HOOTENANNY! UPDATES: AWESOME! WEEZES! BLADES FIGHT FOO! SATIN HOOKS WIPE UP!

YUSS. We've got more exciting news about January's HOOTENANNY! First off, Blades have confirmed that they are playing as the Foo Fighters. Minds are blown. Minds are collected into little plastic bags and poured, via funnel, back into cranial cavity. Not to be outdone, beloved defenders of the realm, AWESOME!, will re-unite yet again to play a set as Weezer. Leave your brain on the floor this time, cause it's in too many pieces to try and pick back up and put together. While you're standing there looking at it, all pink and spaghetti looking, perhaps wrap it around the fact that Satin Hooks are going to be playing as The Wipers, who, more authoritative sources than us insist, are an actual band (and one that Nirvana covered, no less - so BAM - 90'S IN YOUR FACE, KID). These aficionados of Alternative Nation and all that was good about it are joining a lineup that includes:

Fatal Flying Guilloteens as Jesus Lizard
Indian Jewelry as Depeche Mode
The Dimes as The Pixies
The Mathletes as The Flaming Lips
Paper Moons as Pedro the Lion
John Sears as Sam Cooke

We're still waiting to tease out the news as to who specifically Something Fierce, Bring Back the Guns, Satin Hooks and The Jonx will be playing as - plus who knows what surprise announcements we may have hidden up our flannel and silk-lined sleeves. As we previously reported, the whole HOOTENANNY! will go down the night of January 5th at The Mink's Backroom. Yusss.

UPDATE: This is why it is good that other people are involved in the organization of this event, because they tend to remember things that we just simply forget cause we're getting long in the tooth and short in the mind. Yep, we compeltely spaced on the fact that The Jonx has, in fact, already confirmed that they will be playing as (drumroll.....) nomeansno! LUCKY YOU! THANKS JONX!

PHOTOS: ANNA + MARIA'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

While many of you were no doubt up the street rocking it out at the Battles Show (or perhaps shakin it at the Pride Parade), a whole sweaty mess of party time party timers were over at Leon's Lounge where Anna and Maria were having a birthday party with a little help from some DJs, Raddage, AWESOME! and Golden Axe. We've got the scoop for you with some LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY PHOTO CAPTURES shots hot and fresh from the flickrs of Oak Forrest Hustla' Carrie Murphy (AWESOME!) and the eternally stylish Diana Perez (Las Panteras Negras).


THE REASONS FOR THE SEASON (CM)


Shaggy (Bring Back the Guns) plays one of your favorites in AWESOME! while James Love (Golden Axe) looks on (CM).


IMPOSSIBLE?! Carrie Murphy is back in AWESOME! (DP)


Golden Axe makes funny faces while melting yours (CM).


Ben Murphy (Bright Men of Learning) demonstrates his patented Double Kick Workout Routine to the sweet sounds of Golden Axe(CM).


DJ LIVE FREE and DJ OR DIE set the dancefloor on fire. Diana, Shu (Danseparc - who also played some hits)and Anna find relief by dancing on the bar. Some shirtless dude who no doubt wandered around the corner from the Red Door looks on and thinks about cheeseburgers(CM).


BALLOONS! (DP)

SXSW UPDATES

Our intrepid cadre of reporters continues to scour Austin's streets for all the REAL TALK info about SXSW goings on. Here are some check-ins and check-outs:

Carrie Murphy (Awesome!)
Open barz. Wasted by noon. Lotsa Vanz. Hipsters. More Later.

John Adams (Fatal Flying Guilloteens)
Heard Spacehog yesterday. MSTRKRFT mashed it up with Matt and Kim

Matt Brownlie (Bring Back the Guns)
At the Mess With Texas party front and center. Matt and Kim about the play, the someone, then ERASE ERRATA. Not moving from this spot until after Les Savy Fav. Having way more fun than expected.

Jana Hunter
First stop: Marnie Stern, then Health, again. Furniture Records was putting this (amazing show) on, free, at Hole In the Wall. Met Will Adams to pick up the bell set. Biked (in pain) with a heavy bag and a heavier bell set to the church, dropped off the set, biked to Pedernales and 5th for as much as possible of the Dirty Projectors packed and incredible set. Stopped by Arthur tent at the French Legation Museum, to say hi, no one was on. Further gathering of equipment for the show. Ate pizza (and like, wtf, cause I work at a pizza place.) Ran the set. PLAYED IN A CHURCH. Ate a myspace hot dog, slammed beers in the van, watched Nina Nastasia & Jim White.

Highlight of the day - hearing Jim White play in that church. Somehow missed every Baltimore related event all day long, still bummed. Watched Vashti and crew. Watched Castanets (full band, so goooood!) Met Houston at a bar, more Houston, punched folks, had to go, had to
get out of there, helped tremendously by [Guilloteen Shawn] Adolf and [notorious Houston photographer Jordan] Graber in getting a cab, went "home", crashed hard, crashing ever since.

EDIT:

Marnie Stern got turned down and then cut off cause the Willie Nelson bartender fcking HATED it. I liked it.

UPDATE:
sorry. wet brain.

THE MELVINS! were great. Sharber got me in to free food. Rhapsody party? I think. A+ tacos. I think that makes for tacos, pizza and hotdogs yesterday. I win. Ran into [impossible hot/cool Houstonians] Delaney HF and Adriana on campus. They're even hotter when you think they're in college. This is all out of order. There is no method of keeping track. There is no allowance for open containers on 6th street.

In talking to Jim White, discovered that the friend at his side was from Houston. Jonathan Tobin, I think? Dated somebody in deSchmog, left way before I got there, but was familiar/friends with a lot of the old Lexington scene. We talked Houston, mostly to try to explain it to Jim, who seemed curious but wary. Appropriate!

John Hunter (Inoculist, Dethro Skull) and Will Adams decided on starting an annual music conference in Houston.

I won't be out again til later tonight, to bounce around between the Monitor, Carpark, and Ecstatic Peace showcases. I'll try to get some vids, pics, soundbytes.

Thankee to all our contributors, especially Jana, who obviously had more than a cell phone at her disposal for sending in the latest. We'll keep you updated throughout the day and night. ACES! Are you at SXSW? Do you have Houstonesque updates, texts, camera phone pix or videos? Send them to adifferentryan@gmail.com or (713) 202-8968. Don't forget to include your name.