Tag: SXSW
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Thinking Back To… SXSW 1998
Sean Palmerston thinks back to his first SXSW festival experience back in 1998, featuring Shallow North Dakota, QOTSA and Man’s Ruin Records
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Jay H. Gorania’s SXSW 2012 – Part 2
By Jay H. Gorania Friday, March 16 It seems likely only in some perverse, alternate universe that a former member of Today is the Day would be in a band with a member of Fall Out Boy, but it’s true. It’s Milwaukee’s Enabler. If it wasn’t for the damn crowds and time consuming travel during…
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Jay H. Gorania’s SXSW 2012 – Part 1
1808, on the “other side” of the highway, where a crack dealer is literally in sight, the ghetto neighborhood was a fitting home for br00tal music.
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You’re dead to me, Canadian Music Week!
Canadian Music Week has always been the first weekend in March, and as such, I’ve adjusted/cleared my schedule accordingly for the past few years. But this year, they’ve decided to make a change, moving the event to the fourth weekend of the month. The official reasoning I’ve heard is they want to have it after…
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Hellbound Staff Interrogations #11: Laina Dawes
Today’s interview is with Toronto metal writer and upcoming book author Laina Dawes
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Queens Of The Stone Age – s/t (vinyl reissue)
As a long awaited reissue, the new 2011 version of this album is about as good as it gets.
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SXSW Day 1 Videos: Kvelertak, Worm Ouroboros, Witch Mountain and Agalloch
Just before heading down to SXSW this year I bought a new Kodak Sport handheld camera to document some of the bands I saw. Here are some videos that I made of bands that I saw on my first day there, Thursday, March 17th
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Jay H. Gorania’s SXSW 2011 – Part 1
If the cataclysmic, earthquaking rumble beneath Japan was felt stateside, it was surely through Yob’s bottom-heavy, Sabbath-via-Cathedral-and-Sleep riffs. Their music and vocals and presence were passionate and ritualistic. Because of the repetitive nature of the riff-driven madness, the songs stay with you long after they’ve finished playing, bouncing around from synapse-to-synapse in your tenderized gray…