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Moshe 03.23.2007 01:51 AM
Thurston's favourite guitar player
 
http://arts.guardianSpotting a star in the Texas night



The South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, is the best place for a band to build a buzz. Sylvie Simmons asked the tastemakers which acts caught their eye this year

Friday March 23, 2007
The Guardian

Magik Markers
What are they like? Male-female, guitar-drums duo from Hartford, Connecticut.
Chosen by: Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and head of Ecstatic Peace records. "Elisa Ambrogio, who sings and plays guitar, is my favourite guitar player right now. Her approach to the instrument is the complete opposite to traditional - she'll hold the guitar upside down with the neck touching the ground and claw at it. It's completely primal. Magik Markers say they have songs, but you wouldn't really know it, and the music is not really punk but it's completely punk at the same time - it's not referencing anything. Everybody at the gig was just stunned; it blew everybody's mind. They've done some CD-Rs and small-label things but they've never yet made a record that captures what they do on stage, which is either cathartic or it's nothing, it's a real roll of the dice what you're going to get, whether they're playing their most important show ever, or to five people in a squat. Really what they are is the anti-buzz, buzz band - they'll tell any of the other buzz bands to buzz off. They're what rock'n'roll is all about."

greenlight 03.23.2007 03:37 AM
well, i was totally blown away by them @ atp, eventhough many people said it wastn't that good as they could be.

that was my first time seeing them, and it was fantastic.

dazedcola 03.23.2007 12:50 PM
yea i liked them when i saw them live too. I feel like their shows can be incredible or horrible it all depends on the mood of the crowd.

Isoflurane 03.23.2007 02:56 PM
I saw them at End Times. I wasn't impressed.
But everyone else who saw 'em said it was a bad show.
So . . . . I don't know.

k-krack 03.23.2007 03:44 PM
To be honest.. I find the Magik Markers kind of... uh, "nothing special."
Never seen them, but I've seen videos, and it's just random open string droning with boring drumming, and indiscernable yips/gumbles way underneath. It's like...really shittily done noise rock...not my thing. Seems pretty pointless...

GrungeMonkey 03.24.2007 11:17 AM
Haven't heard much of them, but I've liked what I've heard. I should really go and live in NY so I can see all these bands... Noise music seems to be virtually non-existent where I live...


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