and we’re even more excited to debut the Reclaimed Art Canvas packs and totes.
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
Dear ubiquitous roadside franchised eating establishments of the United States,
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.
Survey says no.
Jeffrey sent us this link from the comfort of his workplace…
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.
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.
After some much needed rest we woke up and headed directly to the Under The Radar SXSW showcase. We dropped a bunch of our CD’s off at the Jamsport table and were happy to see that they were all gone on our way out. Hopefully we won’t find the shelves of Austins goodwill stores stocked with them next time we are here.
We headed back to the hotel for another game of Marco Polo in the pool, some free drinks and a quick run through of tomorrow’s acoustic set. Phew.
In the evening we headed to an unofficial Bay Area music showcase to watch our friends the Splinters play. They were awesome.
Then it was back to the hotel for some more rest.
After 13 hours of driving and a close brush with starvation we have finally arrived in Austin.
We just stopped in Kent, Tx to conduct restroom business. According to our scientific calculations we are still pretty far away from Austin. 303 miles give or take a few. It’s been a long day. It shall be a long night too…
