Sábado 28 Mar 2009, 19:48

Wed 18 Mar – SXSW Music Conference and Festival
A brief rundown of who I saw at SXSW this March and who my favorites were….

Wednesday (Mar 18):
Cuntwise Mona (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Smoke and Feathers (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Black Diamond Heavies (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Prayer for Animals (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
dd/mm/yyyy (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Thomas Function (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Your 33 Black Angels (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Haunting Oboe Music (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Golden Animals (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Tera Melos (The Music Gym)
Aun (The Music Gym)

Thursday (Mar 19):
Tim Easton (New West Records party, Club Deville)
Corb Lund (New West Records party, Club Deville)
Mark Olson and Gary Louris (New West Records party, Club Deville)
The Morning Benders (Home Slice Pizza)
Dead Confederate (Home Slice Pizza)
Junius (The Ale House)
Hull (The Ale House)
Fuckshovel (Spiro's Amphitheater)
Dead Confederate (Spiro's)
Goes Cube (The Ale House)
Annihilation Time (Room 710)
Earthless (Room 710)

Friday (Mar 20):
Moth!Fight! (Emo's Annex)
Frances (Flamingo Cantina)
Woodgrain (Typewriter Museum)
Butcher Bear and Charlie's Roller Coaster Band (Typewriter Museum)
Ume (Typewriter Museum)
The Slants (Typewriter Museum)
Asakusa Jinta (Typewriter Museum)
The Republic Tigers (Home Slice Pizza)
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit (Home Slice Pizza)
Say Hi (Home Slice Pizza)
Hamell On Trial (Soho Lounge)
Eagle Twin (Emo's Annex)
The Felice Brothers (Habana Bar Backyard)
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit (Habana Bar Backyard)
Tim Easton (Habana Bar Backyard)
Pelican (Emo's Annex)

Saturday (Mar 21):
The Victor Mourning (Yard Dog Gallery)
Jad Fair (Yard Dog Gallery)
Tim Easton (Yard Dog Gallery)
Jason Lytle (Hot Freaks Party, Mohawk)
Vetiver (Mess With Texas 3, Waterloo Park)
Jason Lytle (Mess With Texas 3, Waterloo Park)
Dead Confederate (Side Bar)

…and at this point I had had it. Ended up that I had the flu, which kicked my butt for the next week.

So, 46 shows in 4 days…not too bad, but fewer than I had hoped. I ended up seeing more of my favorite bands as opposed to my normal mode of operation of checking out new music during SXSW.

Best day parties were certainly at Fast Folks Cyclery, Home Slice Pizza, and of course at the Typewriter Museum.

Bands seen most times: Dead Confederate, Tim Easton, each three times and excellent for each one of them.

Best new-to-me bands: Felice Brothers (ridiculously entertaining stage show), Junius (excellent post-metal from Boston)

Best showcase: Habana Bar Backyard, which featured the one-two-three punch of Felice Brothers, Jason Isbell, and Tim Easton.

Most welcome return to Austin: Hamell on Trial (the crowd at Soho Lounge was jacked, you could tell there were a lot of ex-Electric Lounge'ers there)