Photo by Erik HessSome folks attend South by Southwest to look at bands, but a good many passing through the 2012 edition seem to enjoy the added benefits of being looked at, as well. Even without haute couture, music fans and opportunists on the streets of Austin send a wealth…
Photos Courtesy of SXSWBruce Springsteen’s Thursday started with a keynote speech in one of the big ballrooms at the Austin Convention Center, and ended with a mythic three-hour set at ACL Live across town, in front of a few thousand people cooing “Bruce”. The keynote and the show went hand…
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Marco Torres”What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.” — Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don’t have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all…
Live your life like it’s one in, one out. That’s a motto I’ve started living by this weekend. Last night especially, as the rain upon Denton reached Biblical proportions. I imagined a scenario in which Denton flooded and hundreds of drunk, high fans were washed away in the most epic…
See also: 35 Denton street style. After catching Danny Rush & the DDs at Dan’s last night, I happened to walk past 35 Denton’s headquarters right next door. The scene inside looked a bit tense, as word had come just a few hours earlier that the fest’s Sunday night headliner,…
See also: The Thursday night fans . “Holy fuck it’s cold” was a common refrain last night, the first night of 35 Denton, as temperatures dipped into the 40s and winds whipped at our faces indiscriminately. There weren’t a whole lot of people on the square, which could be chalked…
Oh, the odd celebrity of Adam Lambert. The runner-up on season 8 of American Idol has gone on to sell over 4 million records world wide. A couple dozen listeners of local radio station i93 were treated to an up close and personal set with Lambert at the Hard Rock…
With the arrival of 35 Denton this weekend, festival season is officially upon us. But festivals have gotten complicated, and you can no longer just grab your buds, hop in your Civic hatchback and chill in a tent for three days. You need provisions, a plan, intestinal fortitude, hand sanitizer,…
With news this week of Bruce Springsteen’s upcoming album, Wrecking Ball, as well as a U.S. tour that will find him ’round Austin way for SXSW, we asked our resident old-days expert what he thought about the Boss’ new stuff. What do you think of the new Springsteen single, “We…
With the release of Coachella’s lineup yesterday, we decided to ask our resident curmudgeon and “good old days” music expert, Indie Grandpa, what he thought of the annual desert festival, which has now expanded to two weekends. What do you think about Coachella’s lineup? First of all, morning everyone. Second,…
If Lady Gaga’s nude butt didn’t illuminate the tone of “Born This Way,” then the surrealist image of her face and arms fused with a hellish-motorcycle will brighten it to near-sun levels. This image, which MTV has called “surreal,” came shortly before the “gaga saga” of 2011–wherein Weird Al Yankovic…
The infamous, mostly deadly, 20-inch snake that vanished from a Bronx Zoo’s Reptile House five days ago (and may or may not have created a Twitter account in the process) was captured this afternoon. According to the Huffington Post, the thin snake was found in a off-exhibit area inside the…
It’s happening right now. South-by-Southwest 2011 started up in Austin. And, as we pointed out earlier, one does not simply walk into SXSW. There’s a screaming sea of Twitter and Facebook updates, fast-posting Redditors and discarded Red Bull cans. What are we talking about? Oh, you already know. It’s South-by-Southwest…
And so we come to it at last: South by Southwest 2011. Surely, the great music festival of our time. But one does not simply walk into SXSW. Nay, there exists a slew of iconic and philosophical challenges to wade through — screaming large crowds, Cormac McCarthy-esque fields littered with…
Whether they’re deeply heartfelt tributes to the Lone Star State or commercial jingles burned deep into our memories that remind us where we’re from, certain songs just seem very Texas to us. Some are by Texans that just seem to fit the Texas state of mind. Others are about Texas…
According to fragrance industry insiders, Lady Gaga has requested that Monster, the perfume she is developing, smell of “blood and semen.” Frankly, that’s a head-scratcher for us — it sounds more like a Bloodhound Gang scent, or perhaps a Load-era Metallica.In our opinion, if Lady Gaga’s gonna have a perfume,…
In this week’s paper, you may notice a piece including some of our DC9 writers’ choices for best albums of the year. But, space being limited, we couldn’t run all of our writers’ lists. So, thanks to the power of the Internet, we’re doing just that, right here. Music editor…
In this week’s paper, you may notice a piece including some of our DC9 writers’ choices for best albums of the year. But, space being limited, we couldn’t run all of our writers’ lists. So, thanks to the power of the Internet, we’re doing just that, right here. Clubs editor…
In this week’s paper, you may notice a piece including some of our DC9 writers’ choices for best albums of the year. But, space being limited, we couldn’t run all of our writers’ lists. So, thanks to the power of the Internet, we’re doing just that, right here. Former Denton…
In this week’s paper, you may notice a piece including some of our DC9 writers’ choices for best albums of the year. But, space being limited, we couldn’t run all of our writers’ lists. So, thanks to the power of the Internet, we’re doing just that, right here. Noted Widespread…
In this week’s paper, you may notice a piece including some of our DC9 writers’ choices for best albums of the year. But, space being limited, we couldn’t run all of our writers’ lists. So, thanks to the power of the Internet, we’re doing just that, right here. In-house Americana…
