The Fun Fun Fun Fest in Waterloo Park, Austin, TX (Day 1), 11/7/09

Times New Viking

Single-handedly

Redeemed by their talented

Sound board engineer.

Vega

Phoenix, as fronted

By Mexican MJ and

Slash, with hot dance moves.

Red Sparowes

Smaller setting band

But I could see potential

In some of those sounds

The Sword

DETHKLOK sans Nathan,

Austin homer band held court

For jocund minions

Dead Confederate

Emo lead singer

Awash in a sea of sound

Rendered quite pleasant!

Melt Banana

SARS masks and high speed

Lyric spitting looked fun, but

Also, annoying.

Death

Don't let the wedding

Band look fake you out. They

Seared off faces, son!

Neon Indian

As though divining

The next day's rain, tech trouble

Basically killed the set.

Yeasayer

We should have taken

The Madonna songs before

Old shows as warning.

Shearwater*

With an angel's voice,

He commanded us as his

Medieval army.

Face to Face

Yeah, I remember

All those songs from my rough high

School days.... what of it?

Jesus Lizard

"This is gonna be

SO GOOD," he assured us, and,

Well, dude didn't lie. :)

*Best set of the night.

The F*ck Yeah Fest at the LA State Historic Park, 9/5/09

The Fuck Yeah Fest

Line up devised by

compiling random people's

Descriptions of punk.

Mika Miko

God grant me just one

Conversation that warrants

Phone yelling like so.

Times New Viking

This band does not give

Two shits for musical keys

nor those who notice.

The Thermals

Teenage furor and

Snarky vocals soar with such

Meaning, one believes!

Lightning Bolt

Their sweatshirt hoods were

Space suit helmets, offering

Shield from their art's force.

The Strange Boys

Fusion jazz stood back

To allow their guitarist

Ample space to rage.

Fucked Up

Understandable,

Now, to see why Fox News picked

Him as punk's spokesman.

Tim & Eric (Pusswhip Banggang)

I pitied the souls

Not yet indoctrinated...

All jokes were inside.

No Age

Playing to the home

Crowd, they could have played white noise

And be hailed as gods.

The Black Lips

Their filthiness made

My southern roots swell with pride...

Dirty beat band love!

The Pitchfork Music Festival (Sunday) at Union Park in Chicago, 7/20/08

Times New Viking

Surprise! A lady
Raged through their cacophony
Of an arrangement

The Dirty Projectors

All could fail around
This band and they'd save the day
With their loveliness

High Places

I volunteer my
Service as your bass player
Take it. You need me.

Boris

See-through magenta
Not just a kit, but a sound
Coupled with burning

HEALTH

Nomenclature to
Shed a tear to, they blew out
An eardrum or two

Les Savvy Fav

Oh, dear. Joke's on me
For judging books by titles
Small French chicks they're NOT!

M. Ward

Youthful finger work
Octogenarian soul
Sepia photo songs

The Dodos

Would not have taken
Meric to be such a ham...
Jumbo-Tron grin!

Spiritualized

Liam Gallagher
But with power, focused force
Unleashed unto us

Dinosaur Jr

I sacrificed my
Body so that Barlow could
Bless me with his smile.

Spoon

Quite keyboard savvy
These days, perhaps to distance
From Vampire Weekend?