Nine more episodes from Other Music and Dig For Fire’s SXSW Lawn Party are now live, including performances and interviews from Pierced Arrows, Zola Jesus, Real Estate, Anni Rossi, Memory Tapes, and Dylan LeBlanc, plus new highlights from the xx, Thurston Moore, Mayer Hawthorne & the County, Califone, Holly Miranda, Julianna Barwick, and more. Not to be missed is the clip featuring LA’s Ambassador of Boogie Funk, Dam-Funk, and Toro Y Moi’s beautiful, somnambulant pop sounds, now streaming below (and on the site of our Lawn Party sponsors, Babelgum.com), and to watch any of the 17 episodes, just scroll through the channel bar underneath main video box.
Back in March, Other Music and Dig For Fire got together to throw our second annual South By Southwest Lawn Party, with a ton of our favorite bands playing on the rolling lawns of Austin’s French Legation Museum. It’s been a few months since SXSW but the films still feel fresh, and all eight episodes can be viewed on the video-streaming site, Babelgum, who also sponsored our party. Here’s the second film in the series, which features a rousing performance from Efterklang and a truly pastoral appearance from Fleet Foxes’ J Tillman.
2009 was the second year that Other Music and our film partners at Dig For Fire got together and threw a big ol’ party at the South by Southwest Music Festival, with a ton of our favorite bands playing on the rolling lawns of the French Legation Museum in Austin. This year the video-streaming site, Babelgum, sponsored us and they have posted a slew of excellent performance highlights. It’s been a few months now since SXSW, but the films are no less fresh, and we hope you’ll enjoy these exclusive live performances from some great artists. A total of 8 episodes, here is the first in the series featuring the Thermals, Marnie Stern, Laura Gibson and The Tallest Man on Earth.
I like to think that Calexico blew like a desert wind through Other Music last fall, as they toured in support of their excellent Carried to Dust album. Goofy cliché’s aside though, the Tucson band can transform and transport like few others, likely because they are so open to transformation themselves, with the core duo of Joey Burns and John Convertino taking inspiration from a constantly changing cadre of collaborators from around the world. Their sound is heavily influenced by their dusty Arizona hometown and the blending of Mexican and American culture that is inherent to the southwestern United States, but honestly, that description is far too static and one needs to see this group live on stage to begin to understand their fluid, free-flowing approach to their international pop music. Somehow they packed the band into a cramped corner of our store — no mariachi this time, but still, these guys can sprawl — and they took us on a trip none of us will soon forget. Plus, there were tacos.
Other Music has been in the process of changing over the host server for our film series, and had to remove the videos from the site for a bit, but we’ve finally re-launched many of the clips and you can again watch wonderful live performances and interviews with some of our favorites, including: The Clean, Antipop Consortium, No Age, White Williams, St. Vincent, Tinariwen, My Brightest Diamond, and more to come.
You probably have noticed that our Live at Other Music Series has been down. We are in the process of changing web servers for these videos, and will be reposting old favorite episodes along with premiering new films. Check back here and of course, we’ll announce new videos in our Other Music Update.
