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CHECK US OUT AT austINchRoNIcLe.coM AND ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER, GOOGLE+, AND THE USUAL SOCIAL TIMESUCKS n EVIL FUN HAS NO BOUNDARIES M.I.A. SNOOP LION FUN FEST SLAYER PREVIEW 2013 TWIN SHADOW TENACIOUS D MATT HOFFMAN FUN FUN FUN FEST PREVIEW FRIDAY 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, the Smiths, with his now long-estranged partner Morrissey. 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 – Modest Mouse with a certain and the Cribs – 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 punk rock – 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 Houston’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, Lady Gaga, 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 New York City 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 KURT VILE 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 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 2 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 VINYL/CD/DVD BUY AND TRADE NEW AND USED Beach Fossils Clash the Truth (Captured Tracks) 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 Brooklyn 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 Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino) pack a late-album punch. (2:15pm, Orange stage) HHHn – Doug Freeman FRIDAY CONTINUED ON P.4 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 LUPE FIASCO RJD2 6:25PM, ORANGE STAGE 7:25PM, BLUE STAGE 8:45PM, BLUE STAGE Seven albums 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 indie rock. 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 Chicago 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 John Dwyer said, “You’ll have to ANDERSON JOHN 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.