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MM at SXSW: Every band I saw at SXSW 2011

Allan Hough — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:40:05 +0000

Jack Lawrence of the Greenhornes

Here we go:

Smith Westerns
The Strokes
Devotchka
Phantogram
Cold War Kids
Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers
Yuck
Dirty Beaches
Edwyn Collins
Slutever
The Mean Jeans
tUnE-yArDs
Personal and the Pizzas
Toro y Moi
Cass McCombs
Blood in the Streets
Overnight Lows
Limes
Harlan T. Bobo
John Wesley Coleman
Gangs
Black Lips
Little Dragon
Quintron and Miss Pussycat
Trances Arc
The Strange Boys
The Greenhornes
Lemuria
City and Colour
White Mystery
The Dodos
Screaming Females
Off!
Ted Leo
!!!
Thee Oh Sees
The Dead Milkmen
Odd Future
Bare Wires
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?

Every band I saw at SXSW 2010

Asterisk means I saw them twice, for better or worse (and by worse I mean the Black Angels):

The Mysterious H
Space Captain Sievert
Nullsleep
IAYD (I Am Your Dick)
Hally
Random
Bit Shifter
Cruddy
Japandroids
Awesome Color
Woven Bones
The Spits*
The Muffs
Anais Mitchell
Gin Wigmore
Rose Elinor Dougall
Sonny and the Sunsets
Leopold and His Fiction
Shannon and the Clams
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Still Flyin’
Digital Leather*
River City Tanlines
Cheap Time*
Fucked Up*
The Black Angels*
Liars
Cool Kids
Bajofondo
Ozomatli
Suckers
Earthmen and Strangers
King Louie and Missing Monuments
Tokyo Electron
Billy Bragg
The Fresh and Onlys
Wounded Lion
Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds
Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers
Magic Kids
Harlan T. Bobo
Andrew W.K.
Gwar
She and Him
The Golden Triangle
Jeff the Brotherhood
Surfer Blood
Lovvers
Vivian Girls
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

MM at SXSW: Odd Future are nuts

Allan Hough — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:50:59 +0000

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.)

EPIC!

But I don’t know. Maybe you guys aren’t into this group. I tweeted “WOLF” a couple times last night and nobody replied with a “GANG”:

MM at SXSW: Dead Milkmen’s ‘Bitchin’ Camaro’ intro rant includes praise for Odd Future, what’s wrong with music writing today, why SXSW should take a break, and ‘fuck Zooey Deschanel!’

Allan Hough — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:41:16 +0000

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!

MM at SXSW: What happens when you decide to ditch your friends on Saturday night and trek off into the suburbs to see Detroit’s Conspiracy of Owls play in some girl’s backyard?

Allan Hough — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:25:41 +0000

There’s only one way to find out:

(Spoilers after the jump.)

MM at SXSW: OFF!

Allan Hough — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:12:25 +0000

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

MM at SXSW: Either Thee Oh Sees implanted a chip in my brain, or they legitimately are the best band in the world right now

Allan Hough — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:05:33 +0000

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.

MM at SXSW: !!! introduce new backing vocalist, Shilpa Ray

Allan Hough — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:58:54 +0000

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.

MM at SXSW: Forlorn Candy Corn t-shirt!

Allan Hough — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:52:53 +0000

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 !!!.

MM at SXSW: Surfer Blood is still the bomb

Allan Hough — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:46:58 +0000

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

MM at SXSW: Nobody seems to want these bracelets for the Perez Hilton party

Allan Hough — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:43:06 +0000

“But Liz Phair is playing.”

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

MM at SXSW: Fecalfeliac goblin wants your poop

Allan Hough — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:37:12 +0000

MM at SXSW: No venue is better than Beerland

Allan Hough — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:34:58 +0000

It’s so cozy and nice. It’s not affiliated with SXSW. They do their own thing and it rules. No corporate bullshit. No hordes of photographers. No VIPs. Just rock ‘n’ roll.

That’s Quintron and Miss Pussycat. Made me want to shake it even more than Little Dragon did, and with way more primitive technology.

MM at SXSW: Take a picture of your hand stamp because it WILL rub off in the pit

Allan Hough — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:31:21 +0000

After rousing sets by Limes and Harlan T. Bobo at the Goner Records showcase, I left Beerland to go catch the Black Lips and Little Dragon at the Dickies party. But I knew I wanted to return for Quintron and Miss Pussycat a couple hours later. And I knew my stamp wouldn’t live that long.

So I snapped a pic. And it was honored! By Beerland! The club that so famously doesn’t care about your shitty blog or anything.

Beerland rules!

MM at SXSW: And here’s Aziz Ansari playing foosball

Allan Hough — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:24:31 +0000

MM at SXSW: Black Lips show their dicks at Dickies party

Allan Hough — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:24:14 +0000

Lots of elbows in the pit! It was a decent-sized pit, and at least a few people in the crowd seemed to be familiar with the band. Saw Aziz Ansari next to me doing the pogo.

Black Lip Cole took his penis out at the end.