Music News & Notes: Obey, El Paso & Pitchforking Andy Samberg

Vanity Fair is calling El Paso the next Brooklyn, citing Tony Rancich's Sonic Ranch (recently used by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Conor Oberst) as ground zero for the new movement. Al Jourgensen agrees.
Obey Giant and Obama stoker Shepard Fairey was indeed in Austin during SXSW, and he chose Room 710 as one of the spots he'd apply some wheat paste. Meanwhile, Austin artist Sam Sanford railed against the Fairey drama today at Studio Journal, saying, "Let Fairey make his terrible art and let the zombies keep snapping it up - I don't care if he gets rich. His disengenuousness [sic] and the vacuity of his artworks betray a deep spiritual illness - he is already punished."
The UT Department of Radio, Television and Film recently published an article about Pitchfork, hipster culture and Andy Samberg at Flow TV, the department's forum for popular culture and television. "Pitchforking Andy Samberg’s Hipster Appeal" only glosses over Armisen's Trenchmouth days, but does assert that the relationship between Pitchfork and SNL is an ethically questionable one, as well as a (asserted) sexist one.
Heartless Bastard Erika Wennerstrom took the Black Book Pop Quiz. Amidst other mind-numbingly half-ass answers, the band's songwriter and lead guitarist mentions that her desktop wallpaper is "Whatever my Mac came with." and the place she'd eat at every day if she could would be Whole Foods, because "They always have a good variety of food at the hot and cold bars." People should really stop sending musicians email interviews. Ed. note: Note to self
Could we have a mayor that's cooler than Wynn? McCracken hopes so, and he is hoping Dazed & Confused will help. Put on your jorts and head down to the Drafthouse to find out if he can pull it off. Bring your bongos.
MTV has a disgustingly predictable list of SXSW highlights.
Steve Earle's upcoming album will be a full length tribute to the late Townes Van Zandt. ("Fort Worth Blues")
Want to go see Gavin DeGraw & Angel Taylor? Follow the jump for a chance to win.

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By Paige Maguire in Arts & Entertainment on March 26, 2009 7:00 PM 0 Comments

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vesuv

RE: "MTV has a disgustingly predictable list of SXSW highlights."

Absolutely spot on Austinist.

Whoever wrote that Top 10 must have been shown a very good time by the labels. Especially No. 10 Explosions in the Sky. I love this band but did anyone see the show? The sound was majorly f'ed up. Only one guitar and the drums could be heard for the entire set - no bass, no guitars 2 and 3.

I felt terrible for those guys but the MTV reporter didn't seem to notice. Go figure...

davidamnesia

Please, please, PLEASE continue spreading the news that El Paso is the next Williamsburg.

I'm willing to pitch in on a Town Crier to help with this.

LoudMouth

I'm not saying any of it is good or bad, but thank you for making my point that it's all just old recycled crap. Some guy in Austin has been ripping off the Misfits stuff that the Misfits ripped off of old shit and I wasn't aware that Giant was ripping off that same old Misfits shit before that uninspired guy in Austin was ripping off the Misfits ripping off the TV show.

There's just too much ripping off. UT isn't producing any art of note that I'm aware of, but it's not like Harvard is producing any good artists either or the Art Institute of Dallas. Informative and inspirational artists are just as likely to come out of ACC as they are out of some copy an paste art institute.

Shawn Shillington

Fairey has been doing that version of the Misfits logo for several years. Plus, it isn't like Glenn Danzig drew it himself - the Misfits got it from a 40's TV show:

http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/The_Misfits_Logo

LoudMouth can say what he wants, but it bothers me that people with the same level of artistic understanding are running UT and killed the Fairey mural that was planned up there. It isn't like UT (or Austin) has an overabundance of substantial art.

LoudMouth

So now Shepard Farey is ripping off that one dude in Austin who ripped off the Misfits?

Nice.

Stella

El Paso. Huh.

samsanford

thanx for readign 8)

paigemaguire

Yep, I typed the wrong name yesterday in a hurry. I corrected it this morning when Stan was so kind to point it out.

Here I am Central Texas, openly admitting to my typo. Let the rocks fly.

stan_d_payne

Nope, nope, no fair. Austinist's own style manual dictates that corrections are denoted with strikethroughs. She wrote SARAH Wennerstrom.

nickc

From the Pop Quiz:

"What do you normally sleep in?

My schedule changes a lot, but my ideal time is 10 a.m. "

/facepalm

stan_d_payne

Even worse than mind-numbingly half-ass (sic) blog posts that get the singer's name wrong? ERIKA Wennerstrom might lack yr razor wit, but she's a million times cooler than you'll ever be. :)