Southern (Cali) Comfort

I passed on South By Southwest this year, but that doesn't mean I'm not there in spirit... and apparently some minds. I've already received 5 text messages from fellow music heads asking if can get them into this or that party and one asking for a promoter friend's cell #.

SOS: band missed flight! Yikes.

I got loads of invites to bitchin' Texas shindigs (Dim Mak, Filter, Urb, IHeartComix, NY2LA, my pal Heidi's Night of Beauty). So many in fact I'm shocked there's anything to do in LA this weekend. But, as always the music fest happens upon the beginning of fashion week so yes, the calendar is full, though it shouldn't be as grueling as last year when I literally hopped off a plane from Texas and drove to Smashbox for the Agent Provocateur show.

Anyway, as I've been doing for the past few weeks now, I humbly direct you to this week's edition of Nightranger, where I celebrate my ol' friend Rodney Bingenheimer's better-late-than-never Star on the Walk of Fame and fab Canter's lunch afterward (see pics), get manhandled at The Strokes Albert Hammond Jr. gig and visit a not-so-secret Silver Lake beer bar.

Oh, and if you want to soak up the smokey rich SXSW vibes, check out Kate Sullivan and Siran Babayan's groovy blog here. God I'm craving BBQ...

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