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SXSW, Are You Ready?
Team JDub is headed to Austin for SXSW, and we’re bringing Soulico with us! If you happen to be down there too, check Israel’s best DJ crew at these official parties:
ALL MUSIC IS WORLD MUSIC
Thursday, 3/18 @ Momo’s (618 W. 6th)
Soulico is on at 11PM!
Saturday, 3/19 @ Palm Door (401 Sabine St.)
Soulico is on at 10PM / Balkan Beat Box is on at 1AM
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DeLeon's Fans + Latitude = woah.
Shortly before DeLeon headed to Austin to rock SXSW we proposed a contest, whereby DeLeon’s fans would follow us using Google Latitude and whoever emailed us with our whereabouts would get some swag. Needless to say the response was overwhelming, a little scary even. But the real scary part is what came a few weeks later. Turns out, some of our biggest fans in San Francisco organized something rather remarkable using Latitude. Click here to see the wonderful gift our fans gave to us. Thanks everyone!
PSYCHE!
Bandthropology
While at SXSW, Golem got interviewed by by Dr Sara Mednick and Lilah Freedland, leaders of the Bandthropology Project. It’s a cool, quirky endeavor that scientifically studies members of bands as members of a unique kind of tribe. Lilah and Dr. Sara were just interviewed about their project on WNYC’s Soundcheck, and they played some Golem. Check it out HERE Notting Hill buy .
We found the Bandthropology interview process surprisingly interesting and fun. There was a written questionnaire, individual interviews with questions ranging from sexual habits to “Soundman is Friend, Lover, God, or Asshole?” and even a pain tolerance test (I opted out of that one, being pregnant and all).
I’ll be very interested to continue to learn about their findings on the social and mating habits of my tribesmen and women!
Read more at Bandthropology
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STEREOtype - Mookie Singerman (Genghis Tron)
This week I got to nag metal and noise visionary Mookie Singerman, half-jew and front man for the cybergrind trio Genghis Tron. I’ve been a big fan of their innovative style and twisted genre-play for a while, and touring with my buddies in Black Cobra doesn’t hurt either. Mookie just came back from SXSW (we were on the same flight!) to play a huge show with Converge in NYC, but he somehow managed to find time to let me in on some of his Jewy habits. Though Mookie’s band skips the drum and bass in their lineup, he certainly doesn’t spare me any Woody Allen-type charm. What a mensch.
How many times a week do you speak to your Mother?
It depends. Sometimes I’ll go two weeks without talking to her. Is that awful? My mom’s a strong lady with a more active social life than me, so I let her spread her wings and fly.
Your nose. Friend or foe?
BFF! My nose is so big it’s practically my conjoined twin. We’ve had our spats over the years, but I’ve come to embrace its general huge-osity.
Are you good with money?
Um, not really. I’m very un-Jewish in that respect. I love to gamble, I don’t really know how to save, and I buy my friends way too many drinks.
Photos From The Road
Many thanks from JDub to everybody who has been documenting our bands on tour. Here are a few samples. If you have any other pictures or videos to share, please send ‘em our way!
Balkan Beat Box in Mexico City on March 29, courtesy of Antichuping Xolot
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Golem @ SXSW AKA How I Conned My Way Into Metallica
Golem’s second time at SXSW was exciting, and the usual mix of “this is so amazing!” and “get me out of here!” After two great shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we arrived in Austin and played the JDub showcase, the really fun Birthright party, and an insane Austin party called “Gadjo Disko” where we saw that “Keep Austin Weird” is still upheld by a lot of people. I knew it would be a blast when I walked into “The Cockpit” and the DJ was playing a track by our friends, Amsterdam Klezmer Band singer Alec Kopyt and Russen Disko’s Yuriy Gurzhiy. We were preceded by a “transsexual hip-hop gypsy marching band” (they seemed more like a mostly gay, awesomely costumed marching band) which was amazing. By the time we played, the crowd was very sweaty and half-naked. My keytar decided to die at this final performance, but the show went on and no one seemed to notice.
It was also quite an experience being at SXSW while 7 months pregnant. I got a lot of congrats on the street, including one from a pedi-cab driver who yelled “My girlfriend’s taking the test tonight!!!” as he drove by, and high-fived my husband Sasha. The story I’ll be telling the baby forever, though, is how I got into the unannounced Metallica show…
More Bass! More Vocals!
Didn't have time to change between our show and whatever show this is (Monotonix?)
Hoarse, sore and satisfied, DeLeon returned on Monday from SXSW. Even an anti-Semitic cab drive home couldn’t sour the great few days we’d just had. And don’t worry, cabbie got his. The festival is a blur of highlights. A sampling of shows we dug include Dirty Projectors, Tarantist, Pocahaunted, Marnie Stern, Barn Owl, A Skylit Drive, Monotonix, Ponytail, A Hawk and Hacksaw, Shearwater and These Are Powers. A sampling of foods we dug include: brisket. This was my kind of bacchanal, music was everywhere.
Someone (Jascha from Girls in Trouble?) described it as “letting your feet make the mix.” And that’s what it is, all festival long. If a show wasn’t cutting it, I’d find one that was. Bloggers, woofers, tweeters all pumping out output loud as can be, shoulder to shoulder and cone to cone. 6th street is sensory overload. Taxis impossible. The adulthood averse, the well-connected, the fashion forward and the fashion backward put their ears to the street and search for buzz. I watched Dirty Projectors unveil their brilliant new material and then jogged across town to play a set of my own. What a rush jumping on stage with the noise of other bands still ringing in my ears.
We’re a bunch of sluts at SXSW aren’t we? Earplugs for condoms so we don’t get burned. I slept on the hotel floor to save the band some cash. Wrapped in the other beds’ bed covers, the only reason I could sleep through the night was because of the total fatigue I’d achieved each day. Those bed covers are 70/30 semen/typhoid. La Quinta no lavarlos those T.B. Sheets. But no worries, because when your bed sucks you’ve got no reason to call it a night.
Rest Stop @ SXSW
As you can tell from Bizmonides’ posts, some of the JDub team was in Austin over the weekend for SXSW. This happened to be my first time at the festival, and I split a good deal of time there between feeling like I had finally ‘arrived’ as a music industry..er…person and trying not to get trampled. That’s pretty exhausting! Luckily, Saturday I got to unwind a little at Rest Stop at Copa Patio, presented by Birthright Israel NEXT in association with JDub Records.
Having spent months planning and getting excited for this shindig, I was elated to see it go off without a hitch. There were plenty of free bagels, drinks, Birthright flasks, mixers and lighters to go around. The weather had finally cooled down a little and we definitely had the best weather of the entire festival. The day featured sets by JDub friends Fool’s Gold and JDub bands Girls in Trouble, DeLeon and Golem.
Though they can’t possibly do the gorgeous weather and lovely music justice, here are some photos from the party. All credit to Michael Cummings.