Our crew gets busted stealing power from a mental hospital

Sara and her fellow travelers bemoan Brody McCoy's prime "parking spot" and tell a story about how they were recharging their multitude of electronic devices at an outlet at the mental hospital across the street until they got busted.

This report is up there with last year's Lone Star Beer Keg thief episode.

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First Communion Afterparty at SXSW on KEXP's "wayback machine"

(Photo by Jim Bennet.)

KEXP has a streaming archive, kind of like a way back machine, so you can go back and listen to First Communion Afterparty's SXSW set there YESTERDAY at 5:30 PM Central time in case you missed it.

Go here: http://www.kexp.org/streamarchive/streamarchive.asp

Select Thursday, 3/19, and go back to 3:30 PM and start your stream. (KEXP is on Seattle time, so they're two hours behind Austin right now.)

I wish all radio stations offered retroactive streaming archive of content.

Photos of FCAP on the KEXP blog here: http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2009/03/20...on-afterparty/

Edit: Looks like it'll start right up at the beginning of FCAP's set if you use this shortcut I pulled out of my streaming player.

The Sara & Shayna SXSW show continues

Sara & Shayna report in on the Kaiser Cartel, Romantica and John Swardson. They are now heading over to see Alela Diane now.

Shayna apologizes for her potty mouth on the last broadcast.

Sara and Shayna say you can spot the Minneapolis pepes in Austin because they are all looking for shade and respite from the heat.

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A selection of Minnesota blogs covering SXSW

This is an incomplete list, of course, but here are some of the blogs that are giving play by play, day by day coverage on the ground of SXSW in Austion. (For HowWasTheShow's own coverage by Sara Montour visit the main page.)

CultureBully (Jon Behm reporting)

• http://www.culturebully.com/sxsw-report-part-one
• http://www.culturebully.com/sxsw-report-part-two
  
• http://www.culturebully.com/sxsw-report-part-three
  

The Decider (Stacy Schwartz reporting)

• http://twincities.decider.com/articles/postcard-from-sxsw-march-18-part-1,25337/
• http://twincities.decider.com/articles/postcard-from-sxsw-march-18-part-2,25366/

City Pages (Andrea Swensson reporting)

• http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2009/03/sxsw_janelle_mo.php
• http://www.citypages.com/slideshow/view/266578 (Stacy Schwartz photos)
• http://www.citypages.com/slideshow/view/268902 (More Stacy Schwartz photos)
  
• http://www.citypages.com/slideshow/view/268844 (Still more Stacy Schwartz photos)

We Heart Music

• http://weheartmusic.vox.com/library/post/sxsw-update-first-impressions.html
• http://weheartmusic.vox.com/library/post/sxsw-day-two.html

Star Tribune (Chris Riemenschneider) - Many, many reports a day so go to the main blog link. Chris's reports include photos by Tony Nelson.

• http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/poplife/2009/03/20/sxsw-2009-thursday-recap-2/
• http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/poplife/2009/03/20/sxsw-2009-m-ward-pt-2-thursday-2/
• http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/poplife/2009/03/19/sxsw-2009-oh-you-bastards/
• http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/poplife/2009/03/19/sxsw-2009-nprs-good-and-bad-thu-afternoon/
• http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/poplife/2009/03/19/sxsw-2009-wednesday-recap/
• http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/poplife/2009/03/19/sxsw-2009-two-big-album-previews-wed-night/

Sara and Shayna report in from Day 3 of SXSW

I believe I told Sara that the more random her reports from SXSW were the the better. After hearing the one she just filed, I think it's clear she took that to heart. Included are a story about their friend Josh volunteering to be clothes-lined by an oar and Shayna telling her own story about running into a man's penis in the middle of the night in the RV while trying to get to her pajamas. (Shayna's aside asking Sara asking if it's okay to say "penis" on her report, is priceless.)

Otherwise, they ran into John Swardson and Steve Marsh at the ill-fated Gophers game watching party. Today they plan to hit up all the Minneapolis kids playing at the Moneyapolis show, including Solid Gold.


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Sara reports in on The Roadside Graves and Port O'Brien

Sara, Shayna and Gabe all check in on their way to support Minneapolis band Roster McCabe. They saw Port O'Brien and Roadside Graves. After Roster McCabe they head to Megafaun, Cold War Kids and M. Ward.

Report includes Shayna on her extremely organic lunch.

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Sara Montour Thursday morning update from SXSW

Up and at 'em in Austin, Sara Montour recaps a little bit of her first night at SXSW (Pure Volume party) and plans her Thursday concert going.

So far she's run into many Twin Cities locals, including Jeremy Messersmith, Matt Perkins and Andrea Swensson, Music Editor of City Pages.

Sounds like there's a lot of wandering around going on down there.


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Sara arrives in Austin . . . finally

Sara Montour and her ragtag team of bloggers and friends have finally arrived in Austin. (Photo is an iPhone photo of 6th Street in Austin via Twitpic.)

As they are traveling in a tour bus, passenger Shayna reveals the back story the group has concocted about how they are a band called Sweater Teeth who only do songs about sweaters and teeth.

They fill you in on this and share breaking news that John Swardson is about to take a nap.

The adventure is clearly about to begin.

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Minnesota (and honorary Minnesota) Twitterers at SXSW

Being at SXSW and not being on Twitter these days is almost like being invisible. As Twitter goes to SXSW for the third straight year now, here’s a list of the Minnesota Twitter pepes I have noticed are there sending updates. Follow them for the inside scoop.

HowWasTheShow (http://www.twitter.com/howwastheshow) is not in Texas but you should follow us anyway as we are happily serving as dispatch for many of the folks below.

Or, if you are trying to avoid hearing what’s going on in Austin this week, it would be a good time to un-follow these folks for a few days.

MN Twitterers at SXSW (in alphabetical order)

• http://www.twitter.com/andreaswensson
• http://www.twitter.com/cakein15
• http://www.twitter.com/cowbell
• http://www.twitter.com/dancarlson
• http://www.twitter.com/doubleasterisk
• http://www.twitter.com/fimoculous (Honorary Minnesotan)
• http://www.twitter.com/saramontour
• http://www.twitter.com/solace
• http://www.twitter.com/staciaann
• http://www.twitter.com/thecurrentsxsw
• http://www.twitter.com/trikno
  

I’m sure I’ve missed a bunch. Please leave additions in the comments!

Ohhhhhhklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain

HowWasTheShow's BFF Sara Montour is now in Oklahoma where she phoned in this report (listen below) from The Waffle House.

Sara reports in on her van mates. Gabe Douglas from Twin Cities band 4onthefloor is driving the Molly Trixie. Also along are Vu from We Heart Music, Brody McCoy from britrockatthetop, Sean from Cedar Avenue Band as well as passengers Krista, Shayna, Josh, another Sara, and Paul. She wasn't kidding when she said it was quite a van load.

The crew expect to arrive in Austin at 5 or 6 p.m. and apparently have pre-arranged a great parking spot for the RV close to the action so they will not need to cab back and forth from the clubs.

Stay tuned.


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Sara leaves for Austin for SXSW 2009 - Kickoff blogcast

HowWasTheShow's BFF Sara Montour just jumped in the RV known as "The Molly Trixie" to head down to Austin for SXSW 2009. She'll be providing reports along the way, and of course when she arrives.

Stay tuned to HowWasTheShow via Twitter for notifications about new episodes of Sara's blogcasts of commentary, interviews, and of course fabulous photos. You can follow Sara directly on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/saramontour.

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In the meantime, check out Sara's photos of the SXSW kickoff show at First Avenue on Saturday night: http://saramontour.com/music/