SXSW Recap: Julie Doiron at Spider House

I was so happy to get to see Julie Doiron since I'm so in love with her recent album. I'm even more in love with her after seeing her play. She was one of the sweetest performers I've seen - she kept asking the audience for requests and got so disappointed when someone shouted out a song she didn't remember. We heard all about the taxi ride she got to the venue, what she had had for breakfast and other details of the day she felt obliged to share. Her simple line-up with Fred Squire on drums and herself on guitar worked really well. They made some of the songs a lot funkier than they are on the album which I liked a lot.

Pictures by Courtney Fellion.



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SXSW Recap: Golden Triangle at Spider House

At the encouragement of Ed from Under the Mattress we checked out Golden Triangle, a garage rock/post-punk band whose members from Austin, Atlanta and Memphis have converged in Brooklyn. We were very impressed by their drummer's unwavering vocals that reminded us a little bit of Mark E. Smith and the wild tambourine shaking of their two front ladies.

I wish I could say that 1190 has some of their music, but all their super limited releases have slipped by us. Their most recent record was released by Mexican Summer, a very new label that focuses on glitzy limited edition vinyl releases available only through subscriptions.

Also: check out the band's Top 10 list from Dusted Magazine.

Pictures by Courtney Fellion.

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SXSW Recap: Coathangers at Spider House

I caught the Coathangers in Austin at a venue called the Spider House - a sprawling coffee shop that had four different stages going. Definitely my favorite venue of the trip. The Coathangers are an all-girl punk/garage rock band from Atlanta. They were on the very top of my list of bands not to miss at SXSW. I want to be best friends with the girls in the band but I also think that they'd probably tear me apart. When they first took stage I immediately noticed the bruises all up and down the drummer's leg. (She's the tattooed one in the pictures below.) During one of the last songs when she started wailing on her leg with a tambourine I realized where they came from. These girls are super cute and also really good musicians - they rotated through all the instruments. The way they thrashed around and screamed in ear-splitting tones exuded fearlessness and I couldn't help but dance. I love seeing shows like this that make me feel like I could be in a really badass all-girl band myself if I just picked up an instrument. I wish they had gotten to do "Nestle in My Boobies," but the sets are short at SXSW and they were mostly playing brand new stuff.

Their brand new album "Scramble" will be in rotation very shortly!

Pictures by Courtney Fellion.

-Katherine (Coathangers' #1 fan)











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Denver Supergroups

There are two pretty new local supergroups with upcoming shows I've been getting really excited about!

HOUSES
Houses is an indie-pop group with members of Widowers, Blue Million Miles, Hearts of Palm, Harpoontang and a bunch of others. They'll be at the Hi-Dive on Friday March, 20th opening up for other local bands D. Biddle and Everything Absent or Distorted. Definitely check out this show because D. Biddle shows are few and far between these days.




SNAKE RATTLE RATTLE SNAKE
This band features members of Bad Luck City, Monofog, Mr. Pacman and Hawks of Paradise. They're so secret and hip there's not much info about them to be found on the interweb. They'll be at the Hi-Dive also on March 26th opening up for Ideal Fathers and Lion Sized. Don't miss them either!

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SXSW!

For those of you going to Austin:

Check out the SXSW music player. It's a random stream of all the bands who will be playing in Austin. Good way to find out about all those bands you've never heard of!

For those of you not going to Austin:

Denver's Decider has made a list of all the SXSW-bound bands who are also coming through Colorado. Radio1190 is presenting nearly all these shows, so maybe you can even go for free!

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