UPDATE: According to someone purporting to be No Depression's Peter Blackstock, the press release claiming to be from the Austin "ultra lounge" Panagea and saying that people who shelled out $300 or more for bottle service at No Depression's South By Southwest showcase would get "priority admission" was a hoax against the club. Pangaea, which opened in October 2007, referred to itself as an "ultra lounge" and
did point out that "bottle service," also known as the practice of reserving a table by overpaying for a bottle of liquor, was available when it opened. The origin of the "hoax" press release is unknown at present; the original post is below. We'd like to take a second to apologize to
No Depression for basically being collateral damage in what seems to be one person's effort to, as they say, keep Austin weird in the face of the city's increasing smoothing-out.
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Idolator
Ah, Philadelphia. It's only been two months since I left your slacker ass for New York City, but I'm glad to see that the Philadelphia Weekly is still full of self-righteous rock lunacy. Throughout an irreverent anti-memorial for Harp, former Harp contributor and "punk poet" Steven Wells offers us the transgressive, energetic writing he feels has been sorely lacking in indie music magazines. None of the bodily humors are left behind as he recalls a time when angry lesbain punks were angry lesbian punks and Lester Bangs danced the Charleston on top of the Sears Tower or something. And yes, he is British.
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