You’ll have two chances to party down in Austin with Saucony Originals at the SXSW Music Festival.  Of course your chances increase if you have the ability to be in two places at once, because both these excellent parties are happening the afternoon of Thursday, March 18th!

Insound is throwing their annual, and always awesome, SXSW party, and Saucony O’s is excited to be a part again this year. Check out this line-up, and if you’re into that kind of thing, RSVP on Facebook.  Entry is open to anyone, no RSVP necessary, but it’s first-come-first served so don’t dilly dally over your breakfast tacos that morning.

Liars

Vivian Girls

Small Black

Surfer Blood

Delorean

Free/ 21+, $3 for unlimited beer, games and giveaways from Saucony Originals!

Death+Taxes Magazine is happy to announce its party at South By Southwest 2010, presented by Saucony Originals and produced by Rock Steady Music and Waxs.”Perfect Pairs” – a party to celebrate duos. Featuring:

NO AGE

JAPANDROIDS

BEST COAST

and more, including DJ sets by twin-brother tag team FINGER ON THE PULSE.

RSVP only for this one. RSVP early and get there early, as admission is subject to capacity. RSVP NOW >> rsvp@dt-mag.com   You can also share with your friends on Facebook.

We’re looking forward to party hopping with you in Texas!

Starting this Thursday, November 5th through November 15th, Saucony Originals will be auctioning off a sneaker signed by more than fifty of indie music’s favorite artists on eBay’s charity auction house MissionFish.org. Proceeds will benefit Saucony’s Run for Good Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to combating childhood obesity.

Shoe stampers include Yo La Tengo, The Walkmen, The National, Jesus Lizard, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, M83, Frightened Rabbit, Pharoahe Monch, Killer Whales, and a slew of who’s who artists on the indie music stage. Signatures were collected on a size 15 Saucony Originals Jazz sneaker this past summer while Saucony Originals was helping Pitchfork Music Festival revelers set any world record they wanted with the Universal Record Database.

More details on URDB.

**UPDATE** Ebay auction live through Nov. 15th — just click HERE.

Brace yourselves and prepare to be amazed by the latest crop of world records on the Universal Record Database! Participants at the Saucony O’s booth at Treasure Island Music Festival wowed us with their skills in pants switching, kazoo playing and foot-high-fiving to name a few. View some of the record breaking in action below, or check out all the records at URDB.org.

Most ‘2 Legit 2 Quit’ Hand Signs In 30 Seconds by Andrew Baker

Most Fake Mustaches Applied In 30 Seconds by Matthew Loving

Largest Group Piggy-Back Hug

We’re back from San Francisco! We had such an amazing time at Treasure Island Music Festival! Over 130 records were attempted over the two days which could be a record itself! URDB organized a consistent waiting list of anxious record setters both days and records like “Fastest Time to Cut a Mullet” and “Most Sporks in One Hand” were not only popular but attempted more times than we anticipated. On Saturday we set the record for “Most People to Sing ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey” and got an enthusiastic crowd of over 120 people to participate!

The weather was fantastic on Saturday while an unexpected chill slammed us on Sunday but that did little to prohibit potential record setters. The record for “Most T-shirts Put on in a Minute” became popular and we’re assuming it’s because people wanted to layer up!
Obviously there was more than just world record breaking at this two day festival, Grizzly Bear, Beirut, Yo La Tengo and the Flaming Lips killed it! I was still pulling confetti out of my hair on the plane ride back from the Flaming Lips show. Those guys are insane and therefore one of the best live shows you could attend. It was icing on the cake of a great weekend in San Francisco.

Check out all of our photos from the weekend here and check in with URDB.org who will be posting video of the records shortly.

A big “hip hip hooray!” to our winners Julie Roberts and Kurtis Wilson who will be attending Treasure Island Festival in VIP style this weekend! Shoppers at Shoe Biz entered their ideas for world records to set at the festival with URDB for a chance to win VIP passes to the fest, a new pair of Saucony O’s and a chance to see their world record idea become a reality. We selected the very best as our prize winners.

Julie’s idea for “Most Photos of Cute Sauconys (taken in one minute)” and Kurtis’ idea for “Most Popcorn Kernels Eaten (in one minute)” may become real world records this weekend, along with many other crazy superlatives, so if you are in SF, come check out the excitement! And to quite Julie, who was way psyched to win, “Happy dance! Happy!”