Blend or Bust

A huge thanks to all who made Blend or Bust a blast! Fortunately for all involved, the party featured free Dos Lunes Tequila, Treaty Oak Texas Rum, and Bud-Light. The party required some serious pacing for the people who planned to make it through the night. (the party started at around 1PM) The party featured many bands which all impressed me. The previously blogged Vettes played for us, as well as Shinobi Ninja out of Brooklyn, New York. Shinobi played a great, high energy show that kept the audience guessing as to what new, unique, and inventive song would come up next. The band sounds like a mash up of Linkin Park, 311, a little Rage Against the Machine,and a taste of  O.A.R.‘s jam band feel during songs like “Black Dreams.”

Perez Hilton’ One Night In Austin

Snoop Reps KD @ Perez's Party

Truly an overwhelming amount of fun. Because I had expected for the party to be LA ‘ish’ and full of poppy party hipsters, I went with only the expectation for Snoop Dogg to entertain me. However, the party proved me wrong on my demographic pre-judgement of the party, and sent me home with knowledge of some great upcoming music to keep an eye out for. First, I’d like to mention Snoop’s love for Kevin Durant. It’s always a great day to be a Longhorn, but it’s an even better day to be one when Snoop Dogg shows Longhorn love.

Although I will always be skeptical of Perez’s opinons / could usually care less about what he has to say, (not that he cares if I care, which is why he is who he is) I must say that his choices of music for the night were superb, minus Courtney love’s whining at the end.

The Pleasant Surprise Award goes to Alphabeat

Sounds like the new wave all over again. But way better this time. It’s like someone beefed up a barber shop quartet with a synthesizer, and put Madonna in front of them. This works out pretty well. See for yourself.

The “My Show would have been awesome if it weren’t for the horrible sound crew” award goes to V.V. Brown. I don’t know much about her and sadly still don’t because her show was cut short by technical problems. But, the first song she sang reminded me of Gloria Estefan. Not typically my genre of music but I’m always down for some catchy dance party music with actual vocal talent.

The “I’m a POS human being for selling my dead husband’s private diaries for millions of dollars” award goes to Courtney Love. A little biased I know, but seriously, she also cussed out the only hardcore fans she had at the party in the middle of her show (after she asked what they wanted to hear, and they responded….. Yea screw them right?). So yea, I could pretty much care less about her but somehow still understand how she has fans. Her fans dig that she is candid and real. They are right, she is a candidly real bitch. Novelty… I guess?