Posts Tagged ‘SXSW’
Music The Vines
December 11, 2009 - 5:35 pm
There’s something different yet oh-so-familiar about The Vines. They play unpolished proto-punk–the kind your daddy would have liked, probably, had he been a punk rocker, perhaps the kind The MC5 and some of their cohorts of the time would have churned out. There’s even a little bit of, dare I say, The Pistols themselves in there, a bit of the Clash–if you remember what loud, distorted guitar, a chugging, bottom-end bass, and just good old-fashioned Marshall amp feedback was like. It might be a welcome change from all the teenybopper pseudo-punk you hear nowadays, and is best appreciated LIVE–in this case, at the SXSW Festival, and available now on Red Bull Music Academy Radio.
Music Late of the Pier
April 3, 2009 - 10:02 am
Jack Paradise would like you to know that 2009 will birth the third coming of the “Summer of Love” and he personally would like to wish you “Happy Hunting”.
I can’t tell you with any certainty just what in the hell he his talking about at this moment, as I’m a tad busy getting my ass kicked at Connect-Four by Red Dog Consuela. Not to mention that it is bat shit loud in here and he could’ve said something else. You see, I happen to be at a press junket with three quarters of Late of the Pier.
Late of the Pier – Space and the Woods
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Film Joe Swanberg: Mumblecore’s Soft Spoken Saint
April 2, 2009 - 9:23 am

Joe Swanberg’s first feature, Kissing on the Mouth, cost a mere $1,200 and his expectations for it were realistic. He thought a few people might kind of like his little movie. Joe didn’t expect his heart-wrenchingly realistic autopsy of male/female relationships to spawn a style that quickly evolved into a movement known as “Mumblecore.”
Mumblecore is indie films’ tastiest flavor and it’s about to emerge onto the shores of the mainstream. Swanberg’s latest, Alexander the Last, premieres at SXSW and, in a bold move by distributor IFC, will bypass theatrical distribution and debut as VOD (video-on-demand) for anyone with internet access to see.
Joe reminisces fondly about film, fun and South by…
Film Winnebago Man
March 18, 2009 - 11:35 am
“…hysterical, pee-your-pants-funny and tragically touching…”
“I don’t want anymore bullshit from anyone and that includes me! No more!!!” Angrier words may have never been spoken on internet video than these. This collection of outtakes from an old industrial film features a frustrated old gentleman stumbling to just get through dialog that he himself wrote. He’s clearly having the worst day in his life and his expletive-laden rants have become the stuff of internet video legend. The video was originally passed among collectors on VHS tape decades ago, then made its way onto YouTube, the place where the pain and embarassment of others become hilariously entertaining. The millions who watched it made Jeck Rebney a reluctant internet star. But what is this man really like? Why was he so angry? And how did this entertaining video become so public? Who is Jack Rebney and where is he today?
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