Couch by Couch West

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.

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Couch by Couchwest has moved!

Announcing CXCW 2012, now with 100% more flyer. Share, RT, print it out, pester your friends, spread the love.  Come visit us at.....

http://couchbycouchwest.com/

We will no longer be using this tumblr site, other than for archival purposes.

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Staff Pick from Bitterbranch: Pete Stein - "New Mexico"

I'm a sucker for sad songs, so the only thing this video is lacking is a cute dog.

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Staff Pick from Cottonmouth: Mark Folkrod - "Gettin' Near Dawn"

One of the few electric performances, stompin' percussion, and just an overall great song make this my pick for favorite performance of CXCW

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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.

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CBR for best group performance goes to Lee Bains III and The Gloryfires with their performance of Bomb In Gilead

Honorable Mentions to: Imperial Rooster and The Dead Volts

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The CBR for best solo performance goes to Adam Remnant of Southeast Engine in Athens, OH. Congrats Adam!

Honorable mention to: Conrad Plymouth of Milwaukee, WI 

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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

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continuing our CBRs, here's the award for best dressed...naturally it goes to Dee Dee and Kit, of London.

Honorable mentions to: Panda Head and Snuggie German

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popa2unes

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!

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Parlor Bells

from Boston, MA!

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.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Gum-Creek-Killers/181554781879929

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DJ Invisiboy

from Portland, Oregon!

Beating out all of the other competition, DJ Invisiboy takes home the ribbon for best DJ. Thanx for the mad mixes, yo.

http://www.djinvisiboy.com/

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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.

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for Best Photo (non-pet category) we have Haley and Lo from Denver, CO fresh off a sixer of four loko it looks like

Honorable Mention to Amy in Cambridge, MA who looks to have finally found her clicker

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The CBR for best dog had to go to Dylan from Boston, MA singing along to his namesake

Honorable mention to Group Doggy Dogg in Mt. Holly, NJ whose owner's dedication to CXCW led him to crawl under the cushions

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Yardley

from Pittsburgh, PA

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.

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Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling

from Boston, MA!

Seriously, how can a dead ringer for Frank Zappa and his sidekick from the movie "Cry Baby" not win this category?

http://donotforsake.com/

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John Phelan

of Portland, Oregon’s, Truckstop Darlin

This was the most highly contentious category, but at the end of the day we fell hard for the Wolverine sideburns!

http://www.truckstopdarlin.com/

Honorable Mention to the singer/keyboardist from Slow Runner who is rocking the Ned Flanders stache.

http://www.slowrunnermusic.com