Last week, we had a team of reporters out on the streets of Austin to get coverage for SXSW 2013. This week and next week; Other Side Drive will air some of our SXSW interviews. We’ll also be posting up some of video interviews on our youtube channel. This week, your hosts aired a handful of interviews conducted during SXSW. We worked on getting you a personal interview witha wide range of SXSW artists from one of NPR’s Austin 100 Bands of the Year to Watch at SXSW 2013, Hannah Georgas, to Austin’s Equals.
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“Trumping the name of her critically adored debut album, Hannah Georgas has had a better than ‘Good’ year since releasing her debut This Is Good in April, 2010.”
“These and other fabulous environs will be reached by the listener as he or she revels in the richly rewarding cinematic journey that is A Drink for All My Friends, the new LP by Austin instrumentalists My Education. Recorded in almost painfully sincere high fidelity sound by Alex Lyon at the Bubble, this album is, quite simply, a mother…”
“The Thermals are a post-pop-punk trio from pre-Portlandia-Portland, Oregon. The band was formed in 2002 and has released records on the classic Northwest labels Sub Pop and Kill Rock Stars.”
by: Laura Spurlock
Bonde Do Role with Anyssa Bohanan
Brazilian band, Bonde Do Role began making music, simply for the fun of it. In 2007, the band was founded and signed to Domino records. Since then, the band’s funk carioca-influnced electropop music have been featured in many TV commercials and described as one of the “top 10 bands to watch”, according to Rolling Stone.
“Kitty Clementine’s journey began with a plane ticket to New Orleans. She had two months in North America with little money, and no plans except to embrace every experience and use it to write enough material for an album.”
Los Angeles’ He’s My Brother She’s My Sister definitely knows how to make a scene. Described as party, folk music, the band of punks (which they take pride in being) aren’t afraid to show people how to have a good time.
“Boiling up from the independent musical cauldron Hotlanta has become,here comes Gringo Star with Count Yer Lucky Stars, a collection of catchy and instantly classic pop music. ”
“Oh No Oh My formed in Austin, TX, in the fall of 2004 by recording a series of demo songs. Seasons changed. After rocking the faces off of the people of Western Europe, the band took a small break in the summer of 2008 to record some songs.” The guys are back at it and in full swing.
“The Texas-based band, Equals, hasn’t always been the technical and tightly-arranged instrumental band it is now. The band’s large soundscapes, searing guitar riffs and blitzing rhythms were products of evolution.”
by Monica Solis "Coldwater" dives deep into hearts, and leaves no holds barred What do you get when you cross Call of Duty Black Ops “The Sergeant,” with a protagonist who resembles a young Ryan Gosling,with a production company that gets the art of cinematography and a director who debuts with a message you just can’t ignore? You get the film Coldwater which premiered at SXSW 2013. Coldwater, written by Mark Penney and directed and written by Vincent Grashaw, consists […]
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