Slayer was the real main headliner of Fun Fun Fun Fest. Every night there were there big bands playing with everyone from Danzig to Public Enemy, but everyone seemed to be pretty fucking excited about Slayer. Even Odd Future thanked everyone who came to their show despite Slayer playing. One of the food vendors had a Slayer Dog for sale for $6.66 and there were more Slayer shirts at the fest than anything else.

It hadn’t rained in Austin for months before Sunday yet the skies opened up a few hours before Slayer played. I am not going to comment on the rumor that it was raining blood and frogs but let’s just say with the combination of the dust storms and the blood rain I was pretty sure the world was going to end when Slayer took the stage. Fortunately for us it did not and they just played what was described to me by a huge Slayer fan as their best show in a decade. I only shot two songs but it was an epic experience.

Click here to see all my photos of Slayer from Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, TX.

For the second weekend in a row I found myself at a music festival in an airstream trailer watching bands get Sailor Jerry tattoos. At the Voodoo Fest in New Orleans we tattooed members of Fishbone, Major Lazer, Peelander Z, TV on the Radio and Boots Electric. This time at Fun Fun Fun in Austin we tattooed Big Freedia, Spank Rock, Johnny Nelson, members of Passion Pit, G-Side, Paint It Black and nearly everyone in EYEHATEGOD.

Big Freedia was a highlight, not only because she got a hilarious tattoo but because later when she was talking to Ryan Gosling she showed him it and I got a picture and it blew up all over the internet and made my client very happy and ultimately that will lead to me going on more adventures like these. My homie Johnny Nelson is on the road with Spank Rock and he got a shark right near his Driven By Boredom tattoo and Piink from Major Lazer who got inked last week came back and got a tattoo this weekend that actually says Sailor Jerry on it. It was pretty amazing.

All the tattoos were once again done by Terry Brown at Uptown in New Orleans. Next time down there you should get him to tattoo you… just don’t get him started on his love for Public Enemy or he might never stop tattooing you.

Anyway, I got a busy day today and my band has a show tonight so I am going to get out of here, but check back in a little bit because I have one more post for you and it’s a good one….

Click here to see the Sailor Jerry tattoos from the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin Texas.

Just like on Halloween Weekend at Voodoo Fest Sailor Jerry set up one of their airstream trailers in the artist area of Fun Fun Fun. They gave out rum drinks and actual tattoos to artists, media and festival staff. The airstream also became a place to hang out. There were benches out front and the airstream was one of the only dust storm proof place at the fest.

This star studded gallery is a collection of photos taken in and just outside of the airstream. Lot of rad bands and cute girls stopped by and you clearly need to look at these pictures. I will be back tomorrow with a sequel of sorts to this gallery when I show you all the Sailor Jerry tattoos that were given out at the airstream. Get excited.

Click here to see the party inside a party that was the Sailor Jerry Airstream at the 2011 Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin Texas.

This is post one of a series of photo posts from the Fun Fun Fun music fest in Austin Texas that was held last weekend. I was asked to cover the crazy three day party for Sailor Jerry who seemed really happy with my work at the Voodoo fest the previous weekend. They did tattoos and passed out free drinks and I documented at all but I also got to have fun fun fun at the fest and I shot a bunch of bands and a bunch fun times and a bunch of Ryan Gosling.

This first intro post is just full of the crowd shots I took that don’t fit into any specific galleries. These photos are from all over the fest but most of them were taken in the artist/media area that I spent most of my time in because I needed to stay close to the Sailor Jerry trailer. Plus most of my friends are pretentious VIP types and they don’t like to pay for drinks or venture out into public with the unwashed masses.

Also since this is the intro post of Fun Fun Fun I should mention the Ryan Gosling thing.  He was filming a Terrence Malick film called Lawless during the fest and he was there all damn weekend and then he was at all the after parties. I ran into the guy 50 times and EVERYONE was talking about it constantly. Yesterday when I was in Chicago I felt like there was a hole in my life and I didn’t know what it was… I realized that no one had mentioned Ryan Gosling to me in the last twelve hours. So in the next three galleries will be full of “RyGo” as people kept calling him (seemingly just to intentionally make my skin crawl). After that we will move into band photos and this website will once again be a Gosling free zone. So enjoy your Gosling while you have it ladies.

Anyway, I am about to get on a plane so let’s get it on.

Click here to see all the crowd shots from the 2011 Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas.

Okay, this is it. The last post of the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans and we are going to pack a lot into it. I have four galleries of images for you in this one post because I gotta start getting up Fun Fun Fun fest pics later today.  In this post we have mini galleries of Snoop and Kreayshawn and then a mixed gallery featuring live shots of Cheap Trick, Z-Trip, Star Eyes and TV on the Radio. And then finally we have all the random crowd shots I took at the festival. Those probably deserve their own post but I don’t have the time for it…

Snoop Dogg and Kreayshawn were pretty much playing at the same time at opposite ends of City Park in New Orleans. Snoop was supposed to go on a few minutes earlier than her but he ended up going on late. When he did go on his stage lights shined right into my lens and most of my shots had crazy lens flare. As much as I love Snoop I have shot him before so only shot one song and booked it down to Kreayshawn. I know a lot of my friends hate her but I really do love that Gucci Gucci song and I kinda think she is adorable. I also think that the argument that she is racist is bullshit. Whatever the case I had been wanting to shoot her for a while but I only got to shoot about 45 seconds of her set before they kicked me out of the photo pit. My photos were mediocre at best and I only got a few of them. I only got one song to shoot Cheap Trick and TV on the Radio as well and that accounts for why there is only a handful of shots from those sets.  As far as Star Eyes and Z-Trip… well shooting people DJing is just boring so I only took a few shots of them.

Lastly in this post we have the gallery of crowd shots. Most of them are shots of people drinking either out of Sailor Jerry cups, people in crazy halloween costumes or the occasional cute girl. There were a lot of great costumes but it wasn’t really my job to be taking photos of concert goers so I only shot a few photos while I was in between bands. There are also a few random back stage shots like the photos of OFWGKTA members Tyler the Creator and Left Brain.

Anyway, it’s time to put the Voodoo Music Experience to bed and move on to Fun Fun Fun so click below to check out one or all of the four galleries I have left. Thanks.

Click here to see photos of Snoop Dogg at Voodoo Music Experience.

Click here to see photos of Kreayshawn at Voodoo Music Experience.

Click here to see photos of Cheap Trick, TVOTR, Star Eyes and Z-Trip at Voodoo Music Experience.

Click here to see some random crowd shots from Voodoo Music Experience.

Trying to crank these Voodoo Music Experience photo updates out before I get to the new stuff from Fun Fun Fun Fest. I shot a few thousand images this weekend and I have tons of fun stuff for you guys. I was thinking about just putting up all the rest of the band photos from Voodoo all up at once but I wanted to give special consideration to Peelander Z and Boots Electric and for the same reasons. Both bands feature rad people and both bands got Sailor Jerry tattoos.

As you may know by now I am a big Peelander Z fan. They are a crazy Japanse band that I have been checking out for about a decade now. They put on an amazing show and they are all super friendly and hilarious. I have nothing but love for this band. And then you add to that the fact that Peelander Green got a big bad ass Sailor Jerry octopus tattoo and it makes me even more pro-Peelander.

Boots Electric got our Sailor Jerry tattoo promotion the most press because their frontman Jessie Hughes (also of Eagles of Death Metal) got his tattoo filmed for Fuse TV. He actually got a Sailor Jerry bomb with the Fuse logo in it. Jessie hung out most of the day and seemed like really good people. Also his girlfriend Tuesday Cross is a girl I photographed at a hotel party in Vegas like four years ago. She is rad as fuck and their band is a lot of fun.

So, now that I gave both those bands a little shout out, let’s get on with the photos. God willing I will only have one more Voodoo fest update and I can get started with the Fun Fun Fun stuff ASAP.

Click here to see all the photos of Peelander Z at the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans.

Click here to see all the photos of Boots Electric at the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans.

I have so many random band photos and things to get up over the next week or two but I am in Chicago and I haven’t slept more than four hours since last Wednesday. Before I get to any band photos I need to take a minute to promote some super important madness happening very soon. This Thursday, November 10th my punk cover band Fucking Bullshit is playing Lit Lounge at 11pm. My homie Rudy’s band Filthy Savage is playing at 10 before us and the party NC-17 is happening right after it so you can come early and stay late. The show is $6 which while not a lot of money is still too much for most of you assholes but I promise to at least try to make myself bleed on stage. It will be our first show in like two months so I am pretty pumped and we have three new songs including Cop Killer by Body Count. Get excited.

In celebration of this show I have created a new video teaching everyone how to make the bands sinature coctail, a “Fucking Bullshit”. It involves three shots of rum, two 5 Hour Energy drinks and twenty minutes after you take it you feel like God. I will be drinking one of these a half hour before we play at Lit so come and see what happens. Also we will have our new amazing t-shirts for sale which I will be hopefully unveiling this week.

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So I am at the Fun Fun Fun Music Fest in Austin, TX right now (follow my Tumblr for pics from that) but I still have a bunch of photos from the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans last weekend. I don’t have time to do a post for each band so I am gonna do some group posts starting with today’s old school punk rockish bands, Social Distortion, Fishbone and X. None of these bands are exactly punk rock but all of them are listened to by punk rock kids so that counts.

I had a Social Distortion poster on my college dorm room wall and X is one of my favorite bands of all time. I never listened to Fishbone back in the day but a lot of my friends did and I saw them at SXSW and they were fucking amazing. I hung out with Angelo a bit during the Zombie Crawl and then I hung out with the rest of the guys in the band at Voodoo so I am a big fan of that band now. I have had a crush on Exene from X since I was 14 and I saw Decline of Western Civilization. I still have a crush on her now even though she is looking a bit grandmotherly these days…

So that is my pointless rant about these three rad bands and I am gonna go back to my new life in Austin at a totally different music festival. While I do that, you should go look at photos.

Click here to look at the photos of Social Distortion.

Click here to look at the photos of Fishbone.

And click here to look at the photos of X.

I don’t really have a whole lot of amazing photos of the Raconteurs. There are a few shots I like and I don’t really have that much to say about their set but I just fucking love this band. Jack White is pretty much the only relevant rockstar left who isn’t a rapper and Brendan Benson is kinda fucking amazing. Them teaming up is pretty much my favorite thing about modern rock music. And that is all I have to say about that.

Click here to see my shots of The Raconteurs at the 2011 Voodoo Music Experience.