In addition to the Texas Garage Saucony was also present and playing around at Insound’s SXSW party at Club Deville. There were headbands & water guns to cool you off in that crazy 95 degree weather as well as a game called Washers. Washers is often referred to as “Texas Horseshoes”. Basically, you get rings (or oversized washers) into holes in box until you reach 21 points. Don’t let the simplicity of the rules trick you into thinking it was easy to win 3 times in a row & score yourself a free pair of shoes, we had some great competitions going on!

In addition to that I was keeping cool, applying sun block & listening to Jens Lekman sing all my worries away.

I am finally, almost recovered from our week in Austin… almost. I had an amazing time playing shuffleboard, watching great bands, eating yummy food & meeting awesome people.

The day that stood out to me in terms of artists & party time had to be Friday. The line up included Flosstradamus, Cut Copy, Simian Mobile Disco, Matt & Kim & Diplo among others. The crowd was insane, the djs were insane & there were like 50 people on stage wearing our Winner! / Loser! headbands!

If you haven’t seen any of those guys live I highly suggest putting that on your list of things to do. That and continuing to check this site to see where we lug our shuffleboard to next!

Check out some photos & leave us some feedback about what you thought about SXSW, the Texas Garage, Shuffleboard- anything!

Another Saucony sponsored party at SXSW!!
There will be more games, giveaways & shoes to be had at this Friday- day party!

All you need is $3 and you get: Free beer all day (noon-6pm), tons of free music including Jens Lekman. I am totally psyched to see Jens and you should be too.

The details:
Club Deville- 900 Red River
Noon- 6pm- Get there early!
21+

The line up:
12:30 - Evangelicals
1:30 - Blood on the Wall
2:30 - Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears
3:30 - Peter Morén (of Peter Bjorn & John)
4:30 - Jens Lekman

This party is presented by Insound, Penguin, AAM and of course Saucony!

We are huge fans of Stereogum & that’s why were were so excited to have the opportunity to be a sponsor of their SxSW party this year hosted with Paste magazine! This 3 day extravaganza is from Thursday March 13- Saturday March 15 at Volume Night Club from, ironically, noon- 6pm. Saucony will be providing gift certificates for a free pair of shoes in their gift bags! We encourage you to stop by, pick up a free pair of kicks & listen to the awesome bands they have lined up. Check it out:
Thursday March 13, 2008
12-12:40: My Brightest Diamond
1-1:40: Nada Surf
2-2:40: Destroyer
3-3:40: Colour Revolt
4-4:40: Delta Spirit
5-5:40: Peter Morén (of Peter Bjorn & John)
Hosted by Tobi, XMU’s “Dean of Music”
Friday March 14, 2008
12-12:40: Lightspeed Champion
1-1:40: The Weakerthans
2-2:40: Kaki King
3-3:40: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
4-4:40: Liam Finn
5-5:40: The Whigs
Hosted by David Dye of WXPN’s World Cafe on NPR (broadcast live on WXPN)
Saturday March 15, 2008
12-12:40: Fuck Buttons
1-1:40: High Places
2-2:40: Blitzen Trapper
3-3:40: No Age
4-4:40: HEALTH
5-5:40: List Christee DJ Set
Hosted by ANTI- recording artist Tim Fite

1. Catching Pittsburgh psych-metal band Midnite Snake playing on someone’s porch on the last night of SXSW 2007. Seriously. Some friends of mine invited me to an impromptu session by ‘the Snake’ after the last bands had finished their sets on Sixth Street. I showed up just as they were getting started, and three minutes in, there were people moshing in the street. The drummer Paul Quattrone (Modey Lemon) had set up his kit in a cactus plant. It was sheer rage, energy and joy.

2. Seeing Echo and the Bunnymen play “Killing Moon” at a warehouse in the outskirts of Austin in 2006. It was 3am, everyone was exhausted, but when Ian McCulloch took the stage, we got a second wind.

3. Seeing my friend Joe play his first show as White Williams at Beauty Bar last year. Playing behind a backlit screen and joined by cutout animal puppets dancing around his head, WW was magic.

4. The three B’s: BBQ, breakfast burritos, and (free) beer!

5. Renting a lakehouse on Lake Austin with ten friends and about 15 or others just “passing through.” We were treated to nightly jam sessions by the band Spindrift (ex-Warlocks, BJM). One of the pictures of our late-night house sessions made its way onto rollingstone.com and into the hands of the house owner. Needless to say, she wasn’t that pleased about finding a photo of 30 dirty hippies playing guitars, tambourines, gourds, and about whatever instrument they could get their hands onto in her kitchen (!), but it remains one of my top 5 all-time moments in Austin.