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State Radio plays Facebook's SXSW party

Posted on March 10, 2008

stateradio.jpg copyLast night was a messy one for the Lime Wire team. After stumbling out of Gawker's party at Side Bar, we made our way over to Pangea where Facebook was hosting their annual filmmaker meetup. The Zuck was there in high spirits, fully recovered from his keynote debacle earlier in the day, and seemed to be into the bands playing his party. We missed the first band that played, Wild Street Orange, but made it in time for headliners State Radio, the side project of Dispatch frontman Chad Urmstrom. The band brought a great vibe to the room, rocking out with their soulful reggae-rock. Jeremy Vest from the How's Your News Band hopped on the drums for a guest song, and put on an impressive solo.

After State Radio, we hit up a few more bars, until finally ending up at the Purevolume Ranch, where we caught the tail end of Austin local synth rockers The Laughing. They sounded a bit like The Bravery, with a bit more edge. The night ended with a DJ set from Rubix, which all seemed to be a haze at that point. Oh boy, don't know how I'll make it through tonight...

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