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KarlKam Episode 5: "Revenge of the Skrillex"

KarlKam gets freestyled by Kosha Dillz, interviews Araab Muzik for like two seconds, and gets bass sickness from Skrillex in this epic finale episode of KarlKam Live in Austin 2012.

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UO Live in Austin: Bleached

Bleached play the Urban Outfitters stage and talk about touring with your sister, avocado margaritas, and rings.

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UO Live in Austin: Nite Jewel

Nite Jewel plays the Urban Outfitters stage, then Ramona talks about a weird dream she had.

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UO Live in Austin: Peaking Lights

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KarlKam Episode 4: "A Tingling Feeling"

KarlKam samples a margarita at SXSW '12, hangs out with some celebs (he thinks) at the Workaholics House Party, and interviews musician Nick Waterhouse at the Biz3 Showcase. It's not an easy job, but somebody's got to do it.

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UO Live in Austin: Bear in Heaven

Bear in Heaven talks the best/worst aspects of SXSW and then about Woody Harrelson.

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KarlKam Episode 3: "There's Lasers Everywhere"

KarlKam episode 3 has Karl wowing the crowd at Best Coast, using 'cream cheese' to get into Andrew W.K. and seeing lasers everywhere. 

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UO Live in Austin: Saturday, March 17th

UO is Live in Austin (and completely free) with artists Wild Belle, Choirs of Young Believers, Eleanor Friedberger, New Build, Peaking Lights, Light Asylum, and Grimes. Today is the last day, so come help us drink all of this free beer (21+) and get rid of all of this free shit.  Free, free, free! See you at 12pm!

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UO Exclusive: Best Coast

Best Coast talks to KarlKam and plays the Urban Outfitters stage in Austin, Texas.

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KarlKam Episode 2: "A Very Special Episode"

Wearing his multimedia helmet at SXSW 2012, KarlKam has a birthday, has birthday margaritas, sees Tennis play, and tastes some Death Metal. It's high-octane and features "MTV-style editing." He also saw some ladies do interpretive dance at a tequila bar but the footage was sadly lost forever. Tell him where to go today! @therealkarlkam

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UO Live in Austin: Blouse

Blouse talks about forming in Portland and plays the Urban Outfitters stage Live in Austin, Texas.

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UO Live in Austin: Friday, March 16th

It's day three of UO Live in Austin, and although we're halfway through, we have a ton of fun left to be had.  Come by the Guadalupe store today for free live music all day, free beer for anyone over 21+, and swag for all.  Today's lineup includes performances by Dustin Wong, Young Magic, Niki & the Dove, Teengirl Fantasy, Blondes, Bear in Heaven, an Nite Jewel.

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UO Live in Austin: Craft Spells

Watch Craft Spells explain what poutine is, tell knock knock jokes and perform live at the UO stage in Austin!

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Cheap Curls

Former Dum Dum Girl, Katie Serbian Brouillette, is releasing her own music venture, Cheap Curls. Her debut 7" will be released on Art Fag Recordings sometime this spring. You can listen to her song "Jackie Oh" here. - Hazel

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UO_Live in Austin: Wednesday March 15

Highlights from yesterday, the first day of our Live in Austin showcase. Follow us on Tumblr for live updates from today, with performances by Best Coast, Bleached, Cold Specks, Crocodiles and more! All of our shows are all ages, and free beer for 21+. Beat that. 

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KarlKam Episode 1: "Thought Leaders, Tacos, and White Iris"

Wearing his multimedia helmet at SXSW 2012, KarlKam searches for thought leaders, eats mahi mahi tacos, sees a White Iris / Black Iris label party, and learns how to throw knives. Tell him where to go today! @therealkarlkam

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UO Live in Austin: Wednesday, March 14th

UO is officially Live in Austin!  Don't miss our first day featuring bands Le Blorr, Far-Out Fangtooth, Blouse, Gauntlet Hair, DIVE and Craft Spells!

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Karl Kam

We love Karl, which is why we strapped a camera to his head and created KarlKam. Now we're sending him out into the world to document all the highs and lows of a week at SXSW. So if you couldn't make it down to Austin, it's like Karl is there for you: use Twitter to tell him where to go, what to do, who to see, who to avoid and all the in-betweens. 


Watch videos at UO Live in Austin and follow him @TheRealKarlKam

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Tumblr Tuesdays: March 13

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The Spinto Band "Shit people at SXSW DON'T say"

Though the Spinto Band is not playing our showcases in Austin, we wish they were after watching their kind of amazing take on SXSW. So true: we would NEVER say any of these things.