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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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!

There’s only one way to find out:

(Spoilers after the jump.)

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They’re coming to Gilman next month! Oh Sees are opening! Pencil it in!

Nobody makes me want to dance as much as they do. Nobody makes me forget my troubles the way they do. I see them all the time, and every time is pure joy. Thanks, Oh Sees!

It was cool to see them play today in a megatent packed to the gills with people. Everybody seemed to dig it, especially the kids in the pit.

Note: If the pit area is an actual pit full of soft dusty dirt, and you spend a whole Oh Sees show in the pit, you will become dirt. You cry dirt, you snot dirt, you spit dirt — you bleed dirt.

Yeah, Shilpa Ray. The Shilpa Ray we mentioned the other day! I told you she was going places. Today was just her second performance with the band, and she nailed it. (I think. I left after three or four songs to go back down the hill for the Oh Sees.)

!!! were bomb as usual.

I saw this guy’s shirt and ran up to him, screaming, “I LOVE FORLORN CANDY CORN!”

I explained that I was a fan of the wheatpastes and whatnot we see around SF (and elsewhere) from time to time, and he explained that they’re all done by a dude from Austin (which we already knew I guess), and that a local Austin company called Industry decided to throw it on a t-shirt. Bomb.

What a cute couple though, right? I think we’d just watched Ted Leo and were getting ready to head up the hill for !!!.

But they’re playing to much bigger crowds than they did last year.

They played a “new song,” and it goes a little something like this:

Previously:

• Surfer Blood does Pavement better than Pavement

“But Liz Phair is playing.”

“I don’t really care about Liz Phair.”