SXSW Shows I Will Attend

Work is crazy, so I am going to be attending far fewer shows than I had hoped.

These are the only shows I am guaranteed to attend (and to which I am looking forward):

— Public Enemy at Auditorium Shores with all my people on Friday
— CDFuse.com CA to TX Indie Rock Day Party at Red Eyed Fly on Saturday

I am so jealous of all the people who have taken the week off and are going to shows by bands they love.

When I go to a show, I have to meet the “people” and have them watch my reactions. I intentionally underreact. The best you will get from me, if true, is “sounded great/audience loved it.” I might tell you the band has “a lot of potential,” which is very faint praise. If I ask you what you see for the band, I am completely disinterested.

On that very rare occasion when I hear something amazing and I tell you “I love it!,” you know I really mean it.

 

Reuters’ SXSW Buzz Bands Article Lists Actual Good Bands

When I saw the title of the Reuters article Buzz bands to watch at South By Southwest, I was mentally preparing the haterade I would be pouring all over their list until I clicked through.

The Pipettes, Girl Talk, Malajube, etc.: they actually got it right for about 6-12 months ago, which is still much further ahead than I’d anticipated. (I mean, it’s Reuters.) Below are some songs for my favorites on their list.

Mp3: The Pipettes, I Love You (BBC Radio 1 Session).
Mp3: The Pipettes, Dirty Mind (BBC Radio 2 Mark Radcliffe Session live).
Buy the album We Are the Pipettes from Memphis Industries or on Amazon.

Mp3: Girl Talk, Live Four.
Originally from Covert Curiosity.
Buy the album Night Ripper Illegal Art, at Amazon or iTunes

Mp3: Malajube, Pâte Filo.

Their label store site is down, so buy it on Amazon or iTunes.

 

SXSW Complete Download 1 Available at HearYa

HearYa is hosting the complete first release of mp3s for SXSW 2007. That’s over 700 songs. Free.

If you do not want to torrent it, click over to HearYa to get all of the songs in one click (assuming you have firefox’s downloadthemall extension installed).
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Cadence Weapon to World: "Stop Biting"

In Sharks, Cadence Weapon throws down the gauntlet and lives up to his name.

The track is minimal and bleep-y. His rhymes are clever and unhurried, spliting words from one bar to the next with surgical precision. The overall sound is underground and grimy.

Hailing from Edmonton, Cadence Weapon released this album back in 2005 and it got love and nominations in 2006. It is being released in the US on Epitaph March 13th and you need to buy it.

Cadence Weapon is performing at sxsw in a couple of weeks, so check him out.

You can stream it below and buy it in a couple of weeks.

 

Free SXSW Show – Public Enemy at Auditorium Shores – March 16

Well, that pretty much says it all.

I saw PE perform in 1995(?) on the weirdest bill ever along with:

Black Sheep
Tom Tom Club
Toad the Wet Sprocket

I highly recommend seeing them. We’ll definitely be there.

There is more information in the Statesman.

 

SXSW Releases MP3 Torrent 1

SXSW created a 3.1 gb torrent of mp3s by many of the performing acts, which you can download here.

You’ll need a bittorrent application like azureus to grab all the free music.

 

SX Updated List from Austinist

As we get closer to SXSW, Austinist posted another update to its confirmed bands list.

At this point, I am looking forward to seeing:

Architecture In Helsinki
Bonde Do Role
Devin The Dude
Girl Talk
Lily Allen
Prototypes
RJD2
Rocky Votolato
Scissor Sisters
The Walkmen
Voxtrot

Of course, I say this every year, and then I actively avoid all formal SX activity. As with any industry thing, there’s so much BS and I hate it.