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Abbey Fox writesAbbey Fox Goes to SXSW2015: Day 2
CHIRP Radio’s Abbey Fox visited this year’s South by Southwest Music Festival and documented her experiences. Click here to read about Day 1. Day three will be posted tomorrow!
Day 2
After a huge breakfast at Magnolia Cafe (more breakfast tacos because #yolo), it was time for Day 2. I started the day off solo with a goal of getting back to Red 7 but allowed myself to be distracted by whatever sounded cool.
That first distraction was Slow Down Molasses at the Canadian showcase. Described as “the Broken Social Scene of the prairies,” I immediately dug their indie sound and lady vocalist.
Setting back out to my original destination, I was invited in to The Lolo’s, a Californian band with an Americana indie sound. Up next was The Black and White at a random tent off of Red River Road, playing me an 80’s reminiscent set that would make HAIM proud.
Abbey Fox writesAbbey Fox Goes to SXSW2015: Day 1
CHIRP Radio’s Abbey Fox visited this year’s South by Southwest Music Festival and documented her experiences. Day 1 of her journal is below. Tune in tomorrow for Day 2 and Wednesday for Day 3!
While three times the charm is a tired and trite phrase, it is also an adequate description of my experience last week in Austin. After a two year hiatus, last Wednesday I hopped on a plane to Austin for my third SXSW. A lot happened in those two years, but most obvious (and most accidentally) was the fact that I had distanced myself from independent music. I got tired. I felt like I couldn’t keep up. I stopped going to shows because I was sick of crowds and drunk people who talked loudly during quiet moments. I got frustrated when I could seemingly only watch shows through the lens of someone else’s iPhone. I wondered, is this what getting older feels like?
Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesThe Week That Was and Will Be: What’s Happening at CHIRP Radio (3/30/15)
Special Announcements:
- A huge THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to our Spring Fund Raiser! Thanks to your efforts, we have exceeded our goals for contributions and new Sustaining Members!
New Media:
- Dylan Peterson Interviews Jimmy Whispers
- Shawna Kaiser interviews Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
- Edwidge Danticat returns to Columbia College’s Story Week Festival of Writers
- It’s Round Three of CHIRP Radio’s Battle of the Bands
- Makaya McCraven’s In Rotation
- The MP3 Shuffle: Happy Birthday Keith Flint of The Prodigy
Tyler Clark presents: Local Mythologies writesCHIRP Battle of the Bands 2015: Round Three
The battle for CHIRP Radio's first-ever fan favorite award got serious this week, with the sixteen surviving bands from Round One engaging in e-fisticuffs to grab a few all-important votes. Here are the highlights:
Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesFriday MP3 Shuffle - Happy Birthday Keith Flint Edition
Today we wish a very Happy Birthday to Keith Flint, lead vocalist for the band The Prodigy. This group helped pioneer the Big Beat electronic music sub-genre in the ‘90s with a sound that, like the mighty shark, hasn’t evolved much over time, mainly because it hasn’t had to. Their fundamentally loud, abrasive, scorching sound doesn’t lend itself to mainstream consumption. It's music for raving, and Flint’s Punk-as-@$!*, trouble-in-mind voice is a perfect front for the assault. Let’s wish him a Happy B-Day (and good luck with the band’s new album, The Day Is My Enemy, coming out next week) by taking your MP3 player, pressing the "shuffle" button, and sharing the first 10 songs you hear: