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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

SXSW 2019: My Life as Ali Thomas

The Second Play Stages are starting to be announced.  These are the happy hour shows at hotels around downtown.  This band is from Bangkok and is on the big evening showcase at Central Presbyterian on Wednesday.   They play the Stephen F. bar on Wednesday at 3pm.  They also play the Hotel Van Zandt on Tuesday at 6pm and the Hyatt Regency Thursday at 6pm. 

"Cordelia" is good.

Daydreaming

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

SXSW 2019: MUNYA

Cedar Street/Flood Magazine has their lineup out now for Tuesday and it looks good:

12:00 p.m. MUNYA
1:00 p.m. Illuminati Hotties
2:00 p.m. Priests
3:00 p.m. HÆLOS
4:00 p.m. White Denim
5:10 p.m. Broken Social Scene

If you want to meet at lunch the noon band is the moniker of Josie Boivin from Quebec.  Gorilla vs. Bear and Fader both like her.

Chill-out grooves. Here are two.  The first is the best.

Hotel Delmano



It's All About You

SXSW 2019: Ambar Lucid

The first act on the KCRW showcase is a 17 year-old Dominican/Mexican-American from New Jersey that KCRW loves.

Nice mellow sound.  Probably too mellow for a day party at SXSW.  She plays at 2pm at Clive on Thursday after CLAVVS.  Going to be tough to get the talkers quiet there.

Candy

SXSW 2019: Cautious Clay

One more KUTX artist.  While looking over his other shows I found the KCRW showcase, which is Tuesday at Elysium.  Badges/wristbands only.  The schedule:

Ambar Lucid (8:00pm)
Westerman (9:00pm)
J.S. Ondara (10:00pm)
Broken Social Scene (11:00pm)
Cautious Clay (12:00am)

The last artist is Josh Karpeh originally from Cleveland but now in Brooklyn.  Very nice sound.  He did a Tiny Desk Concert where he shows off his musical chops (including flute!) if you want more.  Here's an interview with him.  Right now I don't see any day parties for him but I'll keep an eye out.

Cold War

SXSW 2019: Jealous of the Birds

KUTX announced their morning schedule and it's got a good mix of big names, local rising artists and the non-local buzz bands of the year.  Saturday is my favorite but there's no way I'm waking up early enough to get in line to try and get into the Four Seasons ballroom.  We'll just have to listen.

We know most of the bands on the schedule.  Yola is expected to be the breakout as she's booked for all the highest profile gigs.  Her official showcase is at Central Presbyterian Church on Wednesday.

Also playing that official showcase and on KUTX is Naomi Hamilton from Belfast who goes by Jealous of the Birds.  She was here for SXSW in 2016 where she was "discovered", signed a major label deal, and is now back.  She released an EP on Feb. 1st.

I'm not sold based on what I've heard.  This was the best. She's also playing the British Music Embassy Thursday at 4:40 before The Brummies.

Clementina