Ah...'tis the season! Summer winds down, Labor Day just around the corner, and young men's throughts turn towards SXSW Music Badges."South by Southwest 2007":http://2007.sxsw.com/ registration is open. And yup, this might be the year I ditch the anxiety ridden nightmare of hoping and praying my friend's brother's friend in Austin is able to come through and pick up the wristband for me and thre...
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Posts by jvanschoick
SXSW '07
Smoosh
Back in March 2005, I was heading to my first South by Southwest. The day before I get on the plane, I get a nasty case of allergies (I'll spare the details, but I was in a generally bitter pissy mood for about a week...retroactive apologies to all my roommates again). I'm kind of cranky and annoyed when we head down to 6th Street and my friend is going on and on about this band Smoosh. We head...
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Smoosh
Back in March 2005, I was heading to my first South by Southwest. The day before I get on the plane, I get a nasty case of allergies (I'll spare the details, but I was in a generally bitter pissy mood for about a week...retroactive apologies to all my roommates again). I'm kind of cranky and annoyed when we head down to 6th Street and my friend is going on and on about this band Smoosh. We head in
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Capitol Years + Wolfmother Mashup
I'm a big fan of "Capitol Years":http://www.capitolyears.com/ and was psyched to see "Philebrity post a mashup":http://www.philebrity.com/?p=2870 of their "Jewlery Store" with "Woman" from "Wolfmother":http://www.wolfmother.com/. Terriby good stuff...so what are you waiting for?! Go listen!
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The Next Big Thing (TM)
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Hanging around Philly, there are probably thirty bands playing every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night. You hang around enough and you see dozens of bands that just sound, you know, kind of like crap, and you see some that are pretty good.But, every once in a blue moon, you see a band and just say, "holy $#!^...they're actually __good__". So Illinois is that once-a-year band you see that really
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