Prince at SXSW Review: Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
@ZackTeibloom “Ain’t no party like a purple party, ’cause a purple party don’t stop.” Prince first said this early Sunday morning during his 50-minute-long second encore. When he said it again...
View ArticleSXSW 2014 by the numbers
@ZackTeibloom Whew. Another incredible SXSW in the books. Every year it reminds me why I moved here in early March, five years ago. SXSW is everything. The day before the fest started, I was resigned...
View ArticleSXSW 2014 Blow by Blow Wednesday with Jay-Z and Kanye West
@ZackTeibloom I asked Andy what he thought of my SXSW 2014 by the Numbers post and he told me it was fine, but read more as a list of things I did. He wanted the stories. We have a tradition in my...
View ArticleSXSW Blow by Blow Thursday
@ZackTeiblom When we last left our hero, he was drunk and clean and happy to be heading to bed after a 20 hour day that ended with Watch the Throne and a treacherous bike ride home. Shockingly, I...
View Article2014 Free Press Summer Fest
Since Zack was in NYC and Andy was in L.A. we sent David Sackllah to Houston to cover Free Press Summer Fest thanks to the free passes Verizon was generous enough to bestow upon us. He braved a...
View ArticleHow to do ACL for $100
@ZackTeibloom It felt all too familiar. Back at Zilker Park for ACL without a wristband. As Andy and I like to say when coming festival-ing, “We’ve done this before.” In 2008, Andy and I made our...
View ArticleACL 2014 – Outkast vs Beck Breakdown
@ZackTeibloom Let’s get one thing out of the way right now. When it comes down to Outkast vs. Beck, the only acceptable answer is both. When ACL booked these two wildly inventive, world-class...
View ArticleOne last 20s Adventure: Dave Grohl Introducing Austin’s “Sonic Highways”
@ZackTeibloom If you had asked me what my ideal last hurrah of my 20s would have been, I would have said Jack White would have to be involved. Nope. It had to go down like this. With Dave Grohl at the...
View ArticleSXSW 2016: Things I learned from seeing Coast Modern, Aurora, PWR BTTM and...
@ZackTeibloom When we caught Oberhofer’s 11 pm show Tuesday night at Nomad, Caitlin and I thought we had a pretty tame SXSW week ahead of us. After being wow’d by the band we loved so much at SXSW ’14...
View ArticleThe shows we had to see from the front row at Coachella 2016
@ZackTeibloom As a festival-goer in my early 30s, I have to pick my spots a little more carefully on what shows I’m willing to push my way to the front row for. If I’ve traveled across the country...
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