10 Signs Your Band Won't Make It at SXSW

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Don't count on it, fellas.
5. You called the sound guy a dick while onstage and treated the venue like servants.
Was it hard to get the human feces smell off of your bass guitar; did you just have to buy a new one?


4. You have a really bad official SXSW bio.
Remember, less is more...


3. You went to score stepped-on cocaine instead of sound-checking at the venue.
Everyone knows standard SX coke is basically BC Powder and table salt.


2. You are from Houston.
I keeding.


1. You sound like everyone else.
The world at large only needs one Black Lips, one throwback AC/DC ripoff, one Kanye, one Arcade Fire, one No Age, one Gaslight Anthem and one Jack White, and that is it. Sell banal someplace else -- we're all stocked up here. Find a new niche and carve it out with hard work and ingenuity. I mean it about the Black Lips thing.




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2 comments
Steven Cruz
Steven Cruz

I think Houston needs a good garage rock band. If you say there is, you're completely bullshitting me.

slumpville
slumpville

Played at SXSW twice. Not a huge fan. Kinda wonder what the big deal is.


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