TEJAS///SHEPARD FAIREY x LANCE ARMSTRONG x MELLOW JOHNNY’S IN AUSTIN

March 30th, 2009

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This year's installment of the legendary SOUTH x SOUTHWEST music festival in Austin, Texas again proved to be one of the last fleeting moments of relevancy in a modern music world gone post-apocalyptic. Aside from washed-up metal has-beens Metallica playing a gig in honor of their new signature Guitar Hero video game (if only Satan would rise up and strike them down now, lord), the dusty Texas town played host to a staggering array of ripping new talent proving there might still be hope for Hollywood—if not the big box chain record store—yet. On the scene to wheatpaste the town red, white, and black was Supertouch's own SHEPARD FAIREY who went big on the side of LANCE ARMSTRONG's personal bike shop, MELLOW JOHNNY'S immediately after touching down. He pretty much slammed the rest of the town too. HAVE A LOOK:

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SXSW 2009's MOST SHAMEFUL MOMENT: metsuxxx1
Lars alone was bad enough, now this???…

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That sucking sound…

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