Wednesday SXSW Showcases
By Tim Stegall, Fri., March 18, 2016
Heavenly Recordings
8:15pm, BarracudaParagons of British indie sounds since 1990, London's Heavenly Recordings gave the world the Manic Street Preachers' first glam-punk-shock 45s, and such now-iconic acts as Sait Etienne and Beth Orton. Winsome Dutch lass Annelotte de Graffe plies a jangly post-K Records brand of reverb-drenched pop as Amber Arcades. Madrid snot-garage trio the Parrots are actually a Burger Records signing, but have enough reverb and clean Fender guitar action to be a Heavenly act. Gwenno, the former lead singer of last decade's girl group revivalists the Pipettes, has gone for a chugging brand of modern pop as a solo artist, mostly sung in her native Welsh. Liverpudlians Hooton Tennis Club evoke power-pop heroes Big Star and Teenage Fan Club more than their hometown's most famed export. Hooton neighbors Stealing Sheep are far more psychedelic. Seattle's Night Beats should be headlining Levitation fest with their post-Elevators chug.
