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WAVVES, aka Nathan Williams, the popular noise pop one-man band, was a big hit at South By Southwest this year. Check out these tunes from his set (via lullabyes):
Intro
To The Dregs
So Bored
…Tried to Stop Me
Wavves
See IRC’s previous post about WAVVES.
Look out for more new releases and songs coming in the next couple of days. Sign up for the Feed Me Indie RSS feed or follow IRC on Twitter.
Fans of Austin band Voxtrot – who have been on a hiatus for two year – may be glad to hear that the band has a new song produced, recorded and mixed by Spoon’s Jim Eno called “Trepanation Party.” No word however from the band about an upcoming album.
Below are also new tunes from Pomegranates, The Grates, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Neko Case. All songs have been reviewed and approved.
“Trepanation Party” – Voxtrot, newly released single
“Kid Gloves” – Voxtrot
“Corriander” – Pomegranates from Everybody, Come Outside!
“Zero” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs, newly released single
“Middle Cyclone” – Neko Case from Middle Cyclone
The Spinto Band throw it downWith SXSW at full throttle, here’s the final playlist of bands performing over the next four days.
You can check the official schedule for show times or check out this nicely compiled day/time/venue schedule. The following represents bands – from S to Z – that are particularily of interest this year.
The previous two playlists: A to M | N to R
“Northwestern Girls” – Say Hi from Seattle WA
“Snow Leopard” – Shearwater from Austin TX
“Ghost Town” – Shiny Toy Guns from Oklahoma City OK
“I’m a Machine” – Slaraffenland from Copenhagen, Denmark
“Summer Grof” – The Spinto Band from Wilmington DE
“SIQ” – Supersonic from Bupadest, Hungary
“Everybody Say” – Takka Takka from Brooklyn NY
“The Gardner” – The Tallest Man On Earth from Karlstad, Sweden
“Coast of Carolina” – Telekinesis from Seattle WA
“Bag of Hammers” – Thao from San Francisco CA
“Non Dairy Creamer” – Third Eye Blind from San Francisco CA
“Honor Amongst Thieves” – These United States from Washington DC
“She Had a Knife” – This Drama from Spain
“Everyone Know Has a Smile” – The Uglysuit from Oklahoma City OK
“Every Day” – Vetiver from San Francisco CA
“Kid Gloves” – Voxtrot from Austin TX
“Never Had Nobody Like You” – M Ward from Portland OR
“Beach Demon” – WAVVES from San Diego CA
“Learn to Learn” – The Week That Was from Sunderland UK
“Quiet Little Voices” – We Were Promised Jetpacks from Glasgow Scotland
Austin band Okkervil RiverToday marks the officially beginning of the South by Southwest music conference. Yesterday, we published a list of 35 artists and bands to look out for at SXSW 09. Here is the completion of that list featuring songs from SXSW booked artists, letters N through R.
“Automatic Blues” – Neat Neat Neat from Hamburg DE
“Beast” – Nico Vega from Los Angeles CA
“Eraser” – No Age from Los Angeles, CA
“Lost Coastlines” – Okkervil River from Austin TX
“Hard Times in America” – Willie Nile from New York NY
“Wet Gold” – The Octopus Project from Austin TX
“Let’s Get It Started” – Oh No Not Stereo from Los Angeles CA
“Ferocious” – OK City OK from Tokyo Japan
“Sofa Surfer Girl” – The Orchid Highway from Vancouver BC
“Young Adult Friction” – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart from New York, NY
“No Place Like Home” – Out From Animals from Chester UK
“Walk On” – Palomar from Brooklyn NY
“Sleepyhead” – Passion Pit from Boston MA
“Mr. Understanding” – Pete and The Pirates from Reading UK
“Gimme Chemicals” – The Pink Spiders from Nashville TN
“I Woke Up Today” – Port O’Brien from Cambria CA
“Tora Tora Tora” – Pretty & Nice from Boston MA
“Dying is Fine” – Ra Ra Riot from Syracuse NY
“New Scissors” – Royal Bangs from Knoxville TN
“Frank AB” – The Rural Alberta Advantage from Toronto ON
Bands S through Z coming up.
This is another stellar year for South by Southwest. Even though the world’s most famous music conference doesn’t officially kick off until tomorrow, there is so much going on that even a team of 15 reporters (like some media outlets have) cannot possible cover it all.
The following playlist is just a sample of the many artists and bands performing at SXSW 09; out of necessity, I parred down the full list of artists to those which I like the most. Enjoy.
“Stay Son” – A Classic Education from Bologna, Italy
“Dimmer” – Bishop Allen from Brooklyn NY
“Around Your Neck” – Annuals from Raleigh NC
“Oh Katrina” – Black Lips from Atlanta GA
“Old Home Movies” – The Botticellis from San Francisco CA
“24 Hour Heartbreak” – The Cloud Room Brooklyn NY
“Crystal Stilts” – Crystal Stilts from New York NY
“Turn Cold” – Cut Off Your Hands Auckland NZ
“Fa-Fa-Fa” – Datarock from Bergen, Norway
“All The Money I Had is Gone” – The Deep Dark Woods from Saskatoon SK
“Longtime” – Deer Tick from Providence RI
“Capture and Develop” – The Details from Winnipeg MB
“The Hangmen” – Dirtblonde from Liverpool UK
“Seasickness Pills” – Drink Up Buttercup from Horsham PA
“Face Down in the Right Town” – Earlimart from Los Angeles CA
“Welcome Ghosts” – Explosions in the Sky from Austin TX
“Red Gun” – The Forms from New York NY
“Two Sinners in the Garden” – David Garza from Austin TX
“Spirited” – Laura Gibson from Portland OR
“Pharmacy” – Golden Boys from Austin TX
“Deep Sea Diver” – Grizzly Bear Brooklyn NY
“OK Goodbye” – Adam Heldring from Stockholm, Sweden
“Robin” – Little Black Dress from Houston TX
“Let It Rain” – Living Things from Salt Lake City UT
“Ordinary Song” – The Little Ones from Los Angeles CA
“Year of the Dog” – The Lovely Sparrows from Austin TX
“Ignorant Boy” – Loney Dear from Jonkoping Sweden
“Hey Boy” – The Magic Kids from Memphis TX
“At the Mountains of Madness” – Magic Lantern from Long Beach CA
“Sleepy Lion” – Magic Magic from Boston MA
“Wake the Sun” – The Matches from Oakland CA
“Meet Me in the Garden” – Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele from Oxford MS
“The Cannibal Queen” – Miniature Tigers from Phoenix AZ
“Bus Stop Lovers” – My Federation from Hove UK
Artists and bands N-Z will be published tomorrow for the official first day of SXSW 2009.
Cool SXSW Links
SXSW Official Website – Check official show times and venues
Free South by Southwest Sampler from NPR
SXSW 2009 Twitter Visualizer
Nathan Williams, aka WAVVES, photo courtesy of SPIN magazineOne thing that WAVVES, Deastro and Alaska in Winter have in common is that they are essentially one-man bands that all have emerged to prominence in the past year and each use monikers rather than their real names, adding an extra element of intrigue to their art.
Attendees of the ultimate indie music event, South by Southwest, will have multiple chances to see all three artists perform at different venues at different times during SXSW in Austin next week – March 18-22.
So we decided to do a little feature on each artist because they share so much in common – not to mention that they are each amazing musicians. First up is WAVVES. From mixing and recording his own songs influenced by The Beach Boys, Nirvana and Sonic Youth on the Mac software GarageBand to near instant stardom in the alt music world, 22-year-old San Diego resident Nathan Williams is on his own wave of success.
WAVVES debut album quickly became one of 2008’s ‘surprise’ hits with raves on influential music blogs and even in the mainstream music press. And for good reason – this kid can rock – and do it all by himself. When performing live he has friend and drummer Ryan Ulsh lay down the beats. WAVVES new album, Wavvves, is set to drop March 17.
“So Bored” – WAVVES from new album Wavvves
“Beach Demon” – WAVVES from new album Wavvves
WAVVES is slated to perform no less than nine shows at SXSW.
Today’s batch of new songs features artists who will be performing at this year’s South by Southwest conference in Austin, from March 18-22. IRC will be featuring dozens of artists and bands from now until the end of SXSW, including live performances, updates, playlists, features and more.
Here are new tracks from Portland’s Gavin Castleton, Brooklyn’s newest electro-pop sensation BELL, Texan singer songwriter Robert Gomez, Alabama’s indie rockers All The Saints and another Portland artist Tara Jane O’Neil.
“Coffelocks” – Gavin Castleton from Home
Gavin Castleton on MySpace
“Magic Tape” – BELL from Magic Tape coming out March 24nd
“New Bridge”
BELL on MySpace
“Fire on Corridor X” – All the Saints from Fire on Corridor X
All The Saints on MySpace
“On This Day” Robert Gomez from Pine Sticks & Phosphorus out April 14th
Robert Gomez on MySpace
“Drowning” Tara Jane O’Neil from A Ways Away out May 5th
Tara Jane O’Neil on MySpace
To see the full list of artists and schedules for SXSW 2009, click here.
