The Current will broadcast live from the streets of Austin at the Free Yr Radio Broadcast Corner, located in the heart of this year's South by Southwest music festival. The three days of live broadcasting will take place at the corner of 7th and Red River. The event is free and open to the public — no SXSW badge or wristband required. The schedule for Saturday March 15, 2008 brings it home!
Devonte Hynes used to draw a comic strip called Lightspeed Champion to kill time while he was in math class. When his indie-buzz band Test Icicles broke up in 2006, Hynes resurrected the name for his new project.
Baltimore duo Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack chose the name Wye Oak after they realized Monarch, their first choice for a name had already been claimed by 7 other bands. Their recorded sound is layered and lush. They try to capture that same sound when the two of them perform live, but they also feel that if a song is good enough, it should be able to stand on its own.
The Heavy hail from Noid, a small town in southwest of England. The band will be lumped in with the retro-soul revival, but The Heavy add cool lo-fi samples and facemelting guitar solos to create a one of a kind groove that's heavy, dirty, and funky.
Tokyo Police Club is a group of four friends from Newmarket Ontario who picked up instruments and formed a band in their senior year of high school. Their debut EP A Lesson In Crime was written up everywhere from indie blogs to Rolling Stone who gushed it had, "seven first-rate mod-punk party starters." Elephant Shell, the debut full-length, is due at the end of April.
Born and raised in Neptune City, NJ, singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins lived up and down the east coast before settling in New York to write her debut album about her hometown. Atkins was approached by friend and now band-mate Dan Chen in 2005 to start a new band, The Sea, based on the songs Atkins had on her MySpace page.
As one of the founding members of the Los Angeles punk band X, John Doe was one of the most influential figures in American alternative rock during the early '80s, but when he launched a solo career in the early '90s, he decided to pursue a rootsy, country-rock direction instead of continuing with punk. X's latter-day albums exhibited a rockabilly and country influence, but it wasn't until Doe's 1990 debut, Meet John Doe, that he recorded a pure country album.
The Portland, Oregon sextet that have been together since 2000, Blitzen Trapper are lo-fi folky garage rockers. Those adjectives weren't just picked out of a hat. Blitzen Trapper grab influences from The Grateful Dead, Olivia Tremor Control, and Frank Zappa while playing in a scene that spawned The Decemberists, The Shins, and Elliott Smith. Their third self-released album, "Wild Mountain Nation" was released in 2007.
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Will be keeping an eye on this.
Thanks for the schedule here on Gather.
> Saturday, March 15
> CACTUS CAFE SOUTHWEST corner of The Texas Union Building
> SONGWRITER SHOWCASE * FREE SHOW! (No Wristbands/No Badges required)
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> 6:00pm * STAYTON BONNER
> 6:25pm * BONNIE WHITMORE
> 6:45pm * COLLIN GILMORE
> 7:05pm * JOHN ELLIOTT
> 7:30pm * MIKE SCHOENFELD
> 7:55pm * KRISTY KRUGER
> 8:15pm * ROD PICOTT and AMANDA SHIRE
> 8:40pm * CORY BRANAN
> 9:05pm * CAROLINE HERRING
> 9:25pm * DARDEN SMITH
> 9:50pm * GRAHAM WEBER
> 10:15pm * TOMMY WOMACK
> 10:40pm * LEATHERBAG
> 11:05pm * GURF MORLIX
> 11:30pm * ABI TAPIA
> 11:55pm * GRAHAM WILKINSON
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> Hosted by * Graham Weber
>