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Todd P Mexico Festival During SXSW is Real and Tickets Are $30/3 Day

Posted on February 2, 2010 by | 11 comments

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.

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Village Voice SXSW Party Features The xx, Surfer Blood, Superchunk, More + She and Him @ Filter Party

Posted on February 1, 2010 by | 4 comments

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

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Interview the 2,000+ Bands Attending SXSW and Get $50/band from AOL

Posted on January 28, 2010 by | 7 comments

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.

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KCRW Announces Day and Evening SXSW Showcases

Posted on January 27, 2010 by | 2 comments

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.

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Art Disaster’s Unofficial SXSW Kick-Off Party

Posted on January 21, 2010 by | 7 comments

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

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Video: Blue Roses – I Am Leaving

Posted on January 15, 2010 by | 1 comment

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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.

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Surfer Blood, Past Lives @ Panache Booking SXSW Showcase

Posted on January 13, 2010 by | 1 comment

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

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Spoon to Headline NPR SXSW Showcase

Posted on January 11, 2010 by | Comments Off on Spoon to Headline NPR SXSW Showcase

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.

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SXSW Releases (Limited, Mostly TBA) Schedules Super Early

Posted on January 7, 2010 by | 2 comments

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.

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She and Him, Metric, Cheap Trick and More Announced for SXSW

Posted on January 6, 2010 by | Comments Off on She and Him, Metric, Cheap Trick and More Announced for SXSW

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.

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