SXSW – Friday (Day) 3/21/09 – Radio Room
The Onion AV Club/Decider/Canvas Media Present: It’s Pronounced Par-TAY
Parenthetical Girls, whose Portland-based members are of both sexes (not just girls), took the indoor stage at 4:00 p.m. Vocalist Zac Pennington swaggered during songs that fall somewhere into the experimental pop genre. The Girls’ music is unique but uneven; the band’s watchability is greatly increased by Pennington’s slinky presence.
Above: Parenthetical Girls, Left: Future of the Left
Future of the Left, from Wales, played a more consistent–and much, MUCH louder–set of solid alternative/punkish rock.
Outside, Ra Ra Riot (right) and …Trail of Dead (below) produced exactly what’s expected of them: well-attended, well-executed shows. No surprises, but no disappointments, either.
…Trail of Dead
