Flashion Backward: Poingly
Flashioning Backward through UI’s archives is like paging through your old middle school yearbook. What the f*ck were we/they/the vast universe thinking? Today, we’ve stumbled upon fragments of Poingly’s past. Will we laugh and point? Doubtful. The one-man electroclasher Poingly band from BK, NY generally supplies the laughter and pointing himself (whether he’s the subject of it or not) whenever the need arises, ingeniously annihilating anyone else’s L&P power. Poingly’s trickiness doesn’t stop there: The avant garde outré mask-wearing wacko has been thrilling and frightening the trembli

First Round of SXSW Bands Announced
The first round of bands scheduled to play SXSW next year includes Deer Tick, The Uglysuit, Princeton, Nicole Atkins and The Black Sea, Frightened Rabbit, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Psalm One, Japandroids, The Pack A.D., 9th Wonder and nearly 200 more. The fest goes down March 17-21, 2010 in Austin, TX. If you’re into the film or interactive worlds, both of those parts of the festival kick off March 12. Alongside hundreds of performances and parties, those trekking down to the Lone Star state can also catch panels, films, mentoring sessions and some of the coolest

Flashion Forward: Michael Cerveris
Before we officially strap on our feed pants for the holidays, let’s slip into our pimped out time machine for one more Flashion Forward. Your hypothesis is correct, Captain: It’s time to strut our sartorial stuff and dive into fashion’s future, as well as the closets of UI’s fanciest, freshest new interviewees. Today’s musings begin with Michael Cerveris, a polymath performer who is as comfortable on strutting his stuff on stage with a guitar as he is sans–a rock ‘n’ roller who does Broadway. Now before you whip out the barf bags, consider this: Dude got his start in the TV series 

Download Idle Warship’s Party Robot
Idle Warship–the group composed of Talib Kweli, Res and Graph Nobel–is giving away its debut mixtape, Party Robot. Produced by Mick Boogie (Kidz in the Hall), the group has been releasing singles since 2008 and working together for much longer (Res has appeared on several of Talib’s albums). No word on any live shows, but we’re just happy to see Res in action again. A word from the group: “Idle Warship welcomes you to our first full length offering, Party Robot. This started out as a path to musical freedom. When we established Idle Warship, we did it for us. Now that we are giving you this music, Idl

Bonnaroo 2010 Dates and Presale Tickets Announced
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is scheduled for June 10-13, 2010 in Manchester, Tenn. The lineup will be announced early next year, and presale tickets will be available starting Friday November 27. And for those of you who don’t want to spend all your holiday cash quite yet, payment plans can be made in $50 installments. Held on a 700-acre farm every year since 2002, Billboard estimates 80,000 people attended the fest in 2009. Phish and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band headlined the fest, curated in part by