I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness has been on a brake. Not your typical ‘Hey , I thought it was o.k. to stick it in any waitress I encountered because we were on a break’, type of break, but just a well deserved year long hiatus to unwind from touring with their debut album Fear Is On Our Side and have a couple of kiddos.
Colin Munroe’s music is akin to a taco – a thin white shell filled with anything his brain decides to add to the musical ingredients – which is suiting seeing as he favors tacos over BBQ for the local Austin fare.
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Colin Munroe is a very clever up and coming artist out of Canada. We think he’s dreamy! Like a pop-rock cupcake with hip-hop and electronic sprinkles, he incorporates diverse influences, from the above U2 cover, to Bob Dylan and Kanye West. The outcome, tasty treats!
We’ll give you a little Colin fix later this week when we sit down with him in Austin.
Myspace: www.myspace.com/colinmunroe
FACT: Last month Japan exported more than 2.4 million metric tons of various metals to more than 60 countries. Now this is just a carney guess, but it appears that 825lbs of that metal was in the form of the electronica alt metal band FACT, which just left the stage.
It’s pretty rare to come across an act the caliber of Somali-Canadian-Earthling K’naan. I can safely say he’s the only artist at SXSW whose last gig before jumping a jet to ATX was playing at the UN General Assembly. That probably makes him the only person to have rapped for Nas and Desmond Tutu. Lucky badge-holders are already lining up to catch K’naan’s next set at one of the festival’s most interesting evenings of music showcases, Afro-Punk, which will be hitting Austin Music Hall Thursday night. The collection of artists are all leading the charge away from over-commercialized rap and into uncharted territories. Big Boi will be playing with a punk band along with Janelle Moreau, K’naan and Dallas Austin.
“…a documentary that does not contain any monsters, but it will scare you.”
To be clear, Monsters from the ID is a documentary that does not contain any monsters, but it will scare you. The film argues that science has been at the root of solving our modern problems, but their aren’t nearly enough scientists to tackle what lies in our future. And we’re distracted by the media’s obsession with new kinds of heroes. The heroes of today score points in sports as professional athletes, score fans rocking out on stage as rock stars or score laughs as a reality TV stars — these are the heroes revered by the public and the media.
You are robbing from yourself if you don’t find a chance to see King Khan and the Shrines during this year’s festival. From the moment Khan steps onto the stage, cape flowing and beer pitcher in hand, the audience is within his grasp. An unholy concoction of Elvis, Ike Turner and the Sonics, it wasn’t more than ten minutes before the small crowd at Bird’s Barbershop was singing back a slamming call-and-response on the topic of transsexuals.
