You may have noticed a new icon pop up this week in the URL box of your favorite website (Sezio.org). After a lot of badgering and countless hate emails, we've finally implemented an RSS Feed for our content. Now our news items, reviews and features will stream right into your google reader and such... You can subscribe here.
Thanks for being patient. http://feeds.feedburner.com/sezio
Posted By zack | 3/11/2010 | 9:16 AM | Add a Comment
Writer is heading back to Austin's South By Southwest festival this week and they're bringing a bunch of San Diego talent with them. For starters, they booked shows to Austin and back with Tape Deck Mountain using the above press photo, shot by Andrew Burns. They will be selling a new EP on the tour that features a remix by Jamuel Saxon and artwork by Lindsay Preston, screen-printed in the Sezio garage.
Secondly, we are proud to announce that Brad Kester's music video for Four Letters was accepted into the Film Festival portion of SXSW and will premiere in a program of other music videos for random bands like Grizzly Bear and Passion Pit. Destin Daniel Cretton has cinematography credits on the video as well as San Diego's finest barefoot skiier, Mike Gerstein. The program will play three times during the festival and more information can be found here.
Good job San Diego. Turns out we're gonna be okay even without LaDainian Tomlinson.
Writer & Tape Deck Mountain play Tin Can Ale House tomorrow, Thursday March 11th to start their venture east. Come see them off and pick up the new EP, then check back for updates from their travels over the next two weeks. You can also find tour dates and the new songs on Writer's MySpace.
Posted By joelpwest | 3/10/2010 | 12:01 PM | View Comments (2)
I picked up the Blessa single from Toro y Moi the other week off iTunes, and haven't stopped listening to both tracks. South Carolinian chiller Chaz Bundick is the man behind the hazy summer jams, and he's heading to The Loft this weekend, en route to SXSW.
Toro y Moi - '109'
The first person to email info@sezio.org and tell us how Toro y Moi is connected to our March 25th show at Sushi Art (other than all of the bands being hyped by Pitchfork) wins a pair of tickets to the March 13th show at UCSD's Loft with The Ruby Suns.
* This contest has been won by Keegan Fong. Both hailing from South Carolina, Chaz Bundick is good friends with Ernest Greene from Washed Out. Tickets for the show can still be purchased at The Loft's website.
Posted By zack | 3/9/2010 | 11:28 AM | Add a Comment
Get your bicycles tuned up because this weekend looks like it will be the first sunny one we've had here in San Diego for awhile. (Yes I check the weather report every Monday, it gives me something to look forward to). With the time changing as well this weekend, I got my mind geared towards my Summer body and new music to move to. If you haven't heard of the three Irish lads that make up Two Door Cinema Club yet, now's the time. How good will "I Can Talk" be to race around to??
Posted By carly | 3/8/2010 | 11:07 AM | View Comments (1)
Local peace enthusiasts Invisible Children and music tastemakers La Blogotheque are teaming up to take The Polyphonic Spree, Yeasayer, and another band to Gulu, Uganda, where a rebel leader has been terrorizing people and kidnapping children for over twenty years. The team of musicians, activists, and filmmakers will travel throughout the Gulu district to get acquainted with the stories of war-affected Ugandans and see Invisible Children's programs in action. The bands will be performing their songs for locals along the way and, lucky for us, La Blogotheque will be there to capture it. The end product will be a beautiful Take Away Show-style documentary, to be sold with proceeds funding IC's continuing work in Uganda.
Unfortunately, plane tickets to Uganda don't grow on trees, so IC has provided an opportunity to help out at the fundraising website Kickstarter. If you sacrifice a couple of burritos this week, you can help get this film underway, and if you can give beyond that, there's some good loot being offered for contributing. Invisible Children is trying to rally up $20K of the needed funds by March 10, so visit the IC Kickstarter page soon for more info
Posted By joelpwest | 3/2/2010 | 11:35 AM | View Comments (1)