Absolutely Free is a sanctuary founded by 4/5 descendants of DD/MM/YYYY. They have mutated into a single, self-sufficient organism and, in doing so, their elastic musicianship and inclination to experiment presents itsel…
"It really is an amalgamation of all things trippy and offbeat. I've listened a dozen times now and each time I find another little sonic nugget tucked between the crunching beats. It's like The Adamski Kid made music ou…
Archie Pelago is a production and live performance trio based in Brooklyn, NY. Formed in late 2010, the trio of Hirshi (trumpet/DJ),
Cosmo D (cello/Ableton) and Kroba (sax/Ableton) combine their varied backgrounds in ja…
Archie Pelago is a production and live performance trio based in Brooklyn, NY. Formed in late 2010, the trio of Hirshi (trumpet/DJ),
Cosmo D (cello/Ableton) and Kroba (sax/Ableton) combine their varied backgrounds in ja…
Born in a small Sichuanese city, Baishui is a composer and self-taught musician who plays guitar, piano and many traditional Chinese instruments. His earliest original compositions and performances were influenced by Eur…
Balmorhea (pronounced BAL-MORE-AY) is a six-piece instrumental group from Austin, TX. Founded by Rob Lowe and Michael Muller in 2006, the band has produced five full-length albums, including Stranger, which was released …
Bestial Mouths formed in Los Angeles, California in 2009. Drawing from a large base of influences including the early industrial, synthpunk, and goth scenes of the late 70’s and early 80’s, founders Lynette Cerezo and Ch…
With dub techniques & hip-hop aesthetics as his foundation, Michael Campitelli navigates numerous modes of funk – hypnotic & cavernous one minute, then rhythmically venomous the next, the neck-snap quotient with Calamalk…
Dubbed “Krautrock Guerilla”, the Berlin-based trio Camera has
played several times with Krautrock legends Michael Rother (NEU!, Harmonia, Kraftwerk) and Dieter Moebius and performed at the German Film Prize and Echo Awa…
Dubbed “Krautrock Guerilla”, the Berlin-based trio Camera has
played several times with Krautrock legends Michael Rother (NEU!, Harmonia, Kraftwerk) and Dieter Moebius and performed at the German Film Prize and Echo Awa…
The Casket Girls is a new three-piece band hailing from Savannah, GA. Comprised of Ryan Graveface (Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Marshmallow Ghosts, Dreamend) who wrote and played all the song structures, and newcomers, …
Presented by: Cirque du Soleil presents #EVOKE13 (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Since 1984, Cirque du Soleil has brought wonder and delight to more than 100 million spectators in more than 40 countries in more than 300 cities on six continents. Cirque du Soleil has 5,000 employees, including more th…
As a producer, engineer, multi-instrumentalist and talented vocalist, D.A.CALF has cut his teeth on myriad stages in various guises. From event curating in his native Australian small country town, he has toured the cou…
Presented by: Boiler Room (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Experimental rap-noise duo Death Grips, consisting of Stefan “MC Ride” Burnett and Zach Hill formed during late 2010 in Sacramento, California. The band soon dropped the highly acclaimed mix tape Exmilitary featuring the…
Deradoorian is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter hailing from Northern California. As a child, she focused on classical piano, which became the catalyst for her exploration in other genres of music. At age …
"Drilling, screeching, rasping sounds, distortion and ominous
drumbeats, inspired by 'sado-masochism' and 'confusion' from two
former Texas Altar Boys"……
“And the Tears Washed Me, Wave After Cowardly Wave” is Part 2 to “So I Ate Myself, Bite By Bite,” which came out in August of 2010. Part 1 is the true story of a normal man’s unraveling psyche and his grisly misdeeds. Ye…
Selected Press:
"BAIT AN ORCHARD" LP (2012, ROTTED TOOTH)
“Bait An Orchard” is proof positive that these dudes are fuckin’ shit up in the best way possible. At times, thunderous toms and commanding vocals lead the …
Selected Press:
"BAIT AN ORCHARD" LP (2012, ROTTED TOOTH)
“Bait An Orchard” is proof positive that these dudes are fuckin’ shit up in the best way possible. At times, thunderous toms and commanding vocals lead the …
Dustin Wong's second LP Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads, is a departure from Dustin's previous methods but more closely a distillation of his live show into recorded form. The pieces are so intricate and detailed …
The Texas-based band, Equals, hasn't always been the technical and tightly-arranged instrumental band it is now. The band's large soundscapes, searing guitar riffs and blitzing rhythms were products of evolution.
The …
Expo ‘70 is known throughout the experimental psychedelic drone community as being one of the top artists of the genre. The sole project of Justin Wright, he has been making improvisational music under the moniker since …
Frontier is Kevin Ireland (bass), Mike Tsoulos (drums) and Stephen Wessley (guitar). The three met at University of Chicago in the late 1980’s. They burst onto the Chicago music scene of the 1990’s with a legendary Gra…
Frontier is Kevin Ireland (bass), Mike Tsoulos (drums) and Stephen Wessley (guitar). The three met at University of Chicago in the late 1980’s. They burst onto the Chicago music scene of the 1990’s with a legendary Gra…
Austin, Texas based composer-bandleader Graham Reynolds creates, performs, and records music for film, theater, dance, rock clubs and concert halls with collaborators ranging from Richard Linklater to DJ Spooky to the Ru…
Presented by: Normaltown Records (An Imprint of New West Records)
“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other
tongues.”
Back in the ‘70s and ‘80s, one of the highest compliments you could pay a rocker was
to say that he or she “had a lot of soul.…
Formed in Austin, TX in 2011, Halaska is a four piece avant garde rock outfit that has always taken pride in pushing themselves as musicians. These varied and experienced musicians frequently dig into the unpredictable, …
Lionel Williams (aka Hidden Music) is a Los Angeles based artist and musician. His collage art & psyche-pop music fuses vast landscapes, multi-religious symbolism, and the supernatural into a paradoxical whirlpool of "my…
International sensation HOTT MT (Hour Of The Time Majesty Twelve), is an experimental post-pop collective based in Los Angeles, CA. HOTT MT is the result of an ongoing curiosity project between Queen Ashi Dala and Spooky…
International sensation HOTT MT (Hour Of The Time Majesty Twelve), is an experimental post-pop collective based in Los Angeles, CA. HOTT MT is the result of an ongoing curiosity project between Queen Ashi Dala and Spooky…
Hundred Waters was woven together under the spell of a viscous Floridian summer, from a home on its own in the woods amidst a city. The music sets sail into ancient seas, subtly shifting through worlds of howling silence…
Hundred Waters was woven together under the spell of a viscous Floridian summer, from a home on its own in the woods amidst a city. The music sets sail into ancient seas, subtly shifting through worlds of howling silence…
Hundred Waters was woven together under the spell of a viscous Floridian summer, from a home on its own in the woods amidst a city. The music sets sail into ancient seas, subtly shifting through worlds of howling silence…
Jung People is an Instrumental Post-rock Duo based out of Calgary, Canada. Forming in late 2010 after founding members, and best friends, Bryan Buss and Giordano W. Bassi attended the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, C…
Presented by: DTS/ Slacker (Badges and Wristbands Only)
In the wake of a relentless 4-year touring cycle with White Lies, and after a fortuitous meeting of minds between bassist/songwriter Charles Cave and Stockholm-born singer Rosanna Munter, K.I.D.S. enter the music scene a…
In the wake of a relentless 4-year touring cycle with White Lies, and after a fortuitous meeting of minds between bassist/songwriter Charles Cave and Stockholm-born singer Rosanna Munter, K.I.D.S. enter the music scene a…
Born out of intense personal hardship, Les Rav is the musical brainchild of Lauren Bruno, an energetic and waifish young woman who’s cheery demeanor hardly belies the haunting ethereal quality of the melodies she compose…
Born out of intense personal hardship, Les Rav is the musical brainchild of Lauren Bruno, an energetic and waifish young woman who’s cheery demeanor hardly belies the haunting ethereal quality of the melodies she compose…
member:
junya kishino (gt/vo)
keika kishino (dr/cho)
shimpei watanabe (vo/syn)
shingo nakagawa (ba/cho)
the mornings are Tokyo based 4 piece Avant-hardcore band. Formed in 2003 by university colleagues,
their music…
“When fedora-wearing, experimentation-loving punk rockers get fed up with the status quo, anything can happen...” – Austin Chronicle
Macabre + Cabaret = Macabaret. It's a word that had to be coined, because how does …
Napszyklat - (Robert Piernikowski, Marek Karolczyk) - Band from Poznan, Poland. They create experimental music on the border of electronics, noise and acoustics. Napszyklat’s music has different sources like hip-hop, co…
Napszyklat - (Robert Piernikowski, Marek Karolczyk) - Band from Poznan, Poland. They create experimental music on the border of electronics, noise and acoustics. Napszyklat’s music has different sources like hip-hop, co…
Nicolas Jaar was born in NY but quickly relocated to Santiago de Chile in the 90s only to come back to his birth place as a teenager. Haunted by Mulatu Astatke and Erik Satie, Nico started to make organic electronic musi…
Songwriter and DIY instrument maker Matthew Steinke returns with emotionally driven anthems backed by a collection of homemade animatronic musical instruments that comprise the latest installment of OCTANT. Steinke has …
When they first met at a dive arcade in Koreatown Los Angeles, Eddingtonn "The California Cowboy" spoke on only one topic:
"The house fly has compound eyes, meaning one "eye" is composed from many,many small little ey…
"Founded in Montreal in 2010, around the songs of Pat Gregoire as a
collection of veterans and dilettantes, pat JORDACHE metabolizes
avant-saxophony, disco, fusion hackery, etc. A score for a decadent
time with an amb…
Co-curators Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire bring their bestselling Australian literary salon, Women of Letters, to SXSW for the first time. Gathering together a variety of writers, musicians, authors, and performers…
Plastic Flowers is a dream pop duo formed in January 2011 and consist of George and Anjel.
Their ever growing love for ambient music led to composing and home-recording, using distorted guitars, synthesizers, drum mac…
Quit Together is more or less the documentation of the duo's primary reactions to each other's sounds. Between the two of them, influences range from early-mid 90s Hip-Hop and Trip Hop, DJ Screw, Joy Division, Nina Simon…
Royal Forest, a psychedelic rock band from Austin, are not big believers in static sound, though they do appreciate the sound of static. Experimental across media---using analog tape loops in recordings and live at shows…
Salesman, saljan, transaction. Acid Americana, desert-electro, post-gospel.
We love being alive, let madness go in certain directions which we know to be useful and then work it over by playing and saying what we feel…
Born 1983. Tallahassee, Florida.
In the last few years, Morgan Sorne has written over 80 songs. The first 13 were released in 2011 in his debut album, House of Stone, and he’s working on releasing more this year on…
Born 1983. Tallahassee, Florida.
In the last few years, Morgan Sorne has written over 80 songs. The first 13 were released in 2011 in his debut album, House of Stone, and he’s working on releasing more this year on…
In June 2010, My Education found themselves in the midst of a West Coast tour with three days to kill in Salt Lake City. Luckily, guitarist Brian Purington had been in touch via email with Ryan Stanfield, the bassist of …
Spires That in the Sunset Rise have been unsettling and thrilling audiences for over a decade now with their brand of sonic alchemy. Combining traditional acoustic instruments like cello, spike fiddle and banjo with elec…
Twigs & Yarn is an ambient, mixed-media folk duo based in Austin, Texas. Small children’s toys, found objects, field recordings, clinking cans, guitars and a variety of other homemade items comprise their subtle textured…
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We are UUVVWWZ, an avant-blues quartet from Lincoln Nebraska, comprised of Teal Gardner, Jim Schroeder, Dustin Wilbourn, and David Ozinga. We have been playing as UU for five years and have put out one al…
From its inception, Valleys has been always changing. From the quiet and exploratory preliminary years to the stormy experimentation of recent works, the duo has always had one foot in the pop realm and the other in the …
From its inception, Valleys has been always changing. From the quiet and exploratory preliminary years to the stormy experimentation of recent works, the duo has always had one foot in the pop realm and the other in the …
You Won't is the Boston-based duo of Josh Arnoudse and Raky Sastri, fast friends ever since they squared off in a fierce but poorly executed sword-fight in 1999. The Massachusetts natives collaborated on a litany of non…
