Yes, Todd P’s long-mumbled-about (and at one time “hypothetical“) multi-day Mexican festival has official details to back it up: The MtyMx All Ages Festival Of Art And Music, presented in conjunction with Mexico-based DIY promoters Yo Garage, takes place 3/20-22 at Autocinema Las Torres, aka an old drive-in movie theater on the side of a mountain (that also hosts raves), in Monterrey, Mexico. Todd & Co. organized memorable events at SXSW over the past four years, but as he’s clearly noting by overlapping and going a day beyond SXSW 2010 in lieu of actually showing up in Austin: What’s the point? Bold. Also inexpensive. Check out the band list so far, along with other details.
The bands:
Dan Deacon
Andrew W.K.
Acid Mothers Temple (JAPAN)
Neon Indian
No Age
Fucked Up (CANADA)
High Places
Das Racist
Washed Out
Thee Oh Sees
Telepathe
Pictureplane
Grant Hart (of Husker Du)?
Pocahaunted
Indian Jewelry (TX)
the Carrots (TX)
Male Bonding (UK)
Best Fwends (TX)
Banjo or Freakout (UK)
Los Fancy Free (MX)
Los Margaritos (MX)
dd/mm/yyyy (CANADA)
Lemonade
Quiero Club (MX)
Los Llamarada (MX)
Toro y Moi
Small Black
Liturgy
So Cow (IRELAND)
Teengirl Fantasy
Anamanaguchi
Mutating Meltdown (TX)
Adventure
Beach Fossils
Lemonade
Quiero Club (MX)
Videohippos
Washed Out
?Chinese Stars
Antoine Reverb (MX)
Hunx and his Punx
?Explode Into Colors
Chikita Violenta (MX)
The Beets
?Tanlines
XYX (MX)
White Ninja (MX)
Cloud Nothings
?Fergus and Geronimo (TX)
?Big Troubles
El Resplandor (MX)
Talk Normal
Lucky Dragons
?Baths
Lazaro Valiente (MX))
BamBam (MX)
Alexico (MX)
Le Macabre Party (MX)
?Coathangers
? Mentira Mentira (MX)
Soho Riots (MX)
Talk Normal
Salem
?Bitters (CANADA)
?Drunkdriver
Yo Linares (MX)
?Wet Hair
?Drawlings
? Los Llamarada (MX)
Mockinpott (MX)
Bitters (CANADA)
?Drunkdriver
??Total Abuse (TX)
?Coasting
Ratas del Vaticano (MX)
TV Ghost
Sandwitches
???
(Liturgy are especially great live, if you haven’t caught them, by the by. ) More will be added soon. At the end of the accumulation there will be 75 bands in all. Tickets are $30 for a three day pass. You can purchase tickets here. Todd P notes:
Band sets will be staggered (i.e. no overlapping sets!), one after the other, so you can see everyone!
The festival includes a substantial visual art element as well, with the perimeter of the space decorated by huge original murals and projected video pieces (on the drive-in screen of course!) by such artists Stephanie Davidson, Sumi Ink Club, Jesse Spears, Katja Mater, JD Beltran + many more to be announced soon!
We will be offering onsite camping as well as discounted rooms in a 3 star hotel in downtown Monterrey. We will soon be taking reservations online for these services.
Discount shuttle buses will run three times daily between Austin, TX and the festival site in Monterrey. We will soon be taking reservations online for these services.
At toddpnyc you’ll find a bunch of additional details, including a section titled “MONTERREY: MODERN CITY OF 4 MILLION PEOPLE, WEALTHIEST & SAFEST CITY IN MEXICO” and one called “TOWARDS CORRECTING U.S. IGNORANCE ABOUT MEXICO” for those of you who are scared to leave the US. If that doesn’t do the trick, Tom Windish of the Windish Agency recently told Billboard:
Mexico in general had been very good for the last five years. It hasn’t been great in the last couple years because of economic problems and the h1n1 virus. Mexico City was surprisingly strong — almost as strong as New York City and Los Angeles, in terms of attendance. Not for record sales, but for the amount of people attending the shows and the amount of money artists were making. Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara are all strong markets. When I started the agency, I wasn’t booking many artists into Mexico. But about three years ago, we were doing a considerable number of shows there. We’ve pulled back a little bit, but I expect we’ll do more there as the market recovers.
As a followup, curious about this thoughts on MtyMx.
[Photo via Todd Patrick's Facebook]
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Fuck Mexico. Go America!! Yeah!!! Fuck Canada too….
hope everyone gets there and back without getting murdered!
drunk hipsters in mexico and they dont have to be 18? better stock up on bodybags…
They were going to call the festival Stabbing Southward but that was too obvious.
me la pelan pinches gringos gordos aqui si hacen festivales chidos. si quieren dejar de comer un rato vengan culeros aqui se va a poner conmadre.
DAMN FAT GRINGOS CANT COME TO THIS AWESOME FESTIVAL, WELL IS NOT FOR EVEREYONE, THEY ARE AFRAID OF SOME NONEXISTING FLU. ANYWAY CONTINUE EATING YOURSELF WHILE MASTURBATING TO TWILIGHT
This guy is the best.
pocahaunted reunion?
pocahaunted never broke up.
Wow, I knew Stereogum readers were very elitist, but I never thought they would be so ignorant, close-minded and uninformed.
I assumed the first couple comments jokes, but in case you didn’t read the article, you should check on the bit about the safety of Monterrey.
Hipsters are disposable anyway…
Wow. With all the femicides in Ciudad Juarez over the past 17 years, and the current drug war in Mexico, this is the type of attention it’s attracting? Nice. American ignorance at its best.
you know what’s ignorant? thinking that you’ll be murdered because factory workers in a completely different city were serially murdered years ago… or because some drug millionaires and their lackeys have killed each other in the process of smuggling drugs into OUR country.
thinking either (completely sensationalized) situation would affect you is like thinking you’ll get robbed in Manhattan because of Bernie Madoff. It’s a completely different universe than you would ever interact with visiting Mexico.
And even with those publicized drug war killings and maquiladora worker disappearances… Monterrey still has a lower violent crime rate than American cities. You know why? Guns are illegal there. The drug lords only have guns because they reverse smuggle them OUT of the USA.
IF you want to talk about ignorance, maybe educate yourself on the actual facts first… rather than repeating the horror stories they spoon feed you on the US nightly news.
You’re right. It is ignorant to think that you’ll be murdered in Monterrey because of something that happened in Juarez. I wasn’t suggesting that. If you do a close reading on my comment, you’ll see that I was trying to shed light on some of Mexico’s struggles. If people are going to travel to ANY developing country, they should at the very least be informed about its issues.
And no US Nightly News didn’t spoon feed me anything. I knew about this through relatives in Juarez…
Besides, any horror story that hasn’t been resolved deserves to be verbally reiterated for the sake of justice, don’t you think?
The first four comments on this post…Yuck.
Stock up on the flak vests Todd. Oh Javier — dismissing murder and kidnapping in Mexico – you get points for PC diplomacy, zero points for accuracy, amigo
Hell yeah….finally a way to get rid of a bunch of that hipster trash!!
You’re not going to get rid of the hipster trash… you’re basically going to MEXICALTAN! There is going to be A LOT of spanish speaking hipsters there… A LOT…
since when are you safe from murder in the good old US of A? Actual homicide statistics tell a different story than the conventional wisdom in the States. Did you know that it’s a common belief in Europe that the US is too dangerous to visit?
just because you guys have grown up thinking a certain thing about a certain place… doesn’t make it true. consider, just for a second, that maybe you’ve been fed an innaccurate caricature of your neighbor country, all your life.
when you were kids, you were told the innercity of US cities was so dangerous you should never even drive through… and yet now hipsters (and worse) live all over US cities. let me tell you something… the reality is that crime rate have not changed as much as perceptions and tolerance have changed.
but really, who cares what ignorant gringos think about anything? the fact is that there are tons of MEXICAN indie kids and they are the main audience for this festival. But I’m sure you patronizing American Hipster know-it-all’s just assume that poor uneducated dangerous Mexico couldn’t possibly have the kind of educated, sophisticated people who would go to a festival like this.
Easy folks,
Monterrey is basically Mexico’s answer to Dallas: full of upwardly mobile, centrist technocrats and rich with industrial infrastructure. It’s ripe with Mexicans wanting to be American as there are fast food chains and the like at every corner: 7-11, Chili’s, the like.
It’s basically the safest, wealthiest city in Mexico. It’s also kinda sweet because it’s full of architectural eye candy and mountains.
Politically, from what I understand (and my Mexican culture comes secondhand from my mom and cousins), and this is significant, Monterrey is firm ground for PAN (the ruling, center-right party) voters. Juarez is the last big PRI (the corrupt party that ran Mexico for 70 plus years until 2000) hold, and ultimately a big reason for the bloodshed in Juarez as corrupt PRI party members and narcotics lords are constantly corroborating.
Bottom line: given the familiar cultural connection to middle class America (English all around), a trip to Monterrey is substantially safer than, say, a flight to Los Angeles for Coachella.
This is going to be a great time, a very rare opportunity to see the bands we love in a novel setting. weee!
pretty awesome that they’ll have shuttles to and from Austin from here…does anyone know how long that takes to do?
austin to laredo is about 5 hours, and it’s probably like 3 from there to monterrey. it would be a long, long bus ride.
One of the reasons I enjoy international travel so much is that the frightened and ignorant Americans generally don’t.
I saw Radiohead in Mexico City last year and the whole trip was incredible. Pretty much everything about the concert experience was better than the ‘major’ concerts I’ve experienced in New York including Radiohead at APW. The Mexican fans were extremely courteous, and as an added bonus, the average height there is less than the US so you’ll have a better view of the stage
And besides, you’ll experience great food and culture.
whole trip is 6.5 hours. according to bing maps
hey Ned… you’re way off. by almost 2 hours. look it up next time.
off by a whole hour and a half, how could i have been so stupid.
so 6.5 hours. now factor in border crossing, traffic, and the fact that you’re in a bus.
zooey eres un pinche joto puñetas.
first. a lego toy in tribute to the smiths, seriously? so youre telling us that you are 10 years old?
Besides, any horror story that hasn’t been resolved deserves to be verbally reiterated for the sake of justice, don’t you think?
so you writing here in this place resolves anything? your comment makes no sense neither your life, me cagas chingatumadre
so if you think you get murdered, please, don’t come, you’re the kind of people we don’t want in our country, nor in this festival. mexico it’s cheap and for all the guys who are 18+ this is you opportunity to have a beer while you watch all this bands, sounds good huh?
I’ve been to Mexico several times in the past years – deep inside the country and around the border, day and night, and I have never had a problem.
Hopefully some more bands are added because Monterey (and a lesser extent MX City) are over-flowing with great bands.
The title of this post should be turned around.
Sorry Todd P. you forgot SXSW is in Austin.
Dumbass is reaching to extremes,
good luck to the dumbasses who follow this Pied-Piper..
who says the organizers gives a crap if anyone follows them from Austin?
this is a festival in Mexico… did it ever occur to you that it might be intended for Mexicans?
stop thinking “Americans” are the only people in the world, you ignorant ass. No surprise you call yourself “TXn.” That dumbfuck state is crawling with your kind of of gringo dufus.
Have you ever thought about maybe just getting in your suv and just driving across that border, seeing for yourself? I’m sure you’re convinced you’ll get robbed or murdered or some bullshit. Meanwhile you live in a place with far more guns and murders than Mexico.
I used to feel sorry for Americans like you. But now I’m glad you exist… by all mneans, enjoy getting fat, keep eating at Chili’s, keep watching reality TV, and keep passing judgement from the comfort of that jack-off throne infront of your computer screen. The rest of the world is surging ahead while the USA country declines. We’ve got fat arrogant assholes like you to thank for that. Keep on keepin on!
Uh…Todd P. seems to give a crap if people come from Austin, if he didn’t…
He wouldn’t have scheduled three daily busses from Austin to the festival site.
He wouldn’t have chosen a date that overlaps with the biggest music convention in the US (probably the world).
He wouldn’t haven’t chosen a site so close to the US border.
He wouldn’t be so intent on convincing US citizens that Monterrey is safe.
He wouldn’t be securing 3 star hotel rooms which will most likely be booked by Americans.
I feel sorry for someone with such poor reading retention that calls other people ignorant and arrogant.
First of all. My country (Mexico) its a beatiful place to visit. The image of the “Drug War” that our “President” FECAL(another way to say shit here) or Felipe Calderon, its the most stupid thing that ever happen’ on our soil (maybe there in the US you guys can remember that stupid shit of Reagan about the War On Drugs well our “Drug War” its a shitty version of that) And I have to say that the image of my people and my country its not fair how the world can judge us like if we were drug dealers or something. And I(we) must face it (y los que tambien me esten leyendo y sean paisanos) about 6 years ago when FECAL(Felipe Calderon) won the Presidential Election was the “Doom for Mexico”. Fuck FECAL(Felipe Calderon president of Mexico). Fuck the Drug War!
i thought this was a cool idea and wanted to go…but from the look of this blog post, it seems like the locals are going to call me “dumb gringo”, “arrogant asshole”, and assume i eat at Chili’s…
viva la ignorance
Not really! I live in this city all these people are bashing and I can assure you if you look somewhat like a foreigner around here, the regios definitely won’t give you a hard time. Quite the contrary, we tend to be quite nice with foreigners, as far as I know.
It’s just a music festival people. Some of y’all should get around to visiting the non-tourist areas of Mexico. These places are really not as bad as they are being portrayed in the news, and the people you’ll meet are some of the kindest people in the world. Where do you guys think “Mi casa es su casa” came from?
Confirmed bands include:
Los Fancy Free (MEXICO)
Quiero Club (MEXICO)
Antoine Reverb (MEXICO)
White Ninja (MEXICO)
El Resplandor (MEXICO)
Lazaro Valiente (MEXICO)
Chikita Violenta (MEXICO)
XYX (MEXICO)
Soho Riots (MEXICO)
Yo Linares (MEXICO)
Los Llamarada (MEXICO)
Mockinpott (MEXICO)
Los Margaritos (MEXICO)
Ratas del Vaticano (MEXICO)
BamBam (MEXICO)
Alexico (MEXICO)
Le Macabre Party (MEXICO)
Mentira Mentira (MEXICO)
Acid Mothers Temple (JAPAN)
Grant Hart (of Hüsker Dü)
Telepathe
Andrew W.K.
Dan Deacon*
Neon Indian (TEXAS/MEXICO)
No Age
the Carrots (TEXAS)
Mutating Meltdown (TEXAS)
Pocahaunted
Adventure
Videohippos
Das Racist
Anamanaguchi
Wet Hair
Drawlings
Toro y Moi
Hunx and his Punx
Teengirl Fantasy
Explode Into Colors
Male Bonding (UK)
Coathangers
Indian Jewelry (TEXAS)
Washed Out
Fucked Up (CANADA)
Small Black
Chinese Stars
Talk Normal
The Beets
Tanlines
Bitters (CANADA)
Drunkdriver
TV Ghost
Total Abuse (TEXAS)
Coasting
Beach Fossils
So Cow (IRELAND)
Cloud Nothings
Best Fwends (TEXAS)
Fergus and Geronimo (TEXAS)
Big Troubles
Lucky Dragons
DD/MM/YYYY (CANADA)
Lemonade
Liturgy
Banjo or Freakout! (UK)
Thee Oh Sees
Baths
Sandwitches
Salem
High Places*
Pictureplane