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Punk Pioneers Circle Jerks and the Dicks Take Over SXSW

Aging punk fans with a little gray in their mohawks had a short, fast embarrassment of riches when two of punk rock’s early legends played on opposite sides of Austin on Wednesday night at SXSW. (Check out images from Austin’s hottest shows in our SXSW gallery.) First, Austin punk-rock forebears the Dicks hit the stage at 27th Annual Austin Music Awards, accepting a lifetime achievement award for their unique, soulful brand of aggression. The Dicks helped invent Texas punk in 1980, leaving an impression on the Butthole Surfers, Jesus Lizard and Mudhoney (the latter would cover their “Hate The Police”). David Yow of Jesus Lizard presented the band with the award in front of a packed Austin Music Hall. Yow said that 29 years ago he had been amazed and overwhelmed when Dicks bassist Buff Parrot smoked him out. Yow still considers them “the greatest punk rock band of all time.” When the Dicks hit the stage — a little chubbier and grayer than they were in the ’80s — pot-bellied lead singer Gary Floyd offered these words of thanks: “For me, to thank the little people is very easy.” The band rumbled through a few classic tracks like “Dead In A Motel Room” before Yow joined them on stage to help with a stomping, snarling version of “Wheelchair Epidemic.” They closed with their debut single “Hate the Police,” which had the elder punks that swarmed the media section slamming and singing along. Later that night at Emo’s, legendary California hardcore band Circle Jerks barely showed their age. Guitarist Greg Hetson (also a member of Bad Religion) jumped around like a schoolboy and singer Keith Morris was screaming at full force from behind his impossible sprout of brown dreadlocks. Where the Dicks show was full of fond memories, the Circle Jerks show had the renewed energy of a band that’s been active for a huge chunk of time since forming in 1979. An essential mosh experience from the earliest days of slam-dancing, kids were still practically flinging themselves off the stag

Published: 2009-03-19
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Festivals, Videos, SXSW

Maynard James Keenan’s Puscifer: Tool Leader Speaks on Enigmatic Side Project

When you say the name of Maynard James Keenan’s new recording project, Puscifer, it is “Pus as in Puss’n'Boots,” says the Tool singer on a recent afternoon at Electric Lady Studios in New York. “Not as in a boil,” he adds with a dry chuckle. Keenan, working on the record on a rare day away from Tool’s current world tour, explains that Puscifer “is my attempt to make music to inspire people. Heavy rock is sinking, the industry is dying. This is definitely not thinking man’s music” — elliptically referring to Tool’s dense, serpentine metal — “but groove-oriented music that makes you feel good.” The music Keenan previews at Electric Lady is suitably provocative, with a good-time roll. “Queen B” features a bee’s nest of overlapping, processed vocals — including Keenan’s own deep country baritone — over noir-ish hip-hop drumming, like Keenan’s previous side outing, A Perfect Circle, in Tennessee-midnight-radio dub. “Dojo” is marching percussion and sinister electronics with what sounds like the death gulp of a Duane Eddy-treble guitar. “World Up My Ass” is Keenan’s version of the 1980 Circle Jerks song — total psychic collapse as straight-up backwoods fun. “Country Boner” is delightfully offensive and something of an antique — a cover of a song by the Illinois garage band Electric Sheep, which featured pre-Tool guitarist Adam Jones and his high school buddy, Tom Morello, later in Rage Against The Machine. Keenan describes Puscifer as “more of a collaboration” than a group. Contributors include Primus drummer Tim Alexander, guitarist-soundscaper Jonny Polonsky and, on vocals, Lisa Germano and actress Milla Jovovich. And Keenan says the music could end up as more than just an album, which he expects to issue in October. “I’d like to release it in different ways — maybe two songs at a time, every three

Published: 2007-07-19
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News

K!'s SXSW blog (Part One)

K! editor Paul Brannigan reports from this year's South By South West festival. Wednesday, March 18 The city fathers of Austin, Texas grandly refer to their hometown as 'the live music capital of the world'. During the annual South By South West festival you won't hear any dissenting voices. What you will hear, is music pumping out of every bar, restaurant and tattoo parlour, as hundreds of up and coming bands slug it out for Next Big Thing status. The competition is fierce - at any given hour there are 50 or 60 shows taking place simultaneously across the city - but the sheer variety of music on offer makes SXSW a fabulous, fascinating festival to attend. A wristband or SXSW badge gives you access to every show...the only problem being deciding where to start. Our SXSW starts at the legendary Emos venue, with the hardcore fury of Trash Talk, an impressively belligerent quartet from Sacramento. Reminscent of Black Flag at their most antagonistic, the quartet deal in short brutal bursts of noise with scant regard for melody or harmony. That their singer ends the show dripping blood and vomit tells you all about their commitment to pushing extremes. K! favourites The Bronx are up next, playing the first of what will be three shows today. They are, as ever, fantastic, slamming through a 35 minute set to a packed room, More on them later... At 7 o'clock it's Gallows turn to wreak havoc, over on Emos' outside stage, opening a bill which will later feature hardcore heroes Circle Jerks and former Bad Brains' frontman HR's new band. But there is nothing nostalgic about the Brit punks' set: indeed Frank Carter abandons Abandon Ship halfway through with the words "You get the gist" so that his band can focus on showcasing tunes from their upcoming Grey Britain album. Trust us, this album is immense and tonight songs like Vultures and Misery are given their US premiere in the most savage way. Carter's stage dive from the venue's roof is almost as impressive. As Gallows set cli

Published: 2009-03-20
Provider: Kerrang!

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