Antiquiet
  • AQ Podcast
  • Interviews
  • AQ Sessions
  • Reviews
  • Miscellaneous
AQ Sessions

Death Valley Girls Turn a Rainy SXSW Day Into a Garage Punk Kegger

By Kevin Cogill @skwerl · On November 27, 2015
Death Valley GirlsSXSW

As promised, we’ve been rolling out sets from our 2015 SXSW showcase every so often since it went down in March. Following Cancer Bats, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and B. Dolan, here are a few clips from Death Valley Girls’ set, which kicked off with the second giant pizza delivery, a bit of rain, and a visit from a mysterious bearded beer fairy. More clips are available on our YouTube channel.

Death Valley Girls were the perfect band for this slot, even more so in practice than in theory. In a steroidal mega festival like SXSW where just a little too much is driven by slick marketing and corporate-backed brand positioning, we always try to focus on throwing a party, a good one, modeled after the parties we were blacking out at while the guys behind the Spotify House™ were still working on their MBAs. Death Valley Girls feel like the not necessarily safe, but ultimately for-fun gangs we all would form with only the coolest of our friends, before 1992 when we kind of had to stop throwing that word around so much. They follow in the footsteps of The Runaways, 70s Hollywood, grindhouse cinema, Switchblade Sisters and Rock N’ Roll High School.

As the rain started to pour down, as our buzzes started crossing the line over to drunk, as the pizza guy arrived to sloppy applause, the kids that sit in the back of the class and know where all the bad things are took the stage, turned the ignition of a garage punk Firebird, and let the perfect soundtrack blast through the PA.

Currently, Death Valley Girls are taking a rare break from touring to work on their follow up to their 2014 debut Street Venom. You can start following them through their Facebook, and/or snag their releases from Bandcamp. We’ll be sharing new music as it comes.

Death Valley GirlsSXSW
Share Tweet

Kevin Cogill

Kevin "Skwerl" Cogill was taught programming by his Mother's pot dealer at age ten. His career in music started with a New Jersey ticket scalping agency at fourteen, followed by graphic design gigs after graduating trade school in 1998. In 2003, he moved from Philadelphia to Los Angeles to escape warrants, only to be arrested by the FBI for leaking 'Chinese Democracy.'

Send Your Media

You Might Also Like

  • AQ Sessions

    Dead Heavens Bring Antiquiet Sessions Back to Swing House

  • AQ Sessions

    Wade Into the Jellyfish Pool for Omniflux’ Antiquiet Session

  • AQ Sessions

    All Hands On Deck for Doomtree’s AQ Session

Oh, We Social

Follow @antiquiet

Antiquiet Podcast

  • Robot Nirvana & The Decline of Rock

    April 7, 2021
  • Eric Johnson: Tour Manager to Metallica, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden & More

    March 16, 2021
  • The 10 Best Albums Turning 10 This Year

    February 18, 2021
  • 3

    AQ Podcast #58: Foo Fighters ‘Medicine at Midnight’ Review

    February 8, 2021
  • Antiquiet’s Album of 2020

    December 8, 2020
  • AQP55: Fiona Apple, Together At Home, Corona Bug Chasers

    April 20, 2020
  • AQ Podcast #53: Pearl Jam Fan Life Pt. 2 (2003-2020)

    March 13, 2020
  • Antiquiet Sticker

    AQ Podcast #52: When Heroes Become Assholes

    February 10, 2020
  • Review: Desert Sessions vol. 11 & 12 (Antiquiet Podcast #50)

    October 24, 2019
  • Interview: Dennis Lyxzén of Refused talks ‘War Music’ (Antiquiet Podcast #49)

    October 18, 2019

Fresh Posts

  • Green Day Warms Up in Tulsa

    July 21, 2021
  • Watch Radiohead’s Yorke + Greenwood Debut The Smile

    May 23, 2021
  • Listen: ‘McCartney III Imagined’ Arrives With Beck, Homme, Bridgers, Albarn + More

    April 16, 2021
  • Robot Nirvana & The Decline of Rock

    April 7, 2021
  • Bonnaroo 2021 is ON: Foo Fighters, Run The Jewels, Tame Impala Lead Lineup

    March 31, 2021
  • Pearl Jam Push Euro Tour Plans to 2022

    March 30, 2021

Antiquiet Sessions

  • Dead Heavens Bring Antiquiet Sessions Back to Swing House

    March 8, 2016
  • Wade Into the Jellyfish Pool for Omniflux’ Antiquiet Session

    January 21, 2016
  • All Hands On Deck for Doomtree’s AQ Session

    January 12, 2016
  • Death Valley Girls Turn a Rainy SXSW Day Into a Garage Punk Kegger

    November 27, 2015
  • Heads Roll for Antiquiet Session #25 with Local H

    November 11, 2015
  • B. Dolan & Company Storm SXSW for a Session & Pizza

    October 13, 2015

Russia-Approved Social Media

All Sections

  • AQ Sessions
    • Download Sessions
  • Premieres
  • Studio Reports
  • Tour Dates
  • Festivals
  • Free Shit
  • Reviews
    • Shows
    • Retro
  • Interviews
  • AQ University
  • Miscellaneous
    • The Truth
    • Blogs
    • Movies
    • Funny
    • STFU
    • Lists
    • Mixtapes

Brought To You By

  • AQ Sessions
    • Download Sessions
  • Premieres
  • Studio Reports
  • Tour Dates
  • Festivals
  • Free Shit
  • Reviews
    • Shows
    • Retro
  • Interviews
  • AQ University
  • Miscellaneous
    • The Truth
    • Blogs
    • Movies
    • Funny
    • STFU
    • Lists
    • Mixtapes

© 2007-2016 Antiquiet, Inc.