The original alternative to South by Southwest. Where the beer is cheaper and the only hipster is you. Find us on twitter! @couchxcouchwest While you brag about your tacos and exclusive parties, we'll be rocking out in the comfort of our living rooms. Send photos of you hanging out on your couch, or videos of you making music on your couch to CXCWEST at GMAIL dot COM and we will post them here! Please include your twitter handle! Couch, futon, bed, chair, bean bag, box, milk crate, old tire, etc., are all good. We at CXCW are not picky about comfortable slacking areas.
Staff Pick from Sundowner: Seth Gray - “Midnight”
I love a good rip-your-heart-out country song, and Gray has a great one here. Not to mention that he rocks the killer cowboy hat, and has one hell of a nice couch.
Now we have gotten to the serious part. First up is our CXCW Lifetime Achievement Award to a very special CXCW Performance from Neko Case that was certainly the highlight of this year's CXCW festival. We loved everything about this and the fact it was to help a great cause is even more reason Neko deserves this prestigious and world class honor.
And a special thanks to Captains Dead for convincing her to perform for us
We met so many great twitterers (tweeters? whatever), but with posts like "Airing out the #cxcw cushions, found another joint #win puff puff pass," "I just lost six pounds by taking a shower #cxcw," "Belt unbuckled, hand in waistband *burp* ahh #cxcw," "If anyone sees my girlfriend this morning, send her home. #CXCW" and "This venue is a mess!! #CXCW," popa2unes was spinning twitter gold all through the festival.
Honorable Mentions:
andiamkate
bugsdodger
boogiestudio22
BRB_Porter
captainsdead
countryfriedrok
deedeesvintage
EFAmericana
fistfulofbeard
imperialrooster
jackattackhayes
josielittle
kitcaless
nowthisissound
paleotrees
Philnorman
rockstar_aimz
theotherbrit
TimLee3
wellversedmom
We told Emily the Intern to compile a list of our most frequent and favorite tweeters. If you’re not on here, blame her! Seriously though, we have had so much fun getting to know all of you!
These guys took CXCW to the next level. Our first non-seated video, Glenn di Benedetto and friends from Parlour Bells broke the couch "rule" and featured a moving elevator and hairbrush microphone.
http://parlourbells.com/
Honorable Mention to The Gum Creek Killers of Birmingham, AL, for performing live from SXSW on their van couch.
The CBR for Creepiest Vid goes to some a-hole on the internet's ode to the insatiable intern Emily. Regrettably we had to pull this vid due to numerous FCC violations.
Such a cool cat on an ugly couch. She lost her CXCW badge, thus denying her entry into the Death From Above 1979 show, but that's OK as she would rather check out Glossary instead.
Honorable Mention goes to Nikita the stoned cat on the pillow in New York City. Duuuude.