SXSW 2023: Thao at High Noon, Austin (15 Mar 2023)

It’s that time of the year again: SXSW in Austin, Texas. This time of the year, we all benefit from all the bands in Austin, because many of them will be heading to our local venues after SXSW. It looks like things are back to normal, coming off of a terrible two-year pandemic.

Brody is currently at the Paste Magazine / Ilegal Mezcal showcase at High Noon, just east of downtown Austin. Bands are playing 30-min sets, both indoor and outdoor stages.

Currently Thao is setting up her set.

 

We last saw Thao & the Get Down Stay Down in Oct 2013 and said, “This truncated set featured a lot of new songs, taken from her latest release We the Common, including “Holy Roller” and “Every Body”. The new material, as I discovered it hearing it live, is more aggressive than her folk songs from her previous two albums. Although the set was shorter, Thao display her talent for all things strings: jumping from guitar to acoustic to banjo to steel guitar. It was fun to watch the transitions.”

Here is the Paste / Ilegal Showcase schedule:

March 15 12:00pm – Devon Gilfillian   12:40pm – Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness   1:20pm – Barrie   2:00pm – Kate Davis   2:40pm – Michigander   3:20pm – Trials of Cato   4:00pm – Thao   4:40pm – Miss Grit   5:20pm – SUSU   6:00pm – Alaska Reid   6:30pm – Brian Sella (of The Front Bottoms)

March 16 12:00pm – Medium Build   12:40pm – Annie Blackman   1:20pm – John Roseboro   2:00pm – William Prince   2:40pm – Dream Wife   3:20pm – Overcoats   4:00pm – Bonny Doon   4:40pm – Sunny War   5:20pm – The Bad Ends   6:00pm – Esther Rose   6:30pm – Sarah Shook & the Disarmers

March 17 12:00pm – CM Talkington with Renee Zellweger   12:40pm – Sadurn   1:20pm – Far Caspian   2:00pm – Fruit Bats   2:40pm – Why Bonnie   3:20pm – Darling West   4:00pm – Cheekface   4:40pm – Eshu Tune (Hannibal Buress)   5:20pm – Death Valley Girls   5:55pm – McKinley Dixon   6:30pm – Ron Gallo