I’ve written before about the strange joy/frustration that comes with being a Dallas music fan the week before SXSW each March. Dozens of bands, aiming to make a Texas jaunt worth their financial while, schedule shows in Dallas on their way to Austin. It’s a concentrated burst of musical talent, the sort we don’t get too often from the tour bookers of indie rock.
The unfortunate thing is that these bands all play in a few days, leaving the music lover with a host of unpleasant choices to make. (This year, you had the Decemberists, Modest Mouse, the Unicorns, and Crystal Method playing on the same night. Then Broken Social Scene, Calexico, Polyphonic Spree, the Unicorns, and Pedro the Lion the next night. Then Sonic Youth, Trans Am, and International Noise Conspiracy the next night. A man shouldn’t have to choose between all those!)
Anyway, it looks like we North Texans will now face the joys and pains of a similar bandclog each fall, now that the Austin City Limits Festival is revealing its glories to the world. On September 17, Dallas gets My Morning Jacket and Wilco/Calexico on the same night, and I’m sure a couple other bands will get booked over the next month.
(While the Wilco shine has tarnished in my eyes over the years, there’s no doubting that will be the best “bands-ending-in-the-letter-O” double bill in years. Now if only they can get Chromeo, Cee-Lo, TV on the Radio, Bebel Gilberto, Brian Eno, Disco Inferno, Caetano Veloso, and Grant Lee Buffalo signed on.)
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Now that you mention it, Dallas has a disproportionate number of ending O acts.
brave combo
corn mo
olospo
sub oslo
johnny reno
captain adio
what’s up with that?
my dream double O double bill would be Elvis Costello and Remy Zero.
hey, wait, does UB40 count? people call zeros ohs all the time.
Shame on a good cajun boy not giving props to Buckwheat Zydeco!
Hey this is kinda fun, don’t forget Keb Mo and The Go!
Charo
Coolio
Heck, Rivers Cuomo could team up with Bono (or, you could have both of them solo, of course).
What about Sebadoh? Would that count?
This is fun!
The Velvet Underground and Nico, Yo La Tengo, LFO, Polvo, Damien Jurado, Mono, El Guapo, Uncle Tupelo, Placebo, Lisa Germano, Evan Dando, OK Go, Fats Domino.
If spelling is who and pronounciation is secondary: The Who.
If spelling isn’t important: Ernie K-Doe, John Doe, Sentridoh.
I don’t like her, but shouldn’t there be bonus points for Yoko Ono?
And how can we forget Devo?
You know, Yoko Ono and Yo La Tengo actually recorded together (“Hedwig’s Lament Exquisite Corpse” from the Wig in a Box tribute.)
How about The Apples in Stereo, Cibo Matto, and Placebo? Now there is a bill I would pay to go see!
And if spelling doesn’t matter, we get a whole new group of “ow” acts . . .how about DJ Shadow spinning with Low and Nick Lowe?
Sorry to break the running theme, but I’m just curious why Wilco has lost its sheen for you over the years. Did you enjoy the country-tinged years more, or are you tired of the hype? Or is it something else?
Just curious as a Wilco lover.
so, i am messing around with the automated playlist feature in itunes. Many different criteria can be set to generate a play list. My new automated playlist?!? Artist’s names that end in O. fully automated, no kidding. It only revealed one we have missed, yello.
Matt – personally, I do believe Wilco’s current sound is much more ground breaking than ever before (and even makes some of the alt country band of the same era look like they are stuck in neutral). that being said, the old sound just suits me better. it’s all good though, i wouldn’t kick it out of the ipod.