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SXSW brands and bands wrap-up: Band Winners

After a grueling week at SXSW , where I saw 29 bands in three days, and hundreds if not thousands of brands, I am rested (somewhat) and ready to report. Over a couple of posts, I am going to outline the best and worst five brands that pumped their dollars into Austin, Texas last week, and the best five bands I saw (and where I saw them). So for your reading pleasure…

The Band Winners:

5. Andrew W.K. Although he still has really only added one notable song to his live show in the past couple of years, Andrew W.K. continues to possess one of the best live shows around, especially wth the addition of an almost cartoonish heavy metal backing band (think Metalocalypse ) behind him. The show was standard W.K., and at one point at least half of the people in the Time Out New York party at Buffalo Billiards were afraid the floor was going to disintegrate from how much it was sagging (apparently at another show, he broke through the stage). There really is no price you can put on giving people a good time like this, although the show did little to make me forget that Time Out New York is a 95% awful publication.

4. Washed Out/Small Black This 1:00AM show (sponsored by seemingly no one) at horribly named Klub Krucial, was crazy good. I spent the entire set going back and forth between wondering how something so cool could come out of Perry, GA, and feeling like I was living in a really loud dream. If you want to know what song you should put right in the middle of your summer sit-outside-in-a-park-and-eat-food-and-drink-beer playlist, it is “Feel It All Around” by Washed Out.

Watch this fan made music video for “Feel It All Around , and TRY to tell me it doesn’t warm you up.

3. Sleigh Bells Although both times I saw them, their equipment acted up in the worst possible way—halting songs in their middle and crushing the vibe—their set at the NPR Live From The Parish Concert (which you can actually stream, since NPR is doing it’s best job to make everyone else look like fools with a killer content capture and distribution platform) was awesome. This duo hasn’t even released an album, and from what I can tell might not even have more than 6 songs. What they did have however was a soul-slamming sound, with riffs I can only describe the sonic presence of as devastating. Live, unlike in their demos, lead singer Alexis Krauss totally breaks the hearts of every boy in the audience with her wounded screams, and flirty giggles. Songwriter, beat maker, and guitarist Derek Miller—wearing a shirt-and-tie-under-black-sweater combo most would suffocate in—shredded and looked pissed the whole time (maybe because their laptop kept messing up, and maybe just because it looked awesome).

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