Record companies were so important during my era, ‘cause they would pay for you to go out on the road and they’d put you out with a big band opening for 14,000 people every night. It’s so hard to get a record company behind you.
His advice for younger artists, “One of the reasons I came here…is ‘cause I really wanted to see what’s going on out there, what music is out there,” Hagar said of his SXSW visit.
“People say ‘I love your tequila’ more than they say ‘I love your music,’” Hagar noted. “We left our daughter at home and everything.” His characteristically free-wheeling and friendly hour-long conversation touched on all aspects of Hagar’s life and career, from his poor upbringing to his time with Montrose and Van Halen to cars (his favorite is the Ferrari Boxer 512 from the “I Can’t Drive 55” video), paranormal encounters and his business interests in restaurant and liquor, including his new Santos Mezquila blend with Maroon 5’s Adam Levine. “I was expecting something else,” Hagar quipped at the start of his feature interview in the Convention Center. – Sammy Hagar spent part of Tuesday night in Austin checking out Pussy Riot. Proof of their possible future-stardom? The song that got the weakest response from the buzzy crowd at this early show was their one cover, Radiohead’s immaculate “No Surprises.” - Jeff MillerĢ:03 p.m.
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band is playing almost a dozen high-profile sets over the course of the week, buoyed by radio play for their extraordinarily catchy single “Shine,” which every supervisor here working on a coming-of-age movie must be chomping at the bit to sync. At Antone’s for Universal Music’s MUSIC IS UNIVERSAL showcase (yes, they asked us to write it out, just like that), pop-leaning indie-rockers Mondo Cozmo played a set that cemented them as one of rock radio’s big hopes for the festival: following a grind similar to that forged by Foster the People and Vampire Weekend (among many, many others) in years past, the L.A. I became a journalist, not a fan.” - Gary Graffġ:56 p.m. “They wanted to talk about golf and bagels. “They didn’t want questions,” recalled Lowe, who had done a great deal of preparation for the chat. Now they can dream big every time.” He also fessed up to a “disaster” with the Beastie Boys when he was younger – the only time, he said, that he ever asked a boss to not use one of his interviews. “Every artist has at some point dreamed big. Part verbal memoir and part history lesson, Lowe’s talk went right up to the present day and the rollout of Frank Ocean’s “Chanel.” “We can see the artists in their fantasy and reality, and I think that is the future of music,” Lowe said. He also spotlighted the importance of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ 1979 release Damn The Torpedoes, which was “my first love, the first record that ever struck and emotional chord with me” as well as “the soundtrack to my parents’ divorce and my mother’s recovery.
Aided by video stills and plenty of musical snippets, Lowe told the room that he “never had a choice” about going into radio “It was in my blood,” as he noted, as the son of a father who was one of his native New Zealand’s pioneering pirate radio DJs. Beats 1 star Zane Lowe recapped his life, career and musical philosophy during a crisp, polished 40-minute keynote address in the Austin Convention Center. From Zane Lowe’s morning panel to Beach Slang’s accidental duet with a Michael Stipe impersonator to an Alabama rocker’s elegant takedown of Trump, Thursday (March 16) was another packed day at SXSW 2017.īillboard’s on-the-scene reporters share standout moments from Day 3 of the music portion of SXSW, from the dive bars to the industry panels:ġ:00 p.m.
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