house parties

Downtown Austin has seen hundreds of bands play fast, burn out, and die young - that's more or less the only credible way to play the Lone Star-soaked variety of garage punk currently being practiced on Red River and at west campus house parties every weekend.

annainaustin/flickrThere are a lot of kinds of parties in the world: birthday parties, toddler bouncy-house parties, work parties.

For South by Southwest Interactive, one of the party-est parties was the Saturday night event, Happy Cog'aoke 2.

It was the kind of event where you felt like anything could happen!