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| 96 Bar on Rainey Street, St. Patrick's Day |
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| Lustre Pearl, Rainey St. |
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| Lustre Pearl! |
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| People hanging out enjoying the beautiful St. Patty's Day in the backyard of the Lustre Pearl before OFF! take over with loud old-school punk! |
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| Spotify occupies an entire wicked green house. |
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| Whoever actually wears these shades back home, gets called a hipster. |
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| Whoa-oh-oh, magic "vintage" bus! So cool. Want. |
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| Get the feeling I liked Hotel Vegas? Hotel Vegan during SXSW as Brooklyn Vegan resided with awesome rock parties over 4 days here, two metal parties elsewhere, and more! Over 95 bands! .05% of the festival! Brooklyn Vegan, a great blog I learned about via the festival and fellow Rockstar Motel advisor, rules! |
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| Diamond Rugs, easily one of the funnest, and my most favorite bands I saw at SXSW. This is an alt-rock/psych/country supergroup composed of members of: The Black Lips, Los Lobos, Dead Confederate and Deer Tick. This was at 6 p.m. at Hotel Vegan. I loved them so much, I wanted to see them again right away. Happily I had that chance again at the end of the evening! |
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| Hotel Vegas inside post-Diamond Rugs. Pretty mellow scene for St. Pat's Day on the last day of SXSW. |
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| Back patio of Hotel Vegas |
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| Okervil River, of Austin, TX joined the bill at the last minute. Yay! |
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| Happy people enjoying the day. |
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| Loved Okervil River! I could've listened to their uplifting, slightly anthemic-but-not-too-much music which at the time to me sounded a bit like Talking Heads meets early Arcade Fire, but ultimately they really had their own awesome folk rock thing going on. I was so happy to see this band live. Why haven't I spun them yet on Spin with Cyn! Must, pronto! |
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| Sunny, mellow people. More St. Patty's Days should be like this. Thankfully I was not on 6ixth St. most of this day! |
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| See the shades? Easily I spot Spotify house attendees. |
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| Sunset on East Sixth Street |
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| Bands pretty much played ever few dozen feet in Austin. |
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| Wow, I made it to this show! A couple favorite Seattle bands of a friend who also works with Rockstar Motel. Hopefully sending the good vibes her way. |
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| The Gracious Few |
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| The Gracious Few |
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| The mid to late evening scene at the Candlebox/Live/The Gracious Few show at Antone's. It was fun, but by then my feet were killing me and I was nearly burnt to a crisp. No floor space to even sit, sigh. |
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| Live. Wow, I had no idea I would remember all the lyrics to these songs! |
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| Live |
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| St. Patrick's Day Street scene |
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| First time recharging (iPhone and self) in at least 6 hours. |
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| 1:00 a.m. I was going to go home, but . . . a chance to see Diamond Rugs again, twice in the same day? And to expose a friend to them as well? Alright, let's go! I saw First Avenue booker Sonia who also saw them earlier in the day and loved them as much as I! Already these songs sounded very familiar and I had favorites. The banter in between sets was funny. At the beginning of the set a lead singer discussed his appreciation of Prince and his big question of whether he danced in high heels, someone asured him that he did. Quandary solved, they kicked off a set with a great country rock song. Later, they did a cover of the Replacements "I Don't Know." Seems they had Minneapolis, on their minds. Hopefully enough to come play here! Their first record is being released April 24, 2012. I can't wait! Till then, you'll hear their great single, "Gimme a Beer!" in regular rotation on KFAI Spin with Cyn. |
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| Lustre Pearl bathroom. Beautiful! |
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| Lustre Pearl, Rainey Street. One of my favorite bars in Austin. |
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| Lustre Pearl |
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| Lustre Pearl |
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| You can pretty much see through this shotgun house straight onto the big stage. Sounds like this little house with missing windows and doors has better sightlines than the Brick. |
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| We love Diamond Rugs, so fine, so fun, in so many ways! What a perfect ending to a spectacular SXSW, rife with great music discoveries such as this. |
