SPACELAND SXSW PARTIES

Thursday, March 15 @ Antone's
THE BOMB
presented by Spaceland, The Echo, Ticketweb, and Live Daily
noon-5pm
 NO BADGES OR GUEST LISTS REQUIRED
213 W. 5th St
Austin, TX 78701
512.320.8424



12:00pm   MONSTERS ARE WAITING // LISTEN  (Echo Park, CA)
"The Echo Park, California quartet are fronted by Annalee Fery, who can slink through a song like Debbie Harry or squeal like Cyndi Lauper while still making it all sound fascinating and essential. Meanwhile, the band fashions a dark yet non-threatening atmosphere for Fery to wrap her versatile voice around, like My Bloody Valentine channeling the Banshees’ brighter moments with an angular Franz Ferdinand pop intensity." - Amplifier Magazine

12:40pm   TALLY HALL // LISTEN  (Ann Arbor, MI)
 ""On 'Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum,' the quintet's magnificent musical masterpiece, you'll find a vivid sonic array that, by design or happenstance, seems to reference every entry in the pop encyclopedia...This is pop patchwork at its best, and Tally Hall's flexibility is its path to a place both innovative and distinct." - Detroit Free Press

01:20pm   DIRTY ON PURPOSE // LISTEN  (Brooklyn, NY)
"Aggressive and soft, quiet and loud, Dirty on Purpose disarm the year-long anticipation for their full-length with tracks as fulfilling as a lengthy dorm-room snogging session. Slow when it needs to be, full of robust melodies and swirling with competing nuances worthy of second consideration (think soft hair, a little rough stubble, some musk around the collarbone), Dirty on Purpose’s Hallelujah Sirens is sure to score more than a few couples getting fresh for many make-out moments to come." – Filter Mini

02:00pm   DATAROCK // LISTEN  (Bergen, Norway)
"With their questionable leisurewear and propensity for writing songs about robot sex and the possibility of women having cocks, you can consider these the Danish, new rave equivalent to Goldie Lookin Chain. Musically, though, they're completely different, favouring an impossibly nagging car crash of the most basic electro-pop and addictive Parliament-style funk, all done with a Talking Heads sense of style that's both noxious and compulsive. They'll make you want to listen to nothing else for, ooh, a week at least." NME

02:45pm   MANDO DIAO // LISTEN  (Borlange, Sweden)
 "Trading mic volleys and Velcro riffs on their second LP the quartet's frontmen lead perfect group harmonies ("White Wall") with the sweet/sour yin/yang of every great lead tandem since John & Paul. Gustaf's Lennon/Doherty – tart, scrappy – via the dodgeball hookery of bangin' opener "Cut the Rope" and "Clean Town," pure Libertines produced by the Clash man Mick Jones. "God Knows" follows suit like Great Escape-era Blur, while "Down in the Past" and its gleaming iPod riffs beg for prime-time network programming. Björn's cool, diluted Ron Sexsmith seduction, meanwhile, plays acoustic chick magnet ("Ringing Bells") serenader ("All My Senses") with panache." - The Austin Chronicle 

03:30pm   ANNUALS // LISTEN  (Raleigh, NC)
"Be He Me is a crowd, packed with hyperboloid songs that whorl and dimple, digressively executing competent-to-astonishing arrangements in a manner that would seem spazzy if they weren't so polished. "Antic orchestral pop" would be the easiest cop-out I could put forth to describe their métier. For further touchstones, think the high-blood-sugar anthems of Rollerskate Skinny or early Mercury Rev, but with classic-rock sheen, earthier lyrical concerns, and worldbeat dalliances." - Pitchfork

04:15pm   BLONDE REDHEAD // LISTEN  (New York, NY)
"Layered behind the traditional rock band instrumentation (guitar, bass, and drums) is a textured wash of strings, horns, and keyboards that evokes a more cinematic and romantic landscape. The music that makes up the eleven songs on Misery Is a Butterfly owes less to the ghosts of CBGBs and more to the smoky blues-inspired trip-hop of acts like Portishead and Lamb." - PopMatters



Friday, March 16 @ Antone's
SOUTH OF 6TH STREET PARTY
presented by Spaceland Productions, Current and
EMI Music Publishing
noon-6pm
RSVP REQUIRED
213 W. 5th St
Austin, TX 78701
512.320.8424


ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND // LISTEN  (Morristown, NJ)
"As the band members took the stage one by one, the energetic intensity of the venue, crowd and band climbed. The introductory beat of the drums was compounded with the induction of the bass, Hammond organ, guitar and pedal steel guitar with the man of the night taking his seat behind it. The initial cacophony of sound slowly built into a melodic blend of funk and soul that filled the 100 foot ceilings of the renovated old church. It was a musical revival that never faltered throughout the night." - Paste Magazine

KENNA // LISTEN 
(Virginia Beach, VA)
 "However, no matter which musical path Kenna swerves your mind through, it's clear that he's studied the discographies of every artist from George Michael and Depeche Mode to Basement Jaxx and Outkast. As a testament to his influences, Kenna's fine-tuned his funky synthesizer tunes to dismantle the previous mentioned genres and mangle them into a new hybrid." - PopMatters

THE KINGS OF SPAIN // LISTEN 
(Santa Barbara, CA)
 "The Kings of Spain was formed in 2005 by Will Loomis, 22, in Santa Barbara, California and is known for having a tight rhythmic bond between guitar and drums, giving the songs a punchy "funk" feel. Their original songs range from blues and country songs to rock n' roll." - Bio

DJ TOMMIE SUNSHINE // LISTEN 
(Brooklyn, NY)
 "Tommie Sunshine, who you can think of as the unspoken Godfather of the NYC electro scene, then offered an impressive set entirely made of newbies: if these songs are any indication of what 2007 might sound like on the Williamsburg shores, expect electro’s rhythmic squareness combined to a healthy dose of propulsive Italo-like robotic melodies (not unlike the first half of the mix he released on Systematic earlier this year, actually)." - Resident Advisor