The idea is I pick a band I like that’s playing on the U.S. festival lineup, compare it to stuff, and give you the info on their show. I’ll go through music festivals (chronologically) like SXSW, Coachella, Austin Psych, McDowell Mountain, Electric Forest, Bonnaroo, Camp Bisco, Pitchfork, Newport Folk, and Lollapalooza (to name a few!), and hopefully locate some hidden gems.
Today’s Festival Bands, Man! band is...Suuns!
Suuns, one of the many, many rock bands playing at SXSW this year, is a quartet from Montreal whose next album, Images Du Futur, comes out March 5, 2013. So they're touring with new material, but kind of like Tokyo Police Club (after their first LP), they don’t need it. Their 2010 debut, Zeros QC, is very complete. The white-light, pretty rock reminds me of fellow Canadian pop artists, Caribou (who, btw, played one of the best live shows I've seen), but with way more electric guitar (to a classic rock degree) and not quite as much synthetic jingle bell. It also sounds like post-punk band Clinic, splashy electronic duo Fuck Buttons, and like me, when I sit down with a chaos pad and vocoder on my mouth (which means -loosely- it’s got a psytrance, home-sound vibe). The bass these guys supply can be powerful, so their live set could be nice and sweat-heavy.
Band: Suuns
Festival: South By South West (SXSW)
Venue/Stage: Red 7
Date & Time: Thursday, March 14 9:45PM -10:20PM
Venue/Stage 2: Swan Dive
Date & Time 2: Thursday, March 14 1:00AM - 1:50AM
gosh, Carly. you really know your sounds. i hadn't even heard of these instruments (if you can call them that) before. cheers for da info!