photos by Kevin Figueroa

METZ (Thursday) and A Place To Bury Strangers (Saturday) both played BrooklynVegan day parties at old Emo's at SXSW this year. Some more pictures from the former's set are in this post, as is a chance to win tickets to see both bands together at the Mohawk on April 25 (part of a larger tour METZ will be on troughtout April & May). Contest details and more pictures of METZ from the BV party below...

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photos by Bruno Simões

MS MR @ The Jr in old Emo's for BrooklynVegan SXSW 2013

""Old Emo's" is code for the place where the legendary rock club Emo's used to be before it moved to some distant region southeast of downtown Austin. Still, the shell of the old venue (and the memories that come with it) are still there, so Brooklyn Vegan seized on it to book a number of day parties full of blog-favorite acts. Two highlights were Autre Ne Veut, who kept the audience in a trance on the outside stage, and Unknown Mortal Orchestra, whose psych-lite indie-rock provided a great respite from the loud and unruly crowds out on Sixth Street." [EW.com]

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This year at SXSW, we encouraged people to tweet their pictures from all BrooklynVegan shows with hashtag #BVSXSW, We sweetened the deal by offering you the chance to win a pair of kicks from Creative Recreation. Well, the results are in and ten lucky winners have been notified. Check out all the #BVSXSW Instagrams HERE. Check out the ten winners below....

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WINNER 1: R.I.P. Emo's (by birdiefoe)

WINNER 2: Marnie Stern (by some1inmydictionary)

more below...

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photos by Glen Brown

Octopus Project & A Place To Bury Strangers

The final day at Fun Fun Fun Fest on 11/4 at Auditorium Shores was more than just large and sweaty vocalists (we already posted Turbonegro & Fucked Up pics HERE). It also featured appearances from Balmorhea, A.Dd+, Fang Island, Bleached, A Place to Bury Strangers, Class Actress, Japandroids, The Octopus Project and many more on some of the other stages. Some of those bands are pictured in this post.

Browse all our FFF Fest pics HERE. More in this post, below...

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Scenes from Fun Fun Fun Lucky Lady Bingo via Adi Anand's Instagrams 7/11/2012

While we've had some teasers in the last few weeks - Wednesday night was the night for BINGO - and the full Fun Fun Fun Fest reveal.

On 7/11 (Happy Slurpee Day!) Fun Fun Fun held their bingo-to-reveal-the-artists event, and while we already knew about Run DMC reuniting and some others, there were quite a few surprises in the massive list of musical acts and comedians announced (Public Image Ltd., Youth of Today, De La Soul, X, Bob Mould, Saul Williams, and Hannibal Burress to name a few).

The headliners (in addition to the aforementioned Run DMC reunion) are an electic-but-looked-forward-to group: Santigold, Refused, and for Comedy David Cross.

Three-day and PIP passes go on sale on Thursday at 10AM CST and will no doubt move fast. Get them here once the clock passes 9:59...

See the full line-up below.

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