Unzipped » News & Updates http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped Not your average music blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:12:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Happy New Year! http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2012/01/02/happy-new-year/ http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2012/01/02/happy-new-year/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:48:38 +0000 mattatjansport http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/?p=2355 We here at JanSport want to wish everyone a safe and happy new year!

We have lots of great stuff planned for 2012 including more Bonfire Sessions, parties at SXSW and Coachella, lots of great contests and prizes and, of course, some great new JanSport gear roll-outs throughout the year. Stay tuned and check back often!

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Quinn and his band play live at 12:30pm on Sunday, July 11 on the East Stage. For more info and lineup visit: www.forecastlefest.com/lineup

]]> http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2010/07/08/follow-quinn-erwin-to-forecastle-in-louisville-ky/feed/ 0 We’re getting ready for SXSW 2010! http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2010/03/03/were-getting-ready-for-sxsw-2010/ http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2010/03/03/were-getting-ready-for-sxsw-2010/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:45:20 +0000 JanSport http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/?p=129 Hey all,

We’re gearing up for  South by Southwest this year with our friends at Sonicbids, Under the Radar and Vice Magazine to throw three parties in Austin. We’re also taking one of our favorite bands, The Broderick (our 2009 Battle of the Bands winner), on a mini-tour from Chicago to Austin.

JanSport invites all  SXSW 2010 party-goers to view its Heritage Series and enjoy the best independent music, drinks and on-site promotions with giveaways from us.

JanSport Presents the Official SXSW Sonicbids Showcase

When: Friday, March 19 from 11:30 am to 5:30 pm
Where: Maggie Mae’s, 323 E. Sixth Street, Austin

Lineup:

  • 11:30 am: The Law
  • 12:00 pm: Cassevettes
  • 12:30 pm: Bad Veins
  • 1:00 pm: Obi Best
  • 1:30 pm: The Uglysuit
  • 2:00 pm: Cosmo Jarvis
  • 2:30 pm: Jets Overhead
  • 3:00 pm: The Broderick, JanSport’s 2009 Battle of the Bands winner
  • 3:30 pm: Bear Hands
  • 4:00 pm: Kate Miller-Heidke
  • 4:30 pm: Francis
  • 5:00 pm: Family of the Year

21+over. Badge required. RSVP here.

JanSport Presents the Under the Radar Magazine Showcase

When: Saturday, March 20 from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Where: Emo’s East Annex (Klub Krutial), 614 E. 6th Street, Austin

Lineup:

  • 12:00 pm: Vivian Girls
  • 12:30 pm: Sendre Lerche
  • 1:00 pm: The Veils
  • 1:30 pm: Plants and Animals
  • 2:00 pm: Avi Buffalo
  • 2:30 pm: Everything Everything
  • 3:00 pm: The Invisible

For full info, please go here.

FREE! All ages show, no badge required.

JanSport presents the Vice Magazine SXSW Party
When: Saturday, March 20 from 12:00 am to 4:00 am
Where: Star Building
Lineup: Les Savvy Fav

FREE 21+ | RSVP REQUIRED AT vicesavestexas.com beginning March 16, 2010

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Could you please provide touring bands with food that won’t cause their stomachs to do cartwheels?
How about some coffee brewed sometime in the last decade?
Some salad made from actual vegetables that isn’t doused in plastic cheese?
Water that doesn’t taste like chlorine?

Your employees are all such great characters, how about letting them serve something edible?

Yours respectfully,
The Dashing Suns.

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Buzzworthy.mtv.com
Seems like somebody named Daniel really likes us! This was a great piece of encouraging news for all of us, especially us Dashers that are sweating in a filthy van on the desert roads of highway 10! Where are we? No clue. Probably New Mexico or Arizona, hard to tell really, deserts just look like a bunch of boring dust and some vegetation that is a little too brown to be considered beautiful. Today is an epic drive, from El Paso to Los Angeles, 12 or 13 or 14 hours. Phew.
At least when we get there we have some fun planned, our buddy Bart Davenport and his band are playing the Silverlake lounge and have graciously agreed to let us in for free which is great because we spent all of our money in Texas.
We saw a great show last night entirely by accident, due to some native Texan insider knowledge we ended up at a venue in El Paso only to discover that Oakland’s very own and very mysterious bunny mask clad rocker Nobunny was playing and it was fantastic.
More later…
P.S, we’d like to give a shout out to a nice chap named Steve Munn, we haven’t met him yet but he’s been following our adventures the whole time. Hi Steve! We’ll change our shirts before we come say hi, we promise.

]]> http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2009/03/24/whoa/feed/ 0 Hello/Goodbye http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2009/03/23/hellogoodbye/ http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2009/03/23/hellogoodbye/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:40:26 +0000 JanSport http://jansportdashingsuns.com/?p=114 Phew.
We are on our way back to Oakland.
David left us last night on a shiny ol’
Airplane, it’s back to work for that dawg. We just dropped Jeffrey off in San Antonio where he is about to hop on a different shiny ol’ airplane, back to work for him too.
That leaves three of us… Kev, Matt and our boy Tyler who shall be dropped off in Los Angeles. It would be nice to relax and take a nice scenic route home but, alas, we shall be spending untold hours on barren highway 10. We have a show on Wednesday night in Oakland and have to drive like madmen to get there on time. This wouldn’t be nearly so bad if it weren’t for Kevin and Matts ridiculous decision to not change their shirts for the entire tour, this has not helped the vans odor problem in the slightest. Hopefully we won’t have to eat at the ghostly diner which we happened upon on our way here, if we do we shall certainly not be ordering the fried okra again or even the coffee which tasted like it was carelessy brewed in 1929 and filtered through a cowboys old underwear.
Goodbye to Austin and all the nice folks we met there. We’ll miss ya a bunch.

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The first night of The Dashing Suns SXSW tour @ The Bordello

]]> http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2009/03/23/104/feed/ 0 Fresh air and the end of SXSW http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2009/03/23/fresh-air-and-the-end-of-sxsw/ http://jansport.com/blog/unzipped/2009/03/23/fresh-air-and-the-end-of-sxsw/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:58:21 +0000 JanSport http://jansportdashingsuns.com/?p=97 We played outside of Tyler’s on Sunday in Austin. We thought about playing a loud electric show, but our newly tested acoustic set seemed more apt for the sidewalk venue. This was probably our first outdoor show… ever! We had such a good time doing it that we can’t wait to play out next outdoor show. We also really enjoyed playing our acoustic set again, it is growing on us the way mold grows in our van. We even made a fan!

After our early afternoon set we went for a little ride in the Jansport van. The backseat was awesome and it had an open roof top (like a sun roof kinda). Scott drove us around Austin and we gave shirts and CDs to whoever wanted them and even those that didn’t want them.

The end of our ride in the van spectacle also marked the end of SXSW 09 for The Dashing Suns. Tomorrow we roll back across deserts, mountains and miles of asphalt to Oakland, CA.

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