[March 15]
Everthus The Deadbeats
Sounds Like: Avant-Garde/Experimental
Drinking Buddies: Margot & The Nuclear So-and-So's, Everything Now!, The Rocky Horror Picture Show[?]
Synopsis: Take all your logic, put in a blender, and begin.
Appearances at SXSW:
- SXSW Blowout - Dallas, Texas [8:00, March 16th]
All this week, Voilà! is covering South By Southwest!
The final day, and it's time for the seventh Voilà! featurette.
Today, the featured SXSW artist is Everthus The Deadbeats.
And then it was over. South By Southwest has come and gone. The parties all died with the night, and though a few brave bands and listeners remain on Sunday, the majority has left town as if it were Dodge City. The bands have spread out, back across the country, and are now returning home to recollect and retrospect, or go spread their sound to even more people.
One of those bands still spreading the sound happens to be Everthus The Deadbeats. These guys out of everyday-ol'-Indiana play avant-garde music. If you listened to Pterodactyl, you'll know that avant music is pushes the boundaries of what we consider music - what we consider interesting to listen to. Everthus The Deadbeats play a skewed, incredibly off-kilter sort of pop song, which sounds like it's going over the deep end, or has had a bit too much acid. All sorts of instruments follow the constant beats and the rhythms of twisted melodies. Singing is not simply an extension for poetry, but an instrument in itself. There songs don't make sense - yet they are an epiphany. It is all like a weird dream, quite honestly. Words cannot express - you simply have to see (or in this case, hear).
Everthus The Deadbeats presently have two or three albums out, for sure John Kill & The Microscopic Lullaby, as well as Adducts Stuck in Traffic!, as well as a split LP with fellow label mates Everything, Now! They will be touring throughout March and into April.
Well, SXSW has basically come to a close, but not all of the artists are ending their Texan adventures without a big bang. Everthus The Deadbeats are teaming up with a few other SXSW artists for a big blowout bash at Club Dada, in Dallas, TX, at 8:00 tonight. Sounds like a blast. I hope all who were in Austin this week enjoyed themselves, and that all you readers enjoyed the coverage! Until next year, SXSW, we kiss you gloriously goodbye!
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