December 23, 2009
Snow, moose, half pipes, pro-snow boarders, PBR tall boys, and sno- bunnies, hmmm yep sounds like the Dew tour in Brekenridge Colorado. Being 20 degrees and icy the Antics team wasn’t sure if we were ready to party polar bear style but the snowboarders definately had something else in mind for us. The kick off party took place at a cozy mountain venue called Cecilias. We got well aqcainted to rocking out in the snow with a little help from Panty raid and Ladytron dj sets. Just to make the party a little more wild the biggest party goer in town arrived on stage, the Toyota abominable snowman showed his hairy face to put us in the dancing mood. We danced, we laughed, we photoboothed, we won stuff, we love Brekenridge!
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November 10, 2009
We had a Fun Fun Fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun time throwing our Antics kick off party at Beauty bar Austin Texas. Yes, everything is bigger in Texas, especially the amount of party hipster folk that came out to start off their Fun fun fun festival weekend right. Those wild Austin locals rocked it out to wonderful talent such as a Yeasayer DJ set ,a Learning Secrets DJ set, Totally Michael, Best Fwends, and Missions. We had freebies from Myspace, and a mobile rockband station. Their were some serious dance moves and mini mosh pits that happend as well, thank you Austinites for showing us how to get down and dancey in your adorable city.
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November 06, 2009
The antics team arrived in New Orleans on a festive Halloween weekend and turned the big easy into the big spooky. The voodoo music festival needed a scary start to begin its eerie weekend, and antics was there to deliver. We put aside our gator gumbo and got to work.
The native party animals of nawlins came out to the Howling Wolf ready to feast on some fresh rhymes. We kicked off a creepy celebration with some foot stomping live performances by legendary Biz Markie, the Knux, DJ soul sister, and J Electronica. What an honor to throw a music swaray in such a historically dominate city,it was so fun I think even Louis Armstrong would have been cutting some rug. We had free give aways, a Rockband mobile station, and had a very festive photo booth. We sure did “Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez”, and had fun while doing it.
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October 19, 2009
The San Fransisco treat? I think so. Go Antics go! So Antics does it again in the bay area. Our experience was better than a bowl full of clam chowder at Alcatraz. We expected a cold San Fransisco but what we got was perfection which then set the tone for yet another sucessful Antics celebration! We partied at the super cool Mezzanine in San Francisco. The place was filled to the brim full of eclectic nor- calians ready to dance dance revolution all over the Mezzanine. We were blessed with a worshipful performance by the amazing Dan Deacon Ensemble which led to a synchronized dance party that would put any VIP viewer in awe. Edward sharp and the magnetic zeros flashed us back into a foot stomping music realm of hippy love! We also had great giveaways from myspace music and Toyota Antics among other great musical talent.
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October 09, 2009
A day well spent at the beach. Does it get any better then that? Absofreakinlutely it does when it involves consuming harmonious live music and chili dogs all day long at the one and only Abbot Kinney Festival in Venice Beach. All of us in the Antics crew arrived early to stake out the best spot in the house next to the Little Radio stage where all the action went down. The locals flocked the streets of Abbot Kinney with their dogs in hand and beach cruisers in tow to catch memorable performances by Chief, Dios, The Parson Redheads, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. We ended up silk screening off tons of commemorative Abbot Kinney Festival posters and hooked it up with plenty of Antics swag and prize winning skate decks. In the haze of nag champa and whirlwind sounds of drum circles, our thoughts were suddenly whisked away to our upcoming adventures next weekend in our neighboring city to the north, San Francisco. Be sure to swing by our official Antics after party for the Treasure Island Music Festival where the ever talented Dan Deacon, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Future Islands will be on stage to rock yer faces.
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September 24, 2009
Who new such a tiny city new how to party so big. Big, is the key word here, we threw a big big party, and it was awesome. We were fortunate enough to have our get together at Pierpont Place in the heart of down town. Depressed Buttons (DJ set from the faint) was our headlining talent. The venue was packed with Utah fans who filled their free time with extreme BMX-ing, snowboarding, and skateboarding. The attendees got to experience a night of free give aways, Rock band, a rocking photo booth, big screens recapping other Antics events, a lovely skate ramp, and lots of adult beverages. Once the party was bumping we all got to enjoy a free lightning show followed by lots of rain, which didn’t scare any one away from relishing in a night of festivities thrown by their favorite Antics team. We couldn’t have asked for a better time, thank you Dew tour and Salt Lake city, see you next year.
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September 23, 2009
If you are in LA this weekend, ANTICS is inviting you to come down and to the Abbot Kinney Festival in Venice. Appearing live will be Edward Sharpe And The Magentic Zeros, Eskimohunter and more, and the thing is free! See you there!
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September 18, 2009
Just a little update on out Pacific Northwest Antics tour. Thus far the tour has been a blast! We have three cars, a great crew, and have traveled from California through the Pacific Northwest to Salt Lake City, Utah. The drive has been amazing as we have cruised through windy roads and tiny American towns to throw our first party in chilly Seattle Washington. We had our kick off party to the Bumbershoot music and arts festival at a cozy little venue called Nuemos, where despite its humble appearance produces a booty shaking dance party with the help from Depressed Buttons (DJ set from the Faint), and Holy F- - -, in which all were amazing! We then moved forward to Denver Colorado for another successful party to start off the incredibly fun Monolith Festival. We up-ed the Antics at the “best BBQ in Denver” at a spot called Mo’s BBQ and the Gothic. Denver really showed us how to party while we watched sets from Chromeo and the Cool Kids. It was our pleasure to give away sweaters from MySpace and skate decks with graphics straight out of the OBEY factory. In Denver and Seattle we gifted the local music goers with some fun party photos from our Antics mobile photo booth. Its been a great tour so far and I’m looking forward to more out of control talent at the Toyota Dew Party in Salt Lake city.
Have fun!
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September 08, 2009
Virgin Mobile Festival and kick off party
FREE is an underused and underappreciated concept. My theory is is that FREE very rarely means FREE, and people just wait to be blindsided with the fine print or the strings that are undoubtedly attached. Dicky B and the folks at Virgin provided a truly FREE festival for around 35,000 truly appreciative music lovers. Below you will find a list of everything that was FREE over the weekend at Vfest
Free Kick-off Party with a sensational disco-ish set by Pat Mahoney (compliments of ANTICS!)
Free Festival
Free Parking- wipe your eyes and continue to read
Fr(W)ee(zer)
Free on stage party with an onslaught of terrible white-boy dance moves compliments of Girl Talk
Free drum solo by Flava Flav
Free “Flava Flav” by Flava Flav
Free reuniting of Blink 182; take it or leave it
Free Beer (after you forked over a 9-dollar holler)
Tons of Free giveaways from Toyota, Converse, Kyocera and others
Free satisfaction knowing that if you did donate money at the door, 100% of it went to aid child homelessness in DC
Holy Free F*ck
I am still waiting for the “but...”, but until then FREE was FREE!
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September 02, 2009
ANTICS had a great time in San Diego! We joined forces with Glorybound Porductions to throw a rocking party at Voyeur! It was a great new club that just opened up in the heart of the Gaslamp district! We had great music from Depressed Buttons/ The Faint DJ set along with Jeremy Dawson of Shiny Toy Guns!
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