Monday, March 19, 2007

What we did while everyone else was at SXSW...

While everyone else in the world (it seemed) was at the SXSW music festival, what did the rest of us do? Well, we: 1) Washed our hair;

2) Filed our nails;

3) Read everyone's blogs about what they were seeing, doing and drinking.
And then we made lists.

After slogging through blog upon blog, here's a list of bands that were mentioned with more enthusiasm or more frequencies than other bands (that were just casually mentioned). In Alphabetical order for fairness, and with those not-always-accurate-but-kind-of-handy genres listed in brackets:

31 Knots [rock]
Affair [rock]
Alarm Clocks [rock]
American Princes [rock]
Army of Me [rock]
Beach House [pop]
Clockcleaner [punk]
Datarock [rock]
Dirty Projectors [avant/experimental]
Earl Greyhound [rock]
Flosstradamus [DJ]
Future Clouds and Radar [rock]
Gallows [punk]
Green Milk from the Orange Planet [rock]
Halestorm [rock]
Jesu [avant/experimental]
Kate Havenik [pop]
Mink [rock]
Oxbow [rock]
Page France [pop]
Pelican [rock]
Photo Atlas [rock]
Prototypes [rock]
Shearwater [rock]
Shout Out Out Out [electronic]
Thomas Dybdahl [pop]
Tiny Masters of Today [punk]
Weatherbox [rock]
White Denim [rock]
Young Knives [rock]
Zincs [rock]

I can't vouch for any of these bands cuz, HEY! I didn't see them. I'm just collecting up the opinions of those who did. The genres and links come from the SXSW Bands page on their site. Check them out for yourselves. Lots of downloads and streams.

I want to thank everyone who went to SXSW and wrote about it during and after, so that my broke-ass could experience it vicariously. Next year, I gots ta find me a Sugar Daddy or company expense account. Unfortunately, being your own boss also means always picking up the tab!