SXSW ’11: THE METAL PARTIES
The SXSW Day Party, once frowned upon by event organizers, is now an expected addition to the music extravaganza. It provides bands more opportunities to be seen during the music conference and it also gives the regular music fan (the ones who don’t want to plunk down $750+ for a badge) the opportunity to catch showcasing bands whom they would not have been able to see otherwise.
Below you will find an exhaustively thorough (yet still incomplete) list of the majority of day parties and/or one-offs that involve hard rock, punk rock, avant garde, experimental, and/or heavy metal bands/musicians that are expected to appear in Austin, Texas between March 15 and March 20.
These day shows are usually free, oftentimes serve free beer and liquor, and sometimes include free meals. Most of these shows do not require a SXSW badge nor a SXSW wristband, however, it would behoove you to do your homework first before heading out to the nearest venue. I have provided you with links to the various clubs, so look it up and don’t complain to me when you stood in line for three hours, only to be rejected because you failed to RSVP, or you are not of age, or whatever stupid reason crops up.
I will not be updating this list as I will be leaving this Thursday for the Film portion of the SXSW Festival where I am moderating a panel entitled REEL MURDER: From Crime Scene to Big Screen, which features former Pantera lead singer Philip H. Anselmo discussing his involvement with the seminal underground true crime classic, THE MANSON FAMILY. As a result, there will certainly be more additions, deletions, date changes, set changes, etc. between now and March 15. In other words, these dates, bands, venues, and times are not set in stone so, again, be diligent. Do your homework.
But most of all, have fun, drink plenty of water, bang that head that doesn’t bang, and don’t be a douche.
-CM
Corey Mitchell is a best-selling author of several true crime books. Come say “Hi” to me if you see me in Austin.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 15
End Sounds Fourth Annual Pre-SXSW Party/Show
Stay Free (one time only Clash tribute featuring members of Ministry, Riverboat Gamblers, Lower Class Brats, etc.), Ume, Saboteur at Red 7 (611 E. 6th St.) [7:00pm – ???] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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City On Fire, Fanatic Records, and Beauty Bar present Art Disaster no. 12
Peelander-Z (1:00am) at the Beauty Bar (617 E. 7th St.) [outside stage]
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HCMP Promotions Pre-SXSW Party
Honky, Broken Teeth (11:30pm), New Disaster, Shotgun Rebels, El Bombasi at the Red Eyed Fly (611 E. 6th St.) [outside stage]
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Swamp presents SwampFest
Kylesa, The Roller, Mammoth Grinder, HOD at Klub Krucial (614 E. 6th St.) [8:00pm – ???] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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No Age, Japanther, Austra, Audacity, special guest at Red 7 (611 E. 6th St.) [inside, 8:00pm – ???] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16
IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash
Aphasia (2:30pm) at Emo’s Annex (603 Red River)
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The Midgetmen’s Texas Jumpstart 4
The Gay Blades (3:30pm), Goes Cube (1:30pm) at the Hole in the Wall (2538 Guadalupe St.) [outside stage]
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KEN Mode (5:00pm), All Pigs Must Die (4:00pm), Rwake (3:00pm), Dark Castle (2:00pm), Dixie Witch (1:00pm) at The Scoot Inn (1308 E. 4th St.) [outside stage]
Easy Action (4:30pm), Gay For Johnny Depp (3:30pm), Suplecs (2:30pm), Lo Pan (1:30) at The Scoot Inn (1308 E. 4th St.) [inside stage]
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Mellow Mushroom (unofficial) SXSW Wednesday Night Show
Zlam Dunk (11:15pm) at Mellow Mushroom – 2426 Guadalupe
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Stonedakota (12:00am), Indisgust (11:00pm), Brink Of Disaster (10:00pm), Prey For Sleep (9:00pm), Slay The Dawn (8:00pm), Dead Earth Politics (7:00pm), Perish The Land (6:00pm), 5:00pm- TBA, Backwood Payback (4:00pm), Pinche Gringos (3:00pm), 2:00pm- TBA at Hoeks Death Metal Pizza (511 E. 6th St.)
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Critical Assembly, Signal 99, Fear Control, Powderburn, Elysium Fields, Burning Black, Destruction Evolution, Dagoba, Automatic Cycle at The Dorm Room – 422 E. 6th St. [6:00pm – ???] [no set times as of 3/5]
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THURSDAY, MARCH 17
The Faceless, Meek is Murder, T.R.A.M. (featuring Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes from Animals as Leaders, Adrian Terrazas from Mars Volta and Eric Moore from Suicidal Tendencies), Ultrageist, Death on Two Wheels, Beta Wolf at Venue 222 – 222 E. 6th St. (1:00pm – ???) [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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Brink of Disaster (12:00am), Lug (11:00pm), Stonedakota (10:00pm), Perish The Land (9:00pm), Texas Hate Machine (8:00pm), Rust (7:00pm), Bult (6:00pm), Mose Giganticus (5:00pm), 4:00pm- TBA, Unspeakable Things (3:00), 2:00pm- TBA at Hoeks Death Metal Pizza (511 E. 6th St.)
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Artery Foundation SXSW Showdown
Asking Alexandria, Whitechapel, Chiodos, Dance Gavin Dance, iwrestledabearonce, Of Mice & Men, Isetmyfriendsonfire, Miss May I, In Fear and Faith, Chelsea Grin, Sleeping With Sirens, Woe, Is Me, For All Those Sleeping, I Declare War, Close To Home, The Amity Affliction, DJ Sets by Big Chocolate at Red 7 (611 E. 6th St.) [12:00pm – 6:00pm] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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Brooklyn BBQ
Gay Blades (2pm) at Hotel Vegas (1500 E. 6th St.) [outdoor stage]
Goes Cube (3:30pm) at Hotel Vegas (1500 E. 6th St.) [dive stage]
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Hammerhead, Vaz, White Drugs, Gay Witch Abortion, The Book of Right On, Black Congress at Obsolete Industries – 1700 E 12th St [7:00pm – ???] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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Full Metal Texas
Trap Them, Rwake, Hull, All Pigs Must Die, Better Left Unsaid, Drive A, Elysion Fields, Goes Cube, Kvelertak, The Word Alive, Upon A Burning Body, more TBA at Emo’s (603 Red River) [12:00pm-6:00pm] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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Trash Talk (5:00pm), Weedeater (4:00pm), Zoroaster (3:00pm), Liturgy (2:00pm), The Body (1:00pm) at The Scoot Inn (1308 E. 4th St.) [Outside Stage]
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Village Voice Media presents Showdown at SXSW 2011
Wild Flag, Ume, more TBA at the Austin Music Hall (208 Nueces) [3:00pm-7:30pm] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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Sacred Bones/Stereogum/Chaos in Tejas present a Free Show in Austin
Altaar, Liturgy at Beerland (711 1/2 Red River) [2:00pm-2:00am] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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Pitchfork presents #OFFLINE
OFF! (4:30pm) at East Side Drive-In (1001 E. 6th St.) [stage 2]
Royal Thunder (3:15pm), Mose Giganticus (2:15pm), Rust (1:15pm), Rise Thy Ruin (12:15pm) at Prague (422 Congress Ave.)
Unofficial Cyclopean Records Showcase
Mammoth Grinder, Hatred Surge, The Roller, Green & Wood, Sungod, Strider and Catheter at The Magic Number (777 Shady Lane) [8:00pm – ???] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
FRIDAY, MARCH 18
South by South Death presented by MetalSucks
Kvelertak (5:15pm), Havok (4:30pm), Red Fang (3:45pm), Wormrot (3:00pm), Meek is Murder (2:15pm), MC Ray Mazzola of Full Blown Chaos at Headhunters (720 Red River)
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Guitar clinic with Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick at Rusty Spurs (405 E. 7th St.) [no set times provided as of 3/5] __________________________________________________________________________
New England Metal and Hardcore Festival
The Acacia Strain – (5:10), The Red Chord – (4:30), Trap Them – (3:50), Our Last Night – (3:10), Within the Ruins – (2:40), Gaza – (2:10), Dawn of Ashes – (1:40), The Funeral Pyre – (1:10), Across the Sun – (12:40), Armor for the Broken – (12:10) at Emo’s Annex (603 Red River)
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Southern Lord Records & Spaceland present The Power of the Riff
Trash Talk (5pm), The Secret (4:15pm), Eagle Twin (3:30pm), All Pigs Must Die (2:45pm), Trap Them (2pm), Masakari (1:15pm), The County Bucks (12:30pm) at ND (501 IH-35, entrance at 5th and Brushy)
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Pentagram (5:00pm), Green & Wood (4:00pm) at The Scoot Inn (1308 E. 4th St.) [Inside Stage]
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Solace (5:00pm), The Might Could (4:00pm), Red Giant (3:00pm), Lo-Pan (2:00pm), Tia Carrera (1:00pm), Backwoods Payback (12:00pm) at Headhunters (720 Red River)
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Waterloo Records presents
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail Of Dead (5:00pm) at Waterloo Records (600A. North Lamar) [outside]
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Volcom Entertainment and Volcom Jeans present the 4th (Not So Annual) Free Beer Party
Valient Thorr at the Jackalope (404 E. 6th St.) [8:00pm – ???] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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The Midwest Music Foundation presents the MidCoast Takeover
Auternus at The Liberty (1618 1/2 E. 6th St.) [2:00pm-2:00am] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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Mellow Mushroom’s (unofficial) SXSW Friday Night Show
Xerxes (9:00pm) at Mellow Mushroom (2426 Guadalupe)
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Brooklyn Vegan/1000 Knives/Left Hand Brewing present
Ringworm (6:15pm), Wormrot (5:30pm), Gaza (4:45pm), Magrudergrind (4pm), Cough (3:15pm), KEN Mode (2:30pm), Kill the Client (1:45pm), Salvation (1pm), Owen Hart (12:15pm) at Lovejoys (604 Neches St.)
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OFF! at Stubb’s (801 Red River) [no set times provided as of 3/5] [outside]
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Meat Puppets’ 2nd Annual High Tea For Twits
Meat Puppets (6:15pm) at the Dog and Duck Pub (406 W. 17th St.)
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Giant Steps Productions’ notSXSW @ Plush Day Two
Mose Giganticus, Grayceon at Plush (617 Red River) [11:00am-10:00pm] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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Frenchie Smith Records + 1 Percent Showcase
Death Letters (4pm) at Gueros Taco Bar (1412 S. Congress Ave.)
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Whoopsy Magazine Party
The Lord Weird Slough Feg (7pm), Honky (6pm) at Trophy’s (2008 South Congress) [stage 1]
Suplecs (6:30pm), Billy Joe Winghead (5:30pm) at Trophy’s (2008 South Congress) [stage 2]
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Unofficial SXSW House Show (submitted by MetalSucks reader Nico!!)
Touche Amore (midnight), Gaza (11:20pm), Former Thieves (10:40pm), Xerxes (10pm), Illustrations (9:20pm), For Want Of (8:40pm), Owen Hart (8pm), Divide (7:20pm), Aspire (6:40pm), Gospel and the Wolf (6pm) at 1304 Chicon St.
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Powderburn, Snake Skin Prison at Chupacabra Cantina (400 E. 6th St.) [10:00pm -2:00am] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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The Gay Blades (5:00pm), Elysion Fields (1:00pm) at Your Mom’s Burger Bar (1701 E. Cesar Chavez Unit B)
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SATURDAY, MARCH 19
Waterloo Records presents
Meat Puppets (2:00pm) at Waterloo Records (600A. North Lamar) [outside stage]
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Trap Them (5:00pm), Night Horse (4:00pm), Lecherous Gaze (3:00pm), Naam (2:00pm) at The Scoot Inn (1308 E. 4th St.) [outside stage]
Danava (4:30pm), Eagle Twin (3:30pm) at The Scoot Inn (1308 E. 4th St.) [inside stage]
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Brooklyn Vegan and Profound Lore Records presents
Tombs, Dark Castle, The Body, Deafheaven, Wolvhammer, Grayceon, Castevet, Batillus, Altaar at Lovejoys (604 Neches St.) [12:00pm-7:00pm] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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Beyond Gods And Empires (12:00am), Prey For Sleep (11:00pm), Indisgust (10:00pm), Flawless Victory (9:00pm), *By Any Means Necessary* (8:00pm), Gas Mask Attire (7:00pm), Bult (6:00pm), Ominous Black (5:00pm), Before The Eyewall (4:00pm), Elysion Fields (3:00pm), Mose Giganticus (2:00pm) at Hoeks Death Metal Pizza (511 E. 6th St.)
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Black Veil Brides, Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows, I See Stars, VersaEmerge, Conditions, The Ready Set, Enter Shikari, The Downtown Fiction, Animals As Leaders, Balance And Composure, Middle Class Rut, Oceano, I Fight Dragons, Vampires Everywhere!, The Limousines, River City Extension, Touche Amore, Maniac at Emo’s (603 Red River) [12:00pm-6:00pm] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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Pack of Wolves (1:00am), Battilus (12:15am), Hull (11:30pm), Fire from the Gods (10:45pm), Zlam Dunk (4:00pm) at Shiner’s Saloon (422 Congress Ave.)
Tarantist (6:00pm) at the Dart Music International House at 219 West (219 W. 4th St.)
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FYF Fest and Fun Fun Fun Fest present MWTX
Dead Milkmen, OFF!, Esben & the Witch, more TBA at East Side Drive-In (1001 E. 6th St.) [starts at 11:30am] [no set times provided as of 3/5]
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G-House presents
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (5pm) at the Blind Pig Pub (317 E. 6th St.)
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G-House presents Boston Family Dinner (Night 3)
This Will Destroy You (10:15pm) at the Austin Museum of Art (823 Congress Ave.)
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**OFFICIAL SXSW METAL SHOWCASES AND MOVIES LISTS TO FOLLOW THIS WEEK**
