I told you it keeps going and going

Our friends that helped put on the Pirate! party at SXSW, Break Thru Radio, 

have started putting up music from the show! Up today is the Mason Proper set! They are putting a new one up every day so be sure to look for Say Hi,  Jessica lea Mayfield and the An Horse sets! 

go check it out  here! 

two posts in one week! INSANE 

SXSW...It keeps going ..and going and going

Where does the time go! I honestly have no Idea. A lot has gone on since I last posted but lets stick with my most recent awesomeness and thats SXSW in lovely Austin, TX!   I got in on March 14th, and it seems like a month ago.  So lets recap as much as I can! 

I ate a LOT and I mean a lot of BBQ for those of you heading down there soon check out County line, its a bit outside of the city ( by bit i mean 10-15 min drive..maybe a bit longer) but it is soooo worth it!   I had Brunch THREE TIMES... for those of you that have not accepted it as fact BRUNCH IS THE BEST MEAL OF THE DAY!!!  I had Brunch at the Iron Cactus, it was good.. a lot of food of course and everything was very fresh.   Then I had Brunch at the 4 seasons, pretty much the best bacon you will ever eat and then pretty much the best Brunch of them all was Moonshine! OH my lord white chocolate bread pudding... I don't think I need to say anymore.  

Aside from the food I spent a lot of time outside and the weather could not of been better I think it was 72 and sunny ( mathmaticly proven as the perfect temperature ) every single day. If only I could of played tennis as well it would of been perfect!  

And of course I saw A lot of bands and here are all of them: 

(if you are looking for highlights the best bands I saw all week were  Silversun Pickups, Decemberists, Matches, An Horse and Dillinger Four)   If you want to know the worst bands you will have to ask I am sure they don't mean to be the way they are.

But here is the master list:  

WED

Barcelona
Loney, dear
Drink up buttercup
Hot panda
Dmg'S
Splinters
Pre

Deer tick
garotas suezas
Beachhouse
Vivian girls
Human highway
An horse
Decemberists

Thursday!
Blue eyed blacks
An horse
Say hi

Mason proper
Mean creek
Jessica lea mayfield
Jason lytle
Tweekbird
Glossary
Handsome furs

Friday

Bishop allen
MAE shi
Gent reg
Golden boots
Ace Enders
D4
Here we go magic
Mumford and sons
Matches

Sat
ViviAn girls
Grates
Thermals
Lucero
Gil mantera party dream.
Peakers
HolleradoSay hi
silversun pickups
Bedowin soundclash

I think that about covers everything! Thank you for reading and I will try and post more! 

OH and I got to hang out with KENNY POWERS!  

(if you have not watched this show it really does grow on you) 

R.E.M live at SXSW

This is my first every video taken on my camera. I would of taken more but i had no idea it would turn out so well!

SXSW Day Two.... every day is a Friday.

What a whirlwind. I am sitting here in lovely Astoria NY waiting for my friend to pick me up and head to New Jersey for a wedding. I left Austin this morning at around 7 am and I stayed up all night to do it. Texas was a blast for my last day and I was very sad to leave. Our Party was yesterday and was for sure the highlight of the day. Weakerthans, Tim Fite, MAN MAN, Billy Bragg and Islands! It was part of the ANTI records showcase and was pretty much the best line up of the night.  I was running around all day yesterday checking out the KDHX, KSLU party then heading over to the Team C party and the SYN party and all those places once more. Got to hang out with pretty much everyone I wanted to see and am pretty happy about the day. I don't really have any photos from shows but I have a series I am going to call ... LOOK HOW MUCH TALLER BRADEN IS THAN EVERYONE ELSE. 

SXSW DAY ONE!!!

Well it was long wait... but yesterday SXSW started and it was fantastic. I started my day with a lunch at the Four Season with the band Electric Touch who i would end up seeing later in the night. Lunch at the Four Seasons is pretty fantastic if you were wondering! Then I headed to our friends at Terrorbirds party then over to the Fader lounge... many drinks were had... we also saw the WEINERMOBILE AND YES IT WAS FANTASTIC! Then we saw City and Colour, who if you have not checked out are one of my favorites as of late!  After that we did a brief stop back at Fader for The Kills then we headed over to see Canada who as always put on a great show. 

Next I went to try and get into Be your own pet but the line was crazy and I wanted to see Electric touch anyways so after that I went to go try and see REM. When I got their the line was out the wazzooo but .... lets flash back to Monday when I went to Stubbs for a Party. They gave me a Stubbs wristband and I left it on..thinking..well maybe if they have the same color of wristbands on Wed. I can get in.... Sure enough they did! So i was able to sneak in and see REM for the first time ever. They played an amazing set and really made my week!  After REM i really wanted to see The Black Keys..they were playing the same show as Be your own pet and the line was still...OUT THE WAZOOOOO so I went down to see Cadence Weapon who as always put on a great show!   After his show .... on the way to another bar for yet another drink... we saw there was no line for Black Keys so we got to see the last 3 songs!!!!! 

So everything seems to have worked out! Today is my last day here in Texas and I plan on living it up! 

SXSW day Negative one.

Dollar shots.

That is where i think it all started to go wrong. 

or well.  That is the way the night started and the way the night ended. 

Actually the night ended with a bottle of wine.   A ton of people came into town and we had a blast.  It was a good warm up night... I cant really think of anything note worthy . We drank on a roofdeck, drank at many bars and thats pretty much it. 

here are some photos

SXSW ... Day Negative two

Would that be right? Day Negative 2? Minus 2 days until SXSW begins for the Music part of the festival. So yesterday our Monday plan was to call radio and do our normal work thing but this year our Hotel internet was the crap and we could not do anything. So we found a nearby interweb connection and sent out some emails and went out to enjoy the day in Texas. 

Being in Texas and having had Mexican food on Sunday we wanted "the best" BBQ in Austin. Some people told us The Salt lick others told us Ironworks but we settled on The county line 

I decided to have the Brisket tacos and they were fantastic. Our Friend Elliot Lipp had their famous Deep Dish Pecan Pie for lunch and that was pretty damn fantastic.   We then hit up some thrift stores and tried to get into a free movie preview. The Thrift stores had no mens clothes and we got the shaft on the movie preview so we went down to the Pure Volume house to get our free badges and started the drinking.  We went down to Beerland and with out hesitation I can firmly state that this place has THE WORST KARAOKE in the whole world. No lie. 

Let me tell you the back story. Last year when we went we got there early and I would say that the place had 15 people max. Our group of 10 or so people put in some songs... more people showed up and slowly but as time goes...it passes... 2 hours later none of us have sang. So we as the feisty drunk group we were cornered the Karaoke  guy ..yelled at him... made him feel bad about his life and then we all got to sing... too little too late.  This year... the place was slightly more crowded and there were 2 jackasses instead of one running the karaoke  . We all tipped like he asked us ,to get our songs in but a few songs before any of us sang the machine ( a 30 dollar machine you could buy at wall-mart ) broke so they 2 drunken buffoons ran around trying to figure out how to make something work. The jimmy-rigged something so that music played and the mic worked...i think its called a CD player. So another 30 min goes by and i have yet to sing despite my bribe, and of course they "accidently" threw away my slip so I calmly ask where it is ...and they tell me to calm down and he starts going through the trash looking for the slip. ( I let him look for a little while before telling him i can write it down again... BUFFOONS! ) So i get up to sing my song... I know all the words to superstar from the carpenters so not having the screen with words was no big deal until one of them hits the cd player and it skips to the last verse and thus ends my song. By this point I might be a little drunk and I go off on a long diatribe on stage about how this place has to be the WORST karaoke place ever. They cut my mic of course but that does not stop me... My last line I think I said to them was.... " by acknowledging me you are only giving me Power"  And that was karaoke. The rest of the night was fun.  Some more drinking... we got to watch a married man hit on a 21 year old girl from canada it was funny.... he and she went home alone ...oh fun times..here are some photos from last night(i tried to put some up but my connection is not the best...so here is one for now) 

The Stars at night are big and bright ...clap clap clap clap.... deep in the heart of TEXAS .

Hello there my fairweather fans. I hope everyone is well. I am in lovely Austin Texas.
Got here yesterday and it was a lovely 72 and sunny. Today it is rainy but still warm so i will take it. Down here for SXSW!!!! This weekend was FANTASTIC I was in Boston and we did some Kareoke! I went Bowling! Then headed down here. Not much else to say... but I do have some fantastic photos from the past week i wanted to share.... I wanted to add a lot more but for some reason internet in Texas is slow. Its a simpler way of life...... you know iced tea. Lemonade.... Bar-b-Q and tacos.... but here are some of the good ones. We went to Border Cafe one of my favorite places in boston. We went to Kareoke as well. Good times! 

side note... someone just asked me if i was blogging..i lied to him.... i said no... to be honest...i feel kinda dirty ....