5 days, 80 stages and hundreds of acts. So with so much to chose from what are the key gigs for this year’s edition of the Music Festival?
We’ll we here at SXSWisEasy have done you a bit of a favor and listed the best shows by day and night. You can find the full link of all the gigs at the official SXSW Web, but if you don’t want to wade through all of that info have a look below.
Day Tripin’ – Day Parties
Wednesday, March 18th
Music for Listeners
Ski Bunny (6:15pm), Scissors for Lefty (5:30pm), special guest (4:45pm), The Manhattan Love Suicides (4pm), Young Mammals (3:15pm), The Wild Moccasins (2:30pm), Pete and the Pirates (1:45pm), The Hawks (of Holy Rosary) (1pm) at Red House Pizzeria (1917 Manor Rd.) [free, all ages]
Little Radio presents bands TBA at the Red Eyed Fly [free, free bloody marys and beer]
2nd Annual Big Texas Jumpstart hosted by The Midgetmen
Georgian Company, Gay Blades, Ezra Furman & The Harpoons, Midgetmen, Goes Cube, The May Fire, Grant Hart (of Husker Du), Franz Nicolay (of the Hold Steady) at Creekside Lounge (Outside).
Thursday, March 19th
Gorilla Vs. Bear presents Gorilla vs Booze III
Vivian Girls, White Denim, Wavves, The Golden Filter, Girls, Here We Go Magic, Harlem, DJ Sober at the Peacock [free, free beer, 21+]
NPR Music presents
Blitzen Trapper, Thao Nguyen and the Get Down Stay Down, K’NAAN, Dirty Projectors, BLK JKS, Blind Pilot at the Parish [starts at 12:30pm, free]
Music by the Slice 2009
Deer Tick, The Uglysuit, Marching Band, Von Iva, Port O’Brien, Illinois, Animal Farm, Kenan Bell, Fences, The Rural Albert Advantage, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, Jeremy Messersmith, Von Bondies, We Were Promised Jet Packs, Alberta Cross at Home Slice Pizza (1415 S. Congress Ave.) [free, band lineup TBA]
Starcleaner Big Texas Party 2
Vivian Girls, more TBA at the Typewriter Museum (1306 E. 6th St.) [noon-10pm, free, all ages]
Rhapsody Rocks
Vivian Girls, more TBA at the Mohawk
Music for Listeners/Moshi Moshi Records Party
Still Flyin’ (6:15pm), The Mae Shi (5:30pm), Casiokids (4:45), Radioclit/The Very Best (4pm), Au Revoir Simone (3:15pm), Slow Club (2:30pm), Fanfarlo (1:45pm), The Phenomenal Handclap Band (1pm), Yellow Fever (12:15pm) at Red House Pizzeria (1917 Manor Rd.) [free, all ages]
Navdo/Go Entertainment/Obscure Magpie Music present a Fourteen Hour Party
Dead Confederate (midnight), The Warlocks (11pm), Transfer (9:45pm), Model UN (8:15pm), The Shys (7:15pm), Spindrift (6pm), Yearbook Pictures (5pm), Geron Hoy (4pm), Halloween Town (3pm), Crash Encore (2pm), The Calm Blue Sea (1pm), Holy Rolling Empire (noon) at The Compound (1300 E. 4th St.) [Stage 1]
Shivers (10:30pm), Apes of Wrath (9pm), Danny Malone (7:45pm), Murdocks (6:45pm), Golden Bear (4:30pm), The Authors (3:30pm), Tom Schraeder (2:30pm), The Always Already (1:30pm), Not in the Face (12:30pm) at The Compound (1300 E. 4th St.) [Stage 2]
The Bay Area Takeover
Mike Relm, Vetiver, The Morning Benders, Sholi, Thee Oh Sees, The Heavenly States, Wallpaper., The Frail, Two Sheds, The Union Trade, French Miami, Lilofee, The Red Verse, DJs Omar (Popscene), Miles (Popscene, Live 105), Elise (Indie Pop Rocks!) and Jacob Fury (Glamour) at the Beauty Bar [noon-6pm, free]
Friday, March 20th
The AV Club and Canvas Media present It’s Pronounced Par-TAY
Trail Of Dead (5pm), Ra Ra Riot (4pm), Cut Off Yr Hands (3pm), Gentleman Reg (2pm), The Thermals (1pm), Cuff The Duke (noon) at Radio Room (508 E. 6th St.) [outside stage]
Future Of The Left (5pm), Parenthetical Girls (4pm), Dappled Cities (3pm), Young Galaxy (2pm), Chikita Violenta (1pm), Ohbijou (noon) at Radio Room (508 E. 6th St.) [inside stage]
Bloodshot Records SXSW day party
Waco Brothers with Rosie Flores (5:45pm), Scotland Yard Gospel Choir (5:15pm), Justin Townes Earle (4:45pm), The Meat Purveyors (4:15pm), Deadstring Brothers (3:30pm), Exene Cervenka (2:45pm), Ha Ha Tonka (2:15pm), Dex Romweber Duo (1:45pm), Charlie Pickett (1:15pm), Andre Williams (12:45pm), Walter Salas-Humara/I’m Not Jim (12:15pm) at Yard Dog Gallery (1510 S. Congress Ave.) [free]
Music by the Slice 2009
Deer Tick, The Uglysuit, Marching Band, Von Iva, Port O’Brien, Illinois, Animal Farm, Kenan Bell, Fences, The Rural Albert Advantage, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, Jeremy Messersmith, Von Bondies, We Were Promised Jet Packs, Alberta Cross at Home Slice Pizza (1415 S. Congress Ave.) [free, band lineup TBA]
People In A Position To Know Recordings and Olympia All Ages Project
Bearsuit, LAKE, Casper and the Cookies, Little Birds, Hot Lava, RTB2, Margaret, Geoffrey Reacher, Fishboy, Buddy System, Ruby Isle, Ryan Anderson at 1024 E. 44th St. [11am-7pm, free, free beer for 21+ with ID]
We Shot J.R. + Gorilla vs Bear Day Show
Pre (UK), AIDS Wolf (Montreal), Ducktails (Jersey), Los Llamarada (Monterrey), Nite Jewel (LA), Fight Bite (Denton) at Quack’s Maplewood Cafe (1401 E. 38th 1/2 St.) [free]
After the Jump Festival house party
Superdrag, The Parenthetical Girls, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Cause Co-Motion, Blank Dogs, Nite Jewel, Girls, Golden Triangle, US Royalty at 1204 Salina St. [1pm-11pm, free, free beer]
Music for Listeners
Hymns (6:15pm), The Spinto band (5:30pm), Palomar (4:45pm), A Classic Education (4pm), Sky Larkin (3:15pm), special guest (2:30pm), Jay Jay Pistolet (1:45pm), Werewolves (1pm), DJ John Mark of the Earlies (between sets) at Red House Pizzeria (1917 Manor Rd.) [free, all ages]
Saturday, March 21
Leisure Tourniquet presents Equinox Mish Mash 2009
Le Sexy, Graffiti Monsters, The Noise Revival Orchestra Experience, Royal Bangs, Midnight Masses, Project Jenny Project Jan, The Mysterious H, Sthil, The Spaceinvader Orchestra, Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers, Gayle Gold at the Salvage Vanguard Theater [1-7pm]
Music by the Slice 2009
Deer Tick, The Uglysuit, Marching Band, Von Iva, Port O’Brien, Illinois, Animal Farm, Kenan Bell, Fences, The Rural Albert Advantage, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, Jeremy Messersmith, Von Bondies, We Were Promised Jet Packs, Alberta Cross at Home Slice Pizza (1415 S. Congress Ave.) [free, band lineup TBA]
(Top photo by Robert Scales. Second photo by G3K.)
