Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012 (more by Glen Brown)

Sorry for the late post of this. Graham actually did send us this last year, but we forgot to post it!

We posted many year-end lists from artists and other people in the music world as 2012 came to a close (browse our "Best of 2012" tag) and this one comes from Fun Fun Fun Fest/Transmission Events booker Graham Williams who gave us a list of the "best stuff of 2012." A few albums make the list, as do some live shows in Austin and a certain reunited group that Graham booked at this year's FFF Fest.

You can check out the full list below...

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Riverboat Gamblers at FFF7 (more by Keith Marlowe)

The 2012 Fun Fun Fun Fest is still a fond recent memory, but it's time to pull out your 2013 calendars and save the dates for FFF8 which will happen November 8, 9 and 10 at Auditorium Shores. And if you're really the plan-ahead type, Holiday Early Bird Tickets (30% off) go on sale Tuesday morning (12/18) at 10 AM CST.

We are big fans of KLRU, and they're taking a new approach to fund raising that makes it quite a bit more exciting than getting a canvas tote bag.

It's called The Big Deal and it is. Buy a $25 raffle ticket, get a chance to win BIG. The raffle winner will get festival passes (ACL Fest, Fun Fun Fun Fest, SXSW, Austin Film Festival, Moontower Comedy and more), tickets, gift certificates, and other items valued at close to $8000. Boom.

If you're well-heeled and want to better your odds, you can get an additional raffle ticket for another $25 and each one gets another chance in the drawing. All that AND you're supporting KLRU. Win/Win. Raffle tickets can be purchased now through January 4, 2013. Drawing to be held February 1. One lucky winner (and their friends) is going to be a really Big Deal on February 2.

See the full list of items in the prize package 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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John Lydon with PIL

Better late than never. Here's yet another set of pictures from Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012. They continue below...

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photos by Glen Brown

Brutal Truth

Better late than never. Here's yet another set of pictures from Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012. They continue below...

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photos by Glen Brown

RUN DMC / Black Lips with Val Kilmer /Against Me!

The best part about Austin's annual good time known as Fun Fun Fun Fest is diversity. While punk and metal are driving the tattoo-sleeved set nuts on the Black Stage (pics HERE and HERE), there is an entirely different festival going on at some of the other stages - legendary MCs to movie star cameros, punk legends to some of the best indie bands on the come-up. .

In this post are another set of pics from day one, this time from photographer Glen Brown, including shots of Black Lips with Val Kilmer and Rooney Mara (part of a Terrence Malick movie shoot, more HERE), Against Me!, and Run DMC, plus X, Not In The Face, Dum Dum Girls, Cursive, Diamond Rings, Sharon Van Etten, more Napalm Death, more Converge, Astronautilus, Bob Mould, and Tomahawk.

More below...

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photos by Keith Marlowe and Harriet Roberts

Turbonegro / Valient Thorr / Ceremony @ FFF Fest 2012

Fun Fun Fun Fest came to a close at Auditorium Shores on Sunday (11/4), with the Black Stage housing a Turbonegro headlining set, plus appearances by Fucked Up, Valient Thorr, The Briefs, Turbonegro, Ceremony, Camp X-Ray, Japandroids, Between the Buried and Me and many others. Pictures from the final day at Auditorium Shores including pictures from the BV-presented afterparty with Ceremony, Bleached and more, are below.

And what a weekend it was on the Black Stage, with names like X, Napalm Death, Youth of Today, Tomahawk, PiL, The Spits, and many others. If you missed any of our previous sets, check out one set from the Black Stage on day 1 HERE, a second HERE, day 2 HERE Black Lips with Val Kilmer HERE and Ume HERE.

More to come. More below...

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photos by Keith Marlowe and Harriet Roberts

Youth of Today / Riverboat Gamblers @ FFF Fest 2012

We've so far posted pictures primarily from the Black Stage during day 1 of Fun Fun Fun Fest (11/2), which featured names like X, Tomahawk, Converge, Napalm Death, Against Me and more, like headliner RUN DMC. That first set is HERE.

Day two at Auditorium Shores (Saturday, 11/3) featured similarly great artists like The Spits plus Riverboat Gamblers, Off!, Seaweed, Youth of Today, whose pit kicked up a lot of dust, plus PiL, Wavves, Surfer Blood and many more. (Some of which we already featured other photos of here.) More pics from the second day of FFF at (primarily) the Black Stage are below.

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photos by @griffinshot - Tim Griffin

Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros @ The Moody theater on 11/02/2012

Fresh off of headlining the last night of Fun Fun Fun Fest (pictures coming soon), Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros taped a performance at The Moody Theater for ACLTV and Austin City Limits. After the show, the band walked over to The Ginger Man and played some more.

More pictures from the ACLTV/KLRU taping below.

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photos by Glen Brown

Ume. Fun Fun Fun Fest. Nuff said. More pictures below...

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photos by Shaun Regan

Youth of Today / Refused

"For [Refused]'s second Texas show ever (the first, in Houston, occurred in 1996), the set was more or less wish-fulfillment for the fans for whom The Shape Of Punk To Come has become something of a mythical object. It's a touchstone that countless lesser bands imitated, taking all of the wrong lessons -- mimicking the quiet-loud dynamics without understanding their purpose -- and which, ultimately, never lived up to its name." [Culture Map]

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Val Kilmer & the Black Lips @ FFF FEst (photo by el_deego)

To quote one YouTuber, "As part of the Terrence Malick movie being filmed in Austin, here's Val Kilmer acting "drunk" using a chainsaw on a speaker and cutting his own hair off during a performance with the Black Lips at Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012 (with Rooney Mara and Michael Fassbender on stage)." Videos below...

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photos by Keith Marlowe

Napalm Death / Tomahawk / X

The seventh edition of Fun Fun Fun Fest kicked off on Friday (11/2) at Auditorium Shores in Austin, featuring a headlining set from the hip hop legends Run DMC, X (playing all of their landmark Los Angeles), Santigold, Against Me!, and many many others. Our first set of Friday pictures, primarily from the Black Stage (which leaned punk/hardcore/metal) are in this post, including Converge, Napalm Death, Tomahawk, Against Me!, X and Run-DMC. More, along with Napalm Death's new video for "Everyday Pox", and video and the setlist from Run-DMC's set, below...

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Ceremony at FYF 2012 (more by )

BrooklynVegan is hosting one of the many Fun Fun Fun Nite shows happening this weekend as part of FFF Fest, and ours is at Red 7 on Sunday (11/4). We're on Red 7's outdoor stage with a lineup that veers a little more to the punk side of things with Old Poets (10 PM), Violent Bullshit (10:45), Bleached (11:30) and Ceremony (12:15 AM).

Meanwhile you can also wander into Red 7's indoor stage which has a mostly-metal line-up with Burnt Skull (9:30), Venomous Maximus (10:15), Wet Lungs (11 PM), Skycrawler (11:45) and post-punkers, Camp X-Ray (12:45 AM).

The show is free with your weekend or Sunday FFF wristband, first come first served based on capacity. More details at FFF's website. See you there!

some folk are already wearing their FFF wristbands (via missgopper)

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012 is upon us with bands (Run DMC, PiL, Bob Mould, Girl Talk and many many more) playing across four stages on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (11/2 - 11/4) at Auditorium Shores, and daytime schedule is here. Tickets are are still available.

But the fun (fun fun) begins this evening with the FFF Nites shows happening at many downtown venues. Shows are free with your wristband, first-come, first-served based on capacity. Weekend pass wristbands will get you into any night, and single-day wristbands only get you into that night's shows.

But you can use any day wristband for tonight's FFF Nites shows (11/1) that include Superchunk and Imperial Teen at Mohawk; Dwarves at Red 7 (outdoors); and Ssion at Club Deville. The full FFF Nites schedule is here, which includes the show on Sunday (11/4) that BrooklynVegan is hosting at both stages at Red 7 with Ceremony, Bleached and more.

Free Transmission Events' Shows During ACL

While Fun Fun Fun Fest Nites is still weeks away, Transmission Events is bringing some FREE show fun during ACL. As per a recent tweet, they are doing it out of love:

For some great shows to keep things going long into the night during ACL on the cheap (FREE!), check out the full listings below.

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Long-running Denton/Austin band The Riverboat Gamblers, having released their sixth album, The Wolf You Feed, earlier this year and have just let fly a new video from the record, "Eviction Notice," which we've got the premiere of in this post. Featuring some classy homemade visual effects courtesy of directors Andy Campbell and John Wesley Coleman who made it on high quality VHS. Very lo fi style, the song's got a classic feel to it too. You can watch it below.

The Riverboat Gamblers are currently on an East Coast tour that will take them up into Canada before heading back to Texas in time for Fun Fun Fun Fest in November. All tour dates are listed below.

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Fun Fun Fun Fest Scavenger Hunt 2012

This coming Saturday (9/22) Fun Fun Fun Fest is having their annual state-wide Scavenger Hunt (in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio). Register on the Fun Fun Fun site here to take part in the fun. You can also register day-of at one of the four sites (all listed with the full details after the jump), but early birds who register online get worms - or rather bonus points towards the event. From Fun Fun Fun:

AUSTIN, TX (SEPTEMBER 12, 2012) - FUN FUN FUN FEST announced today the details for the 2012 edition of its annual Scavenger Hunt. Set for September 22nd in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, this is a truly unique quest where fans will aim to mark off a variety of intriguing, oft-questionable tasks from their target lists to win passes and other Fun Fun Fun Fest approved gear.

In past years, fans have gone as far as placing a bartender's toe in their mouths to getting FFF tattoos on their necks during the course of this fascinating event. All in the name of the festival that unerringly delivers the best in independent rock, electro, hip-hop, metal, punk, and comedy each year. Other items on past lists have included pictures of team members moshing inside a dumpster, petting
a fake duck, dousing their faces in queso, and riding a pedicab nude.

If you're not able to make all three days, single-day passes are still available for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Check out full details and registration information for the FFF Scavenger Hunt below.

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DOWNLOAD: Residual Kid - "Friend" (MP3)

Residual Kid @ Frontier Bar - 8/18/2012

Austin's Residual Kid (who we covered a few weeks back at Frontier Bar) just released an MP3 (download above) and video (watch below) for their song 'Friend'. Their EP Faces is set for release on October 9 which is three days after they play North Door to celebrate its arrival.

You don't need to wait that long to see them though. Their next Austin appearance is on September 18 at Stubb's. They'll be on the inside stage after Devo and Blondie's show outside. You can also catch them at Fun Fun Fun Fest in November.

"Friend" video below...

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The Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012 schedule is now live (what conflicts piss you off the most?). Single day and student tickets are now also available.

The dangerous older-brother to Fun Fun Fun Fest, the kind that gets you really loaded and keeps you out waaaay too late, has announced its 2012 lineup and its a whopper. FFF Nites will feature appearances from Superchunk, Dwarves/Blag solo, Brutal Truth, Seaweed, Nachtmystium, Toys That Kill, Ceremony, Braid, King Tuff and much over its four nights of after-party mayhem. As usual, your FFF wristband will get you in with no strings attached to the four nights (11/1 - 11/4, but door prices for civilians remain TBA (shows havent been announced yet).

Tickets for FFF Fest proper are still available. In related news, Baroness recently announced that they will drop off of Fun Fun Fun Fest due to injuries sustained in their horrific crash in the UK. The announcement comes days after dropping off of dates at House of Vans and FYF Fest. Godspeed you guys.

Fun Fun Fun Nites lineup is below.

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Toys That Kill at Chaos in Tejas 2011 (more by Harriet Roberts)

Members of FYP make up Toys That Kill, who will play a string of dates this fall, touring on the strength of their excellent new LP, Fambly 42. Look for the band to play a Fun Fun Fun Nites show (afterparty for the fest) towards the end of their journey, hitting on November 2 with additional lineup/venue still TBA. Cover charge also TBA, but as always, your FFF wristband will get you in.

Tickets are still available for Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012. Lineup is HERE.

More info, in their own words (aka the press release), 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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