From the press release:

San Francisco’s premier indie music source The Bay Bridged is proud to announce the details for the 2010 Bay Area Takeover, our third annual free day party during the 2010 South by Southwest Music Festival. The party’s happening on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 from 11:30am to 6pm at Austin’s Beauty Bar.

Following in the tradition of two years of acclaimed events, BATO 2010 features our best lineup yet, with performances by fifteen of the San Francisco Bay Area’s hottest artists, who represent a broad cross-section of the Bay’s fertile indie music scene. Highlights include psych-rockers Sleepy Sun (ATP Recordings), the raw rock and roll of Ty Segall (Goner Records), and, back by popular demand, a set of magnetic electro-R&B from Wallpaper. (Eenie Meenie).
The full list of terrific acts includes:

Wallpaper.
Sleepy Sun
Ty Segall
Or, the Whale
Still Flyin’
Birds & Batteries
The Sandwitches
Young Prisms
Man/Miracle
Tempo No Tempo
Geographer
The Ferocious Few
Sonny and the Sunsets
Leopold and his Fiction
Hottub

With DJ sets from Bagel Ted (Bagel Radio) throughout the day.
More information about the party can be found at TheBayAreaTakeover.com. The party is FREE, but you should RSVP at our web site to receive priority admission.

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For those planning on attending SXSW this year (or for those just curious about who will be there), I’ve been sifting through the extensive list as something of a countdown until the festival.

Today’s video is from Los Angeles-based Local Natives, who will be releasing their record Gorilla Manor on Frenchkiss February 16th.

We’re teaming up with the great Mexican Summer this year to bring you a day & night, official/unofficial blowout in Austin on Friday, March 19. Starring Washed Out, Memory Tapes, Real Estate, Dum Dum Girls, Best Coast, jj, and many more. Details coming soon…

MP3s and more over on Gorilla.

The MtyMx festival is a collaboration between Yo Garage and Todd P and will feature up to 25 bands a day for three days, playing outdoors on two stages in a beautiful drive-in movie theater on the side of a mountain in the Sierra Madre Oriental. Over one third of the bands playing are from Mexico!

Tickets are $30 for a three day pass. 75 bands! | PURCHASE TIX:

Confirmed bands include: Dan Deacon, Neon Indian, Washed Out, Thee Oh Sees, Pocahaunted, Indian Jewelry, Male Bonding, Best Fwends, Banjo or Freakout and many many more, along with Mexican groups Los Fancy Free, Los Margaritos, and more to be announced in the coming days.

Read all the details on Todd’s site.

Google Cache says:

Yeah, it’s still months away, but someone has to kick SXSW season off, right? So it is with some pride and anticipation that we announce the Village Voice’s 2010 SXSW party, featuring the xx, Superchunk, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and our old friends Surfer Blood. Friday, March 19, La Zona Rosa, Austin, TX, 12pm – 5pm. These bands are alternately old friends and young heroes to us so it just didn’t seem worth keeping secret any longer. You will probably forget but we will definitely remind you.

You can find the same info on Surfer Blood’s MySpace page where you’ll also learn they’re playing a Filter event with She and Him

I can’t see myself reading any of this, but I could be wrong.

AOL is trying its most ambitious super-content project yet with freelance content site Seed.com: offering 2,000 $50 assignments on SXSW bands for its music site Spinner.com. New Seed programming director Saul Hansell sees it as the “perfect chance” to showcase reporting and journalism along with what Seed can do for sites within AOL. The basics: Spinner and Seed are recruiting U.S. “reporters” to interview all 2,000 bands for a Q&A and bio in advance of the March Festival. That doesn’t mean they’re looking for professional writers or even music experts, although they may get some of each. (full story)

Looks like Spinner is making a big play to have a lot of random content about all the bands in advance of SXSW. You know who else has a lot of content about all the bands? Google.

KCRW’s Official Night Showcase – Wed, March 17

OZOMATLI
MIIKE SNOW
FANFARLO
CHOIR OF YOUNG BELIEVERS
SOKO
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS

Also, KCRW is hosting an Official Day Showcase for the first time at the Convention Center on SATURDAY, MARCH 20 from noon to 3pm. We know you need some incentive to get up before noon on a Saturday and we have it – the always excellent ROGUE WAVE, Australian buzz band THE MIDDLE EAST (in one of their first U.S. performances before Coachella), and the soaring vocals and rockin’ revival of Fat Possum artist LISSIE.

Art Disaster’s Unofficial Kick-Off Party
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Beauty Bar
617 E 7th St |Austin, TX 78701
Current lineup and times:

Outside Stage:

1a – Pomegranates
12a – The Shondes
11p – Sunset
10p – Bright Light Social Hour
9p – CAW! CAW!

Between bands – Keiron EVOL DJ

Inside Stage:

1:10a – DJ Orion
12:30a – Shunda K
11:30p – The White White Lights
10:30p – Leopold and His Fiction
9:30p – Red Wanting Blue
8:30p – Lachi

Between bands – Miguel DJ

MP3: Doubting Comforts

While perusing the SXSW 2010 band list (yet again), I was reminded that Blue Roses will be playing. This is the project of singer/musician Laura Groves from Shipley, Yorkshire whose influences range from Tears For Fears to Debussy. Combining years of practice on the piano and guitar with days of interest on other instruments, she’s managed to compose some heartbreakingly darling folk tunes. “I like writing songs for instruments I can’t play yet and making choirs out of my voice” says Groves. She released her full-length Blue Roses last July and EP Does Anyone Love Me Now in December, both on XL.

MP3: Hex Takes Hold by Past Lives

3.20 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk Bar [Panache Booking SXSW Showcase ] Past Lives, Surfer Blood, Dam-Funk, Oh Sees, The Intelligence, Turbo Fruits, Small Black

For the third year running, NPR Music will present, broadcast and webcast the opening night showcase of the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, TX, when it brings Spoon to headline Stubbs on Wednesday, March 17. The concert will kick off Spoon’s U.S. concert tour in support of its forthcoming album, Transference.

NPR is currently streaming the new Spoon album over here. All of NPR’s SXSW coverage is here.

Preliminary schedules are now available on SXSW.com! The SXSW schedules will help you navigate your way through the vast amount of programming for SXSW 2010 and allow you to plan your personal schedule for this year’s event. Browse through everything, including: Music Showcases, Music Panels, Interactive Panels, Film Panels, Film Screenings, parties and more! (read more)

It’s by no means the complete schedule, but it is something we can obsess over as things continue to get filled up. Although, if you go to the music section, everything is basically listed as TBA so it’s not valuable yet.

SXSW just announced some big names performing this year including Cheap Trick, She and Him, and more.

Other heavy-hitters confirmed to showcase this March include the return of indie pop folk duo Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward performing as She & Him. Indie rockers Metric will be making an appearance along with their fellow Canadian musical collective Broken Social Scene. Also see performances from Japanese indietronica artist Cornelius, Japanese-American hip hop producer and artist Dan the Automator, and Chilean hip hop artist Anita Tijoux.

Impose Magazine has more details about the Todd P competing event during SXSW.

While the entire endeavor is still somewhat “hypothetical,” Todd Patrick and Fiona Campbell (of the band Coasting) have a team working on a three to four day festival to be held in a huge field a couple miles from Monterrey between March 19 and March 22. It’s looking “much more real” every passing day.

and it does seem like there will be no Todd P events at SXSW this year either way:

While it’s not a complete break, [Todd] Patrick claims to be cleaning his hands of South by Southwest. “I think the festival kinda blows,” he says. “After all these years we’ve helped the value of the festival. We’ve given people justification for going to South by Southwest even if they hate it. I don’t feel like helping SXSW look more cool.” He estimates that last year, his free shows on the east side of Austin attracted upwards of 2,500 people for Wavves, and 1,500 the following night for Health, and he worries that rumors that float around every year about being shutdown will finally come to fruition.

Read the full story here.

From Chocolate Bobka:

Yesterday some interesting pictures of an abandoned drive-in movie theater turned up on Facebook. BK DIY scene leader Todd P posted them. Later I came to learn that the pictures are of the potential grounds for a post-SXSW festival in the Mexican city of Monterrey, roughly four hours south of Austin. Rumor has it 200 bands will be playing the three day festival, which will reportedly kick off the Saturday March 20th, and will overlap with SXSW for a couple days. (more)