SXSW Nuts || Sunday, February 18
Looks like the near-final schedule is up...did it include any pleasant surprises?
Hellz yeah!
Dallas hip-hop does it up big this year at a venue on the main 6th Street strip, Visions (assumedly one of the fake venues that opens solely during the fest), with a massive Saturday night showcase courtesy of Ozone magazine. Thesis! PPT! Verbal Seed!...and then it kinda goes completely downhill with our least-faves, Play 'N Skillz and DSR. But Saturday doesn't have much in the way of good national hip-hop, which means the packed Dallas showcase may nab quite a crowd merely by default, and we'll take it. (Money Waters will play the same venue the night before with the likes of Bavu Blakes and other Texans.)
A few other new names popped up...for starters, who the hell is Keite Young? According to his MySpace page, he's a pretty inventive and soulful singer/songwriter outta Fort Worth. Hopefully the guy is armed with a good band for his fest showcase...I'm intrigued by the guy, though MySpace has misled me a few times, so let's not call the guy a fave just yet. Joining legend Bobby Patterson is fellow Dallas old-timer Ray Sharpe, who I finally took the time to look up...sorry, Mr. Wilonsky, but 70-year-old Fort Worth blues hands have never been my forte. Kristy Kruger's on hand as well, but then again, so is Faktion...so those neutralize each other.
I've yet to take a close look at the rest of the SXSW schedule, but nothing should stop you from doing so in the meantime. -SM
Hellz yeah!
Dallas hip-hop does it up big this year at a venue on the main 6th Street strip, Visions (assumedly one of the fake venues that opens solely during the fest), with a massive Saturday night showcase courtesy of Ozone magazine. Thesis! PPT! Verbal Seed!...and then it kinda goes completely downhill with our least-faves, Play 'N Skillz and DSR. But Saturday doesn't have much in the way of good national hip-hop, which means the packed Dallas showcase may nab quite a crowd merely by default, and we'll take it. (Money Waters will play the same venue the night before with the likes of Bavu Blakes and other Texans.)
A few other new names popped up...for starters, who the hell is Keite Young? According to his MySpace page, he's a pretty inventive and soulful singer/songwriter outta Fort Worth. Hopefully the guy is armed with a good band for his fest showcase...I'm intrigued by the guy, though MySpace has misled me a few times, so let's not call the guy a fave just yet. Joining legend Bobby Patterson is fellow Dallas old-timer Ray Sharpe, who I finally took the time to look up...sorry, Mr. Wilonsky, but 70-year-old Fort Worth blues hands have never been my forte. Kristy Kruger's on hand as well, but then again, so is Faktion...so those neutralize each other.
I've yet to take a close look at the rest of the SXSW schedule, but nothing should stop you from doing so in the meantime. -SM
1 Comments:
Keite Young is good. His guitar player is phenomenal. Unfortunately, he has no sense of taste, splattering hotlicks all over everything. The rest of the band is solid, though, and Keite peformed a cover of "Hurt" at Dada a couple weeks ago. It was surprisingly good.
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