Idolator

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. More »