South by Southwest is coming to a close in Austin, and I'm sure it was a big hit. One of these years I've got to get down there, but for now, I have to be satisfied with simply enjoying the great music and stories coming out of the festival, including news from Okkervil River that they are in the midst of completing a follow up to Black Sheep Boy, which should come out sometime around August if everything goes well. Will Sheff is from the Austin area, so his appearance at the festival was not a surprise, and in an interview with KEXP, he revealed that the new album is an attempt to go as far away from Black Sheep Boy as possible, which sounds like a noble idea, even if I thought that the album (and its appendix) were absolute masterpieces that I'm still listening to regularly some two years after their release. If this new song is any indication, though, Okkervil River might be quickly moving into my top 10 bands of all-time.
Bill's Last.fm Page
Top 10 Songs of the Week
NY Concerts via Last.fm
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Okkervil River are genius and so good live. This is definitely an album I am looking forward to.
Posted by: wayne | March 21, 2007 at 08:12 AM