Just a glimpse at some of the madness taking place in Austin, Texas at SXSW next week in terms of bands and parties. I’ll be covering what I see there right here next week.
Some MP3s from the official SXSW of bands on my hitlist:
Brahms – Toward The Ghost
Boat Beam – The Rain Pauly
Everything Everything – My Keys, Your Boyfriend
Freelance Whales – Generator 2nd Floor
Lissie – Little Lovin’
Memory Tapes – Bicycle
MNDR – Fade to Black
Oh No Ono – Helplessly Young
Peter Wolf Crier – Untitled 101
Slaraffenland – Long Gone
Small Black – Despicable Dogs
So Cow – Moon Guen Young
Solid Gold – Synchronize
Surfer Blood – Swim
The Golden Filter – Hide Me
The Strange Boys – Be Brave
Toro Y Moi – Blessa
Villagers – Pieces
Woodhands – Pockets
Yes Giantess – Tuff ‘n’ Stuff
20 acts on my must-see list I’ve never seen before:
Active Child, Bachelorette, Best Coast, Dum Dum Girls, Flying Lotus, Holly Miranda, JJ, Magic Kids, MEN, Mountain Man, Nice Nice, Phantogram, She & Him, Sleigh Bells, Surf City, The Bewitched Hands on Top of our Heads, The Middle East, The Morning Benders and Washed Out.
Deep breath now for some of the parties..
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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
Niall, you need to take a 7 hour drive south, cross the border and go to monterrey. MTY MX is probably going to be like SXSW but smaller and for people who don’t have the extra 100000000 quid lying about.
You link for Mountain Man is wrong. Find them at
http://www.myspace.com/mountainmansquint
Thanks,
That other one was.. odd.
I know I said it last year but sometimes I envy you.
Signals(aka the three lads who left the mae shi) are going to be all over sxsw, catch em if ya can http://www.myspace.com/signalsla
Ah Niall you should be at all the SXSW interactive stuff this week pimping your blog.
So great to hear Everything Everything on your site.
T’was only two days ago I wondered if you knew them. But what a silly question… who do you not know?