Jason Crock ·
20 Mar 2009, 1:07 PM ·
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The barrage of showcases and parties of SXSW are easy to navigate and choose between so long you’re not being lied to, which is all the time. Start times for the sets? More of a guideline. RSVP? Whatever. Enjoy that line down the block. Free food? Sorry, all out. Free booze? We’re all out of that, too, or wait for the promo girls to hand it out, or I wouldn’t know anything about that, I’m just a bartender. Special guests? Yeah, they can come out perform one song, as I learned last night at Austin Music Hall. So when “Daniel Johnston and the Hymns” started their set with two Johnston-less Hymns songs, I was ready to weep into my four-dollar beer.
But Johnston did indeed come out, as promised.
Still showing up: Daniel Johnston
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SXSW09 Daniel Johnston, Hymns, The Homosexuals, The Oh Sees, Tyvek, Wrens
Eric Harvey ·
20 Mar 2009, 12:33 PM ·
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(w/W)omen in Austin
Time and space are both weirdly compressed at South by Southwest, which you don’t realize until you’ve done the festival for two 12+ hour days. You see a dozen shows in a day at a half-dozen bars, and don’t have to walk all that far to see them. It’s different than something like Bonnaroo because you’re traversing city blocks, not fenced-off pastures, so you don’t feel like you’re part of some separate music colony as much as that you sort of own an entire downtown. SXSW is a microcosmos of music cultures, a huge disposable music scene that feeds off Austin (and vice-versa) for four days that feel like a month each. Thus, on any single day, I could feasibly cycle through weeks worth of emotional states, weird bodily pains, friend-and-band sightings and stages of inebriation. On Thursday, my second 12+ hour day in a row, I came to an important realization, one that might seem very obvious: sometimes, for long stretches of time, South by Southwest can suck.
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SXSW09, Uncategorized Akron/Family, Bell, Girls, No Age, Wild Beasts, Women, Wrens
