You probably aren’t “nasty” you just got into Iggy & the Stooges two summers ago when the last emo guy in your band quit and you could finally write that song about convertibles you had always wanted to. See also: The Worst Moments From SXSW 2012 I’m sure I’m missing a few, but you get the idea. I like “vintage darkwave,” and I sure as hell enjoy “snapping drums and flange-warped tones,” but could do without “a loner’s cry buried in soil and metal shavings.”Īnyhow, here are some of the most overused words and terms in SXSW’s 2013 artist bios. The worst one this year was San Francisco act The Soft Moon’s wondrous, blowhard 466-word ode to “darkness, claustrophobia and dread” about a project that “was never intended for the public’s ears,” yet somehow miraculously broke out of music jail and made its way to us anyway. You ain’t Tom Waits, guy in Americana-ska band from Minnesota. You think you look like the Specials’ Terry Hall, but all I see is shame.
Speaking of fedoras, way too many bands this year have members sporting them in promo shots. Some missives are straightforward histories of these up-and-comers journeying to Austin to seek music-blog fame and licensing fortune, while others are meandering pieces of hilarity that seem to use descriptive terms pulled out of a fedora. See also: Why We’ll All Try to See Justin Timberlake at SXSW, and Why That’s Completely WrongĪnyhow, the worst offenders this year seem to be the people behind the SXSW band bios.
Some years there are more bands with “wolf” and “space” in their monikers than usual, and some years there are random exclamation points! that seem to make! no sense other than to annoy! copy editors who are already sick of reading about SXSW. Before I take any trip to Austin and SXSW, I always take more than a few days to peruse the schedule and check out a few of the hundreds of names on the roster and read their bios.
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