Black Lips to play Great American Music Hall in San Francisco 4/30/09
Posted on 31. Mar, 2009 by spencer in Music, SXSW
When I checked out The Black Lips at Stubb’s during SXSW 2009 I thought to myself, never have I seen a band that so benefited from the swampy miasma of vocal effects layered over their mix. It was noteworthy, the amount of distorted echoes and reverbs mixing like a stew around their frenetic performance.
Black Lips will be playing at the Great American Music Hall on Thursday, April 30th, 2009 with Flowers Forever and Bridez. From GAMH:
The Black Lips are kings of the psychedelic garage rock underground. They started the [...]
Minor Failure On Easter Monday: Not Remembering Brad Neely
Posted on 01. Apr, 2008 by spencer in Art, Comedy, Idiocy, Internet, Lifestyle, Politics
So while I was pretty happy with one of last Monday’s blogs (‘Tis The Season. My Top 10 favorite Jesus Jokes. Happy Easter Monday), in that it was pretty offensive AND timely, I totally missed out on repping my boy Brad Neely (and by “my boy,” I don’t mean to imply that we’re actually friends with one another. I’m just friends with his work).
Brad’s done some cool things (including recording his own audio track to the first Harry Potter movie, and touring arthouse theatres with it), and while his [...]
Four Days after SXSW and Me Feet Still Hurt
Posted on 20. Mar, 2008 by spencer in Idiocy, SXSW
I remember my first South by Southwest experience pretty well, considering the whole kid in a candy store / free music, free booze thing that happens in Austin TX every March. But the one thing I remember most was how much my feet hurt after the second day, and how happy I was when I visited the Riot Act Media party and found out that they were giving away free shoes. Saucony Jazz sneakers. I had brought nice-looking, but ill-fitting kicks with me, and once slipping into a pair of [...]
Sunday Evening (Monday Morning, actually), 5:00 AM, SXSW ‘08, Catharsis in Mid-career Anti-Crisis and the Crashing Destruction of a Former Life
Posted on 17. Mar, 2008 by spencer in Chico, Comedy, Fashion, Idiocy, Music, SXSW
I was pretty clear on what I was about to write until I got back on the dock and realized that my 24 hour $11 internet connection had prematurley expired, so we are free balling this one.
First and foremost, however, BALLS. Bollocks, if you will.
Sadly, Jill (whom I mentioned from a previous post) never made it to the dock for our tentative cigarette/wine date. The pleasant news, however, is that following Saturday night’s Spin/American Spirit SXSW after party featuring my new band I’m in, Soundtrack of Our Lives (I hope [...]
SXSW 2008: Day One Video Recap
Posted on 12. Mar, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Music, SXSW, Videos
Here’s a video montage of the Synthesis.net crew’s first day in Austin, TX for SXSW 2008. In it, you’ll see how shitty the outskirts out town are on the way from the airport to downtown, how badass Ironworks BBQ is, and how even on the night before the official start of the music fest, there are more parties and bad ass bands to watch while getting completely black out than you can shake a fucking stick at. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and you’ll be sure to be hearing, and [...]
SXSTFU: An Introductory SXSW 2008 Blog
Posted on 12. Mar, 2008 by spencer in Music, SXSW
In the coming days you’ll most likely want us to STFU about SXSW, so I’ll keep this introductory South By Southwest blog brief. For those unfamiliar, SXSW is a music festival in Austin, TX where music industry professionals and semi-professionals from around the globe come to schmooze, ink deals and drink as much free alcohol as possible while seeing some of the largest (and smallest) bands play in some of the smallest venues. For instance, one of 2006’s highlights was seeing the Flaming Lips with about 250 people.
It’s spring [...]
Footage of the Stephenville UFO
Posted on 06. Mar, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Internet, Science, Technology
Video footage purported to be of the UFO spotted over Stephenville, TX earlier this year has appeared online. As detailed by Earthfiles.com, there has been a continuous chain of sightings in the state of Texas of similar “sky graffiti” over the last two months. Is this the work of alien taggers, or kids with fancy lasers drinking Pabst 40s in the sagebrush staging an EPIC WIN?
Synthesis’ SXSW 2007 Highlights
Posted on 05. Mar, 2008 by spencer in Internet
In anticipation of next week’s SXSW media blitz, here’s a clip of our highlight from last year.
Actually, my highlight was the cathartic releasing of the bats underneath bat bridge, but hey, maybe i was just tired and feeling a bit emo.
Listen to Spencer’s interviews from SXSW 2007 at synthesisradio.net
