south by so-many-fucking-bands

"what's that picture at the right?," you ask. that is a picture of the room we have at sxsw. there will be 4 to 5 people in that room. we need to not be in that room as much as possible. the past few weeks i've received about 10 emails a day from my friends who have started an email chain about what we are going to do once we get down to austin. between that, the sxsw site and my other email inboxes that are getting filled with sxsw press releases...i'm a bit overwhelmed, but get the feeling i won't be in that hotel room much.

so this morning i woke up early, put on some music, wrapped a sweatshirt around myself, grabbed the box of strawberry yogurt burst cheerios out of my cupboard and faced my fear...i opened up the sxsw showlist page.

immediately i realized one thing: i do not know a lot of bands. last year i went down and pretty much just went to random shows, parties, did some swimming in caves, ate delicious mexican food and drank avocado margaritas. i plan on basically doing the same this year, on top of that i'll also be helping to throw the austinist/gothamist show (check out our newly updated show lineup) and i'll be on managerial duty for bravo silva.

so earlier, i was all "it's 7:30am and i have all this energy and i'm SO FOCUSED so i'm going to find the bands i want to see at sxsw, make a schedule of them and post mp3's!"

i got through 4 bands and gave up...

like_u_crazy.mp3 - mates of state
3/16, 12am, The Parish (214B E 6th St)
3/17 Jane Magazine party, invite only

steady_rollin.mp3 - two gallants
3/16, 11pm, The Parish (214B E 6th St)
TBA +1/Stuff Party, invite only

insistor.mp3 - tapes n' tapes
3/17, 1am, Latitude 30 (512 San Jacinto St)
3/16, 2 to 6pm, Red 7 (E 7th St), badge only party
TBA +1/Stuff Party, invite only

sukie_in_the_graveyard.mp3 - belle & sebastian
3/15, TBA, Stubbs (801 Red River St)
anyone know where else they're playing?

Comments

[Nicolas]

Is this music pretty boring or that's just me?

[ft]

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