It's the 30th anniversary of the band's debut, "Diary." They are a jaw-droppingly excellent live band from way back and Jeremy Enigk's voice is on some other planet. Yes you are right, some early Foo Fighters are in this video (Dave basically recruited them to Foos).
STRFKR DJ set would be amazing too -- full list of showcase artists here.
Back in my rock critic days, SX was THE place for new music discovery. IDK if that's still true or if it's too corporate now but here's a diary entry I wrote for Magnet Mag (ha).
If you are a BBQ fan you are going to eat your way through Austin. My favorite part of the whole experience outside of meeting random musicians throughout the week (my weird beer garden conversation with Perry Farrell comes to mind; also, Stubb's used to own a house with no address across the street from the venue that served as a Green Room/safe house for bands who are on their main stage; I wrote about that for Magnet too).
Mar 7, 2024
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Where I first fell in love with live music! Legendary venue that Iâve just been lucky enough to grow up down the street from.
Some favorite shows there:
- Kimya Dawson
- fun. and Motion City Soundtrack
- Band of Skulls and the Whigs
- Butch Walker
- Mutemath
- The Whigs Anniversary Show
- Best Coast
- Kishi Bashi
- Hannibal Burress
- Of Montreal
- John Cameron Mitchell (during one night of the Cracker Camp-In)
- Tom Petty Memorial Night
- Drive By Truckers Homecoming
- REM Tribute show ft the Indigo Girls, Fred Armisen, John Cameron Mitchell, Elf Power, Darius Rucker
- REM Tribute fronted by Michael Shannon
Sep 12, 2024
Nov 23, 2024
excited to experience some warmth again
also - who from PI.FYI is going to be in Austin / at SXSW this weekend? pull up to the show on friday and say whats up
Mar 9, 2025
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Hey tyler hopefully this doesnât violate some PI.FYI golden rule
But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here:
https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/
The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s.
Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha).
For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I canât wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! â€ïž
Mar 27, 2024
âSongs Of a Lost Worldâ coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 đ€
The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for
Sep 14, 2024
I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s.
So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it:
âUnwound is the best band of the â90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk, post-rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, slow-core, and experimental noise. That jumble of subgenres doesnât say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasnât stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the â90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.â
R.I.P. Vern Rumsey.
This is their finest song, from their finest album.
I really canât say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. đ€
Mar 23, 2024