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Soooo - we made the initial Sled Island line-up announcement a week ago, and the positive responses that I’m hearing are making me feel crazy!  People are losing their minds this year! It is so nice to hear so much good stuff, and just makes me want to hug Zak and Adam and the rest of the band-pickers (tech term!) for being so rad and great and smart!

My Top 4 out of that giant list of 100 or so. My Top 4 could easily be My Top 44, but I’m already 20 minutes late for work, so I should just make this quick!

WHOMADEWHO - (that’s the video up there that you’re seeing, the song is called something about being safe on a plane…i forget. but wow!) HOLY SHIT! So, the Sled Island “Team” went down to Austin, TX for SXSW a few weeks ago, and what! thehell! is up! with that festival!! So rad! it was so rad! I can’t talk about it, but it was awesome! Zak is an experienced SXSW’er, and it was my first time, so one night he was just dragging me around to so many different awesome venues, like, we had no real solid plans, we were just having the greatest night discovering new bands and meeting up with pals and just doing what we do, you know? So we met up with our pal Gravy who is in Shout Out Out Out, (he was hanging out with Nardwuar who is loved by Sled Island - it was so nice to see him again!) and Gravy was like, “You have to come see this band!” and so we went with him, and what I witnessed was pretty much the raddest part of that evening! Seriously - I don’t care what else is going on when these guys play Sled, like, even if Mariachi El Bronx is like, “hey Twyla, can we come play some little acoustic show in your living room?” I’ll be like, “Well…sure, but I won’t be there because Whomadewho is playing and they are fuckin’ raaaaaaaad!”
Seriously. The weird thing is, it’s not really the sort of music that I’m “IN TO” but the show and the vibe and those guys and oh man! You know? I know you know!

Cheeseburger - I am real excited to see Cheeseburger! Cheeseburger is from Brooklyn, and watch that video. Probably you think I only like this because it’s a dude in a tiger suit, (which truthfully is the only reason I chose that video to watch!) but man. I don’t know which night these guys are playing, or where, or with who, but make sure you book the next day off, because I think shit might go all night long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMUEfdo5Wac

My Gold Mask - Zak told me that I could pick some bands this year to book, and My Gold Mask was my first choice. Lie. Second, but still. They’re soooo effin’ rad. They come from Chicago. I got a little tipsy a few nights ago, and Zak was on Tweeter Twitter, and I made him Tweet to My Gold Mask that they could stay at my apartment! Haha. I guess it ain’t Sled Island unless my living room is full of random awesome people! That’s what we’re all about! Check these guys out for sure - absolutely dreamy.
http://www.myspace.com/mygoldmask

Mariachi El Bronx - So, as if the Bronx aren’t awesome enough, this year we also get to see Mariachi El Bronx…the Bronx making rad Mariachi music, which, in my opinion, is pretty much THE BEST THING EVER!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1uihI8UOM4

alright. 50 minutes late for work, but at least I know my priorities.

xo T.