Headed to Austin for SXSW

In between trips right now. Just got back from camping with Julia in West Texas, and I'm about to head down to Austin for SXSW. Technically speaking, I'm headed down to the Homeslice Music Festival, where I will be hanging with my friends Bret and Jennifer and their friends and business associates from Homeslice.

Homeslice brings it strong with a lineup that includes a bunch of bands I'm looking forward to seeing, including:

The Love Language
I'm all about their song Lalita right now.




Port O'Brien
This is another current earworm.



Say Hi
I skipped them here in Fort Worth last night.



Von Bondies
Really looking forward to these guys.



Dead Confederate
These guys are greatness.

Dead Confederate - "The Rat"


The Rosebuds
These guys don't get as much attention as they deserve.


Nice Fox from Kelly Rosebud on Vimeo.

Earlimart
Don't know much about them, but I'm interested to see them live to find out more about them.



Other bits of Austin bidness: hoping to hook up with Danny Mac for a beer, Paul Boll for migas at Sol y Luna, James for some home-grown Fort Worth film and Rick Poss to get caught up.

SXSW Wrap-up

A pretty nice quick wrap-up of the annual Austin music-gasm, with a nice nod to some local acts. For those too lazy to link, here's the money graf:

Though you're unlikely to see them on MTV anytime soon (and thank god for that), a few local acts did North Texas proud, with the Theater Fire playing five shows in four days and Hogpig delivering a crushing set of Denton hard-core at a cheesy joint called Bourbon Rocks (test tube shooters, anyone?). Fort Worth's Bosque Brown fared best of all, though, playing perhaps their finest set ever and silencing a large crowd in the 18th-floor ballroom of the Hilton Garden, where Mara Lee Miller's ghostly country-folk tunes floated softly over the sparkling Austin skyline. Tellingly, in the sea of noise that was SXSW 2007, it was often these quiet moments that proved the most profound.