SXSW 2009!

 

 

If you are attending Interactive, please see Interactive wiki page.

 

If you are attending Film please post any interesting films that might be worth seeing.

 

If you want to do things like shop or hit up a spa, check out Spa Info

 

If you wanna know where to eat, check out sxsw dining options!

 

 

Our Calendars:

 

Carla

Victoria's schedule in progress: http://sxsw2009.sched.org/victorialynn

Keely in progress

Kevin's massive SXSW calendar is here (http://sched.org/sxsw2008/Smokler) via Sched.org.

kd's piecing together a schedule: http://sxsw2009.sched.org/kdj

 

How to merge calendars on Sched.org:

Just put commas and add on user names. For example, see the merged schedules for a bunch of us here.

 

 

Music Mixes We Make:

Keely's 2009 SXSW Rhapsody Mix

 

 

Other Links/References:

Awesome external reference: http://sxsw.ning.com

Music Link: http://2009.sxsw.com/music/

Preliminary band list here: http://www.donewaiting.com/2009/01/05/sxsw-band-list-2009-confirmed-and-unconfirmed/

http://sxsw.com/music/shows/bands

Really great list of SXSW artists with links and genre tags: http://research.sun.com:8080/SXSWArtistCatalog/index.html

Updated band list. More than 1800 showcasing acts this year.

http://sxsw.com/music/shows/bands

Done Waiting has a list of added and removed bands.

http://www.donewaiting.com/2009/02/10/list-of-added-and-removed-bands-to-sxsws-updated-list/

Complete Schedule is Live

http://sxsw.com/music/shows/schedule

Here's a link to torrents of the showcased artists. 5GB of muzak! http://foo.ca/wp/2009/02/22/sxsw-2009-torrent/

 

 

Here's some links that Molly bookmarked last year, updated for 2009:

Official SXSW Music Parties & Lounges: http://2009.sxsw.com/music/parties_and_lounges

Official SXSW Interactive Parties & Lounges: http://2009.sxsw.com/interactive/parties_and_lounges

Austin 360 SXSW 2009 Day Parties & Side Parties: http://www.austin360.com/music/content/music/stories/2009/02/sxswside.html

Austinist/SXSWist: http://austinist.com/sxswist

SXSW Baby!: http://www.sxswbaby.com

SXSW Baby! Ride/Room Share: http://www.sxswbaby.com/index.php/share

Oh My Rockness - SXSW's Indie Rock Show List: http://sxsw.ohmyrockness.com

The Brit List - British Bands At SXSW 2009: http://www.showburner.com/sxsw

Music From Ireland - SXSW: http://www.musicfromireland.org

The Bay Area Takeover: http://thebayareatakeover.com/wp

Austin, TX Showlist: http://showlistaustin.com

Done Waiting: http://www.donewaiting.com/category/sxsw

SXSWtwitter Wiki: http://sxswtwitter.pbwiki.com

 

 

 

BAND LIST

Airborne Toxic Event - Carla, Kevin, Keely

Arc Angels - Carla, kd, Trammell

Alaska in Winter - Carla, Victoria

Annuals - Carla, Keely++, Kevin, Victoria

Anya Marina - Keely++, Carla, Kevin

Arms & Legs - Carla, Kevin

Asobi Seksu - Carla, Keely

Au Revoir Simone - Carla, Victoria

Asylum Street Spankers - Kevin, Carla, ALV

Barcelona - ALV

Beach House - Carla, Victoria

Andrew Bird - Carla, Keely, kd, Victoria, ALV

Aqualung - Keely, Carla

The Bar-Kays - (played at Wattstax!) - Kevin

Ben Harper - ALV

The Besties - Carla

The Bird & The Bee

Bishop Allen - ALV

The Black Hollies - Carla

Black Lips - Carla

Blitzen Trapper - ALV

The Blood Sugars - Carla

Blue Giant - Kevin

The Boticellis- Carla

The Brunettes - Carla, Victoria, ALV

Bus Driver - ALV

Butterfly Boucher - Keely++, Carla

Camera Obscura - Carla, Victoria, ALV

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Carla, Victoria, ALV

Casxio - Carla

Cause Co-Motion!  - Carla

The Chap - Carla, Victoria (they NEVER come to the US. yay!!), Trammell

Coathangers - Carla

Cold War Kids - ALV

Colin Moore - ALV

Colourmusic - Keely

Coma in Algiers - Keely

Crown City Rockers - Kevin

Crystal Method - Carla, Victoria

Dash Rip Rock - Carla, Keely

Dead Confederate - ALV

Decemberists - Carla, kd, Victoria, Trammell, James, ALV

Dent May & His Magnificent Ukelele - kd, Keely, Victoria, Trammell

Department of Eagles - Carla, Victoria

Devo - Carla, James (ZOMG!), Trammell, Victoria, ALV

Alela Diane - kd

Dressy Bessy - ALV

Drink up Buttercup - Carla

Earlimart - Carla, Victoria

Easy Star All-Stars - Keely++, Kevin

ElemenoP - Carla

Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Keely

The Emeralds - Carla (this will be part of Japan night along with Japanther), Victoria

Emily Wells - Keely, Carla, Kevin

Explosions in the Sky - Carla, Kevin, James, Victoria, Trammell

Ferraby Lionheart - Keely++, Carla, ALV

Melissa Ferrick - Keely, Carla

Fight Like Apes - James, Carla

Tim Finn - Carla, kd, removed from band list

Friendly Fires - Carla, Kevin, Victoria, Trammell

Flosstradamus - ALV

French Miami - ALV

Golem - Carla, Kevin, ALV

Gomez - Keely, kd, Carla, Victoria, ALV

The Gourds - ALV

Grand Archives - Carla, Keely, Victoria, Trammell

Grant Hart (of Husker Du) - Carla

Gravy Train - ALV

Great Northern - Keely, Carla, Kevin, Trammell

Great Lakes Myth Society - Kevin, Carla, Trammell

Grizzly Bear - Carla, Victoria, Trammell, ALV

John Wesley Harding and Eugene Mirman's Cabinet of Wonders w/ special guests - kd

Handsome Furs - Carla, ALV

Harlem Shakes - Keely++, Trammell, Carla

PJ Harvey - Keely (OMG, OMG, OMG), James (ditto!), Victoria, Trammell, ALV

Hey Negrita - kd

Hockey - Carla

The Hold Steady - Carla

Holly Golightly - ALV

Horse Feathers - Keely, Victoria, Trammell (are these guys still playing? Can't find them yet - yes: see), ALV

Hot Leg - kd

      New band from Justin Hawkins (lead singer/guitarist/writer from The Darkness)

Howlies - Carla+

Human Highway - Carla

I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness - Carla, Victoria

The Iguanas - ALV

Immaculate Machine - Keely++, Carla

The Indigo Girls - Keely (I can't help myself), Victoria, ALV

It's Not Not - Carla

Naneane Garofalo - ALV

Japanther - Carla, Victoria

Javelins - Carla

Jen Grant - Keely, Kevin

Jucifer - ALV

King Khan & the Shrines - kd, Victoria, Carla

The Knux - Kevin, Carla

Lady Sovereign - ALV

Late of the Pier - Carla

Laura Gibson - ALV

The Little Ones - Keely++, Kevin, Carla, Victoria

Longwave - Carla, Keely, removed from band list

Long Winters - Kevin, Carla

Loquat - Carla, Victoria, ALV

Margaret Cho - Keely, Kevin, kd, Victoria, ALV

Mark David Ashworth - Carla

Martina Topley Bird - Keely, Victoria

Masarati - ALV

The Mathletes - Carla

Matt & Kim - Carla, Victoria, ALV

maus haus - ALV

Meat Puppets - kd, Carla, ALV

Miracle Fortress - Kevin, Keely++, removed from band list

Mirah - Carla, Keely, kd, Victoria, ALV

The Moaners - Keely, Carla

The Morning Benders - Carla, ALV

MSTRKRFT

My Dear Disco - Carla, Kevin

N.A.S.A. - kd

The O's - Carla

The Octopus Project - Carla

The Oh Sees - ALV

Okkervil River - Carla, James, Victoria, ALV

Or, The Whale - ALV

Other Lives - Carla

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Carla

Paper Lions - Keely, Carla, kd (Also haven't seen them on the schedule yet. Still playing? Yes), ALV

The Parties - kd

Passion Pit - Carla, Keely++, Trammell

The Pepper Pots - Carla

Pete & the Pirates - Carla, Kevin

Peter & The Wolf - Carla

Phosphorescent - ALV

Jay Jay Pistolet - kd

Postelles - Carla

Pretty & Nice - Carla

The Proclaimers - Kevin, James <--I ALMOST put this on here w/your name before Kevin, I knew you'd want to see them.

+/- {Plus/Minus} - Keely++, Carla, Victoria, Trammell

Joe Purdy - kd, Carla

The Quarter After - Carla, Kevin, Keely

Ra Ra Riot - Carla, Keely, Victoria, Trammell, ALV

Race Horses - Carla

Kristoffer Ragnstam - Carla

Ratas del Vaticano -Carla

Raveonettes - Carla, James, Victoria - evidently removed from the list

Eli Paperboy Reed & The True Loves - Carla

Republic Tigers - Carla, Victoria, Trammell

The Rescues - Carla

Ringo Deathstarr - kd (I can't help it, the name amuses me)

Roll the Tanks - Carla

The Round Tables - Carla

The Rosebuds - Carla, Kevin, Keely, ALV

Ruby Coast - Carla

School of Seven Bells - kd, Carla, Kevin, Keely

     Includes one of the founding brothers from Secret Machines

The Secret Life of Sofia - Keely

The Seedy Seeds - Carla

Silversun Picksups - Keely, Carla, ALV

Shout out out out -- Kevin

The Sleepover Disaster - Carla

The Soft Pack - Carla

Solid Gold - Carla

The Sonics - Carla

The Spinto Band - ALV

Stardeath and White Dwarfs - kd

Starfucker - Carla

Stars of Track and Field - Carla, Keely++, Trammell

Starsailor - Kevin, Carla, removed from band list

Mark Sultan - kd

Sway machinery - Kevin, Carla

Takka Takka - Carla

Telekinesis! - Carla

The Thermals - Carla++, Victoria

This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb - ALV

Thomas Function - Carla

Tigercity - Carla

Tinted Windows - kd, Carla (if only for the spectacle)

     Tinted Windows is: Hanson vocalist Taylor Hanson, Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger, former Smashing Pumpkins' guitarist James Iha and Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos

Tiny Vipers - Carla, Victoria

Tori Amos - ALV

Twilight Hotel - Carla

Tyvek - Carla

The Uglysuit - Keely++, Carla, kd, Victoria

David Vandervelde - Carla, Kevin

Vetiver - Carla, Victoria, ALV

Vivian Girls - Carla

Von Bondies - Carla, ALV

M Ward - kd, Victoria, Trammell, Carla, ALV

Wavves - Carla

We Were Promised Jetpacks - Carla, Trammell, Kevin (I dig)

What Laura Says - Carla

The Week that Was - Kevin

White Denim - Carla

White Lies - Carla, kd

Winterpills - Carla, Kevin, ALV

The Wrens - Carla, Kevin, James, ALV

Yacht - Carla, ALV

Zion I - Kevin, ALV

 

++is just a note to myself to prioritize these bands (Keely)

 

 

Party Stuff!

 

Wednesday, March 18th

 

12-6pm IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash- Emo’s Annex, 603 Red River (corner of 6th & Red River)

5:15 PM: Easy Star All-Stars (Easy Star) +Keely

4:30 PM: Deer Tick (Partisan)

4:00 PM: J. Tillman (Western Vinyl)

3:30 PM: We Were Promised Jetpacks (Fat Cat)

3:00 PM: Blind Pilot (Expunged)

2:30 PM: maus haus (Pretty Blue Presents)

2:00 PM: The Phenomenal Handclap Bank (Friendly Fire Recordings)

1:30 PM: Deastro (Ghostly International)

1:00 PM: Marching Band (U&L)

12:30 PM: Theresa Andersson (Basin Street)

12:00 PM: Y La Bamba (Gypsy Pop)

 

 

12-6 Force Field PR & Terrorbird Media @ Red 7 | 611 E. 7th St. at Red River +Carla, band list looks amazing!

FREE / OPEN TO THE PUBLIC / ALL AGES / NO NEED TO RSVP

2 Stages of Music featuring:

VIVIAN GIRLS

BEACH HOUSE

THE THERMALS

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART

THEMSELVES

YONI WOLF OF WHY?

MAX TUNDRA

WAVVES

LONEY DEAR (I talked to Loney, Dear last week and they said they had a bunch of shows lined up, but I feel like this is the only one I've seen?)

SHOUT OUT OUT OUT OUT

FOL CHEN

LAKE

RAINBOW ARABIA

DMG$

LARYTTA

 

 

 

Thursday, March 19th

 

Gorilla vs Booze

 

The Peacock

515 Pedernales St

 

Vivian Girls (Brooklyn)

White Denim (Austin)

WAVVES (San Diego)

The Golden Filter (NYC)

Girls (San Francisco)

Here We Go Magic (Brooklyn)

Harlem (Austin)

DJ Sober (Dallas)

 

 

QuackMedia Party - requires RSVP

Red 7

 

The Magic

Javelins

Adam Stephens

Great Lakes Myth Society

The Human Highway

The Hard Lessons

The Tallest Man on Earth

No Age

The Hold Steady

 

Friday, March 20th

 

Village Voice Party +Carla

12 - 5

La Zona Rosa

M. Ward

Cursive

Gomez +Keely

Bear Hand

 

Pitchfork Bash @ Emo's/Emo's Jr. 12-6

12:00 - Girls (Emo’s Jr.)

12:30 - The Mae Shi (Emo’s)

1:00 - Little Boots (Emo’s Jr.)

1:30 - Max Tundra (Emo’s)

2:00 - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Emo’s Jr.)

2:30 - Woods (Emo’s)

3:00 - School of Seven Bells (Emo’s Jr.)  +Keely

3:30 - Wavves (Emo’s)

4:00 - Dirty Projectors (Emo’s Jr.)

4:30 - King Khan & the Shrines (Emo’s)

5:00 - A-Trak/Major Lazer [ft. Diplo] (Emo’s Jr.)

5:30 - Department of Eagles (Emo’s)

 

 

Saturday, March 21st

 

 

Rose's Mojito and Rachael Ray's Feedback: A Smorgasbord of Hot Bands and Hot Food @ SXSW+Carla

The Hold Steady

The New York Dolls

Bob Schnieder

The Cringe

The Airborne Toxic Event  +Keely

Ra Ra Riot

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Semi Precious Weapons

The Thermals

John Pringle