HIPSTER ROBOTS

 

The best rock and roll show(s) at SXSW. Every. Fucking. Year.

Please enjoy our brand of shitrock.

THIS year’s show(S)!

(Click each poster to RSVP!) (coming soon) 

 

The Show(S)

There are those that say that the Hipster Robots day party at SXSW is the greatest live music event ever organized in the history of humankind. Those people — primarily us, and Dan’s wife — are not wrong.

While there are many amazing artists from around the world at SXSW every year, Hipster Robots asks the simple questions - which bands are the loudest, and will they play our show?

I mean, it’s great and all if you’re the hot new indie folk group, or chillwave band (is that still a thing?), or whatever, gracing the pages of Brooklyn Vegan and Stereogum. That’s fantastic, and we’re sincerely happy for your success and might just check you out during SXSW. But if you have seven guitarists and a singer with a handlebar mustache who likes to pick fights with people in the crowd, we want you for our show. If anyone, anywhere, at any time, has ever compared you to Diarrhea Planet, we want you for our show. If you’ve ever played a wicked guitar solo on stage and immediately proceeded to throw up on your lead singer, we want you for our show. If you’ve ever stolen your bassist’s boyfriend or girlfriend during your own set, we want you for our show. If you’ve ever lost a battle of the bands because a judge told you “I’m afraid you’re just too darn loud,” we want you for our show.

Listen, all of us who make up Hipster Robots are old now with professional jobs. We’ve got mortgages. At least one of us has a kid that we know of. We put this show on because for one glorious day each year, we want to relive our youths, challenge our livers, and commune with the power of rock and fucking roll. This is our credo, this is our purpose. So get busy guitarin’ or get busy dyin’.

If you’re an artist that fits this bill, head over to our Booking page. If you’re just someone who wants to see the best SXSW day party of the year, we’ll see you on Thursday of SXSW at Side Bar. And if you don’t like Diarrhea Planet, then maybe this is more your speed.

If you’re curious about the show’s origin and background, read about it here.

EDITED TO ADD: We have a second show too! Hipster Robots will still dictate your Thursday afternoon at SXSW, but now you can (err, will) join us on Wednesday as well for STUPOR FRIENDS, our collaboration show with our friends in THEMM! Pretty much the same type of booking, except THEMM! make us book them too. Dicks.

Your Robot Overlords

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Dan

X: @jumboslice
IG:
@dan.corbin

Dan’s a dad. Dan doesn’t party much anymore. But there was that one time at SXSW 2019 where he decided to party and partied so hard that he slept in his downtown office instead of going home. And then Dan’s wife texted Steve at 4:45am asking where Dan was and if he might possibly be dead. Dan wasn’t dead - except to his wife.

(It’s 2024 as we write this, and we’re halfway convinced he’s still sleeping on the couch.)

Micha

IG: @maritimepress

We tried to come up with a description for Micha, but he’s indescribable. As in, if we tried to describe him, he’d beat our asses because he prefers to be mysterious. And we love him for it. He’s the most dependable, mysterious dude you can know. Also, he saved Steve’s glasses in a Mean Jeans pit once. And he has a really rad dog named Pache. We like Pache.

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Steve

IG: @babystew
Threads: @babystew
BlueSky: @babystew

Steve’s a lawyer (for a little bit longer at least), but tries to spend his non-lawyer time doing cooler things. Sometimes that just means he’s sitting in his apartment working on this website months before the next SXSW because he’s bored. Or sometimes it means spending way too much time online looking for the perfect 1986-era black and white photo of Guns n’ Roses to get framed. But sometimes he actually does cool shit, like that time he punched an unnamed member of The Strokes who was trying to crowd-surf at a Guided by Voices show but was really just kicking people in their heads.

Prior Shows

2023

2022

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2019

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2018

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2016

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2014

Booking

Are you interested in playing Hipster Robots?

Well, the bad news is we’re pretty picky and tend
to focus on bands we think are perfect for the show.

But if you think you meet our criteria, we’re always
up to listen to new music! So click the button below
and we’ll do our best to check you out!

Sponsor

Are you interested in sponsoring Hipster Robots?

We’re always open to people giving us money,
and we think you should definitely do so. Just
click the button below for more information
about how you can transfer your wealth to us
to help put on the greatest rock shows known
to humankind.

It’s the right thing to do, and I think we both
realize that.