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Johnny Marr 4:15pm, Orange stage “I was almost too comfortable in Portland, Oregon,” muses quintessential British rock guitarist Johnny Marr about his new solo release, The Messenger. “I needed to get a bit uptight, and Manchester is a good place to get a bloke uptight!” He laughs. Marr revisited the city where he grew up and formed arguably the best of UK Eighties acts, , with his now long-estranged partner . He’d been living stateside most of the last decade, but upon his return to native “I wanted soil, he shook off both to reconnect bands he’d played in during that period – with a certain and – to work on COVEr: M.I.A. By john anDeRson, snoop lIon, his own. slAyer By gaRy MiLLeR, twIn shAdow By john attitude in the anDeRson, tenAcIous d By john anDeRson, “I just had a lot of ideas of MAtt hoffMAn music that lyrics and a lot of concepts I was playing of what I wanted to sing about. I started to set them before the to music, and there was just smiths.” no need to invite someone to LocaL Fun 6 collaborate, no need to invite someone to sing. It was personal to me.” FFFF saTuRDay 8 Part of his process was to return to the music and environment of his youth, though not out of any sense MeTaL Fun Fun 15 of nostalgia. “I wanted to reconnect with a certain attitude in the FFFF sunDay 16 music that I was playing before the Smiths. I was around 17 and writing in a certain way, inspired by the punk Fun Fun Fun 17 bands after – the way those bands did things.” Interestingly, the bands Marr cites are American: FFFF coMeDy 20 Blondie, Pere Ubu, and Television. The latter play the same stage as Marr the next day. FFFF FooD 22 “Brilliant,” he says. – Tim Stegall

The TonTons warped tape deck. He put out two sleeper hits in 12:35pM, Orange stage 2012: Rock & Roll Night Club, a sardonic Good bet the Tontons won’t be ’s best- FM-themed EP of roxy music, and 2, which, in kept secret much longer. Led by indie princess Asli terms of vibe, had more of a neon glow to Kurt Omar, the road warrior quartet recently squeezed in Vile’s smoke-ring haze. – Austin Powell recording sessions for a follow-up to 2011 EP Golden. Bun B’s favorite band stirs a dreamy drank of rocking LiTTLe BooTs indie-pop and a whole lotta soul. – Thomas Fawcett 4:10pM, Blue stage Little Boots emerged in a salvo of blond RaTking electronic-pop artists; La Roux, , Little 1pM, Blue stage Boots ... it was a delicious alliteration. Now that Wanna know what life’s like around the murky, electronics have wormed their way into widespread confined corners inhabiting the proliferation, the British artist has settled into underground? Take a spin on Ratking’s Wiki93. Last channeling another blonde: Kylie Minogue. May’s introduction from this young Manhattan trio – Abby Johnston elicits every turn and swerve of a hellbent E train, a devilish tour of modern youth culture journeying from the too-hip Lower East Side towards the 5:20pM, Orange stage Diplomats’ Harlem neighborhood that raised Wiki, Kurt Vile makes me wonder if Philadelphia isn’t Hak, and Sporting Life to rap. – Chase Hoffberger the East Coast’s Austin. Through his solo career, the Philly guitarist has created effortless, unhurried shelley hiam shelley Mac DeMaRco folk-rock so hazy and transporting that it could’ve 3:15pM, Orange stage been written, joint in hand, on the shores of Lady A SXSW breakout last seen opening for Bird Lake. 2013’s Wakin’ on a Pretty Daze remains Phoenix, Montreal’s Mac DeMarco cuts slacker a perfect soundtrack to Austin’s endless summers. jams that sound like West African guitar-pop on a – Abby Johnston

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Beach fossils Clash the Truth () The sophomore LP from Beach Fossils directly challenges the lo-fi, woozy sound of their eponymous 2010 debut, with Dustin Payseur looking to capture the expanded live sound of the quartet with produc- 2209 South First Street tion from the Men’s Ben Greenberg. Clash rings more confidently from the opening title 462-6008•endofanear.com track, even if Payseur flails in his attempts to unravel what it all means through songs like “Generational Synthetic,” the lazy haze pushed forward with more propulsive guitar against spit lyrics like, “All your words are so magnetic, generation apathetic.” The soft lull of “Sleep Apnea” sinks into the Fossils’ famil- iar shoegaze, but all the songs are clipped so short that atmosphere is unfortunately never given the chance to fully evolve and envelope. Still, the aggressive fuzz of “Birthday” and haunting hum of “In Vertigo” (the latter fea- turing harmony from ’s Kazu Makino) pack a late- punch. (2:15pm, Orange stage) HHHn – Doug Freeman

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a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m NOVEMBER 8, 2013 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E F U N F U N F U N F E S T P R E V I E W 2 0 1 3 3 Fun Fun Fun Fest 2013 friday Continued From p.3 The WaLkMen RjD2 6:25pM, Orange stage 7:25pM, Blue stage 8:45pM, Blue stage Seven in 10 years Strapped like a backpack to Producer RJD2 became an have helped make the Walkmen 2006 debut Food & Liquor and underground darling with one of the most recognizable subsequent single “Kick, 2002’s Deadringer, an names in . Scour their Push,” Lupe Fiasco now eyes instrumental opus that put him catalog to see how the NYC next year’s Tetsuo & Youth, the in the same breath as DJ quintet’s grown up. Once MC’s fifth in eight Shadow. Fresh off fifth LP More detached and desperate, years. Fiasco’s hoping it’s a Is Than Isn’t, the Midwest Hamilton Leithauser and crew doozy, one to ward off bad juju beatsmith – whose side projects have matured, tightened, and surrounding last year’s Food & include Soul Position, the pieced together two recent Liquor II: The Great American Insane Warrior, and Icebird – albums that possess a Rap Album Pt. 1 and 2011 continues to expand the previously unrealized fluidity, dud Lasers. footprint of hip-hop with most notably last May’s Heaven. – Chase Hoffberger soundscapes that draw from – Chase Hoffberger indie rock, disco, and Bay Area funk. – Thomas Fawcett thee Oh sees 6:25pm, Black stage 6:20pm, Blue stage Big Freedia San Francisco garage-psych quartet Oxford defines twerk as a “dance to popular music in a sexually provocative man- Thee Oh Sees supply insane energy to ner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance.” When asked if every stage they plug into. Keyboardist anything about that white-bread definition should be changed, New Orleans bounce Brigid Dawson fielded our questions. queen Big Freedia pauses for a minute, then adds, “No hands on the floor. No hands – Kevin Curtin on anything except the knees.” As a booty shaker since Miley Cyrus was still Hannah Montana, Freedia should Austin Chronicle: You’ve been called the know. In September, an ass-embly of 358 New Yorkers chalked up a Guinness World silver lining in Thee Oh Sees sound. Record for most simultaneous twerkers, an event set up for the television debut of Brigid Dawson: I’m a caveman piano Fuse’s Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce. player. I’d never played an instrument “It was the perfect timing with all the twerking phenomenon and ol’ Miley,”

before said, “You’ll have to john anderson agrees the show’s host. learn to play keyboards,” so I learned on Speaking from the Big Easy, with the tour clock set at 10 days and dogs Rita and the road years ago. It’s been both the fun- Sensation barking in the background, Freedia prepares to traverse the country “showing nest and most challenging thing I’ve love and spreading the goodness of bounce music,” with tour dates through November. ever done. “I’m just amped that the TV show is airing right now and that people will get to see AC: How’s touring with Austin’s OBN III’s? me while it’s on. Bounce is taking flight all over the globe. New York especially, and L.A., BD: It’s been wonderful to be on the road Canada, Portland, Washington. It keeps getting bigger and bigger.” – Abby Johnston with a band that’s so young and so great. Me and John checked them out in Denton thee Oh sees supply “Bounce is taking flight all over the globe.” and it was such an awesome show that insane energy to every we immediately started making plans to tour together. Listening to bands that stage they plug into. Johnny Marr Small Black you love on tour is part of the whole rea- The Messenger (Sire) Limits of Desire son you do this. get at creating the right energy, which Johnny Marr’s previ- (Jagjaguwar) AC: How have you made the adjustment I find heartening. ous solo showing was With 2010 debut full- from playing small, sweaty clubs to big AC: , your seventh album 2003’s flat arena-rock length New Chain, Small outdoor festivals? in six years, has gotten a lot of praise. experiment, Boomslang. Black sank amid the BD: For me, it was scary at first. Such BD: That helps more than any technique. For The Messenger, swell of the a big stage and big crowd of people Our minds are still engaged to what the ex-Smiths axe turn of the decade. While who don’t really know who you are, music can be and we keep changing to genius returns to the guitar pop of his the Brooklyn quartet’s sophomore effort proves but the more you do it, the better you keep it interesting for ourselves. youth. Marr chimes, jangles, strums, and lustrously polished and the rhythms more pro- crunches, using whatever tricks best serve nounced, it still treads in lukewarm waters that the song. Not that The Messenger trucks lull comfortably numb. The relentless yearning Thee Oh Sees Floating Coffin (Castle Face) in nostalgia, mind you. His vision turns on in its dreamlike electronic haze and the breath- After years of plying a twisted but uneven dalliance between psy- fuller arrangements and tighter melodies less sighs of Josh Kolenik works well to a chedelia, garage punk, and noise, San Francisco’s Thee Oh Sees than his old band allowed. Whether it’s the point, seducing on opener “Free at Dawn” and distilled their focus to fine effect on 2011’s Carrion Crawler/The lush groove and 12-string jangle of the title “Canoe,” yet never moves forward, the compel- Dream. That sweet streak continues on Floating Coffin, whose darker, track, the stop-start chink and twanging ling Eighties glaze washing from one song to the more foreboding tone covers a lot of stylistic ground in its 10 tracks. riff of “The Crack Up,” or the widescreen next and ultimately settling into a decompres- Opener “I Come From the Mountain” echoes the epic intensity of pop licks powering “The Right Thing Right,” sion tank that strips all sensory stimulation. The Dream with a frantic, driving buzz punctuated by echo-sodden Marr caresses each track with just the right Individually, “Sophie” or the soft synth pulse whoops and hollers. “Toe Cutter-Thumb Buster” pits earth-blasting touch and that includes his mellifluous voice. of “Proper Spirit” lift above their reverb drift, guitar against a slinky, black-eyed groove, then the title track hurls The Messenger rediscovers what made the but strung among the 10 tracks of Limits, you into a spiraling sonic void. “No Spell” begins life in a mellow, prog-rock glow that unfolds Smiths’ albums great – an open-minded everything fades into neutral colors and it’s the into frizzed-up, psych-punk bliss, while “Strawberries 1 + 2” morphs a Memphian trash-rock approach to tone and a feel that colors awkward contrasts like “Breathless” that stand showdown into a gloriously listing dirge. The viola-driven, droll pop facade of “Minotaur” strikes tunes for miles. (4:15pm, Orange stage) out. A hypnotic album, but one that never quite the perfect closing sentiment. (6:25pm, Black stage) HHHHn – Michael Toland awakens to its purpose. (5:15pm, Blue stage) HHHHn – Greg Beets HH – Doug Freeman friday Continued on p.6

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Ola Podrida (Sat., 12:50pm, LocaL fUN By Kevin Curtin Orange stage) Phranchyze Bill Callahan (Fri., 7:30pm, Yellow stage) Soundtrack maestro David (Fri., 12:10pm, Blue stage) The introverted bard, formerly Smog, Wingo’s indie-rock band This battle-tested MC has now crafts his career’s most delicate cranks up the volume on confidence and character and intelligent work, including newbie latest release Ghosts Go as dictated by his aliases: Dream River. Blind. “The Black Larry Bird” and LNS Crew (Sat., 11:55am, Blue Stage) Wild Child (Sun., 6:25pm, “Phranye West.” Unequivocally badass crew of Austin Yellow stage) Spray Paint rappers and producers: Cory Kendrix, War-painted folk-poppers (Fri., 12:20pm, Black stage) Tank, Kydd, Deezie Brown, and DJ capitalize on the adorable Angular, bassless trio Charlie. interplay of baritone uker brewing highly caffeinated Frank Smith (Sat., noon, Orange stage) Alexander Beggins and post-punk. Nineties rock captained by talented fiddler Kelsey Wilson. The Impossibles songwriter Aaron Sinclair, not Daniel Johnston (Fri., 4:05pm, Black stage) Frank Smith. (Sun., 7:35pm, Yellow stage) Nineties ska and power- Roger Sellers (Sat., 12:45pm, Blue stage) Much-loved Texan, whose pop, the Imps recorded for DJ and multi-instrumentalist who crafts struggles with bipolar Bill Callahan trendsetters Fueled by dense, ambient electronica with a disorder and the “Hi, How Ramen and reunited last head-bobbing, indie-pop element. Are You” mural overshadow 7:30pm, YellOw stage year after a decade apart. his beautiful pop. Traveling in support of 2011’s Apocalypse, “I feel like when I’m playing there’s the typically reticent and private Bill this magnetic force field that I’m creat- Callahan allowed videographer Hanly ing, but I’m also being affected by it, and Banks to create a tour film after she reached I think it looked like that to me when I Snoop Lion Reincarnated (RCA) out with a brief proposal. The result, last watched myself.” In 2008, ’s Ego Trippin’ year’s Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour That sense of remove, of observing prompted questions of whether the G/hus- Film, provided a poignant portrait of the oneself from the outside, infiltrates tla could still be considered a rapper. With former Smog auteur, Callahan’s latest effort, April’s Reincarnated, we know for sure he’s both for audiences and Dream River. The “I feel like when not. The Doggfather’s 12th reincarnates the Callahan himself. album moves in a con- celebrated G-funk playboy into full reggae “I had very little to do I’m playing there’s templative calm, yet righteousness, pushing that “Rebel Way” with making it, I was also reaches constant- this magnetic with a fat Kingston blunt on his Rastafari just a subject,” admits ly for connection, for mind. “Here Comes the King,” the man who the local indie icon. force field that love in its sparse wrote “Murder Was the Case” proclaims. “The few times I’ve essential lyricism. This I’m creating.” He’s brought along quite the processional. seen it on the actual too, may be an influ- Support for Reincarnated reads like a who’s movie screen, the way it’s lit and every- ence of Banks, who recently became who of music tabloid: Drake (“No Guns thing, it actually feels like another person Callahan’s fiancée. Allowed”), Akon, , Miley Cyrus is up there doing that. In your conscious “A record is really just the desire to (“Ashtrays and Heartbreaks”). It’s enough to life you don’t really see yourself as other sound a certain way,” Callahan offers. make überproducer Ariel Rechtshaid (Usher, people see you, so you don’t really know “Where that desire comes from, I don’t Vampire Weekend, Major Lazer) an after- what your body looks like, or the back of know. I kind of search the desires of the thought. Same goes for Snoop. The onetime rapper’s new foray into Lionism deviates so far your head. I seemed pretty serious and I record shelf in my head and try to pick from the norm that its proprietor’s been edged out, melded into a nonconfrontational reggae didn’t detect in myself any awareness of something you want to hear.” singer whose drops can’t muster a single memorable moment. (8:45pm, Orange stage) the outside, anything but the music. – Doug Freeman HHn – Chase Hoffberger

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Merchandise 2:40pm, Orange sTage Merchandise remains a compelling anomaly, not only for the trio’s emergence from Tampa, Fla.’s typically hardcore scene, but also for their genre-shifting wrangling of noise-infused punk and brooding dark-wave ballads. Following last year’s excellent sophomore LP, Children of Desire, new EP Totale Nite careens stylistically behind Carson Cox’s Britpop romanticism. – Doug Freeman 3:15pm, BlUe sTage “What you gonna do when them zombies come for you,” asks Brooklyn rap trio Flatbush Zombies on “Death,” lead single from recent mixtape Better Off Dead. Rappers Meechy Darko, , and producer Erick Arc Elliott have a penchant for D.R.U.G.S., plus a style reminiscent of Brooklyn predecessors Heltah Skeltah with a touch of Gravediggaz-stye horrorcore. Get your zombie survival kit ready. – Thomas Fawcett chelsea light Moving 3:40pm, Orange sTage What do you do when you’re in the midst of a very public divorce in your mid-50s, and unable to record with the band that made you an icon? The answer was simple for captain , who simply geared up a new quartet to make the same careening he always has. The resulting Matador debut, Chelsea Light Moving, flexed “liberation and noisy The Underachievers 2:25pm, Blue stage calibration” in March at SXSW. “People talk about us bringing the Nineties back, but if from the [Flatbush] Zombies spent like four years straight on – Luke Winkie anything we’re trying to bring the Sixties back.” psychedelics and going on adventures. You outgrow things. I’m So explains Issa Gold, formerly Issa Dash, one half of not at home every day tripping on LSD and writing raps and Brooklyn rap duo the Underachievers alongside partner AK. The shit, nah. I’m definitely high as fuck though. I definitely smoke Flatbush crew’s debut mixtape, a lot of pot.” Indigoism, comes coated with a thick the Flatbush crew’s debut To wit: “Herb Shuttles,” their best resin of East Coast grime. known cloud rap. They may be blazed, “I love psychedelic music and we mixtape, Indigoism, comes but Underachievers represent the definitely try to tailor our music to coated with a thick resin movement alongside fel- affect people’s ears the way psyche- low Brooklyn up-and-comers delic music did,” he affirms. “That’s of East Coast grime. and Flatbush Zombies. why a lot of the songs on Indigoism “It’s a huge family. We’ve known sound mystical.” all those kids since we were younger. From the outside it might The more recent Lords of Flatbush mixtape rolls less heady, look like all these crews are teaming up to be a powerhouse, but but still packs bars about psilocybin and bad acid trips. in actuality it’s little links that make it the real deal, way beyond “I don’t really, really trip anymore, but me and my friend the music.” – Thomas Fawcett

Melt-Banana geographer Fetch (A-Zap Records) 4:45pm, Orange sTage Shonen Knife assaulting ? Double-decade trio Melt-Banana still stymies con- Mike Deni’s soaring vocals push full-throttle ventional codification as it approaches a dozen discs, but within this tribal drum chase of helium vocals, against this S.F. trio’s guitar and synth pulse on guitars, and songbombs, Fetch brings back raw mosh. Japanese bees (“The Hive”) could’ve 2012 sophomore full-length, Myth. With Animal titled this stinging circle pit (“Lie Lied Lies”), Yasuko Onuki leading the frenzy with her Minnie-Mouse- Collective-styled rhythms that contort in skittering on-nitrous cry, but the Jesus Lizard-like back-to-back of “Lefty Dog (Run, Caper, Run)” and “Infection electronic patterns like on “Kaleidoscope,” Defective” raises neck hairs with the vertiginous, Duane Denison-esque guitar strangulation of Ichirou Geographer caches an emotion and depth that Agata. In the sluicing merry-go-round of “Schemes of the Tails,” the band channels straight- still rings through the eclectic driving beats jacketed in the lunatic asylum. Sane comparisons elude Melt-Banana, but your mouth will froth and your accentuated by Nathan Blaz’s warped cello tail will wag every time you Fetch. (3:20pm, Black stage) arrangements. – Doug Freeman HHH – Raoul Hernandez

8 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E F U N F U N F U N F E S T P R E V I E W 2 0 1 3 NOVEMBER 8, 2013 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m Free gift while supplies last. White lung 2:30pm, Black stage All sales are “The right answer is to act all modest She’s not old. White Lung’s been play- final. and be like, ‘Oh, I’m just doing what I do ing since 2006, but it’s only been the last and not thinking.’ But that’s bullshit. couple of years that they’ve garnered Frontpeople are frontpeople because international attention. They’ve crossed they’re fucking frontpeople. You know? over to indie-rock adoration, and much We chose to stand up in the front and be of that has to do with Mish Way. Her ‘the face’ for a reason. If there are like five siren hair and rain-soaked voice remain girls who look up to me, that’s great.” a one-of-a-kind experience. There’s a lot That’s Mish Way, frontwoman for being expected of White Lung. Vancouver hardcore pop trio White Lung. “Yes, I’m always aware of that,” she “There needs to be more strong alpha acknowledges. “But I don’t let it ruin females out there who question culture me. We’re working on our new record and own their sex appeal and call out and we have made some huge changes bullshit and have fun. Don’t you miss internally and everything is kind of bands like L7? There was never another crazy right now, but compared to other band like L7. people’s lives this is not stressful. My “Ugh, sorry,” she pauses. “All my idols life is hardly difficult.” are old now. And I’m old.” – Luke Winkie they’ve crossed over to indie-rock adoration, and much of that has to do with Mish Way. Her siren hair and rain-soaked voice remain a one-of-a-kind experience. subhuMans Quasi 5:20pm, Black sTage 6:25pm, YellOW sTage The best of the UK anarcho-punks, more akin This year marks the 20th anniversary of Sam to Flux of Pink Indians than predecessors like Coomes and Janet Weiss’ formation as Quasi, the Crass, Subhumans arrived characterized by the seminal Portland, Ore., duo returning with ripping, urgent, socially charged lyrics of whip-smart, lo-fi ninth LP Mole City (). The crooked-haired frontman Dick Lucas, who helped album roils loose with a raucous energy that establish the intellectual viability of crust-punk takes stock of the pair’s past catalog across the culture. Their second LP, 1983’s From the Cradle epic 24-track offering, while still pushing playfully to the Grave, which they’ll be performing in its forward in new directions. – Doug Freeman entirety, boasts a 16-minute title track that’s like the Ulysses of Eighties punk. – Kevin Curtin saturday Continued on p.10

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sparks 7:30pm, Yellow stage Los Angeles-born brothers Ron and Russell Mael launched Sparks in 1971, moving through impish iterations of glam, New Wave, synth pop, and years before the rock world did the same. Sparks scored hits and huge audiences in , but never hit the big time here at home. Happily, that never stopped the Maels, who bring the voice-and-keyboard retrospective Two Hands, One Mouth Tour to Fun Fun Fun Fest for a rare Texas performance. Is it difficult to present such a stripped-down show at a festival? “We like putting ourselves and our audience in situations where things are hope- fully not fitting in with everything else that’s surrounding it,” says Russell. “To fit in seems like the absolute kiss of death to us. Sure, you’ll have people who maybe won’t understand, but we win converts to the Sparks cause by doing things that are really special and unique. We present what we think is interesting, and whoever wants to come for the ride with us, we’re welcoming them with open arms.” In other words, it’s an extension of the band’s constant evolution. “You have to throw yourself out there and hopefully make the right decisions,” asserts Russell. “Just do things that are exciting and challenging for you and not necessarily know where it’s headed. When it’s predictable and you know what the end results are gonna be, then it’s less exciting. But when you’re doing stuff where you go, ‘God, I’m not even sure exactly what we’re doing, but it seems really striking,’ then that’s good in our eyes.” – Michael Toland Five songs tElEvision has to play 5:50pm, Orange sTage “to fit in With an unreleased album’s worth of new songs under their belts, don’t expect Television to seems perfunctorily trot out 1977 landmark at Fun Fun Fun Fest. Aside from an Australian date where the definitive NYC art-punk quartet performed the LP debut in toto, Television’s recent overseas like the shows have drawn heavily on non-Moon material. Austin remains just one of three stateside stops for absolute the band, its first U.S. dates since 2007, when guitarist Richard Lloyd was replaced by Jimmy Rip. Bandleader isn’t known for taking requests, but he’s also not predictable. Here’s a wish list kiss of songs for Saturday’s show. – Greg Beets of death “Marquee Moon” “Torn Curtain” to us.” An obvious but vital choice. Unadulterated by It’s easy to discern Verlaine’s artistic connection whizz-bang effects, the amazing electric guitar to Patti Smith on this cataclysmic cabaret closer. – russell odyssey in the marathon title track’s midsection ’s drumming beats top-notch. Mael ensures perennial overuse of the term “angular.” “Careful” “See No Evil” The closest thing to a transistor pop song in Verlaine and Lloyd’s steam-heated guitar interplay Television’s catalog, its sprightly melody obscures on Marquee Moon’s opener summons the hopes a lyrical poke in the eye. and dreams of every gourmandizer that ever “Fire Engine” stumbled into a dive bar for uplifting. Television often opened with this 13th Floor Elevators cover during its initial run. body count/ice-t Pelican M.i.a. 6:25pm, Black sTage/ Forever Becoming Matangi (Interscope) 8:45pm, BlUe sTage (Southern Lord) January 2012: Maya Ice-T’s metal crew Body Count played Austin’s Hardly the sole rock Arulpragasam emerges from Back Room – now the site of Emo’s – on Jan. 2, band to discover that heavy sulking “retirement” with the 1993. Riot on. Within two years, Jersey-born, L.A.- sounds better sans an Middle Eastern-laced, speaker- trained jewel thief and gangsta rapper Tracy Lauren annoying frontman, Pelican blowing single “Bad Girls.” Marrow, now 55, fell in with Law & Order creator Dick gets downright artistic about Political, pervasive, and immi- Wolf, who’s employed him as Detective Odafin “Fin” its “post metal” on fifth nently catchy, it repeats the Tutuola on TV’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit LP Forever Becoming. The formula that launched the Sri since the millennium. With his first CD since 2006 Chicago quartet morphs the Lankan rapper’s 2007 sopho- due anytime, Ice-T goes : big- and small- heavy crush of doom into more LP Kala up the charts. screen star back on the mic. – Raoul Hernandez compositions, and its ability Now, after butting heads with to lay down the crunge in Universal for over a year after its a painterly manner unfolds release, the single’s companion album finally arrives. Matangi, her fourth 7pm, Orange sTage mighty and impressive. “Immutable Dusk” switches from snarling disc as M.I.A., succeeds in recovering lost ground from 2010 slump As typical with all things involving , squall to shimmering seethe with unnoticeable edits. “Threnody” Maya thanks to the fire in its belly. Light on melody, the punishing “Bring Deerhunter’s sixth LP, Monomania, is a work of shifts dynamics over a brooding melody with masterful grace, led by the Noize” unleashes a thunderous bass that pervades “Y.A.L.A.” (You stunning contradiction. It’s the newly retooled drummer Larry Herweg’s swinging thrum. “Vestiges” combines finely Always Live Again), which offers the same middle finger that landed her outfit’s most ambitious album, with huge crafted dissonance with balls-to-the-wall drive, while “The Tundra” a lawsuit from the NFL. Even “Come Walk With Me,” which begins as a riffs and hooks that swing for the rafters, and its echoes the cold wasteland implied by the title while still reveling nuanced Fifties doo-wop croon, disrupts itself with an ambulatory urgency, most abrasive, recorded on a couple of 8-tracks in hot-blooded power. Forever Becoming shines as an example of and speeds off count, letting loose rapid-fire bass. M.I.A. returns to the and blaring permanently in the red. Live, Deerhunter heavy metal art. (4:20pm, Black stage) badassery that KO’d America in the first round. (8:30pm, Orange stage) sound bigger than ever. – Austin Powell HHH – Michael Toland HHHHn – Abby Johnston saturday Continued on p.15

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Code Orange Kids (Fri., 1:10pm, Black stage) One jackboot in hardcore, the other in dissonant doom, Pittsburgh’s Code Orange Kids spews venom. Venomous Maximus (Sat., noon, Black stage) Houston squadron warms up for LP No. 2 by blasting through its occult metal nightmares. Unlocking the Truth (Sat., 12:50pm, Black stage) Though its members are only 12 years old, this Brooklyn instrumental metal trio is far too skilled for teen novelty. Gojira (Sun., 6:55pm, Black stage) Slayer (Sun., 8:30pm, Body Count (Sat., 6:25pm, Black stage) The pride of Ondres, , Gojira’s Orange stage) Ice-T’s infamous rap-metal most recent LP, L’enfant Sauvage, The speed metallers monstrosity has been quiet since proves a mastery of proggy, death- had a shitty year, 2006’s Murder 4 Hire. metal anthems. separating from August Burns Red (Sun., 8pm, Black stage) (Sun., 5:45pm, Black stage) ’s premier speedpowergrind- and losing Jeff Pennsylvanians sit atop the deathviolencecore inflicts 60-second Hanneman, but Christian heap thanks plague bursts once again with last should work out its to the Top 10 debut of 2013’s year’s compilation Molecular Genetics rage in titanically Rescue & Restore. From the Gold Standard Labs. loud fashion.

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CayuCas 1:20pm, ORange sTage Santa Monica threepiece Cayucas has a crush. The Bigfoot, the band’s debut on Secretly Canadian, is preoccupied with a particularly ensnaring lady, or perhaps it’s just Vampire Weekend. Despite the California homebase, twins Zach and Ben Yuden, along with drummer Casey Wojtalewicz, tap into 3:30pm, Orange Stage the East Coast prep vibes made famous by the In 1997, reacted to the breakup Columbia grads. – Abby Johnston of by retreating to her Olympia, Wash., apartment and futzing around with electronic The PolyPhoniC sPree sounds and layers. 2:20pm, ORange sTage “I was trying to discover who I was as a person This summer’s Yes It’s True, the fifth LP from separate from the bitch from Bikini Kill,” she Dallas’ symphonic pop choir, was inconsistent and explains. too wedded to postmodern platitudes. And yet The project morphed into feminist-queer elec- the Polyphonic Spree never fails to deliver troclash trio , where Hanna nevertheless anything less than an A-plus live set, frontman found herself adopting a familiar stance from her Tim DeLaughter wedding acid-test visuals to his riot-grrrl days. middle-aged messianic urges. Just don’t listen too “It was very audience-based, trying to get girls closely to the lyrics. – Melanie Haupt and women and guys to learn about feminist art and theory and history. It wasn’t about writing a pretty song.” In the end, Hanna, who’s married to Beastie Boy Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and now lives in New York, realized that she wanted something different for herself. Something just for her. “People were handing my husband bags of weed after shows and I was getting poems about incest. Part of that was exactly what I wanted, but part of that was like, ‘When do I get to just be in a band and have a good time?’” A diagnosis of late-stage Lyme disease further clarified matters for Hanna. Time to reboot. The john anderson result is Run Fast by , a fully real- ized album and band featuring Bikini Kill bassist . Like their predecessors, these new vehicles trace Hanna’s process of self-discovery after a difficult period. “This time I went out and met my friends and they supported me and we worked together. I The Men didn’t have to go into hiding.” – Melanie Haupt 2:40pm, Black sTage Brooklyn’s Men might be the best live indie “I was trying to band in America right now, with three critically acclaimed LPs in as many years: Leave Home, discover who I was as Open Your Heart, and New Moon. Yet the noise- a person separate from rock quintet has a softer side too. New unplugged EP, Campfire Songs, recalls Neil Young’s On the the bitch from Bikini Kill,” Beach – if it had been recorded oceanside on an explains Hanna. all-night bender. – Austin Powell

Lemuria The Distance Is So Big (Bridge 9) dessa Parts of Speech (Ingrooves) Lemuria refuses to settle for the easy hook. The Buffalo trio produces No one listens to Dessa for her singing. Until now, perhaps. In her slacker-lilted jams on command, yet across this third LP, they disrupt proper follow-up to 2010’s A Badly Broken Code, the Minneapolis rapper and overturn tunes into jittery, unnerved digressions intended to unhinge demonstrates an increasing comfort in the nuances and juxtaposition an apathetic audience. The sputtering “Brilliant Dancer” charms behind of narrative storytelling. Between smoky alto first-person accounts and Sheena Ozzella’s tweaking vocals only to erupt into a flurry of unex- demure blues, Parts of Speech creates characters like “Annabelle,” who pected rhythms that manages to hold together nonetheless, while “Clay holds attention at least half as well as Edgar Allen Poe’s. The Doomtree Baby” spins on Alex Kerns’ almost Malkmus-ian vocals and lyrics further collective’s leading lady spits with the best of them, but, increasingly, conjuring the Nineties indie ethos. Ozzella and Kerns match and meld more effectively than pre- her proclivities lie in singing. On torch-bearing anthem “Skeleton Key,” Dessa’s hyper-aware of vious efforts, most notably on the understated “Paint the Youth” and surging “Chihuly.” Frenetic her limitations, frolicking safely within the confines of her range, yet she delivers her best, most pop-punk washes away on “Oahu, ,” yet even there Lemuria’s subterfuge emerges in the confident vocals on “Fighting Fish” and “The Lamb,” both equal parts rap and singing. Top it off softly lilted line, “There’s a lot of islands in Hawaii.” (12:30pm, Orange stage) with the riveting lyrical rhythms of “Warsaw” and a seductive cover of ’s “I’m HHH – Doug Freeman Going Down” and this is one Speech you won’t squirm through. (2:15pm, Blue stage) HHH – Abby Johnston

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deltron 3030 Average visit PUNK Fun Fun Fun By Kevin Curtin Event 2 (Bulk Recordings) Y2K failed to bring about the technologi- earns $100. Ceremony (Fri., 3pm, Black stage) cal catastrophe doomsayers predicted, but it Former hardcore spazzes have downshifted into psychotic garage punk. did birth a fictional future where Deltron Zero No Age (Fri., 5:15pm, Black stage) threatened to “crash your whole computer sys- Drummer/vocalist Dean Spunt and guitarist Randy Randall make fast, hazy dream punk with thick guitar tem and revert you to papyrus.” Stardate 3040: effects and lo-fi vox. Flag (Fri., 8:55pm, Black stage) Event 2 begins 10 years after Deltron 3030’s The working-class, Greg Ginn-less, Rollins-less, version of Eighties hardcore greats Black Flag, led by eponymous debut began, with Left Coast Nervous Breakdown-era vocalist Keith Morris. underground hero Del the Funky Homosapien Retox (Sat., 1:40pm, Black stage) spitting sci-fi nerd rap over the futuristic sound- The only interesting band has put out in years, Retox plays detail-oriented scapes of Dan the Automator and cuts from with lung-busting screams from Locust singer . DJ Kid Koala. The crew craft a world in decay, White Lung (Sat., 2:30pm, Black stage) a dystopian future on the verge of anarchy. Canadian group rips fast, melodic punk with stellar vocals from singer Mish Way, drawing comparisons to Del’s flow is bizarre as ever and Automator L7 and Hole. remains ambitious behind the boards. Event 2 Subhumans (Sat. 5:20pm, Black stage) sounds close enough to the first launch that an British anarcho-punks who rally against racism, sexism, and war, while sharing personnel with crust-ska outwardly futuristic disc sounds oddly dated. icons Citizen Fish. Eight years in the making, the sequel doesn’t Descendents (Sat. 8:45pm, Black stage) venture where no man has gone before, but it’s The quintessential pop-punk band with a deep catalog of unrepentant, nerdy sing-alongs. a worthy return trip for fans of the maiden voy- Cro-Mags (Sun., 4:40pm, Black stage) age. (6:20pm, Blue stage) The toughest of all the NYHC bands, the Cro-Mags were vastly influential, not just in hardcore music, but HHHn – Thomas Fawcett in the violent dance floor they inspired. Visit our website and start SUNday Continued on p.18 the screening process now! www.beaspermdonor.com a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m NOVEMBER 8, 2013 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E F U N F U N F U N F E S T P R E V I E W 2 0 1 3 17 Fun Fun Fun Fest 2013 SUNday Continued From p.17 slayer 8:30pm, Orange Stage Kerry King needs no introduction, but here’s one any- way: co-founding guitarist of Slayer, responsible for the most extreme thrash metal this side of heaven. Terrifying. – Austin Powell

Austin Chronicle: You scare me. Kerry King: That’s a good thing, right? AC: How do children react to you? KK: Children don’t usually give two shits about me. They don’t know if I’m scary or creepy or what the hell. AC: Do you secretly enjoy a children’s TV show? KK: The closest I get would be Family Guy and . I dig movies like Despicable Me, though. That’s kind of a kids’ movie, I guess. AC: Slayer was on fire when y’all played Fun Fun Fun Fest in 2011. What do you remember about your time in Austin? KK: I remember Danzig being a little bitch about playing the day before, saying he should be on the Slayer stage and all of that horseshit. He was saying he was as big as Slayer? Not even when you were popular, motherfucker. That’s just how you get a shit reputation. He’s always been cool to me, but I know he’s been a piece of shit to a lot of people, and there’s no reason for that. I don’t care how famous you are. There’s no reason to be a dick about it. AC: On a more serious note, how difficult has it been to carry on without Jeff Hanneman? KK: The hardest part was in February 2011, when we went to Australia. We played without him and Gary [Holt] came along. He’s such a great replacement. He has Jeff’s good graces, which makes it even better. When we were millergary talking about still working while Jeff was recovering, that KK: It’s more of me at the moment. We’re considering “I remember danzig being was a hard decision and a hard conversation, but the first working on some of Jeff’s unfinished ideas, but when you and only name that came to my mind was Holt. Jeff was rewrite something ... if I’m going to put out something a little bitch about playing the completely against it at first, but then he understood. The with Jeff’s name on it, I don’t want it to be mediocre. I day before, saying he should band has to go on, whether he could come back or not. want it to be awesome. We have to deconstruct what exists And we didn’t know that then. We were just moving for- and reuse those riffs in whatever way we can. That’s a be on the Slayer stage.” ward because we had to. process that I want to address before we go into the stu- – Kerry King AC: Is Gary a part of the songwriting process now, or has dio, but I have 14 songs of my own, and we’re looking to that burden shifted more to you? record in January.

Bonobo & MGMT The North Borders the Shrines (Columbia) () Idle No More (Merge) On the sanity scale, Bonobo is rightfully rec- Five years have passed MGMT’s orbiting comfort- ognized as a UK auteur. since the apt and boldly ably somewhere between Simon Green’s written too named The Supreme Genius Diamond Dogs-era David many memorables to be of King Khan & the Shrines Bowie and Syd Barrett. called anything else, but was unleashed on unsus- Having committed commer- there’s something par- pecting stateside ears. The cial seppuku with 2010’s ticularly prescient about compilation of breakneck Congratulations, Andrew The North Borders. Like a R&B and gut-bucket garage VanWyngarden and Ben time capsule, it wanders rock – culled from previous Goldwasser attempt once through drum and bass, European releases – came from the warped mind of Berlin’s more to redefine themselves on third LP MGMT with varying trip-hop, and downtempo, all smeared in the same misty, King Khan, a punk rock soul shaman born in Canada to Indian degrees of success. This is the sound of a high-minded band mountainous rhythms that made him famous. More than ever, émigrés. Equal parts Wilson Pickett, Roky Erickson, and left to its own devices and with budget to spare. Psych odd- Bonobo enlists the help of others, wrapping her Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Khan’s the consummate showman ity “Alien Days” opens on cloud nine, all riddles and reverb, snaky coos through the muddy “Heaven for the Sinner,” and and that manic energy exists here, though only in spots. With and the album doesn’t come back down until the after burn Cornelia’s chiming vox hovering over “Pieces.” You have to Khan reeling from the recent loss of three close friends and “An Orphan of Fortune” sets in. There are highlights: warped wonder whether this is Bonobo appealing to the mass market a self-described mental breakdown, Idle No More, titled for an acid-pop ballad “Introspection,” space aquatic “Plenty of Girls he’s engaged, building atmospheric pop that works better indigenous rights movement, is both darker and more refined in the Sea,” and “Mystery Disease,” which explores the dark than his rumbles and snorts in a live setting. If The North than any Shrines release to date. He explores his demons terror of manic depression with panning synths and a madcap Borders marks the moment Bonobo goes adult contemporary, on “Darkness” and pays tribute to fallen friend beat that channels their Flaming Lips collaboration. MGMT’s I couldn’t be happier. (7:30pm, Blue stage) on “So Wild.” It’s still a party, just one where you stay sober still reacting to the mainstream triumph of 2008’s Oracular HHH – Luke Winkie enough to remember a few details. (8:55pm, Black stage) Spectacular, trying too hard to sound genuinely weird, as if HHH – Thomas Fawcett determined to fail at any cost. (6:50pm, Orange stage) HHHn – Austin Powell

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Now he’s headlining tours and being forced anthropomorphic “Marcel the Shell With to add shows in certain cities – as happened last September at the Scottish Rite Theater Shoes On,” whose material and existential when demand forced Delaney to add a second set. challenges achieved viral-video status in 2011, Today, he’s basking in the October release of first book Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. she’s also the performer who accidentally let Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage., a collection of autobiograph- fly an f-bomb on her 2009 Saturday Night Live ical diatribes he never planned to write. debut. (She left the show after one season.) “I never would have said it’s time for the world to read my book,” he says. “A publisher At Fun Fun Fun, Slate, whose more recent read my Vice magazine columns and saw my show and said ‘Want to write a book?’ I’m too roles include mean girl Amelia on HBO’s Hello Ladies and the odious Mona Lisa young to feel like the world needs a book from me. It was never a part of my grand design.” Saperstein on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, will take it down a notch. “By myself,” she Intention notwithstanding, the book spotlights Delaney’s evolution into modern renais- says, “I tell a lot of stories about my family and childhood in order to figure out what sance man. His is no longer just a dick joke tucked behind his phallic avatar. He’s a sound- is going on in my adulthood.” board with opinions on everything from substance abuse to sexual equality to the supreme Unlike who worked their way through the comedy club circuit telling idiocy of Sen. Ted Cruz. the same old “women, amirite?” jokes, Slate immersed herself in an alternative com- “I’m glad I’ve gotten the opportunity to edy environment that embraced quirky challenges to the status quo. express myself through means besides Relying heavily on conversation and storytelling, Slate spent five years “perform- stand-up,” he says. ing for like seven people for free in shitty Brooklyn clubs that smelled like farts,” “The older I get, the more I’d like to do ultimately honing a comfortable, homey yet off-kilter comedic style that relishes the active work championing things like human experience. access to education and improving repro- Where her work with comedy partner Gabe Liedman finds Slate mining the inti- ductive health care such that women aren’t macy of friendship for laughs, she keeps the scope similarly small when performing penalized for being one of the two genders on her own, making it personal and gimmick-free. “There may be some secret-telling, that you can be when you’re born on Earth. though,” Slate laughs. “We’ll see when we get under that tent!” F-bombs, we assume, I’d like to do more. What that will be, we’ll are still on the menu. – Melanie Haupt find out.” – Chase Hoffberger comedy the yellow stage by Russ Espinoza David James (Fri., noon) Kyle Dunnigan (Fri., 4pm) Ryan Cownie (Sat., 12:30pm) Craig Robinson (Sat., 4:35pm) Nick Mullen (Sun., 1:50pm) Area man, dapper host of Austin’s /actor had recurring Host of Holy Mountain’s Avalanche: Actor/comedian of Hot Tub Time Two-time finalist in the Funniest favorite live comedy game show role as Dep. Trudy Weigel’s serial- Stand-up Comedy From Austin’s Machine and The Office fame; host- Person in Austin contest. Laugh, Dammit! killer boyfriend on Comedy Funniest People. ed season seven of NBC’s Last Mac Blake (Sun., 2pm) Natalie Cox (Fri., 12:15pm) Central’s Reno 911. Lane Krarup (Sat., 12:40pm) Comic Standing. Reigning Funniest Person in Austin. One Dick Joke a Day writer. Exhibit: Matt Bearden (Fri., 4:20pm) Austin-based comedian, podcaster, Tenacious D (Sat., 5:20pm) Altercation Punk Rock “I named my dick squirrel because Erudite Austin comic and radio New Movement player, and part-time “Mock-rock” duo fronted by actor Comedy Hour (Sun., 2:15pm) it’s always hiding my nuts.” personality in no mood to rapper straight outta Wisconsin. Jack Black belts out operatic heavy A conglomeration of underground Cody Hustak (Fri., 12:30pm) dumb it down. Chris Trew (Sat., 1pm) metal ballads and more. comedy and the “get-in-the-van Local comedian has opened for Kyle Kinane (Fri., 4:50pm) Comedian/amateur rapper/co- The New Movement (TNM) ethos of Black Flag,” starring found- Doug Benson, Doug Stanhope, and Gruff-voiced wild card can’t be founder of the New Movement; Com edy (Sun., noon) er JT Habsersaat. Tom Rhodes; happiness tingles him typecast. Sets include everything packs a lot of weird in the beard. An annual FFF Comedy staple, TNM Air Sex Championship “somewhere behind the beard area.” but the kitchen sink. One Night Stand (Sat., 1:50pm) is an improv/sketch comedy conserva- (Sun., 2:55pm) Maggie Maye (Fri., 12:45pm) (Fri., 5:20pm) New Movement talents emcee a tory and theatre in Downtown Austin. Thoroughly titillating, never-simulat- “Comedian. Writer. Giggler.” Local Legendary comic imbues geeky hot, alternative dating game for Veggie Eating ed simulations of actual people gal previously opened for Todd pop-culture fanaticism with a trade- FFF’s body of single, sexually desti- Contest (Sun., 12:30pm) boning – thin air. As previously fit Barry, Hannibal Buress, and Godfrey. mark edge; turns a phrase better tute hipsters. A gallery of meat-eschewing glut- for HBO and MTV. Rob Gagnon’s One Hour than a soused Christopher Hitchens. Miami Improv Machine tons inhale all the veggie dogs they Doug Mellard (Sun., 3:50pm) Comedy Festival (Fri., 1:45pm) Norman Wilkerson (Sat., noon) (Sat., 2:45pm) can stomach for the ultimate prize: 2006 FPIA/co-creator of The A who’s who of generic comedy Stand-up vet/co-founder of the South Beach ringleaders Money wholesale ostracism. Hooligan Show spits out punch lines archetypes, including: “Stoner Austin Comedy Trainwreck and Marone and Cashtronaut churn out Master Pancake Theater like watermelon seeds. Comic,” “Some Asshole With a owner of “a cat that poops on him.” improv with a sun-kissed twist. (Sun. 1pm) Bridget Everett (Sun., 4:15) Puppet,” and more. Amber Bixby (Sat., 12:10pm) Jenny Slate (Sat., 3:35pm) Austin’s answer to MST3K’s Joel, Crow, Randy, plus-sized “alt-cabaret” sen- Live Action Battle Rap Grim, cynical, yet awash with praise Actress/comedian, SNL alumna, and Tom Servo. Professional movie sation evokes a young Bette Midler (Fri., 2:30pm) as one of Austin’s funniest stand- “addicted to candy and meeting mockers are Alamo Drafthouse darlings. on crank. Think 8 Mile, neutered of Detroit ups; dubbed “Comedy’s Sweetheart new dogs,” has recurring role on Chris Tellez (Sun., 1:30pm) Rob Delany (Sun., 4:45pm) and urban blight; add bourgeois of Darkness.” NBC’s Parks and Recreation. Austin-transplant from Dallas who Motor-mouthed degenerate with dorks with acute sense of irony. Katie Pengra (Sat., 12:20pm) Doug Benson (Sat., 4:05pm) keeps his sets tight “because he banana in pocket. Judge G-Su (Fri., 3:15pm) Local comic and regular performer Former High Times “Stoner of the has a baby in the car.” Sarah Silverman (Sun., 5:25pm) Sketch/improv hybrid from the New at Cap City Comedy Club and the Year” and Super High Me star rolls Joe Faina (Sun., 1:40pm) Iconic Jewess brings cutie-pie Movement, in which comedic ver- Velveeta Room fatties of frivolity. “Comedian. 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