SXSW Music 2007 - March 14-18, Austin, Texas

Fresh Content

The Daily Chord
The News Reel
Bits + Bytes

Info Resource

Email Lists
Sign up and get conference-specific SXSW News delivered to your inbox:
MU News
FI News
IA News

Info Resource

Email Lists
Sign up and get conference-specific SXSW News delivered to your inbox:
MU News
FI News
IA News

2008 Info and Forms
Download PDFs of our brochures and forms:
2008 Housing Early Notification PDF
2008 Housing Early Notification DOC

RSS Syndication
Explore our available feeds ยป

Radio Partners

KGSR 101X
KLBJ


Blogs.SXSW.com
Yaris Blog


SXSW in Your Living Room:
SXSW Live


Technology Partner
Grande Communications

SXSW 2007 Sponsors

SXSW 2007 Showcasing Artists

Listings by Day:   Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Alphabetical Listings:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5   6  
Print Schedule and Venue Map

All information subject to change. TBA showcases are listed in random order.


Die Mannequin
Genre: Punk Hometown: Toronto ON
www.myspace.com/diemannequin
16 YEARS OLD: BAGS PACKED, GRIPPING GUITAR, GARBAGE BAG OF CLOTHES AND A KNAPSACK BULGING OF CD'S, TAPES, AND BOOK UPON BOOK FILLED WITH WORDS I SCRIBBLE SOFTLY DOWN TO YOU. ... NEVER BEEN BACK. WHILE LOSING LOVELIES I'VE LOST MYSELF CRUSHED BENEATH A HAUNTED HOME AND A BREAKING SOUL. AND LIKE THE SIZE OF A HEART; BLAMED TO BLACK, BEATEN AND GAGGED, I STAGGERED AND FOUGHT, SCREAMING AND BLEEDING THROUGH YEARS OF SONGS, SHOWS, BANDS, FOES. ARMS BLED TEENAGE CHAINS AS I RATTLE AND ROAR. KICKED OUT AND MIXED UP FOR TOO LONG (SHE'S ON, SHE'S OFF.) . CONGESTED WITH POISONS OF EVERY KIND, CAROLINE MESCALINE, AND THE LOVE OF MY LIFE. BUT I HAD TO RESIGN. THE FORMER HIGH PRIESTESS OF HOLY WATER + HOLY SPOONS. R.I.P. NO STAR. ...
SO NOW IN THE TUMBLING DAYLIGHT WHERE BEASTS TAMED BY THE LIGHT OF THEIR OWN FEVERISH DISEASE GO TO DIE, I CRAWL FROM THE TEENAGE GRAVEYARD AND PUSH MY HEAD IN A HOLE (BEAUTIFUL RUTHLESSNESS MINUS THE HABIT.)
STAGGERING STILL, FILLED WITH THE OLD GHOST, BUT BLESSED TO BREATHE, I SEARCH THE CONGESTED NICATEEN TEEN-RAGE SLAVED STREETS OF THIS ONE-F*CK TOWN. (SOME CALL IT HOME.) NEAR THE END OF MYSELF, HARRY HESS HAD GRABBED MY HAND AND HOMED ME. SOON AFTER I FIND A FRIEND. PAT M. PLAYS DRUMS. AND NOW I'VE FOUND ANOTHER RAZOR, AND WE SEVER ALONG TOGETHER. ETHAN DETH PLAYS BASS.

WEAR YR MURDER ON YR SLEEVE, AND WE WILL CURSE THIS GIRL FOREVER.CAREFUL NOW.

die mannequin.

.p.s.: the model is fading boys, girls, and ghosts. so stop waiting to escape when yr burn is impossible, and the haven has died and simply become yrself. so where are you going, and what home is hell if you were never even there to care at all.

R.I.P. CARE F.
(care failure.)