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Austin’s THE KHOST Premiere ‘Nuremberg’ Video Ahead of SXSW and Album Release

Posted on by Kate Stevens

Austin’s rising post rock DIY band THE KHOST premiere their brand new video, Nuremberg, exclusively on IRC. The video premiere comes just hours before the band performs at one of the first showcases to kick off South By Southwest 2016.

The Pull String Event Showcase, at the landmark Mohawk venue, also features indie artists like Human Circuit, Young Tongue, Twin Scars and Wildcat Apollo. THE KHOST will go on stage at 11:30pm.

Guitarist and vocalist Robert Avila directed and edited the video for the song “Nuremberg,” from the band’s new album, Stella Maris, set to drop on March 24th with a release party at Cheer Up Charlies in Austin.

Avila said the song is loosely based off of the mysterious 1561 ‘UFO aerial battle’ over Nuremberg, Germany, depicted in a broadsheet (early newspapers) account accompanied by a Hans Glaser woodcut mixed with a fictional story of two modern day humans who witness such an event and don’t know what to make of it.

The filming process for this unique and truly brilliant video (the first of such kind we’ve every seen) is compelling. “I filmed it using a couple of lights and a blanket to create silhouettes of each band member,” Avila says.

“Then I took multiple shots of food dye being dropped into a glass of water. We loved the way it looked and decided to make it into our new video.”

THE KHOST official website
THE KHOST on Facebook

Songwriting Competition Winner Katie Stump’s New Video and SXSW Showcase

Posted on by Max Hammer

Singer/songwriter Katie Stump has dropped her new video, Minnesota, the second video from her critically acclaimed EP, Feels Like Home. The video, set to the breathtaking song itself, is a heartbreaking song of loss and longing of someone close, and the emotional turmoil it causes.

Born and raised in Fullerton, California, Stump grew up in a musical family, and was encouraged to pursue music at a young age. Over the past year Katie has emerged as one of the most exciting up and coming young artist, and recently won the coveted U.S.A. Songwriter competition.

With the kick-off of SXSW today, the album and video release are perfect timing as Stump will be the featured artist at the USA Songwriting Competition Showcase this Friday evening at Mozart’s in Austin.

Her new EP was produced by Grammy Award winning producer Mikal Blue (Colbie Caillat, Jason Mraz, One Republic).

Katie Stump on Facebook

SXSW 2013 Playlist of Must-See Artists and Bands

Posted on by Max Hammer

Each year, the SXSW film and music festival in Austin, Texas hosts a blockbuster bonanza of music performances from roughly lunch time to as late as 3 or 4 a.m. the following morning. And each year, literally hundreds upon hundreds of artists and bands of every imaginable genre, from locales all across the United States and Canada, and cities and town on six continents around the world, descend on Austin during the second week of March for the largest annual gathering of musicians anyway on the planet.

From popular indie bands to DIY alternative rockers, celebrity artists and obscure musicians, from electro pop duos to folk music collectives, masters of punk to veterans of classic rock, and every other type of configuration and style of music you can possibly think of (and those which you never knew existed), SXSW has it all.

They perform in bars, clubs, theaters, music halls, churches, school gyms, hotel lobbies, restaurants, auditoriums, outdoor stages, street corners, vacant lots, rooftops, bicycle shops, pizza joints, alley ways and homes – it doesn’t matter where you go – for four to five days, Austin is home to a non-stop music marathon. Bands are made and broken; artists rise and fall; dreams are launched or crushed each year at SXSW.

The music industry, including CEOs of the biggest record companies and owners of the smallest labels, plus scouts, A&R reps, producers, engineers, managers, publicists, PR executives, among others, from around the world come out in full force; as do gaggles of reporters, writers, photographers, editors, and columnists from the largest to the smallest newspapers, magazines and blogs; not to mention hosts, anchors, correspondents, cameramen, and sound engineers from hundreds of TV and cable news and entertainment outfits, as well as deejays, program directors and staff from radio stations across the globe.

If you’re somehow involved in music, the journey to and through Austin’s city limits each March for the experience of a lifetime.

And then of course there are the music lovers, who flock by the thousands to make the pilgrimage, even if only once in their lives,