SXSW Music News
The LP Questionnaire/Pick Three - Sean Smith and Darren Lackie of We Were Promised Jetpacks
Hi hi, ladies and gentlemens. Everyone's (someone's?) favorite round of five completely random questions is back! There's a lot of excellent excellence in store for you this year, as always. I can hardly believe it's the fifth year in a row of this madness.
I'm beyond the valley of the pleased to start this year's LPQ/P3's with Sean Smith and Darren Lackie of We Were Promised Jetpacks. Hailing from Edinburgh, in one of my favorite countries in all the world, Scotland, the lads played their first show at a Battle of the Bands competition at their school. They won, and the rest is current history.
WWPJ released their second full length, In the Pit of the Stomach in October of last year, but I confess I'm still listening to These Four Walls all the time. If you haven't heard "Conductor," you are missing the out.
The Cult Headline Auditorium Shores on March 17
The Cult will make its 2012 concert debut when the band plays SXSW next month, headlining the Auditorium Shores Stage on Saturday, March 17. The Auditorium Shores Stage show will be free and open to the public, and The Cult will take the stage at 8:00PM.
"SXSW is thrilled that The Cult is returning to play our biggest stage at Auditorium Shores," said Darin Klein, SXSW Festival Producer. "We're excited to hear their new tunes and their classic hits. The show is free and open to the public, so everyone in Austin should get fired up for a great night of music."
Maywa Denki Displays Musical Ingenuity Through Creative Instruments
The Tsukuba Series of the group Maywa Denki is a series of expertly crafted musical instruments that look nothing like the traditional brass or woodwinds. With a one-word philosophy of “nonsense,” Maywa Denki has created everything from an anthropomorphic music note to a set of robotic, percussive wings.
Artist Profile: Lazee
Four time Grammy nominated Mawuli Kulego, aka Lazee, is a hard working young man who’s been brought up in the knowledge that nothing comes for free. He was born in 1985 in Scandinavia’s southernmost providence, Malmo, Sweden with his mother and two sisters. Lazee recently had the #1 record in Sweden titled Calling Out featuring artists such as Apollo Drive. His song "Hold On" featuring Neverstore, was nominated for a European MTV Award for Best New Artist in 2010, and his music has been featured in the new Lil Wayne Documentary The Carter. Along with the re-release of his new album Suppose To Happen Lazee recently released a mixtape titled One Way Ticket which was just featured in Complex Magazine. Check him this year as he makes his debut SXSW performance this March.
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