Man, I just LOVE these guys.
Seriously. They're just fuggin amazing.
If you're getting this now, go google KGSR in Austin, and hit the stream.
Friday, June 26, 2009
And Again, From Threadgills, The Greencards
Oh yeah. They just stomped the HELL out of the The Avenue.
By the way, you can listen to this show live by going to KTSR in Austin's website. WELL worth doing.
Live From Threadgils, Austin TX - Sarah Jaroscz
For the second night in a row, I'm on the road with Sarah Jaroscz and the Greencards. This time we're coming to you from Threadgills, in Austin TX.
Sarah's on right now, playing cuts off her debut CD on Sugar Hill records.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Ok, and this I just had to...
So here we have my little MiniTosh laptop on a bar table, with this very site up and shots of The Greencards ON it while they are playing at the very club the shots were taken less than 5 minutes prior.
Dunno why, but this seriously gets my geek on.
Break out the Jams
Ok, so now we have got Sarah Jarosz sitting in with The Greencards, and she and Kym are just ripping it up big time.
The crowd is just eating this up. I haven't seen this much animation in Dallas from such a mellow appearing audience since the last time Junior Brown laid waste to Sons of Herman Hall.
And Now (like RIght Now), The Greencards
Back stage, right before going on.
As I'm writing this, The Greencards are just NAILING the title Track to Fascination, off the new Album. I've waited for months to hear these folks live, and wow. Absolutely unreal. I was seriously impressed with Viridian and Fascination (the last two studio releases) but they don't even begin to do The Greencards justice. If you have a chance to catch them on this tour, get there. Seriously. I'm just blown away. Ok, enough of this, I gotta just sit for a bit. They are just too damn good.
(Update)
Ok, now this is just freaky. I just checked the admin page, and these posts have had 936 hits, which is more people than are actually watching them play as I write this.
All hail tEh IntRaWebz.
The Live Remote Test
So I'm at Poor David's Pub, right now, in South Dallas, listening to the delightful and wonderfully talented Sugar Hill Records artist Sarah Jarosz as she's opening for The Greencards.
As I type this Sarah is talking to the crowd, and is breaking int0 yet another new song of her Debut release. I last saw her perform at SxSW, and she is amazing talented.
What's different about this as opposed to most of the stuff we do on the site, is that the photos below are less than 5 minutes old, and I have no wifi here whatsoever, no my normal Mac Laptop.
In fact, the entire rig this is being produced on is less than the size of most small purses.
This is an experiment to see if we can pull this off WHILE the band is playing.
As I type this Sarah is talking to the crowd, and is breaking int0 yet another new song of her Debut release. I last saw her perform at SxSW, and she is amazing talented.So as the evening progresses, we'll be occasionally updating this.
Huge thanks to Sarah and The Greencards for being my Guinea Pigs on this experiment.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Hippy Clothes Go Mainstream
So a couple nights ago, after going out to eat, I found myself in, of all places, a Macy's store.
Now I'm not much on shopping, or fashion, or any of that, so it's not unusual for me to NOT be in a department store. In fact, I think the last time I landed in a Macy's or anything along those lines was probably a good decade or more ago. But for whatever reason, there I was.
So imagine my shock when right inside the front door, I am greeted by this:
I mean, WTF?
And it wasn't like it was just a little section, this stuff was all over the friggin store.
I kid you not.
Aisles and aisles of the stuff. It was like everywhere.
This stuff was EVERYWHERE. It was like the entire women's clothing section had been tossed and replaced my mass manufactured HypeeWear™®.
I took a closer look at some of this stuff, and it was REALLY cheaply made. As in, I rather doubt it would even survive a real show. The fabrics were really flimsy, and stitching looked like they used the absolute cheapest thread they could find, and I wondered if some of this stuff wouldn't just completely disintegrate the first time it was washed.
It was obvious they'd done SOME homework, in that the "look" was there (and everywhere you looked), but it just was so incredibly strange to be in what in most shopping centers is normally considered to be a pretty conservative and stalwart "anchor" store, and to just literally be swimming in stuff like this.
Now this REALLY was kind of freaky:
I mean, mannequins? WTF? Ok, so granted I don't get out much (outside of shows, that is) but when exactly, did we go mainstream? When did the aesthetic become a mass manufactured commodity?
And even more interesting to me, is when (or more precisely how) did corporate America decide that this was to be the "in vogue" look for the summer for the masses?
Upon looking at quite a few of them closely, I found that the majority of these were made in China, along with Taiwan, India, Guatemala, the Philippines, Korea, and a very few were made in the USA. This struck me as more than a bit odd, in that all the stuff I've ever seen in the lots have been generally been made by people who at least have HEARD of the music the clothes are generally associated with.
They didn't miss a lick either, the everything got the "Boho Chic" (apparently Hippy still has a dirt connotation that goes with it, so the very name had to be gentrified for consumption), including:
Purses. Lots of purses:
Jewelry. Gotta love the big stores to make sure you can accesorize in matching product lines without having to move more than 20 feet to do so.
I mean, seriously, the entire downstairs floor of the store was just chock full of this stuff.
And it was all on sale too! Drastic reductions throughout the store. Huge, huge, discounts. Big Clearance. (ok, I'm assuming everybody knows the retail game right? You figure out what you want to charge for something, mark the "normal" price up by 30-40%, hope it sells, and if it doesn't you mark it way down to what you were going to charge in the first place, and get what you originally wanted to sell it for, and only it it's TRULY a flop do you dump it on a liquidator to show up in outlet shops so as not to have people realize what the stuff you're selling is actually worth. That's the America Retail Way).
So I can't help but wonder, of any of this stuff was assembled by 14 year old kids working in a sweatshop some place? I'd hope not, after all, this is Macys, right?
Now I'm not much on shopping, or fashion, or any of that, so it's not unusual for me to NOT be in a department store. In fact, I think the last time I landed in a Macy's or anything along those lines was probably a good decade or more ago. But for whatever reason, there I was.
So imagine my shock when right inside the front door, I am greeted by this:
I mean, WTF?
And it wasn't like it was just a little section, this stuff was all over the friggin store.
I kid you not.
Aisles and aisles of the stuff. It was like everywhere.
This stuff was EVERYWHERE. It was like the entire women's clothing section had been tossed and replaced my mass manufactured HypeeWear™®.
I took a closer look at some of this stuff, and it was REALLY cheaply made. As in, I rather doubt it would even survive a real show. The fabrics were really flimsy, and stitching looked like they used the absolute cheapest thread they could find, and I wondered if some of this stuff wouldn't just completely disintegrate the first time it was washed.
It was obvious they'd done SOME homework, in that the "look" was there (and everywhere you looked), but it just was so incredibly strange to be in what in most shopping centers is normally considered to be a pretty conservative and stalwart "anchor" store, and to just literally be swimming in stuff like this.
Now this REALLY was kind of freaky:
I mean, mannequins? WTF? Ok, so granted I don't get out much (outside of shows, that is) but when exactly, did we go mainstream? When did the aesthetic become a mass manufactured commodity?
And even more interesting to me, is when (or more precisely how) did corporate America decide that this was to be the "in vogue" look for the summer for the masses?
Upon looking at quite a few of them closely, I found that the majority of these were made in China, along with Taiwan, India, Guatemala, the Philippines, Korea, and a very few were made in the USA. This struck me as more than a bit odd, in that all the stuff I've ever seen in the lots have been generally been made by people who at least have HEARD of the music the clothes are generally associated with.
They didn't miss a lick either, the everything got the "Boho Chic" (apparently Hippy still has a dirt connotation that goes with it, so the very name had to be gentrified for consumption), including:
Purses. Lots of purses:
Jewelry. Gotta love the big stores to make sure you can accesorize in matching product lines without having to move more than 20 feet to do so.
I mean, seriously, the entire downstairs floor of the store was just chock full of this stuff.
And it was all on sale too! Drastic reductions throughout the store. Huge, huge, discounts. Big Clearance. (ok, I'm assuming everybody knows the retail game right? You figure out what you want to charge for something, mark the "normal" price up by 30-40%, hope it sells, and if it doesn't you mark it way down to what you were going to charge in the first place, and get what you originally wanted to sell it for, and only it it's TRULY a flop do you dump it on a liquidator to show up in outlet shops so as not to have people realize what the stuff you're selling is actually worth. That's the America Retail Way).
So I can't help but wonder, of any of this stuff was assembled by 14 year old kids working in a sweatshop some place? I'd hope not, after all, this is Macys, right?
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