Zechs Marquise

SXSW - Recap - Saturday March 19, 2011 …To cap off my week in highly anticipated style, I spent it with my closest network since beginning this sham I call a writing career. Sargent House is that label for me. There’s a diverse roster (Gypsyblood, Adebisi Shank, Native, Fang Island, etc.) and a challenging group of bands at that. While I’m beginning to see that challenge set in among the bands and groups of friends across the rest of the labels I’ve mentioned, Sargent House still sits as that bar. Sure, label owner Cathy Pellow has been known to be very vocal, but that takes gull, and she’s got a label and following to back it up. Back to the “challenge” ideology. The prime example is seeing Zechs Marquise’s performance Saturday night. While everyone was mainly waiting for *cough* the Mars Volta *cough* Zechs Marquise gave the best performance of the day, and easily of the week. Though Omar didn’t skip a beat, his brothers are certainly stepping up to pedestal that others see him on. That’s awesome! David Sandstrom told me that the thing about The Shape of Punk to Come was the challenge of the rest of the bands in Sweden. The rest of their SCENE was immersed in the marketplace of ideas and expanding and melding new things and making it a game. I’m not denying Omar’s talent, but I hope he looked at both his siblings Saturday night and thought about showing them up in the future, something of a supportive rivalry. CLICK TO READ FULL ARTICLE  written by Adam Pfleider