Music festivals usually end up being something less than the sum of their parts. Whether it be a hot summer day in a park or a week long event spread across multiple venues throughout a city, the anticipation and planning is usually a lot more fun than the reality — a reality that consists of …
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an industry tradeshow that descends upon Austin, Texas every March. This is a critique of that tradeshow, not a review of the bands that performed last week. Often mistaken for a music festival, SXSW literally floods the small city of Austin with almost half a million outsiders. Hotels sell out …
I was kidding myself thinking I could come home from a week in Austin and find the time to write a detailed review of Fun Fun Fun this year. I am buried in lists, work, e-mails and filthy laundry. But somehow I keep finding myself on youtube, reliving my favorite moments of the weekend. That …
Oh Sunday, Fun Fun Fun Day, I gotta admit it was a little hard to get started. After enduring some 20 hours of festival living (aka eating and drinking dust and watching live music), and endless nites of violent, half-naked emcees (B L A C K I E), blackgaze chaos (Deafheaven) and horsecore (Dead Horse), …
As if threes days and nites of triple fun wasn’t enough, the time police tacked on an extra hour last night. First it was 1:45am and then it was 12:45am. That hour was very unnecessary and highly detrimental to my well being. I blame that hour for how I feel this morning. Luckily, I can …
Fun Fun Fun managed the transition from Waterloo Park to the much larger Auditorium Shores without losing what made it special in the first place. While the short walk between stages (and scenes) became somewhat of a hike, this really gave more room for those spaces in between and removed the noise battle that sometimes …
Not only did the city of Austin approve a 3rd day of Fun this year, but the people over at FFF6 tacked on an extra 30 or so Nite shows…for free. As if a couple days of ear, liver and brain abuse wasn’t enough, this year is going take a whole new level of stamina. …
