Steel Train Announces Tour Dates, Conan O’Brien Performance Tonight
Posted on 07. Jul, 2008 by spencer in Music
During SXSW 2007, Synthesis co-sponsored a Drive-Thru Records party at Emo’s. While an endless throng of rock bands set up, played and subsequently broke down, most of us Syn folks enjoyed the free beers and free Mexican food, chatting with publicists, band members and rock music aficionados. Honestly, no Drive-Thru bands were bad by any means, but the only one that really impressed me was Steel train. Especially moving was their cover of Pink Floyd’s “Have A Cigar,” a song about being fed up with music industry bullshit. This [...]
SXSW 2008: Does Anyone Care?
Posted on 25. Feb, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Lifestyle, Music, SXSW
My earlier post about SXSW 2008 got me thinking: where are all the party invites, press releases hyping showcases and all the other annual hoopla surrounding what is supposedly the music industry’s most important yearly gathering? The pre-festival buzz for this year’s festival hasn’t just been toned down, its been practically non-existent. A non-scientific poll of many of the publicists, industry heads and random cred stackers I got drunk with last year at SXSW finds that most of them are taking a pass on SXSW 2008. It seems like they [...]
