Special Issue
The Billions Booking Agency, the original indie agency (where Tom Windish started out as an intern – how's that for a bit of industry insider B.S.?) and Ticketfly present "Fat, Crooked and Unwound," and boy, it's fat:
- 12 - 12:30 p.m.: Cate Le Bon
- 1230 -1:10 p.m.: Bear In Heaven
- 1:10 - 1:40 p.m.: The Cave Singers
- 1:40 - 2:20 p.m.: Bowerbirds (Jesus)
- 2:20 - 2:50 p.m.: Generationals
- 2:50 - 3:30 p.m.: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
- 3:30 - 4:00 p.m.: Oh No Ono
- 4:00 - 4:40 p.m.: The Dutchess and the Duke
- 4:40 - 5:10 p.m.: Avi Buffalo
- 5:10 - 5:50 p.m.: The Black Angels
No badge, wristband, or RSVP is required but, looking at this lineup, I'd definitely get there early.
Chicago venues Schubas and Lincoln Hall are doing the right thing by not going the official/badge/cover route. Free and for the people are:
- Born Ruffians
- Freelance Whales
- The Hood Internet
- Japandroids
- Maps & Atlases
- The Rural Alberta Advantage
- The Smith Westerns
- We Were Promised Jetpacks
- plus sets by Sharon Van Etten, Only Children, and Diane Izzo
There are only 5 bands on this small bill, but each would be a great addition to any showcase, and together, it's undeniably strong.
Liars, Vivian Girls, Small Black, Surfer Blood and Delorean. Free entry, 21+, $3 beer bracelets and Saucony schwag, surely.
507 E. 6th Street,
at Red River
Downtown
Whatevs, Sub Pop (ah, whom am I kidding):
The Sub Pop Stage: 8pm Jaill, 9pm Happy Birthday, 10pm Avi Buffalo, 11pm Male Bonding, 12am Dum Dum Girls, 1am The Ruby Suns.
The Hardly Art Stage: 8:30pm Woven Bones, 9:30pm The Moondoggies, 10:30pm Le Loup, 11:30pm The Dutchess and the Duke, 12:30am Golden Triangle.
Saucony Originals, Death+Taxes and Rock Steady Music implore you to show up early. This here is why:
- Japandroids
- Best Coast
- Eternal Summers
- Silver Starling
RSVP here.
An easy (but Lord – not cheap) way to get a great line-up up in the boonies on the 24th street at your Urban Outfitters outlet is to pay a booking agency to do it. Windish comes to the pricey rescue:
- 12pm: Toro Y Moi
- 1pm: Warpaint
- 2pm: Bachelorette
- 3pm: The Golden Filter
- 4pm: Free Energy
- 5pm: Memory Tapes
- 6pm: Washed Out
Free BBQ (from 11am-1pm daily). "Likely reach capacity early!" Thanks for the tip, Filter.
- Minus the Bear (Thursday at 3:30)
- Miike Snow (Thursday at 5:15)
More details on the RSVP page.
1133 East 11th Street,
East Side
Day Two of Brooklyn... whoops, I mean Austin Imposition by Impose Magazine:
- 1am: Thee Oh Sees
- 12am: Woods
- 11pm: Fresh & Onlys
- 10:15pm: Girls at Dawn
- 9:30pm: Total Slacker
- 8:45pm: A Sunny Day in Glasgow
- 8pm: Teengirl Fantasy
2908 Fruth Street,
btw. West 30th and West 29th Streets
Adams Park
512-480-9562
If you're here, you're punk rock. 4 miles north of Downtown, Panache Booking and Brooklyn Vegan are throwing an all-ages free day party with acheap bar and BBQ, and the bands are choice:
Stage 1
- 6:00 Human Eye
- 5:00 Tyvek
- 4:00 Thee Oh Sees
- 3:00 Golden Triangle
- 2:00 Lovvers
- 1:00 The Beets
Stage 2
- 6:00 Cheeseburger
- 5:00 Jim Jones Revue
- 4:00 Slim Cessna’s Auto Club
- 3:00 Kid Congo Powers
- 2:00 Carletta Sue Kay
- 1:00 Or, The Whale
- 12:00 La Strada
Stage 3
- 5:30 UUVVWWZ
- 4:30 Everybody Was In the French Resistance Now
- 3:30 DM Stith
- 2:30 Odawas
- 1:30 A Sunny Day in Glasgow
- 12:30 The Sandwitches
507 E. 6th Street,
at Red River
Downtown
Day two of Paste pasting. In descending order:
- Lou Barlow & The Missingmen
- Gordon Gano & The Ryans
- Shearwater
- Low Anthem
- The Middle East
- Black Prairie
- The Lonely Forest
- Fanfarlo
- The Living Sisters
- Miles Kurosky
- Damion Suomi
Little Radio Showcase, day two, isn't as good as day one:
- 05:20P-06:00P J Roddy Walston and the Business
- 04:50P-05:20P Chief
- 04:20P-05:00P Jason Collett (Broken Social Scene)
- 03:50P-04:20P Those Darlins
- 03:20P-04:00P Sarah Jaffe
- 02:50P-03:20P Soko
- 02:20P-03:00P Shadow Shadow Shade (formerly The Afternoons)
- 01:50P-02:20P Matt Ellis
- 01:20P-02:00P Andy Clockwise
- 12:00P-01:20P Tenlons Fort + The Eastern Sea
The show is free and open to 18 and up. Show up early.
501 I-35,
Entry on Brushy St
Downtown / I-35 / East Side
Lonestars and pizza, with:
- Twin Tigers (Athens, GA) - 5 PM
- Ty Segall (San Francisco, CA) - 4 PM
- Ringo Deathstarr (Austin, TX) - 3 PM
- Golden Ages (Philadelphia, PA) - 2 PM
- Sisters (Brooklyn, NY) - 1 PM
- Futurebirds (Athens, GA) - Noon
97 Rainey St,
(just South of the Conv Center & Cesar Chavez)
Downtown / Rainey District
Free taco truck and some decent, if mainstream-leaning, bands over the course of three days:
- 3pm- The Happy Hollows
- 4pm-The Veils
- 5pm-Dawes
- 6pm-Delta Spirit
- 9pm-Cymbals Eat Guitars
- 10pm-The Boxer Rebellion
- 11pm-The Temper Trap
- 12am-Dr. Dog
More info and RSVP here.
