San Antonio natives Joe Vega and Joseph Caceres, you might remember from Reader (2004-2007) are now these electro boys armed with keyboards, guitars, computers and fat heavy beats. San Antonio's current "IT" band has released their 6 track cd on August 18th. A fun show for the summer, their shows have been accompanied by a wall of people encircling the band that they will fall into, push dance with and crowd surf on. I would not compare their live performance to their cd sound.
For 7 dollars you can hear for yourself a hand painted, with seven layers of paint, debut from Xry. Even better for those same 7 dollars can provide you with a cassette. I found the cassette to be a better deal (provided you have a tape player) and a different sound than the cd. The tape also provides mp3's for your comparing pleasure. September 1st marks the duos tour kickoff so come out dance, buy stuff, support local music and the hip scene.
San Antonio may love them and they may reply, as Joseph said, "I love you too, but I still think we should see other people" so help them out by hitting up the 1011, San Antonio's own hot house, on 9/1/10.
Cream by XRY from Christopher Elliott Suniga on Vimeo.
Alissa,
ReplyDeleteI was looking for a good write-up of XRY to steal when I found your blog. I'm glad other people in this city are at talking and posting about what is going on in the music scene here. I put together (and occasionally write original reviews) the blog Indie Texas. You should check it out as I think it has a lot in common with what you are trying to do, maybe we can even work together sometime as I've been looking for more contributors.
http://indietexas.blogspot.com/
I'm sorry I never check my comments (seeing that hardly anyone ever comments haha!) but I appreciate it. I checked out your blog and there are reviews of a lot of bands I really like and liked.
ReplyDeleteUhm check out my "this is me" video so you can see my style. :)