FOOL’S GOLD

It’s that time of year again… we’re bringing the whole gang down to Austin for SXSW festivities. Suited and booted!

First up is our inaugural “Texas Takeover” party on Thursday, 3/18 at Republic Live, featuring Travis x A-Trak, Donnis, Treasure Fingers, Congorock, Kingdom and Sammy Bananas. Get advance tickets here.

Then the following night (Friday 3/19) at Malverde we go even bigger with our official SXSW showcase, featuring Vega, Kid Sister w/ Flosstradamus, Telephoned, Jokers Of The Scene, Trackademicks, The Suzan, Nick Catchdubs, Malente, our extended fam Theophilus London, and… surprise guests? You’ll just have to come thru and see, free entry with SXSW badge (get there early - this will fill up!)

Full size flyers after the jump, more news on our artists’ full festival schedules soon! (more…)

Check out T Cole Rachel’s profile of The Suzan in V Magazine (that bass guitar sticker looks familiar…) and get ready for them to steal your hearts once again at SXSW!

Check this handy guide to everywhere the Fool’s Gold family will be rocking on NYE, from dueling Macklo Bros in Los Angeles to the Suzan in Tokyo to Congorock in warm and sunny Toronto. Bring on 2010! MMX is a damn fine Roman numeral. (more…)

Photo by Loren Wohl

Our girls The Suzan have been spending the past few weeks as Brooklyn residents getting their rock on around town - between the FG CMJ showcase and various gigs around town (you saw the vids!) it was quite the run! They will be going back to Japan next week, but luckily there’s still two chances left to party with them: tonight at Cake Shop (free show, The Suzan on at 10pm, Bjorn Yttling from Peter Bjorn and John DJing) and tomorrow night at the Living Room (11pm). Don’t miss it…

Nicky Digital caught another clip of The Suzan on his handycam, rocking Monday night at the Mercury Lounge.

Check our girls The Suzan playing at Glasslands in Williamsburg Friday night alongside Crystal Fighters, Lemonade and Tanlines. That flyer is a pretty accurate description of what’s gonna happen to your brain.

Check Nicky Digital’s vid of our girls The Suzan covering Peter Bjorn and John’s “Amsterdam” at the PB&J 10th anniversary party at Bowery Electric on Monday night. He also took some quality flicks of the festivities.

The Suzan will be playing live at Tribeca Grand this Saturday - it’s a free show with our bud Mattie Safer DJing, RSVP here to check it out and see what the CMJ fuss was all about!

We threw two parties in NYC to celebrate the label’s 2nd anniversary during this past CMJ fest - if you missed em, you missed out! Fortunately, we scoured the interweb to collect all the photo galleries, etc (hit us up if you have any more).

Check out Karmaloop’s great recap of Night #1 at 88 Palace above, which featured sets by Kingdom, Donnis (joined onstage by fellow ATLien Pill), Treasure Fingers, Sammy Bananas (who even rocked some Telephoned tracks with partner Maggie Horn), Trackademicks and the Honor Roll crew, and - a first for FG! - live band performances by Vega and The Suzan. Hi-Fi Cartel, Metromix, and The Culture Of Me got some pics, Billboard spoke to A-Trak for a video interview, and Beatcakes had a nice little blog post highlighting The Suzan (”probably one of the best shows I have seen in my life”).

For Night #2 we went with an all-DJ lineup at N8 in Brooklyn, featuring Jokers Of The Scene, LA Riots, Nacho Lovers and extended fam Udachi + Jubilee (Jamie from the xx was slated to play as well, but his band’s set ran late - we’ll get him in the mix soon enough!). You can check pics over at Driven By Boredom. Special thanks to Chicago’s own Thunder Horse for providing live projections / bugged visuals for both nights of festivities! See you for the 3-year bash soon…