2012

Televised Tune: On The Tube This Weekend

Exactly one year after taping an episode for Austin City Limits’ 37th Season during SXSW, PBS stations we re-air the band’s third appearance on the legendary television program. Friday, March

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Delta Spirit: Delta Spirit

For their third album, the five members of Delta Spirit have lit the fuse, opening up the overall sound and punching through with a sonic boom.  Gone is the rootsy Americana of 2010’s History From Below and their 2008 debut, Ode To Sunshine.  In its place is a big modern rock cacophony that may initially catch listeners off guard but is more in tune with what the band has had in mind all along.

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Toro Y Moi: Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix, AZ 3/5/12

Sporting large, circular glasses and a casual blue button-up shirt, Bundick looks more like an Apple employee instead of the prolific contributor to several musical projects.  Recording under the name Toro Y Moi since he was a teenager, he's got an 80's pop voice that makes it look like he could be wearing a red leather jacket, tight jeans and a giant pair of high-tops. And although he has been grouped into the chillwave subgenre, which includes acts like Washed Out and Neon Indian, both of which he has remixed, the live show is more lively than a guy standing at a station of synths turning knobs. 

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