Subject: South by Southwest Festival

• In Like a Lion, Out Like a Giant Slor

  March 23, 2007

• SXSW Dispatch, Part III

  March 17, 2007

• SXSW, In Pictures

  March 16, 2007

• SXSW Dispatch

  March 15, 2007

• Wayward Cast 2

  March 2, 2007

• Dude Had It Coming

  February 27, 2007

• Whale of a Dilemma

  December 12, 2006

• Why Not?

  October 31, 2006

• Gossip from the Scene

  April 25, 2006

• SXSW turns CSI

  March 19, 2006

• KC @ SXSW

  March 3, 2008

• SXSW Day 1, featuring Van Morrison, Cut Copy and pizza for Tech N9ne

  March 13, 2008

• KC Takes on SXSW: Slideshow

  March 17, 2008

• Monday Music Junkie: Black Francis, James, Animal Collective, Destroyer and More

  March 17, 2008

• Around Hear

  March 29, 2001

• Texas Ranger

  March 25, 2004

• Tortoise

  May 6, 2004

• The Greyhounds

  December 30, 2004

• Bacon Shoe headlines Scene Stealers party at SXSW

  Eric Melin and J.D. Warnock, the men (and erstwhile musicians; see: Ultimate Fakebook, the Dead Girls) behind locally based movie Web site Scene-Stealers.com are mad taking over SXSW this weekend, hosting three separate parties on Sunday, March 15. If you're down in Austin for the Interacitve portion (March 13-17) of the mammoth music, film and everything-that-is-cool festival, follow your meat sniffer to the Stealers' "Bacon-Flavored Interactive After Party," featuring, who else? Bacon Shoe. Th

  March 2, 2009

• Dispatch from SXSW: Bacon Shoe, the Republic Tigers

  The South by Southwest music festival doesn't officially start until next Wednesday, but that hasn't stopped KC bands from making a few Austin appearances a little early. This is my first time at SXSW, and I was fortunate enough to make it down a little early for SXSW Interactive, the biggest geekfest since ... well, since ever, really. That's not an insult -- nerdiness is the new hotness, and if you're into Web or video game design, SXSWi is the place to be. You know you're at a super-nerdy co

  March 14, 2009

• Nomathmatics Lose Control at SXSW

  Though Kansas City has more than respectable representation in the official SXSW showcase, our biggest coup this weekend in Austin is sure to come from the three-day non-showcase party that local DJ duo Nomathmatics, with help from a lot of friends, is throwing in defiance of God, the Man and Everybody. More than 60 individual acts, a few bands and a lot of DJs, are convening Thursday through Saturday this weekend for the Lose Control Party at the Canvas Bar and Gallery (105 E 5th, Ste 113). "

  March 17, 2009

• Goin’ Down South

  March 16, 2006

• KJHK and others @ SXSW

  The Wayward Son will not be at SXSW this year. Awwwwwww. But you can follow the antics of Nick Spacek, program director for Lawrence station KJHK 90.9 FM, and friends at this specially dedicated blog and Twitter. The Pitch does have a special agent down in Austin, however; check here for updates over the next couple of days (he's already caught Bacon Shoe and the Republic Tigers). Bacon Shoe, apparently, is continuing its street-attack tradition, born in 2006. They're even wearing the exact sam

  March 18, 2009

• Dispatch from SXSW: Lessons learned (the Thermals, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, Grieves)

  South by Southwest has always intimidated me. I'm a decidedly uncool person, and 6th St. in Austin is a pretty cool place -- or at least it's always seemed like one, considering I'd never been there before this week.But after a few days, "intimidated" isn't the word I'd use. "Overwhelmed" might be more like it. I was lucky enough to spend a few days at SXSW Interactive and got to stick around for the music festival, but even after seven days in town, I still can't wrap my brain around the sheer

  March 19, 2009

• Dispatch from SXSW: Back home and back pain

  I'm writing this blog entry from my basement couch in Overland Park. Besides the ringing in my ears and a pain in my back and ribs that I can't remember aquiring, this seems like a world away from the aural and visual shitstorm that is Austin during South by Southwest. But I mean that in the nicest way. If anyone's looking for the expert's wrap-up of the hottest shows in Texas last week, you'll have to look elsewhere. My perspective was supposed to be different. My two friends and I (all SXSW f

  March 22, 2009

• Living Things protest waste by burning up good money

  The border around that YouTube video is green. Like money. I received a press release today about the St. Louis band Living Things, which did something kinda outrageous at SXSW last week. The band burned money on stage. Several times. The stunts were done in protest "Wall Street's dirty ways" according to the release. The band also had this to say: "Our mother is a bank manager at Bank of America. Our father is a small business owner. We believe in the American Dream. But the dream is broke

  March 24, 2009

• The Ssion shows how it's done at SXSW.

  Now that the festival is over and folks hangovers are wearing off, the really good shit is coming in. The past few days I've been enjoying living vicariously post-facto through KJHK's SXSW blog. If I tried to do the same thing through the Ssion's blog for Vice magazine, I'd probably turn gay, have a heart attack and die a glamorous, rainbow-spewing death. Click here or on the photo below for part one. Megan Mantia Cody Critcheloe's stories are not for prudes. The talks openly and unashamedly a

  March 25, 2009

• None So Vile: Bonded by Blood

  What I missed by not going to SXSW.During the dubiously titled "Bloggers Are Now in Charge" panel at South by Southwest last week, an audience member uncorked a lengthy diatribe about how music bloggers "only write about artists that they like." In a follow-up rant on his own blog, this self-proclaimed "extreme social media" expert (seminar coming soon to KC!) derided the panelists as "underemployed versions of traditional journalists or music critics - without the 'critical' part." I wasn't in

  March 26, 2009

• Daily Briefs: Power-bombing journalism through a folding table since 2008

  South by Southwest: Apparently, Johnson County is weathering the economic collapse a little better than Kansas City, Missouri. I'm moving to Overland Park, you guys. I've had it with Hobotown, its frustratingly spotty bus service, budget cuts, shiny prefabricated entertainment district, and punk-ass Child Protective Services department. If that bitch Doreen from CPS don't stop stickin' her nose into my business, one of these days, I'm gonna pop her one right in her smug fat face. She's all, "

  April 6, 2009

• Lost in Austin

  March 22, 2007

• Sleepy Sun

  March 19, 2009

• SXSW KC ’09 – It’s Official

  March 12, 2009

• Texas Tigers and Other Tales of South by Southwest

  The Wayward Son finds his way back from Austin.

  March 20, 2008

• You'll be sorry you missed these KC acts headed to South by Southwest

  March 6, 2008

• Bowerbirds

  March 6, 2008

• The Download

  March 15, 2007

• Aberfeldy

  March 23, 2006

• Ad Astra Per Aspera

  Saturday, February 18, at The Granada

  February 16, 2006

• Zzz

  October 27, 2005

• Ludo

  Friday, June 24, at the Granada.

  June 23, 2005

• Lost in Austin

  KC bands put X's on the eyes of Texas.

  March 31, 2005

• Southern Exposure

  Lawrence's Ghosty and Koufax are poised to represent Midwestern virtue at South by Southwest.

  March 17, 2005

• The Belles

  Saturday, March 27, at the Jackpot Saloon.

  March 25, 2004

• Trick Photography

  Look twice at The Disembodied Spirit

  March 11, 2004

• The Aislers Set

  Tuesday, April 8, at the Bottleneck.

  April 3, 2003

• Bite Me

  Fishing on the cheap can still cost an arm.

  August 23, 2001

• Around Hear

  March 23, 2000

• Free Black Lips feat. GZA MP3, "Drop I Hold"

  SXSW hookups usually consist of an out-of-town indie rocker going home with a townie for a one-night stand. But on the larger artistic landscape, strange things can happen. Atlanta garage rockers the Black Lips and Wu-Tang Clan maestro GZA met one afternoon of this past year's festival, at a Dickies-sponsored showcase. Later that day, the scraggly foursome and their rapper friend were on stage playing together at a Vice Records party. The collabo will be written indelibly into rock history's ann

  April 30, 2009

• MP3: White Denim, "Mirrored and Reverse"

  I saw White Denim the night before SXSW started at a bar called Ms. Bea's. All they served was cheap beer, and the stage was out back on a sort of porch thing. The KJHK folks I'd gone down with and myself hadn't even checked into our hotel yet, and we were already rocking out to this band, who almost defy description. myspace.com/whitedenimmusic​ White Denim is one of those bands that requires name-checking something like half a dozen other bands to describe, and even then, something gets

  July 27, 2009

• MP3: Teenage Bottlerocket, "Skate or Die"

  Spin's got the premiere of "Skate or Die," the first song from Teenage Bottlerocket's They Came From the Shadows, due out September 15 on Fat Wreck Chords. It's a change from the band's usual Ramones-styled anthems, styling itself in the vein of old school skate rock like Ill Repute (even going so far as to name-check JFA). It's still recognizable as Teenage Bottlerocket, but it's nice to hear something a little different from the band, even though they do 1234 pop-punk better than anyone right

  August 6, 2009