Dinner time in Austin, time to munch tacos and figure the night sched. As the picture suggests, tonight's the night for Jens Lekman fans: y'all have two chances to catch the Swedish troubadour (Emo's at 8PM, Mohawk at midnight). For... CONTINUE READING SXSW: THURSDAY FEATURED SHOWCASES»
Posted on March 13, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: Black Mountain | Blood On The Wall | Citay | Dark Meat | DeVotchKa | Evangelicals | Gil Mantera's Party Dream | Islands | Jay Reatard | Jens Lekman | Luke Temple | Man Man | Phosphorescent | Sian Alice Group | SXSW | The Octopus Project | The Raveonettes | The Weakerthans | Throw Me The Statue | Tim Fite | White Hinterland
This week's Drop had a stringed, burlesqued, Gypsy-cum-Coloradan tune that came courtesy of Little Miss Sunshine soundtrackers and Siouxsie coverers DeVotchka. You can hear the rollicking "Transliterator" from the quartet's forthcoming ANTI- debut A Mad and Faithful Telling, and read... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP VOLUME XXII: HEAR NEW DEVOTCHKA, WIN RAY-BANS AND WYCLEF JEAN SWAG»
Posted on January 30, 2008 in (9 comments)
Tags: DeVotchKa | Wyclef Jean
We're already commiserating over this year's Grammy nods, but it's never too early to get unexcited for the Oscar nods for Best Original Song. Relevance aside, how cool would it be if Spoon or DeVotchKa took home an Oscar? The... CONTINUE READING OSCAR'S MAKING HIS PICKS»
Posted on December 11, 2006 (20 comments)
Tags: Borat | DeVotchKa | Outkast | Spoon
