Jack Lawrence of the Greenhornes
Here we go:
- Smith Westerns
- The Strokes
- Devotchka
- Phantogram
- Cold War Kids
- Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers
- Yuck
- Dirty Beaches
- Edwyn Collins
- Slutever
- The Mean Jeans
- tUnE-yArDs
- Personal and the Pizzas
- Toro y Moi
- Cass McCombs
- Blood in the Streets
- Overnight Lows
- Limes
- Harlan T. Bobo
- John Wesley Coleman
- Gangs
- Black Lips
- Little Dragon
- Quintron and Miss Pussycat
- Trances Arc
- The Strange Boys
- The Greenhornes
- Lemuria
- City and Colour
- White Mystery
- The Dodos
- Screaming Females
- Off!
- Ted Leo
- !!!
- Thee Oh Sees
- The Dead Milkmen
- Odd Future
- Bare Wires
- Conspiracy of Owls
Forty bands! That’s only 10 less than I saw last year, and last year I was in Austin for way more days. (I’ll post last year’s list after the jump, for reference.)
Some awards:
- Smith Westerns win the award for best blogger hate.
- The Strokes win best epic closer.
- Cold Ward Kids win best weird t-shirt.
- Shilpa Ray wins best set while wasted at 2pm.
- Edwyn Collins wins best ’80s moment AND best ’90s moment!
- Dirty Beaches wins cutest dedication AND best onstage grooming.
- Black Lips win best penis party — AGAIN.
- Surfer Blood win best new song.
- !!! win coolest new band member.
- Oh Sees win everything.
- OFF! win best reason to trek all the way to Berkeley next month.
- Dead Milkmen win best epic rant.
- Odd Future win best epic stage dive.
- Conspiracy of Owls win best reason to go to Detroit some time soon.
SXSW was fun! Missed you guys! Wished you were here! Maybe next year?
Every band I saw at SXSW 2010
Asterisk means I saw them twice, for better or worse (and by worse I mean the Black Angels):
- The Mysterious H
- Space Captain Sievert
- Nullsleep
- IAYD (I Am Your Dick)
- Hally
- Random
- Bit Shifter
- Cruddy
- Japandroids
- Awesome Color
- Woven Bones
- The Spits*
- The Muffs
- Anais Mitchell
- Gin Wigmore
- Rose Elinor Dougall
- Sonny and the Sunsets
- Leopold and His Fiction
- Shannon and the Clams
- Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
- Still Flyin’
- Digital Leather*
- River City Tanlines
- Cheap Time*
- Fucked Up*
- The Black Angels*
- Liars
- Cool Kids
- Bajofondo
- Ozomatli
- Suckers
- Earthmen and Strangers
- King Louie and Missing Monuments
- Tokyo Electron
- Billy Bragg
- The Fresh and Onlys
- Wounded Lion
- Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds
- Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers
- Magic Kids
- Harlan T. Bobo
- Andrew W.K.
- Gwar
- She and Him
- The Golden Triangle
- Jeff the Brotherhood
- Surfer Blood
- Lovvers
- Vivian Girls
- When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
I wanna see Odd Future so bad!, and kinda sad I’m missing Toro y moi this thursday
except for Bare Wires, I was totally digging on a completely different scene at SXSW.
Gah, for christ’s sake! If I cared about SxSW I would be there, or else I’d be reading one of the billions of music blogs that have covered this festival with mind-numbing thoroughness. Isn’t there anywhere else you could be posting all this stuff than on a blog about the San Francisco Mission district?
Fair point. Sorry!
Sorry to fly off the handle there – I’m probably just aggravated from being stuck at work all week while everybody else sees shows and yucks it up in Austin.
Seriously, what the hell is reader supposed to do with a long list? I’m glad you feel proud of yourself. Way to go, you managed to get off work (if you even work) and go spend a bunch of money. Damn you hipsters are pointless.