{"id":15026,"date":"2023-06-06T07:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T06:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/?p=15026"},"modified":"2023-06-06T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T06:22:19","slug":"successes-at-sxsw-texas-2023-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/2023\/06\/06\/successes-at-sxsw-texas-2023-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SUCCESSES AT SxSW TEXAS 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SUCCESSES AT SxSW TEXAS 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norman Warwick selects from a Paste listing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack Jackson, co founder and editor in chief  of the splendid Paste on line magazine told Scott Russell and the Paste staff, before asking them name their favourite acts at the festival earlier this year, that SXSW has always been, and will probably always be, my favorite music festival. I\u2019ve heard endless people complain that it\u2019s gotten too big or too corporate or too crowded, but I\u2019ll take discovering my new favorite band in a tiny rock club over watching the latest superstars on a screen behind a giant stage with 80,000 other people. SXSW is as big or small as you make it, and there\u2019s always something happening worth seeing. We had four people with diverse tastes covering the music at this year\u2019s SXSW\u2014though I think at least three of us had Swedish indie-rock quartet Girl Scout in our favorites. But below are our personal picks. That many of these are from High Noon at High Noon\u2014the Paste showcase presented by Ilegal Mezcal\u2014is mostly due to our initial booking of the bands we most wanted to see going in, and the fact that we all spent a lot of time there. Here, in alphabetical order, are our favorite acts from SXSW 2023<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Few artists have garnered as much hype this spring as Blondshell, the project of singer\/songwriter Sabrina Teitelbaum. Blondshell\u2019s debut, self-titled record is on the very near horizon, and she played almost all of it on Thursday afternoon at the Mohawk. Decked out in an old Neil Young shirt and knee-length Shorts, Blondshell won everyone in the crowd over, just in case they weren\u2019t already madly obsessed with songs like \u201cJoiner\u201d and \u201cVeronica Mars.\u201d There\u2019s a reason she took home SXSW\u2019s Grulke Prize for Developing U.S. Act: Blondshell is undoubtedly the moment, and everyone recognizes that. The Mohawk room she played in was tiny\u2014and the muggy heat from outside was only getting hotter in there\u2014but she, with ease, cracked the whole place wide open. \u2014Matt Mitchell \/ photo by Matt Mitchel<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When Austin filmmaker-turned singer\/songwriter CM Talkington told me that his backing band for the Paste party would include both Oscar-winning actress Ren\u00e9e Zellweger and Butthole Surfers guitarist Paul Leary, I wondered briefly if I was living inside of a Mad Libs entry or getting catfished. But not only did Zellweger join Talkington on stage for two songs, she rocked the last one hard on both guitar and vocals. She also charmed the crowd, stuck around to support the other bands and just generally got our final day of our parties off to an amazing start. Talkington seemed to embody old, weird Austin with his music, lyrics and general spiritual positivity, having survived cancer and entered this new phase of creativity with both thankfulness and gusto. \u2014Josh Jackson \/ photo by Josh Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time and time again, an event like SXSW evokes the purest parts of loving music. During a midnight set at Las Perlas, Best of What\u2019s Next alumni Girl Scout took the stage and stole the show at only their second performance in the U.S. What or who came before and after them didn\u2019t seem to matter, as the Swedish quartet gained dozens of new fans at this hole-in-the-wall in Downtown Austin. They played the old stuff, like \u201cWeirdo\u201d and \u201cRun Me Over,\u201d (if you can call songs off a 2023 EP \u201cold\u201d) but, as we\u2019ve come to learn, Girl Scout have many more songs in their back pocket. Frontwoman Emma Jansson put down her guitar to deliver a rapturous, guttural howl on new track \u201cMonster,\u201d while she and guitarist Viktor Spasov got so loud on \u201cMothers and Fathers\u201d that it rang the crowd\u2019s ears\u2014all while the melody never became washed out by the toppling noise. The band are natural charmers; still so fresh and shiny that they are discovering new parts about each other\u2019s playing style in real time\u2014which is a gift to watch up close. If you surveyed the front row, you could see each person in it slowly become entranced by the band. Someone even opened Spotify and added them to their library mid-set. When they wrapped up with \u201cDo You Remember Sally Moore?,\u201d there was this almost-indescribable moment where each person in the front row bought into Girl Scout so much that they found themselves singing along with Jansson by the end of it all. It was like watching 75 people fall in love slowly and all at once; the reason we all do this to begin with. \u2014Matt Mitchell \/ photo by Matt Mitchell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Though Kate Davis\u2019 upcoming record Fish Bowl<\/em> is her biggest, most-ambitious project to date, the singer\/songwriter stripped her instrumentals down for an incredibly intimate set at Paste\u2019s High Noon showcase on Wednesday afternoon. It was just Davis, a guitar and some petals, as she delivered beautiful renditions of her new songs, like \u201cConsequences\u201d and \u201cCall Home.\u201d It felt like the proper precursor to Fish Bowl<\/em>\u2019s release this week; a good chance to fine-tune the tracks before diving fully into a European tour later this spring. As always, Davis was on her A-game, making High Noon\u2019s indoor space the best spot to be in Austin on Wednesday\u2019s rising afternoon. It\u2019s hard to think of a better way we could have kicked off our showcase last week. \u2014Matt Mitchell \/ photo by Matt Mitchell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lemon Twigs\u2019 time at SXSW got cut short because they had to jet off and open some shows for the Killers. Before leaving Austin, though, they made a pit stop at Cheer Up Charlie\u2019s on Tuesday night to introduce the crowd to their new record, Everything Harmony<\/em>, while also reminding them about the old stuff. After a late start due to technical hold-ups, the D\u2019Addario brothers\u2014Brian and Michael\u2014were fully in their groove, sharing a wavelength no one else in the space could penetrate. They debuted new singles \u201cIn My Head\u201d and \u201cAny Time of Day\u201d with melodic precision, but not before pulling out some reliable favorites, like \u201cThe One\u201d and \u201cFoolin\u2019 Around.\u201d It was a mixed-bag setlist, as the band played cuts from all four records in their catalog. Brian and Michael, in their matching striped shirts and bell-bottom jeans, looked inseparable and unstoppable on stage, surfing into tangential guitar solos. \u2014Matt Mitchell \/ photo by Matt Mitchell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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acknowledgments<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>The primary sources for  this piece were written for Paste on line magazine by various writers Wherever possible the original writers have been attributed,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Images employed have been taken from on line sites only where  categorised as  images free to use.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a more comprehensive detail of our attribution policy see our for reference only post on 7th<\/sup> April entitled Aspirations And Attributions.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SXSW is as big or small as you make it, and there\u2019s always something happening worth seeing. We had four people with diverse tastes covering the music at this year\u2019s SXSW\u2014though I think at least three of us had Swedish indie-rock quartet Girl Scout in our favorites. But below are our personal picks. That many of these are from High Noon at High Noon\u2014the Paste showcase presented by Ilegal Mezcal\u2014is mostly due to our initial booking of the bands we most wanted to see going in, and the fact that we all spent a lot of time there. Here, in alphabetical order, are our favorite acts from SXSW 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15123,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions\/15123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}