Panache Booking SXSW SHOWCASE
Thursday March 17th @ Red 7
TWO STAGES ! ALL AGES!
OUTSIDE STAGE
Thee Oh Sees
Football
Janka Nabay
Gary Wilson
Tôg
Shapes Have Fangs (just added!)
INSIDE STAGE
Slim Cessna's Auto Club
O'Death
Grass Widow
Bare Wires
Pterodactyl
Heavy Cream
MORE INFO BELOW!!
Thee Oh Sees -- >
http://www.theeohsees.com
Thee Oh Sees are the latest incarnation of songwriter, singer, and guitarist John Dwyer's ever-evolving pop-folk psychedelic group. Dwyer, who hails from Providence, RI, has been active on the San Francisco indie scene since the late '90s, working with several bands, including the Coachwhips, Pink & Brown, Yikes , Up Its Alive, and Swords & Sandals, among others, and he formed OCS (which is an acronym for Orinoka Crash Suite, Orange County Sound, or whatever Dwyer decided it was on any given day) initially as a vehicle for the experimental instrumentals he was producing in his home studio. In time OCS morphed into an actual band, and worked under the usual flurry of names, most notably as the Oh Sees or the Ohsees , and eventually as Thee Oh Sees, featuring Dwyer on guitar and vocals, Brigid Dawson on vocals and tambourine, Petey Dammit (sometimes listed as Petey Dammit! on bass, and Mike Shoun on drums.
Football -- >
Debut performance of a new band featuring members of THE PONYS, WHITE SAVAGE, HOT MACHINES, BASEBALL FURIES, TYRADES and A/V MURDER.
Janka Nabay -- >
http://www.myspace.com/jankanabay
Janka’s history is deep – in the late 90s, he was the first musician to electrify bubu music, adding synths and drum machines to the airy hum of blown bamboo shoots and carburetor pipes. Janka’s bubu connects the dots between low-fi African techno and bubu’s ancient processional origins. This new bubu makes a point: that in the rush to modernize and escape the war, Sierra Leoneans risk abandoning their native culture.
Gary Wilson -- >
http://www.myspace.com/garywilson64
"Combining elements of pop, proto new wave, jazz, avant-garde composition and electronic music, Gary Wilson delivers sincere lyrics, alternately sweet and angst ridden, about the women in his life and his fantasies..." - NY Times
Tôg -- >
http://www.myspace.com/togstavanger
Let´s face it. “Live fast, die young” is getting old and tiresome. So what next? Enter virtue and vice. Enter arrogance and humility. Enter the unlikely Tôg. A house pop-band influenced by horrorfilmscores, gypsy music and film noir. A seven-man-band naming themselves after a slang-word meaning "jerk" in the accent of norwegian that they sing in. A lead singer who, when he isn´t on stage, spends his time in seclusion, praying and discussing ethics and the word of God with munks and hermits, singing the lithurgy of the hours and meditating in the woods. It was on a pilgrimage in the south of France that the vision of Tôg evolved into what it is now. This vision has lead the band to pack dark, dingy clubs in Norway with all kinds of people, dancing and celebrating a hope of something more. In the darkness of the club, the brightness of the lights.
Shapes Have Fangs -->
http://www.myspace.com/shapeshavefangs
Shapes Have Fangs is the Chemical Wedding of four – Josh Willis on bass, Dustin Coffey on rhythm guitar and vocals, Evan McGlothlin on drums, and Skyler McGlothlin on guitar and keys. Their inspiration roots from the Monas Hieroglyphica – enigmatic treatise on symbolic language. Currently they are transcribing excerpts from AMBIX, XII – in to 4th dimensional sound walls. Shapes Have Fangs are from Austin, TX
Slim Cessna's Auto Club -- >
http://www.myspace.com/slimcessnasautoclub
The instruments are drums, upright bass, pedal steel, banjos, piano, guitar, vocals and stories. They have recorded critically acclaimed albums (Village Voice, Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle) on Jello Biafra¹s Alternative Tentacles label. Spin Magazine and No Depression have described them as the best live band in America. The songs are each thoughtfully crafted with unique arrangements, executed by superb musicianship, then fully realized through original, insightful and intelligent lyrics. With two of the most charismatic frontmen around (Westword) and four accomplished musicians (Wovenhand, Delta 72, 16Horsepower), SCAC is the past, present and future of American music.
O'Death -- >
http://www.myspace.com/odeath
"There are plenty of folk and country-tinged bands floating around America these days, but few are able to take Americana and evolve it toward something interesting or unique, something that begs to be heard, something catchy enough to dance (or stumble) to. O'Death manages to do just that, and also manages to take us to that dark and haunted place inside us that takes such enthusiastic satisfaction in being dark and haunted." - Portland Mercury
Grass Widow -- >
http://myspace.com/grasswidowmusic
From the beginning, the members of Grass Widow have maintained an objective of playing financially accessible, age-inclusive and gender-inclusive shows. As the band has continued to grow and share their post-punk influenced, intricately woven songs to larger communities through their latest release with Kill Rock Stars, their aim has been to challenge old paradigms of the music industry and confront the tired methods of categorizing music by paving a new path. “We believe in the value of music itself and promote a community in which musicians are treated with respect regardless of their pitchfork rating, their label or representation. The value assigned to a band by these forces is a manufactured concept supported by a music industry that thrives on advertising, objectification and reducing bands to “trends” and “fads” via the Internet. We want to bring the sense of integrity and accountability that is fostered in the D.I.Y. community we come from to this arena and inspire others to do the same.”
Bare Wires -- >
http://www.myspace.com/thebarewires
Bare Wires patents their own brand of electrified garage punk with their latest album Seeking Love (Castle Face). The Oakland based trio fuses glam glitter pop with garage punk grime, producing what has been called everything from "Soft Punk" to "Leather Jacket Rock". Breaking away from the "Biker Psych" sound of Snake Flower 2, Bare Wires started as the side project of Matthew Melton in 2007 with the release of a crude garage punk single Voodoo Doll on European label Solid Sex Lovie Doll. Later developing on what was called "a rawer Raw Power" and adding his own analog recording system into the mix, Melton continued to record under the name, releasing the Artificial Clouds LP on Tic Tac Totally in 2009. With solid mid-fi production and a minimalist aesthetic, Artificial Clouds dispensed with the jagged, proto-punk edges of "She's So Out" and slipped into the smoother, hook-laden, but no less scrappy rhythms of "Go Away Frankie" and "Teen Witch." Bare Wires' "smooth punk" found only further expression on the Let Down 7" (Milk n Herpes), a dirty, sleazy pair of fuzz-doused songs with guitars ripping through a crunching amplifier on a hazy cloud of smoke. With their latest album Seeking Love, recorded in Melton's bedroom studio in Oakland, CA, the three piece comprised of vocalist and guitarist Matthew Melton, bassist Fletcher Johnson, and drummer Nathan Price, delivers ten stadium-ready tracks of hand-clapping, speaker-blasting rock n' roll, while still speaking to the sincerity and authenticity that has become Melton's songwriting trademark.
Pterodactyl -- >
http://www.myspace.com/pterodactyl
Pterodactyl's newest release, Worldwild, is the culmination of a long Pterodactyl adventure, an art-rock odyssey through lush pastures of layered vocal harmonies, mountainous rhythms and thick, dark forests of fuzzy, piercing guitars. On Easter Sunday, 2008, in a rustic motel in backwoods Pennsylvania, one day before crossing the border into Canada, Pterodactyl discovered an experience (Worldwild) that they wanted to keep with them and pursue musically. They felt like they were on a family vacation through a colorful new reality, an experience of solitude and connectedness, alone yet one with everyone. When they returned to Brooklyn Joe began recording demos in his bedroom studio that would be the foundation for most of the material on the record, the sounds and textures of which were beautiful and intriguing, but seemed at first to be at odds with what the band had been known for in the past. But Pterodactyl had found a new, triumphant future in Worldwild: a schizophrenic, desperate idealism that shone through the confusion of the dozens of vocal tracks and guitar samples Joe had put down. Live performances of the songs on Worldwild showcase many different facets of the band but maintain a narrative coalescence throughout -- a story of hours upon hours singing alone into a bedroom computer, of frustration and redemption, of petty but heated personal battles between friends, melodies running rampant through sleepless summer nights, triumphant moments of trust and cooperation, and a faith and optimism in the spirit of adventure.
Heavy Cream -- >
http://www.myspace.com/heavycreamband
Heavy Cream's aura is the color bad. They are three girls and one guy from Nashville, Tennessee that play rock and roll Stonehenge punk. Their music is youth incarnate; fast and loud and exuberant. Ripping through their set with the ferociousness of a mountain lion, their primal beats, catchy riffs and bewitching drones leave you wondering when Joey Ramone and Suzi Quatro had a love child.
