# SXSW lineup: tell me about these bands **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2006, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sxsw-lineup-tell-me-about-these-bands/338360 "2006-01-04T06:10:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sxsw-lineup-tell-me-about-these-bands/338360/21 "2006-01-06T14:14:46Z")
> [@Flowch](#): > > Peaches is quite good (she is part of Chicks on Speed though isn’t she?). When I saw her she put a dildo on a female back up singer and fellated her on stage. I do like Fatherfucker though. No, Peaches is not part of Chicks on Speed, although she did have a guest appearance on “We Don’t Play Guitars.” ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sxsw-lineup-tell-me-about-these-bands/338360/22 "2006-01-06T19:54:58Z")
I’ve since checked out The Arctic Monkeys and The Hellacopters. I think both would be great live. By the way, Pitchfork says today that the Arctic Monkeys show will be on the 17th, with Test Icicles, The Beautiful New Born Children, and the Archie Bronson Outfit. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sxsw-lineup-tell-me-about-these-bands/338360/23 "2006-01-06T20:11:26Z")
**Annie** does classy, chilly, electropop, but she’s also branched into remixes. **Clor** are an electroclash/indie group. Think of a cross between Franz Ferdinand and Fischerspooner. A bit inconsistent, but when they get it right - like the single _Love + Pain_ - they’re very good. **Death In Vegas** churn out gritty, downbeat dark electronic instrumentals - fuzzy guitars and the like. You may have heard the song _Girls_ on the “Lost In Translation” soundstrack, or the song _Dirge_ in a Levi advert a few years back. **The Duke Spirit** go for more straightforward indie-rock. The lead singer, Liela Moss, has a husky, filthy style and an awesome stage presence. **The Editors** , **KT Tunstall** , **The Magic Numbers** and **Lady Sovereign** are unaccountably overrated. I thought **Peaches** was Canadian. Not impressed; look-at-me-I-can-swear art rock and electroclash. The odd decent tune but nothing consistent. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sxsw-lineup-tell-me-about-these-bands/338360/24 "2006-01-06T21:37:35Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Pink Floyd ripoff? Really? I suppose they may have some Floyd influences, but their songwriting is far too straight ahead and pop to warrant any serious comparisons to Floyd. I’m not really a fan of either band, but they don’t sound similar to me at all. I can totally hear it. There’s a chord change in one of their songs that is _exactly_ like “Time”, right down to the way the chord is phrased on piano. > [@](#): > > And **Peaches** isn’t a rapper. She’s an electronic artist in the punk-disco vein of groups like Le Tigre and Chicks on Speed. Her vocals are more pseudo-spoken word interspersed with screaming, and the backing tracks are not hip-hop. You’re absolutely right. You did a much better job of describing her than I did. That’s why I don’t write music reviews anymore. ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sxsw-lineup-tell-me-about-these-bands/338360/25 "2006-01-06T21:47:10Z")
I’m rather a fan of Flogging Molly. Celtic punk, obvious Pogues influence. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sxsw-lineup-tell-me-about-these-bands/338360/26 "2006-01-06T23:02:07Z")
The BellRays (Los Angeles CA) - Imagine if Aretha Franklin had fronted, let’s say, The Stooges Neko Case (Tacoma WA) - The next Loretta Lynn or maybe Patsy Cline. Cat Power (Atlanta GA) - Very fragile indie pop. Her shows can sometimes be gong shows if she starts crying Echo & The Bunnymen (Liverpool UK) - One of the better 80’s synthpop bands making a good comeback The Go! Team (Brighton UK) - Very entertaining spazz pop The Hellacopters (Stockholm SWEDEN) - A convincing arguement that the Swedes invented Rock ‘n’ Roll k-os (Whitby ON) - King of Canadian hip-hop, which actually makes him pretty good Peaches (Berlin GERMANY) - Smutty hip-hop girl you wouldn’t take home to mother… but maybe to father The Plimsouls (Los Angeles CA) - Old school New Wave band… their highlight was appearing in the movie Valley Girl Robert Pollard (Dayton OH) - Former front man of Guided By Voices… which kinda makes him one of the Godfathers of indie-rock Ramblin’ Jack Elliot (New York NY) - He’s been around forever and he wrote the very first song… but Dylan got all the credit If everything works out, I’m planning on being there too. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sxsw-lineup-tell-me-about-these-bands/338360/27 "2006-01-12T15:44:45Z")
Bumped because [the list was crazy updated today](http://2006.sxsw.com/music/festival/). (Way too many to post here.) I’m especially excited about: Animal Collective (even though _Feels_ hasn’t quite grabbed me yet) The Apples in Stereo (even though they don’t quite shine live like they do on their studio work) Rhett Miller (probably my favorite songwriter not named Lucinda) Ladytron (loved their album last year) The New Pornographers (there they are!) Old Crow Medicine Show (I’m a sucker for the Americana) Lucero (if you haven’t heard them, they sit at the point where Uncle Tupelo split into Wilco and Son Volt, which is a great place to sit) Ted Leo and more others than I can name. I’m intrigued by Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet (together); Susanna (aka the head Bangle) may well have been one of my first crushes, and I was a fan of Sweet in college. The Brian Jonestown Massacre? Didn’t I just see a great documentary about how they spectacularly collapsed? I’m getting sensory overload just reading the damn list. And it’s still just a _partial_ list. Incidentally, I picked up The Magic Numbers’ CD over the weekend, and I’m digging it–it’s very happy, and that works for me right now. My eMusic downloads renew today, so I’ll be trying to scout out a bunch more. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sxsw-lineup-tell-me-about-these-bands/338360/28 "2006-01-30T07:46:15Z")
Bumping my thread because the list has been updated even more. The big news is that Morrissey has been added to the list. So have the Flaming Lips, the Charlatans UK, and a metric shitload of other bands. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sxsw-lineup-tell-me-about-these-bands/338360/29 "2006-01-30T09:11:22Z")
I would go to this festival just to see [The Gathering](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4721FD94BAF7E20D09A3A47C5B564A359FE40F28F0C344F4792BB345C910F64E45DFE8C8FF2B674AB7AAFE02CA45A099FCEE456F5D6623F2DFC93&uid=CAW040601300409&sql=11:mefqoauabijm~T1). The fact that there are a ton of other great bands and artists playing would be just icing on the cake for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sxsw-lineup-tell-me-about-these-bands/338360.md?page=1)