[videoblogging] SxSW: Artist Interviews and 'casting

[Corey Denis]

hi there,

Just got the confirmation for an IODA podcasting/ vcasting lounge across the street from our party at sxsw - we have rented additional space for podcasters & 'casters & vloggers in general to conduct artist interviews & 'casts. if you will be around sxsw/ austin on the 15th let me know and we can set it all up. over 205 artists from our labels have shows at sxsw, so there's lots of interviewing possibilities. meanwhile, here are the party details, (below) with the lounge info at the bottom. You can also opt to interview/ do a piece on the artists at our party - just contact me so we can work out the details etc. You can email me directly here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hope everyone is well

Corey
http://IODAlliance.com
http://promonet.iodalliance.com

<x-tad-bigger>IODA’s 2nd Annual SXSW Kickoff Party
Presented by OutThink Media, Groupie Tunes, Indie911 and SynthesisMagazine
 
When: Wednesday March 15, 2006 1- 6 PM
Where: Emos Annex (Corner of 6th and Red River)
 
1:00pm The Herms (Jackpine Social Club)
1:30pm Phosophorescent (Misra Records)
2:00pm Magneta Lane (Paper Bag Records)
2:30pm Oranger (Amazing Grease Records)
3:15pm The Mutts (FatCat Records)
3:45pm The Slip (ReapandSow)
4:30pm Dengue Fever (M80 Records)
5:15pm Heavyweight Dub Champion w/ </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>special guests</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> Dr. Israel & AWOL One
 
</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>IODA SXSW PODCAST LOUNGE</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>
Live Broadcast and Interviews with IODA Artists, Sponsors, Labels, Friends & More.
When: 3-6 PM 3/15/06
Where: K-Bar (Alternate Corner of 6th and Red River –</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> Directly across the street  from Emo’s Annex</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>)

for anyone interested in info about the bands at the emo's annex party, here are some blurbs :-) </x-tad-bigger>

THE HERMS
Maybe all you really need to know about the Herms can be gleaned from a careful listen to about 30 seconds of "Volleyball Song," By the song's second verse, the saccharine drip of major-chord cheer and a bouncing backbeat has lulled us into a calm just short of a diabetic coma. It's familiar and comfortable. But then, out of nowhere, there's a sucker punch of unexpected melody and tonal oddities. Lutz bats the song about like a coy kitten before letting it scurry away on that backbeat. To the drunks and the bookish types alike, it's clear that he's not merely a clever slacker with a guitar; he is a musician who can raise the hair on the back of your neck.

- Nate Cavalieri SF Weekly


PHOSPHORESCENT
Built on the solid foundations of last year's The Weight Of Flight EP, Aw Come Aw Wry is a musical conglomeration of brash horns, rollicking hoedown rhythms, gospel choirs, all underscored by the slightly askew voice of Houck.
– Hybrid Magazine

Poets rarely show their faces. Will Oldham, Elliott Smith, Will Sheff have all stuck their necks out, and it may well be time to add Matthew Houck to that list. With his Athens, Ga., outfit Phosphorescent, Houck's fragile voice cracks with angst of the heart on the group's sophomore release, Aw Come Aw Wry, their first on Austin's Misra label. That introspection turns into extreme exclamations of joy as Phosphorescent's heavenly trumpets blare and funereal strings scream. Opening with the defensive "Not a Heel," Houck clears the path for the downtrodden and misunderstood with the simple tinkling of the piano and acoustic strumming. –The Austin Chronicle

ORANGER
Culled from such notables as American Sensei and the Stick Figures, Oranger (Mike Drake-Guitar/Vocs, Matt Harris-Bass/Vocs and Jim Lindsay-Drums) rocketed onto the San Francisco music scene with their debut "Doorway To Norway"(Pray For Mojo) in 1998. Critics heralded them as "Pretty Good. Pretty Damn Good, I'll Tell You What!". "Doorway" contained the runaway smash(in Latvia) "Mike Love, Not War" as well as unforgettable tunes like "Eggtooth" and "Donald, You're Freaking Out". Continued rockin' live performances garnished them a reputation as a band people would pay good money to see. This was helped, in part, by the lovable onstage antics of drummer Jim Lindsay who earned favorable comparisons to Keith Moon and Olivia DeHaviland. 2001 saw the release of "The Quiet Vibrationland" (Amazing Grease) and the addition of Patrick Main(Jolly) on Keyboards. The group's sophmore effort found them heading into territory once only inhabited by the high and the mighty. Standouts like "A View Of The City From An Airplane" and "Texas Snow" proved the band still knew how to rock and rock hard, while tracks like "sorry Paul" and "Falling Stars" showed a softer, introspective side. Touring throughout that year gave them their reputation as a "band's band" being asked to join such notables as Guided By Voices, Elliot Smith and Wilco as support. Fast forward to 2003 and the release of "Shutdown The Sun"(Jackpine Social Club). The band has found a distinct voice and every track on the album is a standout. The lucky few who bought one of the first 5000 copies of "Shutdown" also received the 34 track(!) companion cd "From The Ashes Of Electric Elves". With the further addition of Bob Reed(Overwhelming Colorfast) on guitar, the future looks Oranger than ever! - P. Stoff, Flying Pretend Magazine


THE SLIP
Is the Slip an anomaly? Or is music becoming more and more the bailiwick of the stage, less reliant on successful recordings? I’m not sure, and neither is the Slip. But given their current success, the band — Andrew Barr (drums), Marc Friedman (bass), and Brad Barr (guitar, vox), all Berklee dropouts — isn’t quibbling.
Over the past year and a half, the trio has made the kind of progress that local bands only dream about. They’ve played festivals like Bonnaroo (yep, 80,000 plus fans), Bumbershoot out in Seattle, and SXSW down in Austin. They’ve played the stage of Austin City Limits and opened a few shows for the Allman Brothers Band. This kind of thing isn’t supposed to happen to outfits from our neck of the woods. But it’s happening for the Slip, in a most unorthodox way….

… I mean, [The Slip] cleverly devised a way to turn their idiosyncratic craftsmanship into something universally appealing. Strange thing is, that has nothing to do with selling a boatload of records, packing in tight, supersaturated power chords into three-minute uber-productions, or riffing over a monotonous funk rhythm. Rather, it’s just the opposite. The Slip sound is a mix of hippie jug band, jazz fusion, and ambient pop. They rarely lapse into cliché. They always find a zone in which listeners discover the dazzling possibilities and revelations of improvisation.

-Bob Gulla, Providence Phoenix


MAGNETA LANE
Guided by their influences, The Kinks, Sonic Youth, Velvet Underground and Nancy Sinatra, Magneta Lane have created a sound, mood and style all their own. Impressively they preserve their femininity while engaging the audience in positively gritty sounds and wise beyond their year’s lyrics.

- New Music Canada


THE MUTTS
The band, who recently played the CMJ festival in New York and are set to perform at SXSW in Austin Texas in March as a precursor to a full US tour in the early spring, have announced three UK dates to coincide with the single release.


A ferocious live act propelled along by Chris Murtagh’s primal vocals, the last year has seen the band tour extensively with the likes of the Soledad Brothers and The Dirtbombs. A full UK tour to coincide with the release of a new EP is planned for the Spring of 2006, set to herald a more diverse, heavy and blues oriented chapter in the bands recorded history.

DENGUE FEVER
Dengue Fever is in the vanguard of an emerging global pop sensibility, making music that’s both familiar, yet eerily unique. Fronted by Cambodian pop star Ch’hom Nimol, who sings in Khmer, the Los Angeles sextet blends the rhythms of ‘60s Cambodian pop - heavily influenced by American surf, rock and early psychedelic garage bands - with their own eclectic mix of American and international styles.


Unlike the world music bands of the late 80s, Dengue Fever is more concerned with a universal groove and breaking down musical barriers than with notions of authenticity. There are echoes of Bollywood soundtracks, Ethiopian soul, American R&B, Cambodian folk, Spaghetti Western weirdness and girl group angst in the mix, but the resulting concoction is all their own.


HEAVYWEIGHT DUB CHAMPION
w/ special guests Dr. Israel & AWOL one
A live mix on 50 channels of audio, featuring 3 shamanistic sonic alchemists (Resurrector, Patch and Totter Todd), one of the best turntablists in the West (DJ Illnaughty), ceremonial guidance and hip hop divinations by A.P.O.S.T.L.E., reverence and ragga revolution represented by Stero Lion, guest appearances by Wailer B, J Criminology and others, the HDC+ Liberation Process is an extreme musical event. All HDC+ music is fervently original and virtually all sounds are created from scratch.

The live performance is a mixture of prerecorded Champion Nation sounds and beats individually manipulated on analog sound consoles filtered through vintage effects and layered with live performance on vintage synthesizers, saxophone, turntables (for scratching only), percussion, calculated feedback, and vocals. The HDC+ stage set consists of thousands of pounds of some of the most powerful music equipment ever made.

Dr. Israel
Brooklyn-based singer/producer Dr. Israel isn’t a real MD, but he deserves an honorary degree in alchemy for his crafty synthesis of roots reggae, frenetic jungle rhythms, gritty New York hip-hop, and the occasional rattling metal riff. The good doctor has been promoting his musical Frankenstein since the mid ’90s, but his latest album still bristles with the earnest agit-prop and idealistic radicalism of a fresh-faced activist. –Boston Phoenix


AWOL one
Along his journey, AWOL has performed alongside the likes of Common, 2 Live Crew, Eminem, De La Soul, Beat Junkies, Funkdoobiest, Jurassic 5, Del The Funky Homosapien, Hieroglyphics, Aceyalone, Tha Liks, Dilated Peoples, Living Legends, Mix Master Mike, Abstract Rude, Kool Keith, Cypress Hill, Afrika Bambaataa, Swollen Members, Visionaries, the Breeders, Atmosphere, Sage Francis, Fishbone, Los Lobos, Lyrics Born and many many more. AWOL's music has been featured on MTV Road Rules, The Source Sound Lab, and magazines such as URB, Spin, XLR8R, Slap, Thrasher, Vice, Life Sucks Die, Mean Street, Big Time, Revolver, RapPages, L.A. Weekly, O.C Weekly and was winner of 2002 LA Weekly Music Award and many more. . .


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