All photos via Todd P's Facebook.

​Local mega-promoter Todd P latest quixotic venture? An proposed outsized south of the border post-SXSW festival in Monterrey, Mexico, a five or six hour drive from the weeklong Austin, Texas music festival from which he will be presumably drawing most of his acts. That blasted Mexican tundra above was once the site of a drive-in movie theater; now, with any luck, 40-80 bands will play there over three days in late March. Longtime NYC residents will recall when it seemed ambitious that Patrick was doing eight-band outdoor festivals underneath the subway in Queens. So is he for real about going international?

​Seems like it. An email he sent out last week had a concrete set of dates--Saturday March 20th to Monday the 22nd, with a Friday date if there is sufficient interest. The festival would be the heir to his now annual Ms Bea's SXSW counter-programming showcase down in Austin. Tent cities and shuttle buses servicing them are tentatively promised. Who knows if he'll pull it off, but man does that look like a stellar place to have a show. We wrote Todd for comment--seeing as it seems like he's adventuring far away right now, we'll see if we get any kind of response. If we do, we'll update.

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​The first snowfall hit last night, which can mean only one thing to a music nerd like me: Time to start fantasizing about sweating my ass off booking it from show to show down in Austin, Texas in March. And we're not the only ones thinking ahead. The deadline for bands to register for the festival has already passed, and over 200 artists have already been accepted to play official South by Southwest showcases, including five of our own Minnesota artists: Peter Wolf Crier, Romantica, Solid Gold, Jeremy Messersmith, and Gay Witch Abortion.

In addition to the official showcases, the city will be flooded with unofficial lineups and parties, so the list of local bands heading down to Texas this year will undoubtedly be much longer than these initial five.


Here's the promo video for this year's festival:



Did anyone else think that was going to be an Owl City song at first? Weird. Thanks to British Rock is Always Top for the tip-off.

Rebecca Smeyne

Hoping these guys will be back in 2010 too.

Mere days away from Art Basel Miami, and our cold-weather-escaping reverie has already shifted to March 17-21, 2010 in Austin, Texas, where "the creative capital of the entire world" will relocate temporarily to seek out polarizing acts who will be debated, celebrated, overrated, and swiftly e-descrated. SXSW's first lengthy announcement was put out last week, but mostly lost among the cranberry sauce, and so far the highlights are solid, but deliberately unsurprising (Frightened Rabbit, Japandroids, Nicole Atkins and the Sea, Robyn Hitchcock, Waco Brothers, Deer Tick). Those representing our fair metropolis are the usual suspects (Aa, Arms a/k/a Todd Goldstein from the Harlem Shakes, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, We Are Scientists), and a few wholly subjective standouts on the master list include Beijing experimental rock exports PK-14 and Carsick Cars; Fanfarlo, one of the few memorable things from this year's CMJ; longtime personal faves the Coathangers. The full list of 230 or so names who're slated to play next year's faux-industry jubilee are below, with arbitrarily bolded, NY-centric highlights (un)helpfully added.

Aa (Brooklyn NY)
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO (Osaka JAPAN)
A Classic Education (Bologna ITALY)
Alpha Rev (Austin TX)
Amaral (Madrid SPAIN)
And So I Watch You From Afar (Belfast IRELAND)
Apostle of Hustle (Toronto ON)
Arms (Brooklyn NY)
Ólöf Arnalds (Reykjavik ICELAND)
Art vs Science (Surry Hills NSW)
A Shoreline Dream (Denver CO)
Nicole Atkins and The Black Sea (Asbury Park NJ)
Autumn Owls (Dublin IRELAND)
Bare Wires (Oakland CA)
Julian Berntzen (Bergen NORWAY)
Best Fwends (Austin TX)
The Black (Austin TX)
The Black Atlantic (Groningen THE NETHERLANDS)
Dan Black (Paris FRANCE)
Black Tide (Miami FL)
Bliss N Eso (Albert Park VIC)
Boom Boom Satellites (JAPAN)
The Boxer Rebellion (London UK-ENGLAND)
Break of Reality (New York NY)
B-Real of Cypress Hill (Los Angeles CA)
Broadway Calls (Rainer OR)
Broken Records (Edinburgh UK-SCOTLAND)
VV BROWN (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Brunettes (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Buckshot (Brooklyn NY)
Canja Rave (Porto Alegre BRAZIL)
Capsula (Bilbao SPAIN)
Carsick Cars (Beijing CHINA)
Caucus (Tokyo JAPAN)
The Chevelles (Melville WA)
Chew Lips (London UK-ENGLAND)
Suzanna Choffel (Austin TX)
Chris T-T (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
C-Mon & Kypski (THE NETHERLANDS)
The Coathangers (Atlanta GA)
Simon Collins (Victoria BC)
The Constellations (Atlanta GA)
Contra Coup (Austin TX)
Cotton Jones (Cumberland MD)
The Crystal Method (Los Angeles CA)
David Dallas (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Dappled Cities (Sydney NSW)
Daveman (Berlin GERMANY)
The Daylights (Los Angeles CA)
The dB's (Chapel Hill NC)
Dead Sexy Inc (Paris FRANCE)
The Deaf (The Hague THE NETHERLANDS)
Deer Tick (Providence RI)
Delhi 2 Dublin (Vancouver BC)
Paul Dempsey (from "Something for Kate") (Melbourne NSW)
Diplomats of Solid Sound (Iowa City IA)
DJ Car Stereo (Wars) (Austin TX)
DJ Evil Dee (Brooklyn NY)
DJ Revolution (Los Angeles CA)
Daniel Francis Doyle (Austin TX)
Adiam Dymott (Goteborg SWEDEN)
The 88 (Los Angeles CA)
Electric Electric (Strasbourg FRANCE)
Val Emmich (Jersey City NJ)
Eternia (Toronto ON)
Everything Everything (Manchester UK-WALES)
Fanfarlo (London UK-ENGLAND)
Michael Feinberg (New York NY)
Fergus & Geronimo (Westway TX)
Fighting With Wire (Derry IRELAND)
FINALE (Detroit MI)
Floating Action (Asheville NC)
Francis (Borlange SWEDEN)
Robert Francis (Los Angeles CA)
Frightened Rabbit (Selkirk UK-SCOTLAND)
The Funeral Pyre (Los Angeles CA)
The Ganjas (Santiago CHILE)
Geeks (Tokyo JAPAN)
Gerald G (Austin TX)
Colin Gilmore (Austin TX)
Giulia y los Tellarini (Barcelona SPAIN)
Rosi Golan (New York NY)
Gong Myoung (Seoul KOREA)
Goober and the Peas (Detroit MI)
Good Shoes (London UK-ENGLAND)
Guitar Shorty (Harlingen TX)
Ha Ha Tonka (Springfield MO)
Halves (Dublin IRELAND)
Darren Hanlon (Sydney NSW)
Harlem (Austin TX)
Headdress (Austin TX)
Hey Colossus (London UK-ENGLAND)
Robyn Hitchcock (London CA)
Hot Panda (Edmonton AB)
The Hounds Below (Detroit MI)
I Fight Dragons (Chicago IL)
The Intelligence (Seattle WA)
Ivan & Alyosha (Seattle WA)
Japandroids (Vancouver BC)
Jazz One (Austin TX)
Stephen Jerzak (La Crosse WI)
John Dear Mowing Club (Den Haag THE NETHERLANDS)
The Jim Jones Revue (London UK-ENGLAND)
Jookabox (Indianapolis IN)
Julia Says (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Karnivool (Perth WA)
Kartick & Gotam (Chennai INDIA)
Kidz In Space (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Kidz In The Hall (Chicago IL)
Kingston (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Maurice Kirya (Kampala ZIMBABWE)
The Kissaway Trail (Odense DENMARK)
L.A.B. (Novo Hamburgo BRAZIL)
The Law (Dundee UK-SCOTLAND)
Vander Lee (Belo Horizonte BRAZIL)
Unni Lovlid (Oslo NORWAY)
Lowood (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Audra Mae (Los Angeles CA)
Malente (Essen GERMANY)
Natalia Mallo (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Mantles (San Francisco CA)
Julia Marcell (Berlin GERMANY)
Marco Polo & Torae (Brooklyn NY)
Mariachi El Bronx (Los Angeles CA)
Carolyn Mark (Victoria BC)
Maruosa (Tokyo JAPAN)
MegaRex (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
The Middle East (Townsville QLD)
Middle Finger Salute (Blackburn UK-ENGLAND)
Miniature Tigers (Phoenix AZ)
Mixtapes & Cellmates (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Monarchs (Austin TX)
Michael Monroe (Helsinki FINLAND)
PJ Morton (Conyers GA)
Mountain Man (Bennington VT)
Movits! (Lulea SWEDEN)
Moxine (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Mr Sicc (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Mumiy Troll (Los Angeles CA)
My Dad is Dead (Chapel Hill NC)
Nailpin (Boom BELGIUM)
Nakia & His Southern Cousins (Austin TX)
NiCad (Den Haag THE NETHERLANDS)
9th Wonder (Raleigh-Durham NC)
The Novas (Dallas TX)
Jackie Oates (Exeter UK-ENGLAND)
of Verona (Mandi Perkins) (Los Angeles CA)
One Night Only (Helmsley UK-ENGLAND)
1001 Nights Orchestra (Austin TX)
The Pack A.D. (Vancouver BC)
Paleo (Brooklyn NY)
:papercutz (Vila do Conde PORTUGAL)
Parlovr (Montreal QC)
Past Lives (Seattle WA)
The Peelies (Montreal QC)
Julie Peel (Montreal QC)
Peter Wolf Crier (Minneapolis MN)
Pink Nasty (Austin TX)
Pivot (UK) (UK-ENGLAND)
P.K. 14 (Beijing CHINA)
Plants and Animals (Montreal QC)
Please The Trees (Prague CZECH REPUBLIC)
Steve Poltz (San Diego CA)
Andy Pratt (Amesbury MA)
Sean Price (Brooklyn NY)
Princeton (Eagle Rock CA)
Profetas (COLOMBIA)
Psalm One (Chicago IL)
Quantic and his Combo Barbaro (Cali COLOMBIA)
Random Axe (Brooklyn NY)
Rebelle (Den Haag THE NETHERLANDS)
Red Mass (Montreal QC)
Tommy Reilly (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Riverboat Gamblers (Austin TX)
The River Raid (Recife BRAZIL)
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson (Brooklyn NY)
Brisa Roche (Paris FRANCE)
Rock of Heltah Skeltah (Brooklyn NY)
Rogues (London UK-ENGLAND)
Ruste Juxx (Brooklyn NY)
San Saba County (Austin TX)
Scanners (London UK-ENGLAND)
Kate Schutt (Guelph ON)
Serious Sam Barrett (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Shit And Shine (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sixteen Deluxe (Austin TX)
Skyzoo (Brooklyn NY)
Small Black (Brooklyn NY)
Smif N Wessun (Brooklyn NY)
Smoosh (Seattle WA)
So Cow (Tuam IRELAND)
Solid Gold (Minneapolis MN)
Soulico (Tel Aviv ISRAEL)
So What (The Hague THE NETHERLANDS)
The Spring Standards (New York NY)
Sabrina Starke (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS)
Steel Train (Teaneck NJ)
StereoHeroes (Les Gorguettes FRANCE)
Surrounded (Malmo SWEDEN)
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter (Seattle WA)
M. Takara 3 (Guarulhos BRAZIL)
Team Facelift (New York NY)
Thunder Power (Omaha NE)
Timber Timbre (Toronto ON)
Todd (London UK-ENGLAND)
Marques Toliver (London UK-ENGLAND)
Toolshed (London ON)
Trembling Bells (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Trespassers William (Seattle WA)
Twin Atlantic (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Two Star Symphony (Houston TX)
Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights (Dallas TX)
The Uglysuit (Oklahoma City OK)
Uncle Lucius (Austin TX)
The View (Dundee UK-SCOTLAND)
Volovan (Monterrey MEXICO)
Waco Brothers (Chicago IL)
Miho Wada (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Warpaint (Los Angeles CA)
Wave Machines (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND)
The Wave Pictures (London UK-ENGLAND)
We Are Scientists (New York NY)
We Are Wolves (Montreal QC)
Withered (Atlanta GA)
Wolf Gang (London UK-ENGLAND)
Woot (The Haque THE NETHERLANDS)
XV (Wichita KS)
The Yellow Dogs (Tehran IRAN)
YellowFever (Austin TX)
Zlam Dunk (San Marcos TX)
Zona Tango (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)

​Fun Fun Fun festival-goers have hardly finished washing the mud out of their clothes and already another Austin music event has announced its lineup. From Brooklyin's Aa to Buenos Aires' Zona Tango, the list of showcase bands 2010 South By Southwest Music Festival, set for March 17 through 21, is available here.

There are plenty of Austin acts, as is to be expected, but so far the list is disappointingly short on Dallas-area bands. The only ones I've spotted are Fergus & Geronimo, Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights, and a band called The Novas claiming to hail from Dallas. Never heard of them, but a Google search turns up a page for a recently reunited pre-British Invasion Dallas rock combo by that name. 

Other locally connected musicians include the Denton-born Riverboat Gamblers and Daniel Francis Doyle, known around these parts for his role in Plano's Early Lines.

Hopefully more local acts will be announced soon. Fergus & Geronimo is a good start, but there's a lot more to North Texas music than the next best thing to the Black Crowes and garage-band reunions.

Brandon K. Hernsberger

Houston's Two Star Symphony will join the other 230-something artists announced today at SXSW 2010.

​You guys ever wish for something, and then regret the outcome when the Good Lord answers your prayers? Well, the initial list for next year's South By Southwest music festival came out and that's sort of where we are right now. Cringing and sweating, because after this year's line of fests and concert events we sort of wanted to forget about all the long lines, shit-mud on our shoes, and bare-chested dudes waving flags with pot leaves on them.

Seeing that SXSW is more of a concrete-and-brick thing, we won't have to contend with any of that. What we instead get to deal with is an endless line of people shilling their four-piece Killers rip-off band or the next 3OH!3 playing on a street corner a block away from our hotel. Don't forget broken elbows, those always rock too. On a related note, at Fun Fun Fun Fest we saw that the curb we smashed into with our bicycle was broken up and turned into a handicap-friendly ramp. Thanks a lot, Austin. We could have used that in March.

Congratulations to Houston's Two Star Symphony, the only local act - so far - to be accepted into the festival. See who else made it after the jump. The following list is an extremely early projection of what we are going to be watching in March. It's not a complete list by any means, so don't worry your pretty heads about the Beach Boys, Magnetic Fields or Pavement shows that are currently in the wind. Yeah, we just dropped some Internet bombs.

What of it? It's never to early to start rumors.

In the next few weeks we'll be giving you periodic SXSW updates until the festival once again consumes our entire waking, sleeping and dreaming lives. That's just how we do.

Aa (Brooklyn NY)

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO (Osaka JAPAN)

A Classic Education (Bologna ITALY)

Alpha Rev (Austin TX)

Amaral (Madrid SPAIN)

And So I Watch You From Afar (Belfast IRELAND)

Apostle of Hustle (Toronto ON)

Arms (Brooklyn NY)

Ólöf Arnalds (Reykjavik ICELAND)

Art vs Science (Surry Hills NSW)

A Shoreline Dream (Denver CO)

Nicole Atkins and The Black Sea (Asbury Park NJ)

Autumn Owls (Dublin IRELAND)

Bare Wires (Oakland CA)

Julian Berntzen (Bergen NORWAY)

Best Fwends (Austin TX)

The Black (Austin TX)

The Black Atlantic (Groningen THE NETHERLANDS)

Dan Black (Paris FRANCE)

Black Tide (Miami FL)

Bliss N Eso (Albert Park VIC)

Boom Boom Satellites (JAPAN)

The Boxer Rebellion (London UK-ENGLAND)

Break of Reality (New York NY)

B-Real of Cypress Hill (Los Angeles CA)

Broadway Calls (Rainer OR)

Broken Records (Edinburgh UK-SCOTLAND)

VV BROWN (London UK-ENGLAND)

The Brunettes (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)

Buckshot (Brooklyn NY)

Canja Rave (Porto Alegre BRAZIL)

Capsula (Bilbao SPAIN)

Carsick Cars (Beijing CHINA)

Caucus (Tokyo JAPAN)

The Chevelles (Melville WA)

Chew Lips (London UK-ENGLAND)

Suzanna Choffel (Austin TX)

Chris T-T (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)

C-Mon & Kypski (THE NETHERLANDS)

The Coathangers (Atlanta GA)

Simon Collins (Victoria BC)

The Constellations (Atlanta GA)

Contra Coup (Austin TX)

Cotton Jones (Cumberland MD)

The Crystal Method (Los Angeles CA)

David Dallas (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)

Dappled Cities (Sydney NSW)

Daveman (Berlin GERMANY)

The Daylights (Los Angeles CA)

The dB's (Chapel Hill NC)

Dead Sexy Inc (Paris FRANCE)

The Deaf (The Hague THE NETHERLANDS)

Deer Tick (Providence RI)

Delhi 2 Dublin (Vancouver BC)

Paul Dempsey (from "Something for Kate") (Melbourne NSW)

Diplomats of Solid Sound (Iowa City IA)

DJ Car Stereo (Wars) (Austin TX)

DJ Evil Dee (Brooklyn NY)

DJ Revolution (Los Angeles CA)

Daniel Francis Doyle (Austin TX)

Adiam Dymott (Goteborg SWEDEN)

The 88 (Los Angeles CA)

Electric Electric (Strasbourg FRANCE)

Val Emmich (Jersey City NJ)

Eternia (Toronto ON)

Everything Everything (Manchester UK-WALES)

Fanfarlo (London UK-ENGLAND)

Michael Feinberg (New York NY)

Fergus & Geronimo (Westway TX)

Fighting With Wire (Derry IRELAND)

FINALE (Detroit MI)

Floating Action (Asheville NC)

Francis (Borlange SWEDEN)

Robert Francis (Los Angeles CA)

Frightened Rabbit (Selkirk UK-SCOTLAND)

The Funeral Pyre (Los Angeles CA)

The Ganjas (Santiago CHILE)

Geeks (Tokyo JAPAN)

Gerald G (Austin TX)

Colin Gilmore (Austin TX)

Giulia y los Tellarini (Barcelona SPAIN)

Rosi Golan (New York NY)

Gong Myoung (Seoul KOREA)

Goober and the Peas (Detroit MI)

Good Shoes (London UK-ENGLAND)

Guitar Shorty (Harlingen TX)

Ha Ha Tonka (Springfield MO)

Halves (Dublin IRELAND)

Darren Hanlon (Sydney NSW)

Harlem (Austin TX)

Headdress (Austin TX)

Hey Colossus (London UK-ENGLAND)

Robyn Hitchcock (London CA)

Hot Panda (Edmonton AB)

The Hounds Below (Detroit MI)

I Fight Dragons (Chicago IL)

The Intelligence (Seattle WA)

Ivan & Alyosha (Seattle WA)

Japandroids (Vancouver BC)

Jazz One (Austin TX)

Stephen Jerzak (La Crosse WI)

John Dear Mowing Club (Den Haag THE NETHERLANDS)

The Jim Jones Revue (London UK-ENGLAND)

Jookabox (Indianapolis IN)

Julia Says (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)

Karnivool (Perth WA)

Kartick & Gotam (Chennai INDIA)

Kidz In Space (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)

Kidz In The Hall (Chicago IL)

Kingston (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)

Maurice Kirya (Kampala ZIMBABWE)

The Kissaway Trail (Odense DENMARK)

L.A.B. (Novo Hamburgo BRAZIL)

The Law (Dundee UK-SCOTLAND)

Vander Lee (Belo Horizonte BRAZIL)

Unni Lovlid (Oslo NORWAY)

Lowood (Stockholm SWEDEN)

Audra Mae (Los Angeles CA)

Malente (Essen GERMANY)

Natalia Mallo (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)

Mantles (San Francisco CA)

Julia Marcell (Berlin GERMANY)

Marco Polo & Torae (Brooklyn NY)

Mariachi El Bronx (Los Angeles CA)

Carolyn Mark (Victoria BC)

Maruosa (Tokyo JAPAN)

MegaRex (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)

The Middle East (Townsville QLD)

Middle Finger Salute (Blackburn UK-ENGLAND)

Miniature Tigers (Phoenix AZ)

Mixtapes & Cellmates (Stockholm SWEDEN)

Monarchs (Austin TX)

Michael Monroe (Helsinki FINLAND)

PJ Morton (Conyers GA)

Mountain Man (Bennington VT)

Movits! (Lulea SWEDEN)

Moxine (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)

Mr Sicc (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)

Mumiy Troll (Los Angeles CA)

My Dad is Dead (Chapel Hill NC)

Nailpin (Boom BELGIUM)

Nakia & His Southern Cousins (Austin TX)

NiCad (Den Haag THE NETHERLANDS)

9th Wonder (Raleigh-Durham NC)

The Novas (Dallas TX)

Jackie Oates (Exeter UK-ENGLAND)

One Night Only (Helmsley UK-ENGLAND)

1001 Nights Orchestra (Austin TX)

The Pack A.D. (Vancouver BC)

Paleo (Brooklyn NY)

Parlovr (Montreal QC)

Past Lives (Seattle WA)

The Peelies (Montreal QC)

Julie Peel (Montreal QC)

Mandi Perkins (Los Angeles CA)

Peter Wolf Crier (Minneapolis MN)

Pink Nasty (Austin TX)

Pivot (UK) (UK-ENGLAND)

P.K. 14 (Beijing CHINA)

Plants and Animals (Montreal QC)

Please The Trees (Prague CZECH REPUBLIC)

Steve Poltz (San Diego CA)

Andy Pratt (Amesbury MA)

Sean Price (Brooklyn NY)

Princeton (Eagle Rock CA)

Profetas (COLOMBIA)

Psalm One (Chicago IL)

Quantic and his Combo Barbaro (Cali COLOMBIA)

Random Axe (Brooklyn NY)

Rebelle (Den Haag THE NETHERLANDS)

Red Mass (Montreal QC)

Tommy Reilly (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)

Riverboat Gamblers (Austin TX)

The River Raid (Recife BRAZIL)

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson (Brooklyn NY)

Brisa Roche (Paris FRANCE)

Rock of Heltah Skeltah (Brooklyn NY)

Rogues (London UK-ENGLAND)

Ruste Juxx (Brooklyn NY)

San Saba County (Austin TX)

Scanners (London UK-ENGLAND)

Kate Schutt (Guelph ON)

Serious Sam Barrett (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)

Shit And Shine (London UK-ENGLAND)

Sixteen Deluxe (Austin TX)

Skyzoo (Brooklyn NY)

Small Black (Brooklyn NY)

Smif N Wessun (Brooklyn NY)

Smoosh (Seattle WA)

So Cow (Tuam IRELAND)

Solid Gold (Minneapolis MN)

Soulico (Tel Aviv ISRAEL)

So What (The Hague THE NETHERLANDS)

The Spring Standards (New York NY)

Sabrina Starke (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS)

Steel Train (Teaneck NJ)

StereoHeroes (Les Gorguettes FRANCE)

Surrounded (Malmo SWEDEN)

Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter (Seattle WA)

M. Takara 3 (Guarulhos BRAZIL)

Team Facelift (New York NY)

Thunder Power (Omaha NE)

Timber Timbre (Toronto ON)

Todd (London UK-ENGLAND)

Marques Toliver (London UK-ENGLAND)

Toolshed (London ON)

Trembling Bells (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)

Trespassers William (Seattle WA)

Twin Atlantic (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)

Two Star Symphony (Houston TX)

Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights (Dallas TX)

The Uglysuit (Oklahoma City OK)

Uncle Lucius (Austin TX)

The View (Dundee UK-SCOTLAND)

Volovan (Monterrey MEXICO)

Waco Brothers (Chicago IL)

Miho Wada (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)

Warpaint (Los Angeles CA)

Wave Machines (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND)

The Wave Pictures (London UK-ENGLAND)

We Are Scientists (New York NY)

We Are Wolves (Montreal QC)

Withered (Atlanta GA)

Wolf Gang (London UK-ENGLAND)

Woot (The Haque THE NETHERLANDS)

XV (Wichita KS)

The Yellow Dogs (Tehran IRAN)

YellowFever (Austin TX)

Zlam Dunk (San Marcos TX)

Zona Tango (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)

Sid Vicious never filled one of these

​Tomorrow at midnight is the deadline to submit your application for you and/or your awesome LA band to play at the 2010 South By South West conference/festival/music-biz-clusterfuck.

Yeah, we know. Part of the reason you got into music was because you don't like bureaucracy and filling forms, but SXSW is not the Smogcutter and in order to play there you gotta pay $40 and sign up for some kind of complicated music biz subscription thingie called "Sonicbids."

If you don't wanna do it, ask your less-talented buddy to do it for you and tell him he can call himself your "SXSW road manager" or something like that. If he complains, tell him some dude who started doing boring errands for the Beatles ended up running their not-insignificant business as the president of Apple Corps for decades (think we're bullshitting you? Google "Neil Aspinall")!

(advice by SXSW insiders on how to be picked, after the jump)

Audio interview with Brad First from SXSW's selection committee giving advice to bands.

Blog post sharing tips/advice from SXSW's chief music director.

UPDATE (11/06):

Adam from Sonicbids wrote to us to clarify his earlier release and explain this Sonicbids business:

" Sid Vicious may not have been big on paperwork, but you bet his label was! It's kind of the double-edged sword of the post-label world...bands now have complete control over everything they do, but they've inherited all the responsibility of running the business side with it.

Sorry I didn't give you a better explanation of how Sonicbids works. Think of it like a monster.com. Promoters like SXSW post jobs, and bands apply to them using an electronic resume they build on the site. (Kind of like college applications, too, where you fill it out once electronically, and send it off to whatever colleges you want.) For bands, it makes life easy, keeps them in the loop about what opps are coming, and saves their time from having to send a different thing to every festival, conference, etc. they want to apply to. For promoters, it gives them everything they'd want to know about the bands they're thinking about hiring in one streamlined, uncluttered format."

Just received word that Friday, November 6, is the last day that bands can apply for a showcase at next year's SXSW festival via Sonicbids. The link is here! $40 gets you applied and a free six-month subscription to Sonicbids. What a deal! If you have any doubt that SXSW is a blast, just take a look at any of our coverage from years past.

There's only 48 hours left in the voting process for SXSWi and we thought we would refresh your memory as to what to click on after you login to the PanelPicker. Last time we did this we were faced with such an overwhelming response we decided to do another round up. Except this time we culled ones that are particularly esoteric, and for SXSWi that's saying a lot. Here they are, in no particular order.

"Beers, Biking or the Bathroom? Where Do You Find Inspiration?"

As iPhone in the bathroom people ourselves, we're into hearing about the weird process habits of other digital creatives, especially 1Tim Street.

"Zombies, Vampires & Monsters: Fostering Loyal Genre Communities"

Is it the recession? Vampiremania is at an all time high and don't even ask about Comic Con. We wonder if there will be cosplay.

"Lifestreaming: The Next Great Social Media Frontier"

In a world where every minute detail of our lives is put on parade for all the world to see, the real question is "How do I get more publicly annoying, using current technology?" Lifestreaming? Why not...

"The Art of Shooting Tech: A Photographic Year in Review"

We honestly can't think of anything more esoteric than "the art of tech photography." Still we're looking forward to this one.

"Don't Stop Believin: Why Karaoke WILL Change the World"

As people who belt out TLC's "Shoop" at work on a regular basis, we wholeheartedly believe it will.

Hopefully we'll get to sing (watch out Austin, we've been practicing).

​Remember, you have only one more day to get out vote so get out there and vote for our L.A. Weekly "Tech Scene Smackdown: LA vs. SF vs. NYC vs. Boston vs. Austin."

Or, if you're really feeling generous, you can get your groove on and vote for every single panel on Techzulu's "SoCal Panel List" or Lalawag's "10 Most Entertaining SXSWi Panel Submissions" like we will be.

May the best panel list win.

Follow us on the way to Austin at @alexiatsotsis and @laweekly.

'Tis the season for SXSW panel Twitter deluge, or as one attuned tweeter put it, "How to Annoy Your Friends with Social Media Pestering to Vote for Your SXSW Panel."

Because we've also spent the better part of the morning slogging through the SXSWi panel goat rodeo (moment of Internet Zen: Yoga For Social Networkers anyone?), we've decided to post the top ten ones that have come across our radar, relevant to the L.A. Tech community and beyond.

Here they are, in no particular order:

• RIP Jeff Goldblum: Truth vs. Web BS
  With the LATimes' David Sarno as a possible panelist and Techmeme's Megan McCarthy as an organizer, this one is a must see for local L.A. news junkies.


• Trolls Suck. Anonymity's Fate & the Rise of Accountability
  On the Internet 2.0, everybody knows you're a dog.


• Can Marketing and PR Exist Without Competing?
  L.A.'s own P.R. maverick Nicole Jordan redefines the notion of P.R. Want more on the P.R track? Check out another locally focused panel Hooking Up with Hollywood: Riding the Studio's PR Machine
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• Tweet-vivors: Social Media Conquers Cancer
  With prominent social media people like @drew and @jeffjarvis tweeting publicly about their health situations, social media and health care is definitely worth exploring.


• Social Media Marketing for Your Business
  Full disclosure, we're big fans of Yahoo's! Tony Adam. Want an alternative way to put your money where your tweets are? Check out "Making Money By Making Twitter Useful to Businesses" and "Social Media's Dirty Word: Money" and Secrets to Building a Thriving Business Through Community
  Show us the $$$$.
• Do Cool Kids Leave When the Suits Arrive?
  Sick of "Target: Influencer"? Yeah so are we.


• "Coping With iPhone Co-Dependency"
  When we broke our toe iPhoning earlier this year, we realized the value of this panel the hard way.


• Augmenting Your Brain with Smartphones and Semantic Technologies
  All that stuff we said before, about "coping," we actually meant "enabling" hence.


• Impact of Women in Technology
  As women of the web, we think it might be pretty big.


• "The Revolution will be a #Hashtag" On title alone. (And on the same note "Are Big Brands Ready For Micro-Conversations?" 'cause ready or not here they come.)

Tips on voting from Tammy Gilmore at SXSWi: "PanelPicker won't save any votes unless one is logged in." But once logged in you can even change your mind until the deadline on Sept 4. Feeling overwhelmed? A good way to search is by category, location, etc.

For example, here she searched:

Category: Back-End Programming Databases
Focus: Technical
Level: Intermediate

...and got 45 results that fit those combined criteria.

As Gilmore said, "Pretty neat!"

You can follow us on Twitter at @alexiatsotsis and @laweekly.

And check out our LA Weekly "Tech Scene Smackdown" panel here, our Village Voice"Social Media & News: Hogwash or Huge Help?" panel here and our "Wiring The News: Alternative Media and Dying Dailies" panel here .

Know of any we missed? Suggestions always welcome in the comments.

See you in Austin!

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It was never legal action to be took. It was a straight apology I was looking for. I can't clear that sample, period. It just cost too much...I really don't care either way. He's helped me out now. It was more like promotion for me. I guess I'm saying 'Hey, thanks' in so many words. Seriously, I'm doing what I was doing before any of this. Making a mixtape, working on a new album and doing shows. If I'm unknown, I'm unknown. That's what he [Hamilton] said about me, that I'm 'an unknown nigger.' That's his thing, it's his arrogance toward people that's on a little bit. He's trying to put somebody down that's trying to speak up for some shit. That's week.

The last thing I want Starchasers/supporters to think is that I've totally cut them off. I just wanna protect myself a lil bit better since the whole "CH stole my beat" bullsh1t. So I'm not accepting music/beat submissions until further notice. I still do respond to email, so you're gonna see the auto-response first, then maybe an email back from me if time permits. No one is going Hollywood (read that email a few times... lol), and even if I was, shouldn't you be proud of me? I been Harlem this whole time. lol holla back... Before anyone even starts, that doesn't mean I went Hollywood (lol-ing Chris) ~~Charles Hamilton~~ ***beep***