My South By Southwest updates are still going strong but I think after this one there will only be three more. Of course I am shooting two events tonight that I am going to want to get up so you could still be getting SXSW stuff into next week. Let’s see how it goes. The Sailor Jerry coverage continues with the party that Castle Face Records and CMRTYZ hosted together. The line up was top secret but included all sorts of rad bands like Night Beats, Wax Idols, Pharmacy and two different bands with Time in their names (Pony Time & Heavy Times), but the highlights were the headliners The Mallard and Thee Oh Sees.

I had seen The Mallard play earlier and I thought they were pretty good but they didn’t really stick into my brain. When they played this night show I was totally unprepared for the end of their set when their front woman hung her guitar from a banner and jumped into the crowd throwing dust on herself and everyone. It was pretty fucking awesome but as soon as I started taking photos, random people from the crowd started photo bombing her performance and it became this weird photo shoot with the crowd. It was pretty amazing and I ended up with some great, if not super weird, photos.

Thee Oh Sees are a band that I catch at least once every SXSW. They are fucking amazing and always put on a great show. The first time I ever saw them they were playing on a bridge and playing every other song with another band. I saw a girl with two black eyes and it turns out she got them from getting kicked in the face during a Thee Oh Sees show the night before. The madness did not disappoint and I actually ended up getting attacked in the mosh pit by some drunk guy who had tried to start a fight with me earlier in the night. I saw him coming and I grabbed him by the shirt and smashed my camera into his face. I was pretty upset that I lost my shit like that but my camera was fine. The next night he came up to me and sort of apologized but he really just wanted to know what happend because he didn’t remember anything of the night before. We were all good after that and he let me take a photo of his camera wound. Oh yeah, and Thee Oh Sees killed it.

Now click here to see all the pictures from the CMRTYZ/Castle Face Records Face-Off at the Sailor Jerry at the Gypsy Lounge!

Blundertown is company that books rad rock and roll shows in LA. They helped book two of the day parties (Friday and Saturday) at the Sailor Jerry takeover of Gypsy Lounge. On Friday they teamed up with the skate clothing company Altamont and thew a party with King Tuff and Hanni El Khatib headlining. There were a lot of great bands (check out their recap) but my personal favorites were White Lung and the bad ass band Hunters who I got to see at CMJ.

On Saturday Blundertown teamed up with LA Record for some punk rock awesomeness. They had NoBunny open the madness and The Spits close it out with a bunch of insane band in between. Cole from the Black Lips DJd and tons of rock and roll fun was had by everyone.

On Friday Keith Underwood tattooed anyone who was willing to throw a dart at a dartboard to pick their tattoo. It was all rad Sailor Jerry flash so you weren’t gonna be screwed but it’s still funny to see people getting a tattoo based on a dart throw. My man Terry Brown did the dart tattoos on Saturday and everybody’s favorite TV reality show host, Inkmaster’s Oliver Peck, tattooed bands and VIPs both days (like my home girl Alysha Nett). Oliver is fucking hilarious and not a bad tattoo artist, so it’s always fun to have him around. Terry tattooed a little bird on me when we were fucking around and I love doing events with him. Good times.

Anyway I have so much more SXSW stuff to get up so we are going to try to speed these right along. Check out the pictures from both parties and get ready for more “SXSJ” stuff tomorrow!

Click here to see all the pictures from the Blundertown/ Altamont party on Friday at Sailor Jerry x Gypsy Lounge!

Click here to see all the pictures from the Blundertown/ LA Record party on Saturday at Sailor Jerry x Gypsy Lounge!

If you haven’t noticed I am in Austin for SXSW. My main gig down here is working for my favorite client Sailor Jerry. They are doing a TON of events down in Austin to promote their spiced rum and I am shooting all of them. I am working around the clock so I don’t have much time to work on the website but I wanted to get some pictures up from a pretty fun party that happened on Wednesday.

Sailor Jerry took over the Gypsy Lounge all week and throws two parties a day. The night party on Wednesday was thrown by SJ,  CMRTYZ Dolce Vita, and shoes who gave a way and insane 500 pairs of their shoes. The line was down the block for a free pair of shoes and a bunch of awesome bands played. The Coathangers are one of my favorite new bands and they totally killed it as always. I was pretty into Slutever’s Hole cover and we talked a bunch about the other Slutever and how they should t-shirts together and split the cost. They gave me a 7″ so I was psyched. The Jacuzzi Boys are playing a bunch this weekend and they fucked some shit up and Shannon and the Clams were so weird but yet so awesome. They are pretty much the soundtrack to a John Waters movie in every conceivable way. Summer Twins, Colleen Green, The Mallard and Audacity also played but I have to go take more photos now so let’s keep it moving!

Click here to see all the photos from the CMRTZ/DV8 OMG Free Shoes party at the Sailor Jerry at Gypsy Lounge!

Famed tattoo artist Sailor Jerry would have turned 102 on Monday and the rum company that bares his name threw a party at the new Brooklyn spot Passenger Bar. They had a bunch of the tattoo artists from Three Kings come out and tattoo anchors for free on the first 102 people who showed up. It was a crazy night and a ton of fun. Steve Lewis spun rock and roll all night and I ended up getting a tattoo of a donkey thanks to Myles Karr who was doing some alternate Sailor Jerry designs in the VIP upstairs. I would talk longer about this rad party but I am in LA and on my way to Vegas tomorrow for the AVN Awards. It’s gonna be a crazy week but I should have a TON of awesome photos coming your way.

Until then, check out these photos from Sailor Jerry’s 102nd birthday party at Passenger Bar!

If you didn’t make sure you check out my post from Day 1 of the Brooklyn Vegan CMJ parties. Day two was more of the same… tons of rad bands at Public Assembly from noon to six and then an after party at St. Vitus from 8 until they kicked us out.

The big difference on Saturday was the free Sailor Jerry tattoos. Starting at 10am people started lining up to get a chance to throw a dart at a dart board to determine what free Sailor Jerry tattoo they would get permanently tattooed to their body.  Seriously, about 50 people got actual tattoos on them based on throwing a dart at a dart board. Matty No Times and Jeremy Sutton from Three Kings came by and did one after another all day. It was pretty amazing. I have a lot of Sailor Jerry tattoos myself but I don’t think I would have the balls to just throw a dart…

As far as the bands that played you can check out the line up here. Everyone was super psyched for Miguel for some reason. It’s not that he wasn’t good, I just don’t get why a bunch of Brooklyn scene kids would smash themselves into a back room for an R&B singer who went on an hour late. Meanwhile I bounced to the other room to check out Brooklyn’s own Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire who rocked a smaller crowd a lot harder. Other highlights were Hunters, Endless Summer  (fronted by a girl I went to high school with) and Kitty Pryde who was pretty mindblowing. Also this Ratking band I am pretty sure my band played with in Harlem.

After that over at St. Vitus there was the Brooklyn Vegan – BBG official CMJ Showcase. BBG is the heavy metal blogger for Brooklyn Vegan and shit got real, real metal. You can check out the line up for that event here. I don’t know enough about metal created after 1992 to talk about the line up so I’m just gonna let you look at the pictures and I am going to go to a pumpkin patch with my girlfriend because halloween is metal as fuck. (For what it’s worth my favorite band was Royal Thunder.)

Click here to see all the pictures from Brooklyn Vegan’s Saturday CMJ Day party at Public Assembly.

And click here to see all the pictures from the Brooklyn Vegan – BBG CMJ Showcase at St. Vitus.

On Friday and Saturday I shot a total of five events. Four of them were CMJ parties that Brooklyn Vegan threw. Since I am out of town and I want to get all these really fun pictures up we are going to simplify things. First, I am going to post all four parties in just two posts. One post today for Friday and one post (hopefully) Tomorrow with all the pictures from Saturday. Secondly I am going to link you to the flyer so you can figure out what the hell you are looking at instead of me telling you about it. But, I am going to give you a little paragraph breaking stuff down.

Friday started at noon at Public Assembly and people got their drink on early with open bars from Sailor Jerry and PBR. Tons of bands played all day on two stages and the event wrapped up at six. After that we headed over to St. Vitus at 8pm for an “Un-CMJ” after party the highlight of which featured Infinity Spaceship’s live band punk rock karaoke which was pretty much the highlight of my week. Good times. Other Day 1 highlights included Metz, Savages, Toys That Kill and Deap Vally. Also Sky Ferreira is really really hot…

So click here for all the pictures from Friday’s Brooklyn Vegan CMJ Day Party at Public Assembly.

And click here for all the pictures from Brooklyn Vegan’s Un-CMJ after party at St. Vitus.

I am going to make this quick because my girlfriend is on her way to NYC and I need to get a bunch of stuff done before I am unproductive for the week she is here. Long story short… last night was a lot of fun. Sailor Jerry puts on a lot of rock shows as you might have noticed from reading this blog and last night Sailor Jerry Presents brought the rock and roll stylings of Nobunny to the East Village tiki/dive bar Otto’s Shrunken Head. I saw Nobunny at Fun Fun Fun last year and he was awesome so I was pretty psyched for this show.

His back up band for this tour, Bad Sports, opened up and they were pretty awesome and the packed crowd at Otto’s was really into them. But when Nobunny came out, shit went to another level. It was like 1000 degrees in the little back room of Otto’s and I stuck around for the whole set sweating my ass off. Add to that all the cute babes and weird drinks at Otto’s and last night was just a really good time. I also shot a bunch of video for Sailor Jerry that you might see one of these days somewhere… Good times.

Click here to see all the photos from the Sailor Jerry Presents: Nobunny show at Otto’s Shrunken Head.

Ps. If you are wondering why Nobunny was not wearing his creepy bunny mask… he lost it.

Cobrafest was a three day after party for the Pitchfork Music Fest at Cobra Lounge in Chicago. Sailor Jerry was a sponsor and you can see pictures from Friday here and Saturday here. Now let’s do Sunday quickly so I can get on a plane!

Day three of Cobrafest was pretty awesome but I was pretty wrecked from the weekend so I moved a little slower and took a few less photos but had fun just the same. Day three was full of great rock and roll bands but headlined by King Tuff. Natural Child, Jaill and local rockers Slushy. Nick Collela passed tattooing duties to Frank Williams (also of the Chicago Tattooing Company) and he did a ton of tattoos including an amazing duck on me and a “Chow Hound” tattoo on professional eater Tim “Gravy” Brown. Let’s get to the pictures already!

Click here for Sunday’s pictures from Cobrafest at Cobra Lounge in Chicago, IL.

Cobrafest at Cobra Lounge continues! If you want to find out more about the Pitchfork Fest after party check out my last post about Cobrafest Day 1. No time for a recap we gotta get these Chicago pics up before I get on a plane back to NYC! Let’s do this!

Cobrafest day two was my favorite day and I was psyched about it as soon as I saw the bill. White Mystery were playing and they have become pretty good friends and they are an amazing rock and roll band from Detroit. Habibi was opening up the night and they are this sick rock and roll band full of hot babes that is from Brooklyn and played with my punk band Fucking Bullshit at White Mystery’s record release party back in April. I was psyched to see them both. It was no coincidence that 5 out of the 6 members of Habibi and White Mystery were of the female sex because Saturday night at Cobrafest was ladies night. As soon as I walked into the Sailor Jerry airstream it was filled with hot rock and roll babes. I got to meet the Coathangers and Heavy Cream and they all became my new best friends. Keeping with the theme they are both epic rock and roll bands filled with rad girls who I want to hang out with all the time.

Nick Colella of Chicago Tattooing Company tattooed hot girls (plus Dirty Beaches and Youth Lagoon) all day and I sat around and took pictures in between running back to the stage to listen to amazing bands. It was a pretty epic night. I was on very little sleep but I didn’t even notice until I sat down at 4am to edit pictures. Long live rock and roll.

Click here to check out all the pictures from Saturday night at Cobrafest at Cobra Lounge in Chicago, IL.