We’ve been so busy setting up our upcoming site relaunch (teaser: intelligent track collapsing + awwwesome blog directory), we nearly forgot to show off how fun our CMJ events turned out!
Our first party was on Thursday night at Backstage Bar with an incredible, 9 hour lineup of bands and a line all the way down the street. DubFrequency has a great photo recap of our showcase with them on their blog.
We also closed CMJ week out at the PureVolume House with a great after-hours party. Unlimited free drinks might have fueled the insanity that went down below:
The whole team was out in full force, though Zoya managed to escape all photo documentation (we’ll tie her down next time). Here’s the crew that makes The Hype Machine what it is:
Gobble Gobble with our developer Arkadiy Kukarkin.
Our bizdev & legal guru Scott Kidder dressed as a luchador.
One of our favorite people, Matt Ogle, and Hype Machine’s founding father himself, Anthony Volodkin.
Raise your right hand if you made our upcoming iPhone app. Yup, that’s Sebastian Bean!
And that’s me, Taylor McKnight, and our favorite hustler Keaton Kustler.
The King & Purveyor of the PureVolume House himself, Josh Rowe.
Our next show will be in March at my favorite music festival ever, SXSW. If your band is interested in getting booked, please email Dev Sherlock (first name @ hypem.com ).
Comments Off on Hype Machine Parties (Past and Future) • Posted by taylor on November 24, 2010
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It’s taken us a week to recover, but we’re finally beginning to feel human again! Thank you to the thousands and thousands of people who made it to our party across the 4 days of SXSW Music. Fifty-six hours of music, over 100 bands+djs, 1000 breakfast tacos, and cases upon cases of Vitamin Water and Heineken later, we’ve definitely left a dent in 6th street.
We’ve thrown a few day or night shows in the past, but this was the largest undertaking we have ever been a part of. A lot of things went right, just a couple of things went wrong, and we learned a whole ton of things. We learned that it is difficult to fill up a 1,500 person capacity during the day, when people are still sleeping off the night before. We learned that events are hard. We learned that it all feels worth it when you’re dancing in the middle of a thousand people at midnight, and everybody’s smiling.
We simply couldn’t have done it without the teamwork of:
Black Box Revue, who invited us to be a part of their Lose Control party this year and brought together an amazing group of people who genuinely care about music. The Windish Agency for helping us out with most of the booking, stage plots and logistics. Beatnik and their team for literally being the backbone that kept the whole party together by providing sound, stage, lighting, and a relentless crew who were in it for the long haul. David Schacher and Beef for providing all kinds of logistical help and being troopers through it all. Emily Moore for the amazing photography. NoMathmatics for the incredible Lose Control art.
And what would a Hype Machine party be without music? Serious thanks to all the bands and management that helped make this happen: 12th Planet, Acrylics, Admiral Radley, Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Auto Body, Baby Monster, Bachelorette, Bang Bang Eche, Baron Von Luxxury, Black Box Revue, Body Language, Casiokids, CFCF, Chiddy Bang, Class Actress, Crystal Fighters, The Crystal Method, Crystal Vision, Dances With White Girls, Database, Delorean, Delta Fiasco, Eclectic Method, Eli Smith, Everything Everything, Fenech-Soler, First Aid Kit, Free Magic, French Horn Rebellion, Grrrl Parts, Grammatics, Hey Champ, Hollywood Holt, Home Video, Hottub, Hussle Club, Javelin, Jen Lasher, Keenhouse, Keepaway, Kids At The Bar, Kill The Noise, Lemonade, LexiconDon, Light Pollution, Lucy and the Popsonics, Male Bonding, Megaphonic Thrift, MeLo-X, Michael Parallax, Mickey Factz, Midnight Conspiracy, MillionYoung, Nice Nice, Nick Catchdubs, Nomathmatics, OK Deejays, Rafter, Royal Bangs, Rural Alberta Advantage, Rye Rye, Samuel, Small Black, Solid Gold, Spleen United, Star Eyes, Steed Lord, Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt, The Death Set, The Hood Internet, The Invisible, The Ruby Suns, Tobacco, Tommie Sunshine, Toro Y Moi, Trash Yourself, Treasure Fingers, Two Fresh, Uffie, VDRK, Villains, Wallpaper, We Are Like The Spider, WhoMadeWho, Woodhands, Yacht, Yes Giantess, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Richard Gear, eLstar, Prepmode, A Ward, Mike Townsend, Kook Hersh, Irresponsible Voltron Crew, Hot Britches, Miguel Angel, DJ Cat NYC, Automatic Panic, Mad Classy Crew.
And our sponsors, Vitamin Water, for keeping everyone hydrated during the day. Heineken, for keeping the bands rockin’. Townie Records, for providing the breakfast tacos each day. SoundCloud for providing the WiFi and HypeCloud player, making it easy for bands to share their music with bloggers. And last but definitely not least, Jakprints for providing the banners and 11,000 RSVP laminates.
Shark? get ready to rock the books off the shelves.
The Morning Benders close out the night with an acoustic set of songs from their new album.
This is a bookstore…
This was a wonderful, happy evening of friends and music, and thanks to everyone who came by and drank a beer, we raised nearly $3000 for Housing Works! Want to organize something cool in your city? Tell us what you’re thinking, and let’s help everyone fall in love with something new.
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