Hi!
Here’s a few notable pieces of reading for your weekend.
- One interesting sidenote to this year’s South by Southwest was that Todd P—New York’s preeminent DIY show promoter—founded a festival in Monterrey, Mexico called MtyMx. It was a brave attempt to connect the American and Mexican DIY circuits, but most reports are calling it an ambitious failure, offset by everything from long bus rides from Austin (where SXSW happens) to an outburst of cartel violence in the area. See a NYTimes photo gallery here.
- VQR won a Digital Ellie, a new series of awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors, for Jason Motlagh’s coverage of the Mumbai terror attacks. Read that feature here.
- After four decades years of onstage self-mutilation, Iggy Pop swore off stage dives this week following an unfortunate accident…at Carnegie Hall.
- There’s a 3D Phish concert movie coming out on 4/20.
- I wrote a review of Wednesday’s Joanna Newsom concert here. Pitchfork picked up on Gary Canino’s video of "Saturday Night Live" funnyman Fred Armisen onstage with Newsom. Armisen opened the show as "Complicated Drumming Technique" master Jens Hannemann.
Hope that will whet your appetite for more local coverage next week. Until then!
