Altrok Radio - Blog: SXSW: Who's Buzzing?

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

SXSW: Who's Buzzing?

In the wrapup for SXSW (which we here at Altrok do not have the liquid funds to attend, unfortunately) it appears there's several attempts to identify the bands that created something like a "buzz"...here's a roundup:

Locally, New Jersey's Star Ledger gave some column inches to the hometown boys, with Titus Andronicus getting the "wailing away on a little stage" pull photo. Other shout-outs went to Status Green, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Roadside Graves and Any Day Parade.

The New York Times' slideshow of the proceedings leads with Frightened Rabbit, following up with Warpaint, Jj, Marina And The Diamonds, The Morning Benders, Memory Tapes (offered up as part of the "Glo-fi" phenomenon - laptop poppers, in my opinion, who are of course not unwelcome.) Apparently Hole and two thirds of The Dixie Chicks (trading as The Court Yard Hounds) were looking for new audiences as well, and they wrap up with a piano driven, string-quartet augmented performance from Germany's Hauschka.

The Vancouver Sun pulls together a nice piece on the final celebration of Alex Chilton's life at Antone's. Looks like everybody wanted to be on that stage.

And if you'd like your SXSW news filtered through celebrities and celebrity watchers, there's no better place than MTV's roundup. (That's the sound of me smacking my forehead...)

Settle in and do some reading - and keep us playing in the background while you do it...

0 Comments:

Please Look At Our Advertisers (Or The Website Gets It)

Congratulations, you've found the hidden text.

Welcome to Altrok.com, also available at AltrokRadio.com and AltrockRadio.com. Here's where the remaining listeners of several fine radio stations have retreated, regrouped, and built a replacement strong enough to stand on its own. It builds on the independent legacy of New Jersey's FM106.3, New York's WPIX and WLIR, Oklahoma's 105.3 The Spy, the pre-buyout mindset of KROQ, WBCN and WHFS and of every other alternative station that was destroyed at a moment's notice - not because they weren't making money, but because there was bigger money to be found elsewhere.

We've stood by as truly independent alternative rock radio died. Sure, something called "alternative" took its place, but we know for sure that anything that "tests well" with soccer moms just ain't alternative. (Even if some of us happen to be soccer moms.) So we've taken matters into our own hands.

This really is independent alternative rock radio, visible here at Altrok.com and audible at our web radio station. It has the classic music that fired our passions back in the day - or that we maybe only heard about from our elders - but it's mostly made of the new music that does precisely the same for us now. We're paying attention to scenes all over the world, watching the energy build, and waiting to see what it creates. Wherever it happens, we'll make sure you can hear about it here. We've been slowly building all this since 2001, and now that you've noticed us, we're glad you're here.

Of course, it's only here because you want it to be here, and it can only stay if you help it along - especially by checking out our advertisers (they support us) and by listening (the more that listen, the more visible we are.) Please use the "feedback" link above to let us know whether it works for you, and what you want it to be as the future unfolds. (And if you need help hearing it, let us know that, too.)