![]() And if I’m not bringing it, then that’s about the only thing. “After Pickathon,” he begins, throwing in an “A.P.” to keep up the metaphor, he realized, “I can’t really be afraid. and A.D.” Before the festival, he admits, “I was sort of feeling lost, like ‘where do I go from here? How do I move forward? What’s the next step for me? What kind of music am I going to play? Where do I even want to be?’” Personal experiences aside, Rose-Garcia tells me during our interview that he’s starting to look at his burgeoning career, “like B.C. Not like, ‘Hey, Alejandro!’ Then I’m like, ‘Oh shit, is my mom here? What, am I in trouble?’” It sounds intuitive, because you do know me as Shakey. “It makes me more comfortable than people calling me my own name if they don’t know me. “I think it’s rad,” he declares during a phone call a few weeks after the festival. Engaging and friendly, his sharp sense of humor brightened conversations, even as he happily responded to catcalls (of which there were plenty at Pickathon) and shouts like “Yo, Shakey!” He spent a good half an hour chatting backstage about Bruce Springsteen, his hometown of Austin and how to keep track of all the people he meets. By that point, late afternoon on the third and final day of the festival, everyone knew the name Shakey Graves.Įven though he wasn’t playing until that night, the man-known-as-Shakey-Graves was already dressed in his now-recognized stage garb: slim-fitting slacks rolled at the ankles and a tight white tank. The Lone Bellow had just played a killer set at The Woods Stage on the last day of Pickathon Indie Roots Music Festival, a relatively small gathering outside Portland, Ore. ![]() ![]() ![]() I first met Alejandro Rose-Garcia in a forest. And if you’re taking a peek at this during the work day and just want to see the darn list already, we’ve got you covered-head on over to page 12 in the gallery below. ![]() We’ve included our 20 favorite finds and their complete profiles (or reviews in a few cases) below for you to discover yourself. From the un-fightable, infectious pop of Haim, the ragged garage rock of Mikal Cronin, the punishing punch of a Savages track to Majical Cloudz’s reflective slow-churners, we were in for a treat in 2013 with breakout acts.Īlong the way, we made plenty of discoveries in our weekly Best of What’s Next profiles, which are featured first at PASTE.COM. If our year-end lists of songs and albums were any indication, it was a great year for emerging artists. ![]()
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