SXSW MUSIC FEST THURSDAY FROM P.38GUINEA WORMS10:15pm, the M<strong>usic</strong> Gym This quartet’s song“Box of Records” could be the “Louie Louie”of this century. <strong>The</strong>y’re yet another Columbus,Ohio, band with a penchant for shambolic, offyour-medsrock & roll, and latest 7-inch “Lostand Found” b/w “Jeans and Heels” (ColumbusDiscount) continues the trend. – Audra SchroederYARAH BRAVO11pm, Vice Born in Sweden to a Chilean motherand Brazilian father, Yarah Bravo’s melodicflow blurs the line betweenrapping and singing,her style reminiscent ofDigable Planets’ LadybugMecca. <strong>The</strong> groove of“Bluebird” from her collaborationwith husbandDJ Vadim and BluRum 13on One Self’s Children ofPossibility (2005) demonstratesmassive potentialfor her forthcoming debut.– Thomas FawcettCHAIRLIFT11pm, Red 7 Patio <strong>The</strong>dreamy synth-pop ofBrooklyn trio Chairlift conjuresvisions of couples’skate, 1985. It might beCaroline Polachek’s meetme-in-the-back-seatvocals,but April’s ColumbiaRecords debut, Does YouInspire You, is all Saturdaynight drum-machine fever.– Audra SchroederFIGHT BITE11pm, Rusty SpursDenton duo LeanneMacomber and Jeff Louis IIIburrow under a heartbrokenquilt of breathless balladsand melodic fuzz onself-released <strong>2008</strong> debutEmerald Eyes. A BeachHouse built on subtly swirlingkeys for Mazzy StargazingDIY pop lovers.– Doug FreemanÉrikaMachadoJEFFERSON PITCHER11:15pm, Habana Calle 6 After setting NPR’sAll Things Considered ablaze with his 3-CDset of presidential songs, Of Great and MortalMen, NYC’s Jefferson Pitcher the songwriteris getting more difficult to separate fromJefferson Pitcher the historian. Fortunately, hissparse and touching <strong>The</strong> Residue competeswith 220 years of American history.– Darcie StevensMILES BENJAMIN ANTHONYROBINSON12mid, the Parish Downstairs Before fallingunder the tutelage of TV on the Radio’s KypMalone and members of Grizzly Bear, MilesBenjamin Anthony Robinson was drug-addictedand homeless on the streets of New York.Last year’s eponymous debut draws upon the24-year-old songwriter’s former desperation,its exuberant bursts of garage folk and rawlyrical wonder wrapping even the bleakestmoments with hope. – Doug FreemanMOTHFIGHT1am, Wave Former Octopus Project guitaristKevin Attics knows the indie playbook back tofront. Songs with 27 instruments? Check. Boygirlharmonies? Yes. An affinity for all thingsVictorian? Okay, didn’t expect that one, butthe end product is decidedly nonformulaic andrather infectious.– Michael BertinMutant Children ofTropicália (Brazil)Érika Machado(Wed., the Rio, 1am)Samba-rock meets Nintendosamplingsynth beats. Os Mutanteswould be proud.Pato Fu (Thu., Momo’s, 8pm)Belo Horizonte quintet has quackedtracks for nine albums.<strong>The</strong> River Raid (Sat., Fuze, 8pm)Forty years ago, these Recife rockerswould have been exiled.Holger (Sat., Club 115, 9pm)São Paulo crew sprinkles power-popwith banjo licks.Cassim & Barbária(Fri., the Rio, 10pm)Subtropicalists from southern Brazilexperiment with aural alchemy.– Thomas FawcettGORDON GANO& THE RYANBROTHERS1am, the ParishDownstairs Best knownfor providing generationsof brooding adolescentswith the Violent Femmes’self-titled 1983 debut,Gordon Gano first collaboratedwith Billy andBrendan Ryan from indiepop outfit the Bogmenin 2001. Since then, theGano/Ryan team hasuncapped an eclectic torrentof songs that jumpfrom dark gospel and offkilterAmericana to skittishrock. – Greg BeetsBENJY FERREE1am, Buffalo BilliardsBenjy Ferree’s new mouthfulof a sophomore album,Come Back to the Fiveand Dime Bobby DeeBobby Dee (Domino), isas improbable in soundas subject – a tributeto tragic Peter Pan childactor Bobby Driscoll. Yetthe D.C. songwriter rollsthrough stripped bluesrock, Beach Boys pop,bruising Link Wray riffs,and moments of Southernsoul caught in his twingedtenor. – Doug FreemanVIJAY KISHORE1am, Creekside at Hilton Garden InnBirmingham folk-popster Kishore has beencompared to everyone from Jeff Buckley toNina Simone, but we like to think of him asthat bald Desi heartbreaker everyone’s goingto be talking about the day you slept in late.Wake up to his lovely debut EP, Done It Again.– Marc SavlovTANYA MORGAN1:10am, Back Alley Social While the namesuggests the next neo-soul songstress, TanyaMorgan is in fact three dudes. <strong>The</strong> team ofCincinnati MCs Ilyas and Donwill plus BrooklynMC/producer Von Pea dropped Moonlighting in2006, and sophomore LP Brooklynati is dueout this year. Spitting over Von Pea’s Dillaesquebeats, the crew riffs off classic materialfrom OutKast to Busta Rhymes.– Thomas FawcettHank IVSiltbreeze8pm, Soho Lounge When Siltbreeze Records started in Philadelphia, 1989, the criteriafor putting out an album was pretty cut-and-dry: Founder Tom Lax liked it. That includedthe Dead C, Harry Pussy, Sebadoh, and Bardo Pond offshoot Alasehir, among others.After a decadelong onslaught of releases, Siltbreeze laid dormant for about three yearswhile Lax focused on other things.“<strong>The</strong> late 1990s and early part of this decade saw some really terrible m<strong>usic</strong>, undergroundas well as pop culture,” he says. “I wasn’t into what I was hearing, so Iimmersed myself in the culinary world, becoming an executive chef in the process. Ididn’t have time to be bogged down with releasing CDs that only about 100 peoplewanted. So I stopped.”<strong>The</strong>n he heard a demo from a Columbus, Ohio, trio called Times New Viking.“Listening to the first track on that demo, the opening sounded like Blurt’s ‘<strong>The</strong> FishNeeds a Bike.’ I was sold.”If you don’t get that reference, Lax is used to it. Siltbreeze has been around for 20years now and is still vital, which doesn’t seem crazy to him. “This business is full ofpeople who operate within the Dorian Gray parameters,” he sums up. “Noise and lo-fi,like candy and cavities, will never go away.”This year’s showcase features eardrum-rattling candy from Ratas del Vaticano, EatSkull, Hank IV, Psychedelic Horseshit, Naked on the Vague, U.S. Girls, LosLlamarada, and FNU Ronnies.– Audra Schroeder12 Canucks Shilling SlangMoka Only & Def 3 (Fri., the M<strong>usic</strong> Gym Patio, 10:40pm)Rhymesayers Entertainment has friends across the border.Jesse Dangerously (Fri., Prague, 10:30pm)Supporting the idea that Canadians are also funny whenthey’re angry.Beast (Thu., Maggie Mae’s Rooftop, 9pm)Scary, scary Southern-styled trip-hop.Grand Analog (Fri., the M<strong>usic</strong> Gym Patio, 9:30pm)Live band drops reggae-hop like Minnesota’s Heiruspecs.Keys n Krates (Fri., the M<strong>usic</strong> Gym Patio, 10pm)Remixing the remix from inside a jungle party.Empire Isis (Wed., Pangaea, 11pm)January’s Brand New Style, cut in New York, Montreal, Tel Aviv,and Kingston.Buck 65 (Sat., Scoot Inn, 11pm)Gravelly and just bizarre enough for the Strange Famous lineup.Classified (Fri., the M<strong>usic</strong> Gym Patio, 12:30am)EmpireIsisThis April’s Self Explanatory finds a bass-voiced MC riding low, soulful beats.Josh Martinez (Fri., the M<strong>usic</strong> Gym Patio, 11:15pm)Chicharones’ MC probably passes more than a mic with Devin the Dude.More or Les (Fri., the M<strong>usic</strong> Gym Patio, 9pm)Gift of Gab voice hype, hype, hypes it up.Shad (Fri., Wave, 8pm; the M<strong>usic</strong> Gym Patio, 11:55pm)“Vibes and Stuff,” and Marvin Gaye.D.O. (Fri., the M<strong>usic</strong> Gym Patio, 8:30pm)Blind locals could mistake the North Starr for Young Nick.– Chase Hoffberger40 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE SXSW MUSIC SUPPLEMENT MARCH 20, 20<strong>09</strong> a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m
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