We’re still playing the Glasser album like somebody might take it away from us at any minute and so it’s nice to take a little break and delve into the wonderful world of Jamie XX remixes, the guy has a great ear for what works and Glasser sounds great in almost any setting.
NEWS
Esben and the Witch
The Esben and the Witch album is sounding great to us and their show is fast approaching. It looks like it will be an excellent one and we are really excited about it. We caught up with the band on EYOE Radio last year and it makes for some nice listen again material this morning.
Roundhouse Rising Special
We are fast approaching the Roundhouse Rising Festival and wanted to highlight the bands playing for us.
PRIZES
Prizes stand out from a thickening electronic and pop crowd by virtue of the songs Hari Ashurst writes – they are laced with strange imagery, interlinking rhythms and big choruses. Check out ‘Canada’ below. It’s a firecracker:
GHOST EYES
Fresh from supporting Gold Panda on tour are Ghost Eyes who make hip-hop influenced electronic music. We couldn’t pick one song so check out a few below:
TEETH OF THE SEA
We’re really looking forward to seeing Teeth of the Sea live. Their music is grand and huge sounding and we’re sure that it will fill the room effortlessly. Check out ‘You’re Mercury’ below:
Teeth Of The Sea – ‘You’re Mercury’ by Tim Chester NME
Matthew Dear POV
We’re really excited about Matthew Dear’s full band show with us in March. Everytime we have seen him before he has blown us away, and this new step, to recruit a band to furnish his new more pop territory with the arrangements they deserve, is hugely promising.
For a taster of the man live check out this performance from Pitchfork’s excellent POV series. It reminds us of those blistering early LCD Soundsystem shows.
http://pitchfork.com/tv/pov/matthew-dear/#2-you-put-a-smell-on-me
EYOE are at SXSW
The Windish Agency / Laneway Festival / Eat Your Own Ears / Austinist present
CLOUD CONTROL
CLOUD NOTHINGS
FOSTER THE PEOPLE
GIVERS
HANNI EL KHATIB
HUW STEPHENS – DJ SET
NOAH & THE WHALE
ROYAL BANGS
THE HOLIDAYS
TWIN SHADOW
PLUS SPECIAL GUEST TBA
Wednesday March 16th 2011
Noon – 6pm
Mohawk, 912 Red River Street, Austin, TX 78701, United States, (512) 482-8404
Sponsored by Feiyue, Scion
The UK’s best independent promoter, Australia’s finest independent festival and the US’s foremost independent booking agent join forces with Austin’s best online publication to host some of the best new music from across the globe at SXSW 2011.
Eat Your Own Ears prides itself on promoting genre-defying music with eclecticism at its heart. EYOE’s unexpected but complementary line-ups have now been bringing together music fans from all camps for 10 years.
Formed in 2004, Laneway Festival’s mission is to find the freshest and best indie music from around the world and bring it to discerning music fans in unique, boutique settings in cities across Australia, NZ and Singapore.
The Windish Agency has always been led by a devotion to music and the bands they represent. The individual care they give to each act on their eye-wateringly impressive roster has made them the best booking agency in the world.
Launched in 2005, Austinist has become Austin’s essential online arbiter of taste. Voted as the Best Local Website for Fun, Austinist has everything there is to know about Austin’s best bets for music, entertainment, food, art, and events.
Together, these champions of all that is bright and brilliant in music present a selection of bands representing the freshest music from their respective corners of the globe.
CLOUD CONTROL is possibly the hottest act to come out of Australia right now. Building their name on early releases that showed a love of folky, laid-back summer rock, these Sydney natives make gorgeous group harmonies, a blissful psyche-tinged sound and some stupendously great, soaring songs.
CLOUD NOTHINGS formed in 2009, when Dylan Baldi decided to drop out of college and pursue the lo-fi indie pop music he had created in his parents’ basement, making power-pop with energy, precision and hooks. This Cleveland foursome provides excitement, emotion and teenage urgency in every groove.
L.A.’s FOSTER THE PEOPLE follow in the same outrageously catchy footsteps as MGMT or Phoenix, adding shuffling beats and whistles to boot. Their summery, sing-along choruses are worthy of their hero, Brian Wilson.
Ardently warm-hearted multi-instrumentalists GIVERS make joyous dream-pop, all whirling keys, Dixieland horns and Afro-pop drums combined with cracked tenor vocals, and a sensibility all set to appeal to fans of Flaming Lips or Vampire Weekend.
HANNI EL KHATIB is a singing, songwriting, multi-instrumentalist and all-round genius. With his sinewy guitar and wry, whiskey-glazed voice, Hanni creates a mix of bluesy garage-rock soul, dedicated personally to “anyone who’s ever been shot or hit by a train”
HUW STEPHENS – DJ SET
BBC Radio 1 DJ Huw has earned a loyal listenership for his long-running weekly show and is also the mastermind behind SWN festival in Cardiff. Expect a DJ set presenting “the best new unsigned, underground and under the radar music”.
Part of the same young musical family as Mumford and Sons, Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn et al, NOAH AND THE WHALE first captured our hearts with the folk-pop perfection of ‘Five Years Time’, but the deal was sealed with latest offering ‘Last Night On Earth’, a straight-ahead, upbeat slice of brilliance inspired by the end of singer Charlie Fink’s relationship with the aforementioned Ms Marling.
Purveyors of pulsing electro-punk, ROYAL BANGS first caught the world’s attention at their dynamic performance at Lollapalooza 2010. Augmenting distorted guitars with wild glitches and bleeps to frenetic effect, this Knoxville five-piece is the one to watch for 2011.
THE HOLIDAYS formed at university in Sydney, and have since spent their musical career making bright, buoyant pop-rock. The Australian foursome of Simon Jones, Will Magnus, Alex Kortt and Andrew Kerridge describe their music as “dueling guitar and vocal melodies with upbeat rhythms. A mix of rough and sweet, happy and gloomy.”
Originally hailing from the Dominican Republic, George Lewis – aka TWIN SHADOW– makes synth-led bedroom music that sounds simultaneously utterly new wave and thoroughly fresh. Beneath the prominent synth-string vamps on many of his tracks are weirdly quacking keys and chinking guitars, countering the apparent 80s aesthetic to result in music that is nostalgic and original all at once.
Anna Calvi Live
We were lucky enough to host Anna Calvi at Hoxton Hall at the end of last week. Check out this live video from France to see just how great she is live. The real deal for sure.