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Official SXSW Schedule Announced

Posted by Mike on February 26, 2005

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The official schedule for the 2005 South By Southwest Music Festival and Conference, taking place March 16-20 in Austin, Texas, is now online at www.sxsw.com.

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Practice Spaces - Updated May 2015

One of the most common questions on the Yahoo Group is about practice space and where to find it. A list is being compiled here of practice spaces in the D.C. Metro Area, which you'll be able to access anytime through the link under "Resources For Musicians" in the right hand column. If you have something to add, please post it as a comment below. The list will be updated as people submit more information.

Practice Spaces in the D.C. Metro Area:

Barco Rebar
Falls Church, VA
703-207-1657
http://www.barcorebar.com

7Drum Lessons
2008 8th Street NW
Washington DC 20001
http://www.7drumlessons.com

Uncle Bob's Self Storage
Alexandria, VA
800-242-1715
http://www.unclebobs.com

Music Cave Studios
46040 Center Oak Plaza #150
Sterling, VA 20166
(703) 430-1095
http://musiccavestudios.com

Rock Shop Studios
8455 R Tyco Road
Vienna VA 22182
(703) 801-4737
http://www.rockshopstudios.com

Str8way Music Service
(240) 479-5855
http://www.str8waymusic.com

The Pittipad
5317 Lafayette Pl
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Friday Night Music Fight - Life's Fleeting Nature

Dear reader(s), my output has dropped of late. I haven't been able to summon the energy to write while dealing with a loss in the family. A very sweet light went dark too soon, leaving my family to pick up the pieces. Days are growing shorter, the dark and cold are rapidly encroaching on our fair burg, and I have been ruminating on loss. This is nothing new, nor especially profound. Hobbes wrote that life was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" more than 350 years ago, and Palahniuk mused on the topic, "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero".

First up we have MMS favorite Laura Gibson with the title track from last year's exquisite Goners. Like so many of her songs, this one is more abstrusely personal than broadly philosophical, filtered through her famously wry sense of humor. She sings "Here comes the end/of the future/if we're already goners" over the gentle swelling of horns, a future as lovely as…

Wednesday Is For Goth Lovers

In honor of World Goth Day, today we bring you a Hump Day selection of old, new, and unconventional goth songs. Kick back, put on your Doc Martens, light up a clove cigarette, and enjoy.

Up first we have Portland-based quintet BlackWater HolyLight with "Sunrise", their heavy psych take on a modern murder ballad. The band just finished a tour of Europe in support of their self-titled debut, which came out last year on RidingEasy Records.

It strains the bounds of credulity to talk about goths and not mention The Mountain Goats' 2017 record of the same name. If you missed their recent 9:30 Club set, the band is playing a pair of (sold out) shows at Ottobar in July.

Musical genres are like rivers, full of twists and turns and channels that branch off and meander. One such offshoot is cholo goth, a style invented by San Diego duo Prayers. Combining goth and post-punk influences with gritty tales of street of gang life in Southern California, "Gothic Summer" both sou…

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