HOWDY!!  Mittens on Strings is going back to South By Southwest this year, and we’ve got brand-new hand-made EPs to peddle!  No name yet, but it’s a concept record about mustard.  Five new songs, live in studio, psych not psych.

For Chicagoans, we play the Hideout’s South By Southwest Send-Off, Sending the Four-Star City to the Lone Star State.  The event goes down all afternoon & evening on Saturday March 13th - The show starts at 3 PM, and we play first…  It costs 10 bucks, and features 11 bands, wowee!!

11:00 Life During Wartime DJs 

10:00  Tom Schraeder

9:45  Waco Brothers

9:00  Mickey

8:15  Plastic Crimewave Sound

7:30  The Hood Internet

6:45  Tyler Jon Tyler

6:00  Hollows

5:15  Love Of Everything

4:30  Via Tania3:45  Mittens On Strings

And that’s just the beginning: This year we’re playing with a bunch of sweet bands along the way.   Check it out:

Saturday, March 13: Champaign, IL @ Mike ‘n Molly’s w/ Pet Lions, Jet W. Lee & The Fantastic Plastics

Sunday March 14: Wichita, KS @ TBA

Monday, March 15: Dallas, TX @ City Tavern w/ Ali Harter

Tuesday, March 16: Houston, TX @ notsuoH w/ Japanther, Muhammadali, & Legsweeper

We get into Austin on Wednesday, and have a few shows lined up, with a few more in the works.  Hopefully you can catch one of these:

Thursday, March 18: Austin, TX @ The Ale House SXSW SHOWCASE (we play at 7 PM SHARP!) w/ Evan Dando, The Candles, Dirty Little Rabbits, Creature with the Atom Brain, Goes Cube, & the Blue Aeroplanes

Friday, March 19: Austin TX @ Pie Guys PIZZA PARTY (we play at 7:30) w/ Viet Ruse, Aimee Mac, Jon Cook, Federal State Local, the Hemit Thrushes, Waking Lights, & the Marmalakes

Saturday, March 20: Austin, TX @ The Parlor DAY PARTY (we play at 1 PM) w/ 1:45 - Orange Coax (Denton) * 2:30 - Drug Mountain (Fort Worth) * 3:15 - Hermit Thrushes (Philadelphia) * 4:00 - Marriage Material (Plano) * 4:45 - Daniel Doyle * 5:30 - The Numerators (Lubbock) * 6:15 - Treasure Mammal (Phoenix) * 7:00 - Math The Band (Providence)

And hopefully more to come….