@Lucas Jensen: Dude, we need sit down and compare SXSW war stories sometime. There’s always a lady getting decked on 6th Street, it seems.

@Maura Johnston: Oh, lady! You don’t really expect me to preface every bitchy comment I leave with “present company excluded,” right? That being said, I wasn’t complaining about your coverage so much as the gratuitous hand jobs at the NYT, Pitchfork, Stereogum, etc. Where else am I supposed to complain about that shit?

That being said, next year, remember some of us actually do want to hear what bands you saw/liked/hated — the void has a few inhabitants. And yeah, “too much musical theater training” pretty much nails what’s wrong with Jealous Girlfriends.

In summation, I’m STILL waiting for a recap rec (besides Maria’s). Come on ppl! I’m busy, I can’t read all the dreck out there. Someone else do it for me. Seriously. I’ve got to turn around 1,000 pages this week in Quark and hire a new writer. And go to three shows. And design some shit. And organize a photo shoot WITH MUSICIANS. But enough about my personal life…

And I would have written about the Jealous Girlfriends if I hadn’t felt like taking Sunday off/I was kinda yawping into a void each time I recommended a band. (See semi-defensive statement above.) Also, I really wanted to like Grand Old Party, but the vocalist leaped the line between “kinda Karen O fierce” and “too much musical theater training” one too many times for me during their set. Which is too bad, because I love watching singers who drum!

Mission Accomplished, as the monkey in the flight suit once said.

OK, disclaimer, I’ve never been to SXSW, but I have to give it credit. It basically has subsumed the combination of CMJ, The Gavin Report, and NXNW combined as far as consolidation of entertainment and industry trade shows.

I guess the followup question is: WTF happened to CMJ, Gavin Report, and NXNW? (rhetorically asking.)

If anyone can direct me to some coverage roughly approximating something interesting, I would appreciate it. Did anyone check out SxS&M at Chain Drive? Catch the instores at End of an Ear? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Or was that where the locals, who frankly, I think, don’t give a fuck about SXSW anymore, hid out? Any music bloggers catch that ad-supported music panel that supposedly caused such a riot?

Perhaps this is the year that big media outlets realize that sending reporters to SXSW has negative ROI w/r/t actual content produced. Just sayin’.

If anyone can direct me to some coverage roughly approximating something interesting, I would appreciate it. Did anyone check out SxS&M at Chain Drive? Catch the instores at End of an Ear? (Or was that where the locals, who frankly, I think, don’t give a fuck about SXSW anymore, hid out?) I want more deets about that ad-content supported music panel that caused a dust-up. Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?

Perhaps this is the year that big media outlets realize that sending reporters to SXSW has negative ROI w/r/t actual content produced. Just sayin’.

Missing out on local cuisine was the hardest part. I had BBQ once and zero tacos, but two nights of room service and one regrettable 7/11 hot dog experience.

Did the Perez show have anyone worth listening to other than Robyn and Dragonette?

There are more than 20 bands at SXSW, though you wouldn’t know it from the coverage.