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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Oscar nod for Ryan Bingham?
The Scott Cooper film “Crazy Heart,” about a washed-up singer-songwriter, was supposed to come out in early 2010, but because Jeff Bridges’ performance has been deemed Oscar-worthy by the studio, it’s hitting select screens Dec. 16 in order to become eligible this year. Ryan Bingham, who destroyed La Zona Rosa Wednesday with his great Dead Horses band, might get a nomination for this song, which he wrote for the film.
The Johnny Depp lookalike also plays a small part in the film.
Also, to get you in the mood, here’s the recent performance by Bingham and the Dead Horses on David Letterman’s show:
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SXSW announces 230 showcasing artists for 2010 festival
Hot on the heels of last week’s announcement of the first six bands to play the South By Southwest Music Festival, the organizers have released a list of 230 showcasing artists who will be rocking the 2010 get-together from March 17-21. Further additions to the lineup will be announced as the festival draws closer — more than 1700 bands in total played SXSW this year.
As with the Christmas season, SXSW lineup announcements seem to arrive earlier and earlier every year. This 200-plus barrage is heavy with obscure names, peppered with the occasional proven indie smash like Brookyln, NY’s We Are Scientists, Vancouver, BC’s Japandroids or Asbury Park, NJ’s Nicole Atkins. The slew of announced showcasing artists also further establishes SXSW’s cred as an international gathering place for musical talent, with acts hailing from locations as disparate as Iceland, Brazil, New Zealand, South Korea and even Iran.
Lest anyone accuse the festival of neglecting its roots, however — itself something of an annual tradition — the list also covers several notable locals, including the Black, Pink Nasty, Yellow Fever, Harlem, Nakia and His Southern Cousins, the Riverboat Gamblers, Alpha Rev and Suzanna Choffel. Perhaps most intriguingly, beloved psychedelic pop rockers Sixteen Deluxe — who rocked the city throughout the 90s and were recently named one of the best bands you’ve never heard of by Spin — will apparently be reuniting for the festival.
Take a full look at all 230 artists after the jump.
Aa (Brooklyn NY)
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO (Osaka JAPAN)
A Classic Education (Bologna ITALY)
Alpha Rev (Austin TX)
Amaral (Madrid SPAIN)
And So I Watch You From Afar (Belfast IRELAND)
Apostle of Hustle (Toronto ON)
Arms (Brooklyn NY)
Ólöf Arnalds (Reykjavik ICELAND)
Art vs Science (Surry Hills NSW)
A Shoreline Dream (Denver CO)
Nicole Atkins and The Black Sea (Asbury Park NJ)
Autumn Owls (Dublin IRELAND)
Bare Wires (Oakland CA)
Julian Berntzen (Bergen NORWAY)
Best Fwends (Austin TX)
The Black (Austin TX)
The Black Atlantic (Groningen THE NETHERLANDS)
Dan Black (Paris FRANCE)
Black Tide (Miami FL)
Bliss N Eso (Albert Park VIC)
Boom Boom Satellites (JAPAN)
The Boxer Rebellion (London UK-ENGLAND)
Break of Reality (New York NY)
B-Real of Cypress Hill (Los Angeles CA)
Broadway Calls (Rainer OR)
Broken Records (Edinburgh UK-SCOTLAND)
VV BROWN (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Brunettes (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Buckshot (Brooklyn NY)
Canja Rave (Porto Alegre BRAZIL)
Capsula (Bilbao SPAIN)
Carsick Cars (Beijing CHINA)
Caucus (Tokyo JAPAN)
The Chevelles (Melville WA)
Chew Lips (London UK-ENGLAND)
Suzanna Choffel (Austin TX)
Chris T-T (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
C-Mon & Kypski (THE NETHERLANDS)
The Coathangers (Atlanta GA)
Simon Collins (Victoria BC)
The Constellations (Atlanta GA)
Contra Coup (Austin TX)
Cotton Jones (Cumberland MD)
The Crystal Method (Los Angeles CA)
David Dallas (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Dappled Cities (Sydney NSW)
Daveman (Berlin GERMANY)
The Daylights (Los Angeles CA)
The dB’s (Chapel Hill NC)
Dead Sexy Inc (Paris FRANCE)
The Deaf (The Hague THE NETHERLANDS)
Deer Tick (Providence RI)
Delhi 2 Dublin (Vancouver BC)
Paul Dempsey (from “Something for Kate”) (Melbourne NSW)
Diplomats of Solid Sound (Iowa City IA)
DJ Car Stereo (Wars) (Austin TX)
DJ Evil Dee (Brooklyn NY)
DJ Revolution (Los Angeles CA)
Daniel Francis Doyle (Austin TX)
Adiam Dymott (Goteborg SWEDEN)
The 88 (Los Angeles CA)
Electric Electric (Strasbourg FRANCE)
Val Emmich (Jersey City NJ)
Eternia (Toronto ON)
Everything Everything (Manchester UK-WALES)
Fanfarlo (London UK-ENGLAND)
Michael Feinberg (New York NY)
Fergus & Geronimo (Westway TX)
Fighting With Wire (Derry IRELAND)
FINALE (Detroit MI)
Floating Action (Asheville NC)
Francis (Borlange SWEDEN)
Robert Francis (Los Angeles CA)
Frightened Rabbit (Selkirk UK-SCOTLAND)
The Funeral Pyre (Los Angeles CA)
The Ganjas (Santiago CHILE)
Geeks (Tokyo JAPAN)
Gerald G (Austin TX)
Colin Gilmore (Austin TX)
Giulia y los Tellarini (Barcelona SPAIN)
Rosi Golan (New York NY)
Gong Myoung (Seoul KOREA)
Goober and the Peas (Detroit MI)
Good Shoes (London UK-ENGLAND)
Guitar Shorty (Harlingen TX)
Ha Ha Tonka (Springfield MO)
Halves (Dublin IRELAND)
Darren Hanlon (Sydney NSW)
Harlem (Austin TX)
Headdress (Austin TX)
Hey Colossus (London UK-ENGLAND)
Robyn Hitchcock (London CA)
Hot Panda (Edmonton AB)
The Hounds Below (Detroit MI)
I Fight Dragons (Chicago IL)
The Intelligence (Seattle WA)
Ivan & Alyosha (Seattle WA)
Japandroids (Vancouver BC)
Jazz One (Austin TX)
Stephen Jerzak (La Crosse WI)
John Dear Mowing Club (Den Haag THE NETHERLANDS)
The Jim Jones Revue (London UK-ENGLAND)
Jookabox (Indianapolis IN)
Julia Says (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Karnivool (Perth WA)
Kartick & Gotam (Chennai INDIA)
Kidz In Space (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Kidz In The Hall (Chicago IL)
Kingston (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Maurice Kirya (Kampala ZIMBABWE)
The Kissaway Trail (Odense DENMARK)
L.A.B. (Novo Hamburgo BRAZIL)
The Law (Dundee UK-SCOTLAND)
Vander Lee (Belo Horizonte BRAZIL)
Unni Lovlid (Oslo NORWAY)
Lowood (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Audra Mae (Los Angeles CA)
Malente (Essen GERMANY)
Natalia Mallo (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Mantles (San Francisco CA)
Julia Marcell (Berlin GERMANY)
Marco Polo & Torae (Brooklyn NY)
Mariachi El Bronx (Los Angeles CA)
Carolyn Mark (Victoria BC)
Maruosa (Tokyo JAPAN)
MegaRex (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
The Middle East (Townsville QLD)
Middle Finger Salute (Blackburn UK-ENGLAND)
Miniature Tigers (Phoenix AZ)
Mixtapes & Cellmates (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Monarchs (Austin TX)
Michael Monroe (Helsinki FINLAND)
PJ Morton (Conyers GA)
Mountain Man (Bennington VT)
Movits! (Lulea SWEDEN)
Moxine (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Mr Sicc (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Mumiy Troll (Los Angeles CA)
My Dad is Dead (Chapel Hill NC)
Nailpin (Boom BELGIUM)
Nakia & His Southern Cousins (Austin TX)
NiCad (Den Haag THE NETHERLANDS)
9th Wonder (Raleigh-Durham NC)
The Novas (Dallas TX)
Jackie Oates (Exeter UK-ENGLAND)
One Night Only (Helmsley UK-ENGLAND)
1001 Nights Orchestra (Austin TX)
The Pack A.D. (Vancouver BC)
Paleo (Brooklyn NY)
Parlovr (Montreal QC)
Past Lives (Seattle WA)
The Peelies (Montreal QC)
Julie Peel (Montreal QC)
Mandi Perkins (Los Angeles CA)
Peter Wolf Crier (Minneapolis MN)
Pink Nasty (Austin TX)
Pivot (UK) (UK-ENGLAND)
P.K. 14 (Beijing CHINA)
Plants and Animals (Montreal QC)
Please The Trees (Prague CZECH REPUBLIC)
Steve Poltz (San Diego CA)
Andy Pratt (Amesbury MA)
Sean Price (Brooklyn NY)
Princeton (Eagle Rock CA)
Profetas (COLOMBIA)
Psalm One (Chicago IL)
Quantic and his Combo Barbaro (Cali COLOMBIA)
Random Axe (Brooklyn NY)
Rebelle (Den Haag THE NETHERLANDS)
Red Mass (Montreal QC)
Tommy Reilly (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Riverboat Gamblers (Austin TX)
The River Raid (Recife BRAZIL)
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson (Brooklyn NY)
Brisa Roche (Paris FRANCE)
Rock of Heltah Skeltah (Brooklyn NY)
Rogues (London UK-ENGLAND)
Ruste Juxx (Brooklyn NY)
San Saba County (Austin TX)
Scanners (London UK-ENGLAND)
Kate Schutt (Guelph ON)
Serious Sam Barrett (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Shit And Shine (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sixteen Deluxe (Austin TX)
Skyzoo (Brooklyn NY)
Small Black (Brooklyn NY)
Smif N Wessun (Brooklyn NY)
Smoosh (Seattle WA)
So Cow (Tuam IRELAND)
Solid Gold (Minneapolis MN)
Soulico (Tel Aviv ISRAEL)
So What (The Hague THE NETHERLANDS)
The Spring Standards (New York NY)
Sabrina Starke (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS)
Steel Train (Teaneck NJ)
StereoHeroes (Les Gorguettes FRANCE)
Surrounded (Malmo SWEDEN)
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter (Seattle WA)
M. Takara 3 (Guarulhos BRAZIL)
Team Facelift (New York NY)
Thunder Power (Omaha NE)
Timber Timbre (Toronto ON)
Todd (London UK-ENGLAND)
Marques Toliver (London UK-ENGLAND)
Toolshed (London ON)
Trembling Bells (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Trespassers William (Seattle WA)
Twin Atlantic (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Two Star Symphony (Houston TX)
Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights (Dallas TX)
The Uglysuit (Oklahoma City OK)
Uncle Lucius (Austin TX)
The View (Dundee UK-SCOTLAND)
Volovan (Monterrey MEXICO)
Waco Brothers (Chicago IL)
Miho Wada (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Warpaint (Los Angeles CA)
Wave Machines (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND)
The Wave Pictures (London UK-ENGLAND)
We Are Scientists (New York NY)
We Are Wolves (Montreal QC)
Withered (Atlanta GA)
Wolf Gang (London UK-ENGLAND)
Woot (The Haque THE NETHERLANDS)
XV (Wichita KS)
The Yellow Dogs (Tehran IRAN)
YellowFever (Austin TX)
Zlam Dunk (San Marcos TX)
Zona Tango (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)
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Live review: Lyle Lovett at Bass Concert Hall
In an interview in June Lyle Lovett mused on the tendency of critics, music industry types and even some fans to label him a country artist, when there’s really no accurate categorization for the stylistically borderless music the Houston native creates.
“I guess it’s because sometimes I wear a cowboy hat in pictures,” Lovett wryly answered of this reporter’s question. Maybe, but after seeing Lovett put on a stellar clinic of mid-20th century song Monday at Bass Concert Hall another theory emerges; better than any artist out there today Lovett takes styles from bop jazz to gospel, R&B and early rock ‘n’ roll (and at least a half dozen others) and refracts them through a prism of Texas plains country music twang, enhancing it all in the process.
Written out that sounds terribly dry and academic, but the other key to Lovett’s three decades of success is the enthusiasm and appreciation for all music that flows from his weathered, crisp croon and made every note in the 2 1/2-hour performance crackle with energy.
Starting the night in a quartet setup for “Sun And Moon And Stars,” Lovett’s accompaniment grew to the full 10 piece strength of The Large band after a cover of Eric Taylor’s “Whooping Crane” and transition into “Farmer Brown/Chicken Reel” and its sophomoric use of the line “choke my chicken.”
“The lights kicked up on that last one and, looking out at you all, I see you’re respectable looking folks and there’s no need for what we did on that last song,” Lovett jokingly apologized at song’s end. Monday’s show featured plenty of asides with the crowd between songs, focusing on everything from shows and performers in Austin that influenced Lovett (Don Sanders, Ry Cooder, Uncle Walt’s Band, Robert Earl Keen among them) to a theory on why male bluegrass quartets never last long (“You’ve got four guys singing around a microphone with their mouths really close together. Kinda tells you something about the ones that stay together.”)
The songs, though, were the focal point and the versatility of Lovett and the Large Band made it hard to pick out highlights. “I Will Rise Up/Ain’t No More Cane” was simply powerful thanks to help from a quartet of L.A. by way of Detroit backup singers, “L.A. County” and “If I Had A Boat” were vibrant studies in painting pictures through word economy, and a cover of jazz standard “Baby It’s Cold Outside” found Lovett abandoning any trace of country thanks to guest vocalist and Austinite, Kat Edmonson.
Throughout the night Lovett recognized his musicians after solo takes, often thanking them for close to 30 years of musical partnership. Those were the individual members’ chances to get some spotlight on them, but on rousing numbers such as “Up In Indiana” or the show-closing spiritual “Church” it was the collective energy of the whole band combined with Lovett’s special musical alchemy that gave them the best chance to shine.
Not a note wasted. Not a phrase out of place. Just about perfect.
Set list: “Sun And Moon And Stars,” “Whooping Crane,” “Farmer Brown/Chicken Reel,” “It’s Rock And Roll” (w/ Lance Armstrong), “Here I Am,” “I Will Rise Up/Ain’t No More Cane,” “Penguins,” “Cute As A Bug,” “Empty Blue Shoes,” “Bohemia,” “No Big Deal,” “Baby It’s Cold Outside” (w/ Kat Edmonson), “The Truck Song,” “L.A. County,” “Natural Forces,” “Loretta,” “Pantry,” “Up In Indiana,” “If I Had A Boat,” “I’ve Been To Memphis,” “My Baby Don’t Tolerate,” “That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas),” “Ain’t No More Cane (reprise),” “What Do You Do,” “Church”
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