Janelle Monáe

Check Out The Amazing Reviews For Janelle Monae’s SXSW Performance!

March 23rd, 2009

Boston GlobeSinger Monáe creates a buzz at SXSWCLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE"Word on the street, and in hotel elevators and the corner Starbucks, spread fast at the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference here last week. It usually went something like this: "Oh my God, have you seen Janelle Monáe yet? You. Have. To."""Monáe was in a league of her own. She seems like she's from another planet, but it's here on earth that her fame seems imminent."Austin 360CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE"Gentle reader, every now and again at SXSW, if you're exceptionally fortunate, you'll encounter an artist that's so singular in vision - so well rehearsed with music that is extraordinarily forward-looking - that you'll know deep down in your marrow that you're bearing witness to greatness."Village VoiceSXSW 2009 Best in Show: Janelle MonaeCLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE"She vacillates gleefully from Orwellian space-funk to skronking heavy metal to her pretty incredible torch-song cover of Nat King Cole's "Smile" to the new "Tightrope," a fantastic pop-r&b anthem with serious "Umbrella"-of-2009 potential. Throughout, she dabbles in diva howls and operatic lunacy, all while dancing like a robot trying to do the Human."New York TimesCLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLELA TimesSXSW: Lasting impressions in a down climateCLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLEThe PitchDispatch from SXSW: Janelle Monae is queenCLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE"The place exploded. And I do mean exploded. A sea of flashing cameras, more than I had seen at any show thus far, immediately appeared.""Even at SXSW, a place where thousands of bands are competing for attention, it's hard to find a few that simply blow you away, the few that just have that intangible it. Janelle Monae certainly does, and proved it in Austin."PitchforkCLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE"Monáe's absurdist combination of funkadelic groove, girl-group bop, and grunge makes Andre 3000's rock experiments look tame."MetroCLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE"Janelle Monae put on a set so tight and entertaining that she could have played all night and it still would have seemed too short."Minneapolis Star TribuneCLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE"Janelle Monae opened for Big Boi of OutKast fame at the giant Austin Music Hall with a jaw-dropping performance. Monae offered up several 10-minute-plus soul/funk jams and one long torch ballad all amped up by a hyperactive showmanship that was part Prince, Grace Jones and Gwen Stefani"Austin 360CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLENBC Bay AreaCLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLEBillboard BizCLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE"Jonathan McHugh, the music supervisor and movie producer most prominently connected to the "Saw" series was at the Saturday showcase for Chop Shop, the music supervising company, watching a packed tent of about 200 people go apeshit for the futurist funk of Atlantic's Janelle Monae."Muzzle of BeesCLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE"The floors and walls of the venue shook so hard that I thought that shit was gonna collapse. My friends and I left awestruck, yet again, and on a complete kick-ass show high-meanwhile, picking the chunks of broken ceiling debris out of our hair. Bananas."Austin 360CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE"Monae took the stage on schedule at 3:30 p.m., with a band member announcing her as "from Kansas City by way of Atlanta, one of the most astonishing performers of our time," which would have seemed conceited had it not been clearly true."La Vie En RobeCLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLEConcrete LoopCLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLENY Times Arts BeatCLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE