every photo we took at sxsw

We started editing photos from SXSW and realized we took 864 shots. M|H thinks that number shows restraint on our part, but it’s still a lot of photos to comb through and edit. To keep you from having to wait, we put every single photo into a two minute and fifty-three second video for you. Check back for edited shots!

All the photos we took at SXSW, unedited. St. Louis Arch, The Salt Lick, We Were Evergreen, La Sera, Dry the River, Kimbra, Spotify House, Friends, Pond, Miike Snow, Hype Hotel, Of Monsters and Men, Hotel Vegan, Glen Hansard, We Are Serenades, Hospitality, Brighton MA, Spotify Live, Grimes, SBTRKT, A$AP Rocky, Say Anything, Night Moves, Father John Misty, Doomtree, Jack White, Andrew WK, The Jealous Sound, Fanfarlo.

you could save my life without a word exchanged

Once upon a time, two lonely, broken boys met and revealed a mutual admiration for each other. Thereafter, Two Tongues was born. Led by Max Bemis (Say Anything) and Chris Conley (Saves the Day), Two Tongues’ self-titled debut is an open letter to the world about Bemis’s and Conley’s give and take.

For the first half of the record, Bemis and Conley (along with STD’s David Soloway and SA’s Coby Linder) meld the sounds of their respective bands. The union is natural, pulling out some of the best features from each. Lead single “Crawl” is a prime example of this. An all-around strong track, it features Bemis and Conley playing off one another and delivering the heart-wrenching feeling that both bands so often produce. The instrumentals kick back and forth between the grit of Saves the Day and the theater of Say Anything, resulting a track that warrants listening to semi-obsessively.

“Wowee Zowee” possesses the ever-coveted sing-along/shout-along element, and “Come On” is so simple and energetic that it reminds listeners why they fell in love with Saves the Day and Say Anything (and for that matter pop-punk and emo in general) in the first place. The most lyrically blatant declaration of love between Conley and Bemis comes with the song “Tremors”, but their admiration for each other, both musically and personally, is apparent all over the record.

In the second half of the album, Two Tongues heads in a bit of new direction for all involved. “Back Against the Wall” takes on a detached 80s groove, while “Alice” incorporates piano and post-production maniupulation. The boys also decide to end the album with some charm, covering Ween‘s oddly appropriate ‘love’ song “Even If You Don’t”.

While Two Tongues doesn’t knock every track out of the park, there is more than enough good material to get the thumbs up.

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Two Tongues drops 02/03/09.
Listen to tracks from the album here.

listen up: with a heart so vicious

Made for my friend Jesse’s birthday, it ends up being a love letter to emo.

With A Heart So Vicious Tracklist

01| Bayside – Masterpiece

02| From First to Last – Note To Self

03| Armor For Sleep – Car Underwater

04| Brand New – Sic Transit Gloria…Glory Fades

05| The Impossibles – This Is Fucking Tragic

06| Blood Brothers – Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck

07| This Providence – Card House Dreamer

08| Head Automatica – The Razor

09| Fall Out Boy – XO

10| Coheed & Cambria – Devil In Jersey City

11| Alkaline Trio – Queen of Pain

12| Saves the Day – Bones

13| Taking Back Sunday – Error: Operator

14| The Academy – Slow Down

15| The Get Up Kids – Forgive and Forget

16| Jimmy Eat World – No Sensitivity

17| The Jealous Sound – Anxious Arms

18| Say Anything – Spidersong

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