Mission Mission

Jack Lawrence of the Greenhornes

Here we go:

1. Smith Westerns
2. The Strokes
3. Devotchka
4. Phantogram
5. Cold War Kids
6. Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers
7. Yuck
8. Dirty Beaches
9. Edwyn Collins
10. Slutever
11. The Mean Jeans
12. tUnE-yArDs
13. Personal and the Pizzas
14. Toro y Moi
15. Cass McCombs
16. Blood in the Streets
17. Overnight Lows
18. Limes
19. Harlan T. Bobo
20. John Wesley Coleman
21. Gangs
22. Black Lips
23. Little Dragon
24. Quintron and Miss Pussycat
25. Trances Arc
26. The Strange Boys
27. The Greenhornes
28. Lemuria
29. City and Colour
30. White Mystery
31. The Dodos
32. Screaming Females
33. Off!
34. Ted Leo
35. !!!
36. Thee Oh Sees
37. The Dead Milkmen
38. Odd Future
39. Bare Wires
40. Conspiracy of Owls

Forty bands! That’s only 10 less than I saw last year, and last year I was in Austin for way more days. (I’ll post last year’s list after the jump, for reference.)

Some awards:

• Smith Westerns win the award for best blogger hate.
• The Strokes win best epic closer.
• Cold Ward Kids win best weird t-shirt.
• Shilpa Ray wins best set while wasted at 2pm.
• Edwyn Collins wins best ’80s moment AND best ’90s moment!
• Dirty Beaches wins cutest dedication AND best onstage grooming.
• Black Lips win best penis party — AGAIN.
• Surfer Blood win best new song.
• !!! win coolest new band member.
• Oh Sees win everything.
• OFF! win best reason to trek all the way to Berkeley next month.
• Dead Milkmen win best epic rant.
• Odd Future win best epic stage dive.
• Conspiracy of Owls win best reason to go to Detroit some time soon.

SXSW was fun! Missed you guys! Wished you were here! Maybe next year?

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So is this something you have to go to school for, or is it a natural born talent?

My friend Lindsay noticed this sign  and found it more than a little odd.  Now, I understand the not feeding the pigeons part, that’s a given — it’s the second part of the message that worries me.  What other animals are they referring to that live in the Mission, particularly ones that live in or around 16th Street?

Is it giant subway rats?  Escaped monkeys?  Or perhaps El Chupacabra never left and has been roaming the streets terrorizing BART denizens and eating leftover tamales discarded in area trashcans!

[Thanks Lindsay!]

First of all, is Medjool intimate? I don’t think it is. More importantly, I also don’t think hipsters hang there very often.

Reader Wavvy Gravvy points out some other possible flaws in Yelp’s new “Hipster” tag:

Spork, Beretta, Dalva, Zeitgeist, farm:table, Pop’s, Ikes at Lime, Boogaloos, Medjool, Elbo Room, Red Door Cafe ARE ALL HIPSTER

Four Barrel, Ritual, Dynamo Donuts, Delirium, Bender’s, Humphrey Slocombe, Tartine, Foreign Cinema, Delfina, Range, Amnesia, Revolution Cafe, The Summit ARE NOT HIPSTER

Hmm.

But seriously, we apologize for perpetuating all this “hipster” bullshit. Sometimes it just seems like a good idea.

Box Dog Bikes brings word of this bummer:

My buddy Mo just had his Otis Guy Stolen from his garage. Small, black Otis Guy frame set up as a single speed with Velo Orange porteur rack and BMX bars. This bike is very unique and hard to miss! Please let us know if you see it, or take it back and bring it to us!!!!

I don’t have much to say about this, other than that this is yet another great photo by We Built This City.

Mainly I just wanted to post this slightly related blast from the past:

So, Theresa‘s friend had some kind of dream about a Rice Krispie-covered chocolate cake with red frosting, and Theresa made it a reality! What a good friend! (AND, she veganized it!)

I wrote in to ask if it was actually any good. Theresa’s response:

it was the best cake in the universe!!

Anyway, I probably wouldn’t veganize it, but it sure seems like a great idea for a cake. And what’s better than a crazy idea from a dream becoming a real live thing?

Is Tyler the Creator going to take his shoes and hat off and leap into the crowd from high atop a speaker rig?

Only one way to find out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x8uYt6C4KY

(Spoilers after the jump.)

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And they even grab a stage diver and have a quick chat with him. What a treat! Watch:

The Dead Milkmen also announced that they’re working on a new album, and they played a couple songs off it (including one about vegan and suspected terrorist Caitlin Childs), and they were good.

They mentioned excitement over Odd Future several times.

UPDATE: Faithful reader Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable made a correction in the comments:

They RELEASED a new album TODAY. Check out:

http://www.deadmilkmen.com/thekinginyellow/

Swag! Downloading now!

Vic is currently in Vietnam, and he’s finding it to be a lot like home: hipsters on mopeds, graffiti, cute dogs, cute fruit, lots of Asians, girl shoplifters with crummy attitudes, ping pong, bike problems, etc.

Follow him already!