredibly personal and incredibly political story. Casting his own mother, Cheri Honkala, and his younger step-brother, Guillero Santos, Mark returns home to his family from years in prison only to find Pittsburgh has changed very little since he last left it. An advocator for those in the city’s marginal communities, Honkala casts dignity on individuals that are struggling to stay out of prison as well as confronting ongoing battles with substance abuse (Honkala also ran for vice president in…
SXSW Film Review: Infinity Baby
SXSW Film Review: Infinity Baby by Trish Connelly Set in the not-so-distant future comes Infinity Baby, a company initiated by Neo (Nick Offerman) where infants perpetually stay infants due to a genetic modification in their DNA. Less a question of how these babies came to be and the scientific explanation behind them, infinity babies are presented similar to the latest gadget on the market and stripped of their humane characteristics; infinitely easier to take care of than any other sentient being, substituting crying for cooing, only needing a diaper change once a week and never having to leave the nest. After a struggling sell with a prospective mother, Malcolm…
SXSW Film Review: Signature Move
SXSW Film Review: Signature Move by Trish Connelly Jennifer Reeder’s Signature Move is a refreshing and eye-opening romantic comedy on the interpersonal relationships between women, family, and diverse cultural backgrounds. Inspired by actual events, the story revolves around Zaynab (Fawzia Mirza), a Pakistani lawyer in her 30’s, acting as caretaker to her recently widowed mother Parveen (Shabana Azmi) by day and trains as a lucha-style wrestler by night. Upon meeting Alma (Sari Sanchez) at a bar one evening, romantic entanglements ensue that in turn lead Zaynab to confront her desires and future due to her mother’s ongoing hopes of finding her a potential husband. Signature Move succeeds in embracing our…
Burger Records SXSW Hangover Fest V
We’re all aware how chaotic SXSW can be; with all the day and night parties, free tacos and beer, never enough coffee, and an endless amount of bands to revel in, the idea of a hangover party sounds mighty appealing. Come Sunday, March 19th, Burger Records is celebrating their fifth Hangover Fest at Paper Tiger in San Antonio with a stream of must-see acts on their roster. Taking place on four stages with over forty bands, you’ll want to grab your crew and head on down south for this rager. The lineup boasts performances by headlining acts Temples and Har Mar Superstar, shoegaze and dream-pop gems No Joy…
Bands On Our Radar: The Two Lips
There’s been an influx of some extremely talented, up and coming bands pouring in from San Marcos, Texas. Fuzz garage-rock trio The Two Lips caught our eyes (and ears) after witnessing their work with Spoon’s very own Britt Daniels for their new single, “Repeat”. The opportunity arose during this year’s SXSW Festival where they had the opportunity to be mentored by and discuss ideas with Daniels and record a track in Converse Rubber Tracks’ professional recording studio. Take a look at the band’s experience captured on video below. [embedyt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izP4yg8PShY[/embedyt] Facebook || Instagram || Twitter
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The Master Cleanse Meaninglessly drifting through life, Paul Berger (Johnny Galecki) stumbles across a TV commercial advertising a quiet retreat and the promise of coming out renewed. Despite the sinister sounding release he’s signed, Berger nevertheless is on board with his master cleanse. Joining Paul on his retreat to the middle of the woods is love interest Maggie (Anna Friel) and couple Eric (Kyle Gallner) and Laurie (Diana Bang). Their spiritual guide, played by Anjelica Huston, first and foremost asks them to consume four jars of a disgustingly pre-made mixture, causing them to literally expel their insecurities. The film could have easily gone down the slapstick comedic route, but…
Nightmare Air Takeover!
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Trevor Sensor Website Takeover!
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Despite the ever looming cloud of basic-bro culture and the evil Doritos mass-media corporatizaton strangling out the last death-rattle of all which was once pure and true in the world, SXSW remains greater than every Coachella, Fun Fun Fun Fest, and Bonnaroo ever put together combined. Each year I watch someone’s younger sister and their tag along carbon-copy battery-eating robot clones unload their bags in my living room with a notebook well scripted with an airtight itinerary of bands they need to see, cross-referencing via text with some other car full of douche bags about their flawless time-table only to go home talking about how “epic” the week was for…
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ANON Talks: Panama
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Gents, Pack Your Bags for SXSW
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Ladies, Pack Your Bags for SXSW
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The Terror: A New Chapter For The Flaming Lips
Last month I got to see The Flaming Lips during SXSW in Austin. Being a Lips live show veteran, I ventured to Auditorium Shores expecting balloons, confetti, big-ass hands, lasers, or maybe Wayne riding the big hamster ball on top of the crowd, but instead I received “The Terror”. After being told that we were the biggest crowd in SXSW history, Wayne began to drape long plastic tubes over his body and then strapped a creepy, life-like baby to his left arm. Wayne proceeded to explain to the crowd that they were going to hear and see something new, for the first time, before anyone else, “So if we fuck…
Mixtape Monday: Chill Out
Sit back and relax. This week is a time to recuperate from the festivities and craziness of spring break. After a successful week at SXSW for some of our staff members, we decided to throw in a few of our favorite tunes from the festival. Enjoy! [8tracks url= “http://8tracks.com/anonmagazine/mixtape-monday-v” height=”500″ width=”500″ playops=”shuffle”]
Tame Impala – Lonerism
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