Love to love you baby

With this blog-ject underway, let me lay down a few ground rules: Austin's annual music and media conference SXSW takes place over a long weekend in mid-March. The bands and so forth featured here will be playing, but the schedule is not yet set; when the gigs are posted, I will do my best to update the site. In the meantime, I will do my darndest to keep things interesting.

This is Jason Forrest. Stop. Look. (animated Quicktime madness.)

Forrest is ein Berliner. Previously a DJ on WFMU, a NY/NJ public station, his greatest claim to fame has been an identity-theft stunt, recording rock-and-roll mash-ups under the pseudonym Donna Summer. His Austin appearance is part of Forrest/Summer's first full-blown US tour. In addition to making crazy genre-defying records, he runs a label called Cock Rock Disco. Ahem. Listen.

(Note: This clip features lovely Laura Cantrell, from Forrest's new Shamelessly Exciting disc.)