PT Stinson – South by Southwest is the time of year when local Austin acts are rendered anonymous by the festival turned global brand, to mostly paraphrase a recent social media musing by Sabrina Ellis, frontwoman of A Giant Dog and Sweet Spirit –two of six of the very best bands in Austin who will one day come to your town and make you wonder what’s in the water here.
Paul Stinson – Shticklessly stabbing at the heart of mediocrity since 2008, Austin’s A Giant Dog brings their inspired, pulse-pounding anaerobic rump-shaking melodic mayhem to Portland –taking a page from the Stooges while developing a blueprint on how to win over the unsuspecting.
And there it was again, the magical city in the middle of nowhere –materializing out of thin air like a song, Austin Psych Fest –a 21st Century Bedouin tent encampment for the world’s psychedelic music nomads. Or nomadic psychedelic musicians. Or nomadic musicians on psychedelics. The possibilities are endless.
Featuring genre gold standard-bearer Brian Jonestown Massacre along with The Dandy Warhols, the legendary Zombies, Mikal Cronin, War on Drugs, Loop, Panda Bear, Of Montreal and well, APF is already way more interesting than this year’s scheduled ACL yawnfest.
Picking up where Spacemen 3 left off, while ending up where the Beach Boys might have gone had they listened to more Velvet Underground albums, Austin’s Holy Wave convincingly carries…
