The deluge of e-mails continues.
Tee Pee Records will be all over SXSW this year, and if you’re going, you should make a point to catch some of them. If you’re not going, or just need more convincing, the label has posted a FREE sampler of their bands for download online. Bands featured include J. Mascis’s metal band Witch, Earthless and Graveyard (their “Evil Ways” track is my favorite so far).
Fans of Sabbath-/Pentagram-inspired doom and psych-rock should take note. Also, anyone still rocking black light posters will probably want to download this, if they even have computers.
Check out Tee Pee bands at SXSW at the following times/locations:
Wednesday 3/18:
Tee Pee Records/MadeLoud.com Day Party at The Scoot Inn
Scoot Inn – 113 E 11th St
5pm Hopewell
4:30 Willem Maker (inside)
4pm Night Horse
3:30 Larkin Grimm (inside)
3pm Sleepy Sun
2:30 Silverghost (inside)
2pm Krista Muir
Thursday 3/19:
Gibson Guitars/Affliction Day Party at Maggie Mae’s:
Maggie Mae’s – 512 Trinity Street
1:25-1:55 Earthless
Roky Erikson Psychedelic Ice Cream Social at Threadgills World Headquarters:
Threadgills World Headquarters – 301 Riverside Drive
4PM The Warlocks
Full Metal Texas @ Emo’s Annex Noon – 6PM:
Emo’s – 600 Red River Street
RSVP AT:
www.FullMetalTexas.com
12:15PM Memphis May Fire
1:05PM Night Horse
1:55PM Black Math Horseman
2:45PM Kylesa
3:35PM Skeletonwitch
4:35PM Fact
5:15PM Greeley Estates
Tee Pee Records Official SXSW Showcase at Room 710:
Room 710 – 710 Red River Street
8PM Kreisor
9PM Black Math Horseman
10PM Night Horse
11PM Ancestors
12AM Annihilation Time
1AM Earthless
Friday 3/20:
Gibson Guitars Day Party at Maggie Mae’s:
Maggie Mae’s – Maggie Mae’s – 512 Trinity Street
1:30 PM The Warlocks
Action PR / Tee Pee / Scoot Inn Presents day party
Scoot Inn – 113 E 11th St
Outside-
5pm Peelander-Z
4pm Zoroaster
3pm Ancestors
2pm Easy Action
1pm Dixie Witch
The Smell Day Party at 501 Studios:
501 Studios – 501 North IH-35
5:15 PM Ancestors
AAM Day Party at Habana Calle 6:
709 – E 6th Street
4:45PM Earthless & J Mascis exclusive performance
Psychotropic Day Party at Spiderhouse:
Spiderhouse – 2908 Fruth Street
3:20PM Hopewell
6:40PM Earthless
7:30PM Black Math Horseman
Day Party at Guero’s:
Guero’s – 1412 S Congress Ave
6:45 Hopewell
Saturday 3/21:
Tee Pee Records/LA Record/Converse Day Party at Club 1808:
Club 1808 – 1808 E 12th Street
6:10PM Annihilation Time
5:20PM Year Long Disaster
4:30PM The Warlocks
3:40PM Night Horse
2:50PM Tweak Bird
2PM Black Math Horseman
High Times 2009 Doobie Awards at Red 7:
Red 7 – 611 E 7th Street
Earthless (set time TBA)
Live Music Capitol Day Party:
1PM Hopewell
SXSW Showcase at Beauty Bar:
Beauty Bar – 617 E 7th Street
10PM Hopewell
Viva Radio/American Apparell Showcase at Club Deville:
Club Deville – 900 Red River St
9PM – The Warlocks
With SXSW on the horizon, my inbox is filling up with e-mails about who will be playing there. It’s a double-edged sword: I’ve checked out a lot of stuff I wouldn’t have heard normally, but since I won’t be attending the festival this year, I won’t have the opportunity to be so wasted that I’ll forget whether or not I’ve seen them perform. It’s upsetting.
That being said, if I were going, Madi Diaz is one of those acts I would do my best to sober up for. She’s from Lancaster, which is in the butter-churning heart of Pennsylvania Amish country. Now, the fresh-faced 22-year-old (pictured above with partner in crime Kyle Ryan) is based out of Nashville, and her songs veer toward the sunnier indie rock, country and folk. Maybe it will remind you that there are warmer days ahead. Her new EP, Ten Gun Salute, has been self-released and can be purchased digitally on her Myspace page (“Heavy Heart” and the title track are especially nice).
If you’ll be in Austin this year, here’s where you can find her:
Wed, March 18
6 p.m. @ Sheraton Hotel (701 E. 11th)
Thurs, March 19
11 p.m. @ Hi-Lo (301 W. 6th)
Fri, March 20
12:30 – 12:45 p.m. @ Four Seasons / BMI Breakfast
2:00 – 2:20 p.m. @ Tap Room at Six Lounge (117 W. 4th)
9:15 p.m. @ Driskill Hotel, Victorian Room (the main gig)
If you’re considering a vacation to Amish country, I suggest eating at Good ‘N Plenty, a family style restaurant where you can quite literally eat yourself to death. Just save room for the shoo fly pie.
Eisley Conquers Personal Strife in Time for Spring Tour
Even over the phone, Eisley’s Sherri DuPree has the sort of wide-eyed charm that will either make your eyes turn into giant cartoon hearts or cause you to vomit–depending on your kink. When Submerge spoke with the young singer/songwriter/guitarist and she cooed about a fan in Pittsburgh who’d brought the band “a friggin’ freezer full” of gourmet ice cream.
“It was awesome,” she added for emphasis.
It’s not difficult to see why Dupree and her group of fresh-faced Tyler, TX youths have garnered such an avid fan base. Eisley is the teddy-bear-cuddly antithesis to the aloof, iconic rock stars from the days of yore. They’re approachable; DuPree herself blogs regularly on the official Eisley home page, posting personal pictures and giving regular updates whether the band is at home or on the road. As a result, gifts like the freezer of frozen treats received in Pittsburgh are not out of the ordinary.
“The things we’ve been getting the most on this tour are the Starbucks Double Shot things in the can,” DuPree said. When asked if the frequency of these gifts had anything to do with a picture of herself drinking a can of the caffeinated beverage posted on her blog, Dupree answered, “That wasn’t what I was going for, but it totally worked.”
Though Dupree was in good spirits and easy to speak with, since the release in Aug. 2007 of Eisley’s latest album, Combinations, her personal life has had it’s ups and downs. The end of 2007 saw her marriage to New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert end in divorce. At around the same time, Sherri’s sister and bandmate Chauntelle broke her engagement with Taking Back Sunday’s Adam Lazarra. Sherri said that though the experience was very painful, now that time has passed, she sees it as a positive one.
“I’m happy now, and it’s great,” she said. “I wouldn’t trade it for the world.”
DuPree explained that having a sibling go through a similar ordeal gave both sisters someone to rely on through their difficult times .
“My deal went down…and the guy who was going to marry her [Lazarra] was saying, ‘I can’t believe Sherri’s husband is doing this to her, leaving her’ and talking all this trash about him, and then [a couple of months later] he ended up doing the same thing,” DuPree said.
“Now it’s funny because we’re through it,” DuPree went on to say. “But at that time, our worlds were thrown upside down. We totally had each other to lean on. It was really helpful for both of us that it happened at the same time, because we both could understand each other so well.”
Other than being a learning experience, DuPree said her marital woes also helped her grow as a writer.
“When you go through something that intense emotionally, you’re pushed to grow in every part of your life,” DuPree explained.
In the time off Eisley had leading up to their spring tour (which got under way on Apr. 1 and will carry through May 24, including a stop at The Empire in Sacramento on May 13), DuPree said that she and sister/bandmate Stacy had been writing new material. Sherri said that the group has already demoed between 17 and 20 songs on Garageband, though at present time there were no definite plans for when the group would re-enter the studio.
“Hopefully we’ll be able to go to the studio pretty soon–maybe after the summer’s over–and record something, even if it’s just an EP,” she said.
Though a new Eisley album is still just on the distant horizon, DuPree said the material she had been writing had been a lot more guitar heavy and believed that their next release would be, “a little more heavy–more rock” than the group’s previous efforts.
“It’s dorky, but I love playing loud guitar,” she said with a laugh. “‘Many Funerals’ [from Combinations] is one of my favorite songs to play because it’s one of our heaviest songs, so it’ll be fun having a few more [like that].”
DuPree admitted that the more aggressive guitar parts she’d been writing may have been a result of the dissolution of her marriage to Gilbert, and that her divorce would affect the lyrics for the new material as well. However, she was quick to point out that the group wouldn’t be abandoning their softer side.
“There will definitely be love songs too because that’s always how it’s going to be,” she said.
