Out Of Her Mind: The Melissa Auf Der Maur interview

It was a bit in coming, but we at soldout finally managed to sit down with Melissa Auf Der Maur--literally, on the floor of the Austin Convention center, on the last day of South By Southwest 2010. XMADMX gave us a peak into the world of her Out Of Our Minds multimedia project, her listening/reading habits, and the power of the word "fuck".

The Out Of Our Minds record gets deeper and more intense with every listen-watch for it on our best of 2010 list. Seriously.

Travelling Out Of Our Minds: The Teaser

We sat down with Melissa Auf Der Maur at SXSW for a fairly lengthy, in-depth and pretty world-rocking interview about her new multi-media project, "Out Of Our Minds".

We actually had to turn the camera back on twice after ending the interview-once for an addendum discussion about comic books (and the Smiths, much to Marley's glee) and once when she came back to place the 7" Out Of Our Minds" picture disc out of her bag...and into our hands.

(This is Marley, holding the OOOM picture disc after promising XMADMX to "spread the word")

That little teaser as a taster for the interview: here NOW.

Melissa Auf Der Maur teaser trailer from russ marshalek on Vimeo.

Stay tuned: full soldout XMADMX interview to come.

Soldout By Southwest

If Meredith Grey were writing an article on SXSW, she’d undoubtedly begin it with something like “the thing about SXSW is that everyone hates it but everyone wants to go.” Never before this year, dear reader, had I found that sentiment to hold as true. It could possibly be that, prior to this SXSW, the Internet clamor about the yearly week-long cluterfuck convergence of bands in Austin, TX had just been too much, or about bands I was relatively unconcerned with. Sure, last year had Tori Amos debuting new material in one of those now-commonplace “secret” SXSW sets, where “secret” means “everyone knows and lines up outside of Stubbs BBQ for hours to see an artist who is going to go on a national tour in like a week”, but even that hasn’t been enough. I don’t know-despite like 10 years now of writing about music in various capacities, I’ve never felt compelled to make the trek-and this coming from someone who has done his fair sure of Winter Music Conferences and hates Miami with the fiery burning of a thousand suns. Flames, flames, on the side of my face…but I digress.

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you're a dreamer...come in

Our beloved Melissa Auf Der Maur has finally (right on time?) unleashed the full title video for her intense, insane, art-prog-metal concept Out Of Our Minds.

And yes, I am in love. She dies and is reborn to take you to her fire.
Check it out here.

Out Of Our Minds

The first little snippet from the intense prog-rock suite that is (or seems to be) Melissa Auf Der Maur's forthcoming Out Of Our Minds project has finally surfaced, by way of a gift from XMADMX herself. On the Auf Der Maur site, right now, the title song "Out Of Our Minds" is available for free download in all its heavy, prophetic glory.

And the video teaser: