We'll Mess With Texas: WFMU at SXSW 2008
With excitement equal to the density of Billy Gibbons' beard, it is with great pleasure to announce that WFMU will be hosting its first ever showcase at SXSW in Austin, Texas on Friday, March 14th. Taking two stages at Spiro's (611 Red River, right in the heart of downtown), we'll be continuing our 50th Anniversary celebrations and hopefully broadcasting a bunch of the evening's festivities live over our air/netwaves. There will be more details to follow soon, but as of today we're going to be hosting one hell of a cavalcade, including:
Half Japanese (legends. No need to say more)
Hank IV (the kings of panic-skiffle, singer out of traction and ready for action)
Evangelista (Carla Bozulich's amazing ensemble)
Paul Metzger (improvised/modified banjo)
Gary Higgins (acoustic genius behind Red Hash)
Harvey Milk (the greatest heavyweight trio on the planet)
Lexie Mountain Boys (Baltimore femme cult insanity)
Psychedelic Horseshit (Columbus' new weed, video of FMU in-studio here)
Kelley Stoltz (above-par Sub Pop wunderkind)
The Bad Trips (ex-Monoshock guitarist Grady's new vessel of destruction)
and MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED. Keep your eyes on the site and blog, and by all means come by if you're in town!
Well this is rather exciting. I'll have to wander on over and check this out. There's plenty of bbq and mexican food all over Austin. Everything else is kind of lame, though we did have lunch at a mediterranean place recently that was surprisingly good!
Posted by: charlene | February 05, 2008 at 04:21 PM
Very cool!!! I live in Austin, but I mostly listen (and donate) to WFMU.
Looking forward it!
Posted by: E Baxter Put | February 05, 2008 at 08:33 PM
For the record, Brian, Harvey Milk will be performing as a four piece with Joe Preston being the newly minted fourth member. Should be a scream! Thanks for letting them play.
Posted by: h2o | February 06, 2008 at 08:21 AM
But, but, what about High on Fire, h20? What about them?
Posted by: boil | February 06, 2008 at 08:25 AM
I can't say that I keep close tabs on HOF, but I know he's not been in the band for at least a year or two. He did a couple of Thrones shows down here last year with Growing, but yeah, he's on the new HM album and holy jesus, it's unreal.
Posted by: h2o | February 06, 2008 at 10:52 AM
I am willing to shamelessly pimp my connections to KVRX student radio and The Daily Texan student newspaper in Austin for the sake of WFMU.
Posted by: Tim Serpas | February 10, 2008 at 06:25 PM
can shit and shine come play your shindig?
Posted by: $hit and $hine | February 22, 2008 at 02:52 PM