{"id":204641,"date":"2026-03-14T15:57:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/204641\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:57:59","slug":"the-chronicles-hair-of-the-three-legged-dog-day-party-hosts-colorful-crowd-moving-performances-the-austin-chronicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/204641\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chronicle\u2019s Hair of the Three-Legged Dog Day Party Hosts Colorful, Crowd-Moving Performances \u2022 The Austin Chronicle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 11th-annual Austin Chronicle Hair of the Three-Legged Dog day party had the energy of a boozy kickoff, rather than a hangover recovery, thanks to the condensed South by Southwest schedule this year. Bloody Marys and Dirty Shirleys flowed as effortlessly as the swaying hips and heads in the Hotel Vegas crowd. If the patio-perfect weather was any indication, late Chrondog and event mascot, Hank the Tripaw, was certainly blessing the gathering from doggy heaven as his successor, Champ, made his first public appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Chrondog Champ, adopted in December 2025, attends his first Hair of the 3-Legged Dog party, named for his predecessor Hank the Tripaw Credit: Jay-Alan Baltierra<\/p>\n

Mixtape master Free Hamze<\/a> kicked off the festivities with his first ever live band adaptation of FREETAPE 5: The Shadow and the Self. Blending silky saxophone riffs with delicate piano loops and steady percussion, plus simple, swaggering basslines, and the rapper\u2019s effortless storytelling, the group immediately got the crowd swaying, clapping, and even singing along as if they\u2019d been playing Hamze\u2019s politically poignant tracks together forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00c9gaux Sells Credit: Jay-Alan Baltierra<\/p>\n

Adorned in thematically appropriate dog-inspired clown makeup, synth-wielding songwriter \u00c9gaux Sells<\/a> brought their pop-blending sound to the sun-filled patio dancefloor next. Between I HATE FIGHTING!!! singles like \u201cTOO HARD\u201d and \u201cLAST TIME,\u201d the effusive performer twirled, tapped, and body dropped with vaudevillian precision while introducing yet-unreleased tracks into their growing canon of mysteriously sumptuous, strobe-seeking club bangers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Team Trust Credit: Jay-Alan Baltierra<\/p>\n

Next, indie rock trio Team Trust<\/a> took the stage for a sure-footed performance of their earnest, structure-shaking compositions. Effortlessly trading overlapping vocals, bassist Dan Mabray, guitarist Elday Kornberg, and drummer JD Brunson III jammed out their Treat Box of feel-good rock with a touch of extra punk flair and led the audience in one of their signature trust exercises: encouraging neighboring crowd members to teach each other a dance move, to delightfully goofy and groovy results.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"BRUCE Credit: Jay-Alan Baltierra<\/p>\n

Carrie Fussell\u2019s kaleidoscopic pop-rock project, BRUCE<\/a>, tied up the dynamic dance party. As Fussell cheekily shared stories behind some of Must Love Teeth\u2019s tracks, upcoming album Thumbs, and her tape-crafted Austin Music Awards<\/a> outfit, the triad proved colorfully charismatic in both music and conversation. Drummer Josh Bickley and bassist Ryan Brewer captured the project\u2019s dramatic urgency alongside Fussell on vocals and guitar, from the sinisterly sensual \u201cCherry\u201d to a stripped-down rendition of \u201cWater Pitcher,\u201d with many theatrically arranged rock ballads in between, leaving the crowded patio floor thirsty for more.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A note to readers:\u00a0Bold and uncensored,\u00a0The Austin Chronicle\u00a0has been Austin\u2019s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community\u2019s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press. If real news is important to you, please consider making a donation of $5, $10 or whatever you can afford, to help keep our journalism on stands. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 11th-annual Austin Chronicle Hair of the Three-Legged Dog day party had the energy of a boozy kickoff,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,72528,44371,80592,80593,2970,79790,50720],"class_list":["post-204641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-bruce","tag-egaux-sells","tag-free-hamze","tag-hair-of-the-3-legged-dog-party","tag-sxsw-2026","tag-sxsw-music","tag-team-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}