Put on your Friday meditative hats; music criticism could be headed in a Zen direction. Ben Sisario, writing for the ArtsBeat blog at the New York Times, gives us twenty words on five performances last night at the sweatily kinetic (I’m-ready-for-my-blog-close-up) music festival South by Southwest, which is progressing in downtown Austin this week:
Matt and Kim: They swear too much.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (at Malverde): Childlike bounce brings smile.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (at Opal Divine’s Freehouse): Too loud; intimacy lost.
Telepathe: Tribal futurism? Futuristic tribalism?
The Soft Pack: Prefer former name, Muslims.
Four words apiece? At least Matt and Kim get a full sentence. More entries here, here and here. Get inspired; go four.
Jane, have you seen Paul Ford's six-word reviews of the SXSW MP3s. He's done it for the past few festivals, and is pretty clever. Like Alex Koll's "Hi Mom" earns "A solitary unamusing joke—but short."
#1 Posted by Katia Bachko, CJR on Fri 20 Mar 2009 at 01:33 PM