Friday AM ... Er, Early PM SXSW Update
Just a quick post to say 1)we survived our party and 2)the party was f'in awesome! All the bands played their hardest, the beer was free and cold, and the BBQ was unbelievable (Aziz: "That barbeque was so good, even Brooklyn Vegan had some. He's changing his website to 'brooklynveganexceptforjimmysbarbeque.com'").
Unfortunately, we were so busy cleaning up after the show, and we had all sorts of crap to haul back to the hotel, so we missed the secret Beastie Boys show. We did catch The Fiery Furnaces and Dresden Dolls at the same place, Stubb's, later that day, sadly missing Deadboy and the Elephantmen, who'd opened the show. The Dolls absolutely killed a cover of "War Pigs," dedicating it to The Flaming Lips, who'd covered the same song last night.
Today, we're going to about 37 different shows...in fact, I have to ditch this Kinko's and catch up with Jed and Scott.
If anyone's in town, leave your rumors about tonight and "best of"s from last night in the comments.
Posted at 2:25 PM
Tags: SXSW
The Starlight Mints and The Long Winters were both great. Caught The Minus 5 over at the Continental Club; Neko Case was there, but didn't join in.
Haven't really heard anything about tonight.
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Does anyone have the new TI song, "What You Know?"
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Seriously, now you guys are just rubbing it in...
We have a second SXSW mix free to download on our site if you are interested...
http://mixologists.blogspot.com/2006/03/bride-of-south-by-southwest.html
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SXSW sounds like so much more fun that it really is. it's hectic and hard to see all hte music you want to, and when you do you are just checking your watch
i find it pretty lame
cool for drinking and bbq but it's a terrible place to see music you actually CARE about
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anyone catch jacques and the shakey boys for some bluntry and western?
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who's the beatie boys?
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Their dad was Dick Tracy.
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I've done my fair share of bitching about SXSW and how it used to be much better when there weren't so many damn people and blah blah blah, but yesterday I got to hear Morrissey sing "How Soon is Now?" and twice saw Hidden Cameras tear it up. Bitch though I (and many other Austinites) may, every year something happens that make me grin from ear to ear.
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Best of Thursday night: Eagles of Death Metal at Exodus. Albeit, the place really couldn't handle the crowd. We were the best crowd evs (except for fattie n00b), and Hughes let us know that this was one of the best shows they had ever played. Word.
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So was the BBQ Stubbs, cause it is great. I miss Austin... (you just can't find good BBQ in LA).If you have a chance there is a town just outside of Austin called Elgin and they have great smoked sausage.
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Dude, mad seconds on EoDM for Best Of Thursday night. The smaller venue fed the intensity of the show, so I found it to be A-OK. Best show I've seen in a long time.
And yeah, that fatass n00b totally held the crowd back.
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Sounds like a great time
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did any of you catch what made milwaukee famous? saw them last night at stubb's and they were AWESOME
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Gutted I missed the Stereogum BarBQ - my first SXSW this year, definately and overwhelming experience but wouldn't have managed to see WuTang and Wolmother in the same hour anywhere else - also loved Most Serene Republic and Morning After Girls
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Best show I saw at SXSW was Circle, who have the best drummer EVAH! I'm buying all their records. Robert Pollard was good nostalgic fun and on the way back to 6th Street after the Pollard show, end of the festival, I saw a very sad, poignant Mary Lou Lord street busking performance just off the main drag on 6th Street. Mary Lou was singing in her quiet, broken voice, and she was being drowned out by techno music blaring from a party across the street. Some people threw a handful of change at her guitar case and missed, and a homeless guy picked it up and put it in there.
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Flight of the Conchords was it for me! So funny they caught me entirely by surprise!
Superchunk was amazing last night, and David Cross hopped on stage after their set to remind us all about all the bands at SXSW that want to be just like them.
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