If you’ve been a band weasel/music industry employee for as long as I have, it’s super duper easy to become a cynical bastard. If you go to enough shows because you have to as opposed to because you want to, it’s hard to avoid the overwhelming feeling that you are watching 5 dudes standing there playing their instruments. Not much to see here folks… So you can imagine my surprise when I watched the latest VIMBY music segment on Deer Tick and found myself tapping my left toe, enjoyed the soundbytes from the interview, and started cruising around the net to hear and see more. Let’s be clear, I was familiar with the band prior to the video (I green lit VIMBY preditor extraordinaire Elizabeth Spear to produce the segment) but it took me watching her compelling segment to really separate the band from all the other bands with “Deer” in their name. Move over, Deerhunter and Deerhoof, there’s a new sheriff in town. Damn if watching this doesn’t make you want to bust out a Shiner Bock at your desk.
Welcome back to our daily microseries “Shooting The Sh!t with Black Joe Lewis.” It’s been a fun ride, and here is the final webisode. As you could imagine, crazy sh!t happens on the road when you’re a touring rock n’ roll band. Here BJL breaks down his craziest road story. It involves a hooker, ’nuff said.
Welcome back to our daily microseries “Shooting The Sh!t with Black Joe Lewis.” Those that know Joe know that his music is the real deal. Here he talks about some of the stories that have inspired songs on his fantasticTell ‘Em What Your Name Is!
Welcome back to our daily microseries “Shooting The Sh!t with Black Joe Lewis.” Today’s webisode centers around musical inspiration, enduring physical abuse from women, and performance enhancing drugs. Only one of those statements is made up.
Here’s part two of our daily microseries with the one, the only Black Joe Lewis. We shoot the proverbial poop about musical influences on this one. If one hears his album Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is!, one might think that Joe exclusively listens to Wilson Pickett, James Brown and Otis Redding. One would be quite wrong.
Over here at Da’ Sink we are happy to post the first video in our new microseries “Shooting The Sh!t”. Our first victim subject is retro soul king Black Joe Lewis. We shot the proverbial sh!t with him after he performed with his band the Honeybears at the Troubadour in LA, chopped up the best moments, are going to deliver them to you as a five course meal every day this week. If you’ve only listened to “Boom Boom Pow” this year and are somehow not familiar with Joe, RUN don’t stop to your local download website or big box appliance outlet and pick up his fantastic “Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is!” While you wait for the downloads to complete check out part one of our interview with him, where he talks about the birth of the Honeybears, opening for Little Richard, and meeting Britt from Spoon at a local gig in Austin. Come back tomorrow for your next helping of Black Joe Lewis.
I love this VIMBY video of the Lips in Philly. Spending time in a market other than NYC or LA yields great results; many of our best music segments are in markets such as Philadelphia, Nashville, Austin, etc. These dudes have a certain swagger that is just rock n’ roll so they get props from me.
Puma cruised through the SXSW festival this year with a giant Puma Clyde. A who’s who of artists from the festival autographed the shoe for the charity Soles4Soles.org. VIMBY caught it all on tape and broke it into two parts ’cause mad heads ended up signing the shoe… even the legendary Quincy Jones.
At this point, you probably need some healthy food, a non-alcoholic beverage and some March Madness instead of Crappy Bandness. These symptoms are normal. Don’t fret, your SXSW experience is coming to a close soon. For now, go here:
Friday March 20th
SXSW Live (The Bat Bar) Austin Convention Center
(500 E Cesar Chavez St) (All Ages)
Ben Harper & RELENTLESS7 5:00 p.m. Los Angeles CA Rock
6-9PM eat more BBQ; get a double espresso.
Stubb’s
(801 Red River St) (All Ages)
Silversun Pickups 9:00 p.m. Los Angeles CA Rock
Aces Lounge
(222 E 6th St) (21+)
Cut Off Your Hands 10:00 p.m. Auckland NEW ZEALAND Rock
Emo’s Main Room
(603 Red River St) (All Ages)
VICE Records
The Japanese Motors 11:00 p.m. Costa Mesa CA Rock
Black Lips 12:00 a.m. Atlanta GA Rock
Club de Ville
(900 Red River St) (21+)
Biz 3
Lady Sovereign 12:00 a.m. London UK-ENGLAND Hip-Hop
Asher Roth 12:30 a.m. Morrisville PA Hip-Hop
Kid Sister 1:00 a.m. Chicago IL Hip-Hop
Back Alley Social
(303 W 5th St) (21+)
Mickey Factz 12:00 a.m. Bronx NY Hip-Hop
Brother Reade 12:30 a.m. Winston Salem NC Hip-Hop
Busdriver 1:15 a.m. Los Angeles CA Hip-Hop
OK if you’ve been in Austin for at least 24 hours your arteries are good and hard, your liver weak and your brain cells toasted if not fried. Don’t stop now, though- you owe it to the rest of the world to soldier in and consume as much liquor, drugs and oh yeah, MUSIC as possible. Get out of your hotel room and head to:
Thursday March 19th
Auditorium Shores Stage (Lady Bird Lake)
(Riverside Dr & S 1st St) (All Ages)
Elvis Perkins In Dearland 6:00 p.m. Germantown NY Rock
Cold War Kids 7:00 p.m. Long Beach CA Rock
Radio Room Patio
(508 E 6th St) (All Ages)
Sub Pop
No Age 8:00 p.m. Los Angeles CA Punk
Aces Lounge
(222 E 6th St) (21+)
Vivian Girls 9:00 p.m. Brooklyn NY Punk
Austin Music Hall
(208 Nueces St) (All Ages)
AfroPunk/VIMBY
Janelle Monae 11:00 p.m. Atlanta GA Avant/Experimental
Opal Divine’s Freehouse
(700 W 6th St ) (18+)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 10:25 p.m. New York NY Pop
Cedar Street Courtyard
(208 W 4th St) (21+)
Black Lips 11:30 p.m. Atlanta GA Rock
El Sol y La Luna
(600 E 6th St) (21+)
King Khan & the Shrines 12:00 a.m. Berlin GERMANY Rock
Scoot Inn
(1308 E 4th St) (21+)
Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek) 12:10 a.m. New York NY
Emo’s Annex
(600 Red River St) (All Ages)
Datarock 1:00 a.m. Bergen NORWAY Rock
2AM-4PM Take 2 Aleve, Drink H2O, Pass Out In Your Own Dirt N’ Drool, Wake Up, Eat BBQ Pork
