Most famous as a punk rock icon and artist, Exene Cervenka (front woman for X, Knitters and Original Sinners) is documenting her adventures for Heard Mentality on the way to Austin's South By Southwest, the country's biggest music festival. Check out her complete tour diary archive here.

Raven Lorthos

Exene at Red Eyed Fly

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Most famous as a punk rock icon and artist, Exene Cervenka (front woman for X, Knitters and Original Sinners) is documenting her adventures for Heard Mentality on the way to Austin's South By Southwest, the country's biggest music festival. Check out her complete tour diary archive here.

Raven Lorthos

Old 97s at Antone's

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On Wednesday, March 16, I picked up my wristband at 9 a.m. at the Convention Center and went to my first show. It was an awareness-raiser for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Sea Now.

Ironically, they have stopped the whaling in Japan. They do great work trying to save a part of the world that they care about. Before me, a band from LA played, Blueblood. Snare, bass drum, acoustic and steel/electric. They were very compelling, electric folk. Their new record, Reverse the Curse, is being mixed now. Look for them in OC at some point.

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Most famous as a punk rock icon and artist, Exene Cervenka (front woman for X, Knitters and Original Sinners) is documenting her adventures for Heard Mentality on the way to Austin's South By Southwest, the country's biggest music festival. Check out her complete tour diary archive here.

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly

​Traveling across the West for three days. Listening to Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo, Phil Alvin Live at the Redwood, The Plugz. CNN on the radio. Endless drive. Lots of towns dying, broken houses falling down, people still living in them. Poverty and depression. Sad how America is falling apart.

Finally today got to the Texas hill country. Passing bands' vans pulling trailers, and then, at last, Austin!
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Most famous as a punk rock icon and artist, Exene Cervenka (front woman for X, Knitters and Original Sinners) is documenting her adventures for Heard Mentality on the way to Austin's South By Southwest, the country's biggest music festival. Check out her complete archive here.
 

Raven Lorthos

Arizona!

​I'm in Texas somewhere. Tomorrow, we arrive in Austin. It's the 25th year of SXSW. I think I've done at least 10 of those. But all I can think about is Japan. When I get to Austin, I'm sure I'll get more in the groove; I'm just not in the mood right now.
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Most famous as a punk-rock icon and artist, Exene Cervenka (front woman for X, Knitters and Original Sinners) is documenting her adventures on the way to Austin's South By Southwest, the country's biggest music festival.

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly

​Just stopped in Casa Grande, Arizona. The GPS (Gremlin Positioning Satellite) kept telling me to turn right and go to Mexico, but I stayed on the 10. Traveling with my Memphis friend, Raven.More >>