quoperative

OK, time to come to grips.

SxSW 2009 is over. I’m back to the usual grind of NOT seeing fifty bands and drinking twelve beers a day. Or was it twelve bands and fifty beers? I wish I could remember. Fortunately I was documenting the experience by updating Facebook about every 5 minutes with a blow-by-blow account of the every mundane detail of my time in Texas.  I’m sure those of you that un-friended me for melting down your friend feed know what I’m talking about.

So here’s a quick recap in nature’s most lazy format… list form!

Bands that I had never heard of but discovered were awesome

• The Fresh & Onlys San Francisco, CA
• Blackholicus Austin, TX (listen to this band… and then think that the girl fronting the band is like 4’6″ tall and just SLAYS on bass)
• Capsula Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Thee oh Sees San Francisco, CA

Bands that I either knew or suspected were awesome and verified them as such

• Steel Panther Hollywood, CA (incidentally the best show by far… PS. here’s a video of Justin from the Darkness joining them on stage… PPS. Satchel is one of the most talented guitarists I’ve ever seen)
• Brimstone Howl Omaha, NB
• King Kahn & the Shrines Germany via Montreal
• Telepathic Butterflies Winnipeg, MB

I totally screwed the pooch and missed seeing these bands (despite 2 of them playing 4+ times during the weekend… how did I manage to do that?)

• Glasvegas Glasgow, Scotland
• Black Lips Atlanta, GA
• Priestess Montreal, QC

Some photos that I didn’t take… but I was there!

The Fresh & Onlys at Beer Land

Capsula at Agave

King Kahn & the Shrines at El Sol y La Luna

Priestess at El Sol y La Luna

Yup, it’s the end of the road for Chart… the printed Chart at least.  Issue #201 arrived at my place a few days ago.  They’ve been publishing it for 19 years and I’ve been subscribing for 11.

Chart will continue to exist exclusively online as they’ve decided to focus all their efforts on running the fancy shmants new ChartAttack.com.

Now, I’m all for technology and reducing waste (as evidenced by my new low emissions vehicle) but I’m kind of bummed to see the printed mag fall by the wayside.  It’s especially a bummer given the fact that I’m not too big a fan of the new Chart site.  Which is extra unfortunate considering it took them like 280 years to build it.  Guess we’ll be stuck with this one until the next millennium.

And for extra salt in the wound… why the hell did you have to put these ass-clowns on the cover of the LAST ISSUE EVER? Way a mediocre way to cap the run of a pretty damn good magazine.