Los Angeles veterans Earlimart will be at Home Slice Pizza on Saturday, March 21, for a free show featuring other bands as well. See if Aaron and Ariana are keeping their vow to release a new album every year.
Earlimart: Cigarettes and Kerosene from Hymn and Her (2008)
MySpace | Website | Label: Majordomo Records
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Photo by alt-gramma at the Echoplex
The Shys from San Clemente, CA, have a White Stripes-influenced sound and are very busy at SXSW with shows at various venues from Thursday, March 19, through Saturday, March 21. Check their MySpace page for specifics.
The Shys: Mercy from You’ll Never Understand This Band The Way That I Do (2008)
MySpace | Website | Label: Aeronaut Records
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Photo by Jason Lee Parry
Juliette Commagére is now solo from Hello Stranger, but she hooked bandmate Joachim Cooder (son of Ry) as husband in a recent onstage ceremony in Las Vegas that was officiated by Maynard James Keenan of Tool and Puscifer (here). She’ll be at The Rusty Spurs on Saturday, March 21, at 8 PM with Echo and the Bunnymen! Following that she’ll be touring the British Isles and Europe.
Juliette Commagére: Hearts from Queens Die Proudly (2008)
MySpace | Label: AeronautRecords
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Andy Cabic’s Vetiver, currently based in San Francisco, ranges from easy acoustic to subtly electric. Vetiver’s fourth studio album, Tight Knit was released a couple of weeks ago, so their shows at Emo’s Jr. on Wednesday, March 18, and the Radio Room on Thursday, March 19, will be showcasing their new stuff. This track starts off low-key but builds to a bluesy climax that gives an idea what a live show must sound like.
Vetiver: Hurry On Sundown from Thing of the Past (2008)
MySpace | Website | Label: Subpop Records
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And now for something completely different: Los Angeles band Casxio channel Michael Jackson falsetto through a funky Motown dance groove. They’ll be performing various shows all four days of SXSW, so check out their MySpace page. This track is from an as-yet unreleased and untitled album.
Casxio: Seventeen
MySpace | Website | Label: Unsigned!
One more: The Warlocks of Los Angeles demonstrate the influence 70’s psychedelia and electric fuzz and drone of Roky Erickson, Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Their fifth album, The Mirror Explodes, will be released later this year. Catch them at several dates in Austin, beginning with the Vulcan Gas Co. 2 on March 15 and culminating with the Tee Pee Records/LA Record Party on the 21st.
The Warlocks: Red Camera from The Mirror Explodes (2009)
MySpace | Website | Label: Tee Pee Records
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And note that Lower Heaven (see my show review), who are also playing Psychfest 2 in Austin next week along with The Warlocks, will be staying in town to play a bunch of SXSW shows. Check their MySpace page for all the dates and venues.
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Have downloaded ‘em all and looking forward to listening later on. Great post!
March 5th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Thanks, Agnes! SXSW is a huge, huge source of good, new music. I still wanna go.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Oh me too, like you wouldn’t believe! They don’t have anything even remotely like that here in Oz.
March 6th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
It is incredibly for me to like every single song in a multi track post, but I love every single one of these songs. That Casxio track in particular is unreal!
I tip my hat to you my friend…
March 8th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
I like all of these a lot too, not to mention I’ve been an Earlimart fan for years. I will have more SXSW samples this week that I am also extremely impressed with.
March 9th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Don’t forget Sleepy Sun out of Santa Cruz! I believe they are playing with Vetiver.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Right! I’ll try to work Sleepy Sun in this week too.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:01 pm