Tag Archives: Carniville
Austin TX Gallery Kittles and Strangeland Go to Austin
Yasmine Kittles and William Stangeland Menchaca of Tearist performed at Carniville on Saturday. The LA-based duo played early in the day to a sparse crowd but that didn’t keep them from pulling out all the stops. It’s obvious that Yasmine is at home on stage, jumping from one side to another, dramatically swooping her head, as if encouraging the wind to have its way with her long, dark locks.
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Austin TX Gallery Carniville Gets Global with The Very Best
“The audience—that’s what I love—the energy of people, just to be able to share that positivity,” Mo-Laudi of The Very Best tells me following one of the most powerful sets of Carniville. “It just blows my mind away. It’s just like a wheel of energy.”
Austin TX Featured Gallery The Death Set : Absolute Energy
The Death Set doesn’t like to sit still—literally and figuratively. The on-stage experience of this globetrotting modern punk trio sparked in Australia and currently based in Brooklyn is absolute insanity—mad drinking, sweating, stage diving, and pure unadulterated energy. It might just be one of the most enjoyable sets you ever see. And that’s coming from someone who doesn’t know a lot about punk.
Gallery Music Japanther Rocks Carniville
The first hard rays of Austin’s afternoon sun were going to have to work a bit harder to beat back the crowd at Carniville on Thursday afternoon. As it was, the heat was no match for the lure of free beer, a wild musical lineup, actual carny rides and corndogs. Those assembled quickly formed the beer recyler line – that is getting in line for a beer, then getting to the back of the line, drinking it in time to get a refill. Surely not a great combination with the Tilt-aPuke spinning madly in the background. In the background, DJ Paul Devroe spun some slow southern fried rap cuts, perfectly made for such lazy sun drenched and immobile afternoons. The line started swaying and jiggling, and just waiting for something to really catch hold.
Austin TX Music Franki Chan’s Austin Takeover
For the tens of thousands of music heads who descend on Austin, TX each March for the SXSW music conference, the accompanying day parties have grown to equal the official night time showcases. And no place is this more true than this year’s Carniville—three days of music and mayhem presented by Mad Decent, Jelly NYC and IHeartComix. With headline acts Major Lazer, The Walkmen and Diplo, plus almost 40 other artists, rides, games…oh, and free booze, this is one fiesta not to be missed. Chinashop will be there and we asked IHeartComix head Franki Chan to get us psyched. Read the full story






