playing catch-up: sxsw, she & him, owen pallett & more

Sorry I have been M.I.A. lately! I need to get better at keeping up with this. I’ve been pretty busy — went to Austin for my first year of SXSW, have been going to a sick amount of shows lately, and the whole full-time job thing is sort of time-consuming (but I’m loving pretty much every second of it).

That being said, if you want to follow some of the stuff I’m doing, add 17 Dots to your Google Reader/RSS feeds! It’s eMusic’s staff blog and I write a bunch of stuff on there. Of course you can also follow me on Twitter, too. So, uh, here are some links to stuff.

SXSW! I finally went to South By Southwest for the first time! Yes, it deserves lots of exclamation points!! My friend Dominick describes SXSW as a field trip for all the New York music people, and it totally is, although I also got to hang out with some awesome people from other states who I don’t get to see often or hadn’t met in person before.

Stuff I wrote that week:

DAY 1
17 Dots recap (Broken Bells, Warpaint, Basia Bulat, Washed Out, Rose Elinor Dougall)

DAY 2
17 Dots recap (Man/Miracle, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Sharon Jones, Peasant)
Those Darlins on Spinner.com (ridiculous!)
Sharon Van Etten and Sarah Jaffe on Spinner.com (They will blow your mind! Especially in a church.)

DAY 3
17 Dots recap (Standard Fare, Local Natives, the Antlers, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Mayer Hawthorne)
The Antlers on Spinner.com (Amazing! But that’s nothing new)

DAY 4
17 Dots recap (Slow Club, Titus Andronicus, Peasant, the Antlers, Estelle)
Slow Club on Spinner.com

A couple of stories on Spinner.com:

Anaïs Mitchell on her folk opera, Hadestown

Dead Meadow on their concert film

A bunch of show writeups with LOTS of photos (all on 17 Dots):

Clogs (members of the National, w/ Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond and Sufjan Stevens) at the Bell House, March 24

Miike Snow and Delorean at Bowery Ballroom, March 28

She & Him and the Living Sisters at Bowery Ballroom, March 29

Micachu & the Shapes at Le Poisson Rouge, March 31

The Low Anthem at Bowery Ballroom, April 14

Kaki King at Music Hall of Williamsburg, April 15

Owen Pallett at Webster Hall, April 22

Anaïs Mitchell at Joe’s Pub, April 23

Aaaand, a few record reviews while I’m at it [EDIT: I learned that if you don't have an eMusic account, you probably can't see these reviews; I'll be posting them on here probably in the near future!]:

Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown on Critical Mob

White Hinterland’s Kairos on Critical Mob

Tori Amos’s From the Choirgirl Hotel on eMusic

The Morning Benders’ Big Echo on eMusic

Dr. Dog’s Shame, Shame on eMusic

Sarah Jaffe’s Suburban Nature on eMusic

Nathaniel Rateliff’s In Memory of Loss on eMusic