After months of planning and preparation, Austin is finally on the horizon.
Our third-annual South-By-Southwest "Boston & Beyond" party with Berklee College of Music (Berklee's 11th event at SXSW) goes down Thursday, March 17 at noon (local time) at Brush Square Park, located next to the Austin Convention Center. If you're at SXSW or heading down very soon, all you need to do to party with us is RSVP here. The party is all ages and open to SXSW badge holders.
If you're staying here in New England, keep it locked to Vanyaland and you won't miss a thing. We'll be broadcasting all of the performances via VanyaRadio, and updating audio and visuals from Brush Square Park all afternoon. You'll be tasting the Lone Star and tableside guac from the Iron Cactus fresh on your lips.
The "Boston & Beyond" party is co-presented by Berklee Alumni, The Red Room @ Cafe 939, and Heavy Rotation Records. Below is the lineup, with individual profiles on each performing band available via our slider.
"Boston & Beyond" 2016 Lineup
12:15-12:45: Rann (Brooklyn)
1:00-1:30: M+E (Heavy Rotation Records, Boston)
1:45-2:15: mar | co (Boston)
2:30-3:00: Lady Pills (Heavy Rotation Records, Boston)
3:15-3:45: Plastic Waves (Boston)
4:00-4:30: IAN (Los Angeles)
4:45-5:15: Great Grandpa (Seattle)
Plastic Waves, 3:15 p.m. set time
It was totally unintentional, but we used the term “swirl”/“swirling” in both of the headlines of our recent posts about Plastic Waves. But that’s just where the Boston psych-pop band from Andre Bellido takes us mentally; with a sound entrenched in warped, bubbling psych-pop and falling somewhere between the worlds of fuzzy British psychedelia, late-aughts Brooklyn indie rock, and star-gazing ’90s Britpop, Plastic Waves has already found its groove in a short period of time. Though they started as a bedroom project under the watchful eye of Bellido, Plastic Waves have now evolved into a full-on band that possess an uncanny ability to sonically warp their sugary pop compositions.
Wrote Allston Pudding when they hyped Plastic Waves’ “Melancholy Sleep”: [Bellido] pulls his influences from classics like The Beatles’ Revolver and the upbeat sounds of The Beach Boys, along with current greats like Tame Impala… “Melancholy Sleep”… is the comfort food of psych rock, with its warm and engaging guitar riffs blended into dreamy vocals culminating in the catchy chorus that keeps you craving more from the band.”
Last month, we hyped their entire debut EP, which we wrote “follows along Plastic Waves’ hazy brand of 7 a.m. rock and roll. ‘Friendly’ might be the best song Oasis never wrote, while ‘Pushing Me Down’ would make Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre blush. But the true standout remains ‘You Never Listen’, a rocket-ride of swirling guitar-rock goodness that hits a brilliant bit of cruising altitude.”
Damn, another “swirling”. Oh well — check out some tasty jams from Plastic Waves below…
