SXSW 2011 Preview : Wednesday

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SXSW 2011 Preview : Wednesday

 

While the action’s centered on downtown Austin’s 6th Street, it stretches north past the capitol to the university, east across IH-35, south of Lady Bird Lake, and west towards MoPac:

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Show listings broken out into daytime & evening.  All shows are official, unless listed with "(donation)", "(free)", "(invite-only)", "(RSVP)", or "(unofficial)".  Shows listed as "(unofficial)" are likely free, just not confirmed.

– QRO Recommendation

 
 
219 West (219 W. 4th St.)  (free)
Dart Music International
 
1:00 PM – special guest
2:00 PM – The Foreign Resort
3:00 PM – The Boxing Lesson
4:00 PM – Street Chant
5:00 PM – InvernessGrass Widow
6:00 PM – Apollo 18
 
21st Street Co-op (707 W. 21st St.)  (free)  (free drinks)
Backslider Booking
 
3:00 PM – Auroravore
4:00 PM – Lay Bac
5:00 PM – Little Lo
6:00 PM – Two Knights
 
Annie’s West (acoustic stage) (706 W. 6th St.)  (RSVP)
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society/popantipop
 
12:30 PM – Blue Blood
1:30 PM – Excene Cervenka
2:30 PM – Pearl & The Beard
3:30 PM – Andy Clockwise
4:30 PM – Olin & The Moon
5:30 PM – Leslie Stevens 
 
Annie’s West (acoustic stage) (706 W. 6th St.)  (RSVP)
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society/popantipop
 
12:00 PM – Ringo Deathstarr
1:00 PM – Vanaprasta
2:00 PM – Sabrosa Purr
3:00 PM – The Stripminers
4:00 PM – Miniature Tigers
5:00 PM – Brite Futures
6:00 PM – Errors
 
Aussies Grill & Beach Bar (306 Barton Springs Rd.)  (free)/(RSVP)
Southern Hemisphere Sounds
 
12:00 PM – Street Chant
12:45 PM – tba
1:30 PM – Battle Circus
2:15 PM – The Jefferson
3:00 PM – Emergency BlanketHooray For Earth
3:45 PM – Tidal Waves
4:30 PM – Intimate Stranger
5:15 PM – The Dom Mariani Trio
 
Authentic Smiles Dental Studio (211 San Antonio St.)  (unofficial)
 
1:00 PM – Mohammad Firoozi
2:00 PM – Sandy Allen
3:00 PM – Sarah Sharp
4:00 PM – Charlie Faye
5:00 PM – Will Sexton & Jake Owen
6:00 PM – Carolyn Wonderland
7:00 PM – Ruby James
 
Barbarella (615 Red River St.)  (free)/(RSVP)
This Big Stereo
 
12:30 PM – James Yuill
1:15 PM – The Golden Ghosts
2:00 PM – T.E.E.D.
2:45 PM – Database
3:45 PM – RAC DJs
5:00 PM – WhoMadeWho
 
Barbarella Patio (615 Red River St.)  (free)/(RSVP)
This Big Stereo
 
12:30 PM – Clock Opera
1:15 PM – Xylos
2:00 PM – tba
2:45 PM – The Good Natured
3:45 PM – Young Empires
4:15 PM – Wolf Gang
5:00 PM – surprise guest
 
Beauty Bar (617 E. 7th St.)  (free)
emusic
 
12:30 PM – Hurray For the Riff Raff
1:15 PM – Grass Widow (photos)
2:00 PM – JEFF: The Brotherhood
2:45 PM – Ty Segall
3:30 PM – Obits (album review)
4:15 PM – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (live review, live review, Siren coverage, album review, photos, photos, photos, photos, photos, photos, photos, video)
 
Beauty Bar/Palm Door (401 Sabine St.)  (RSVP)  (free drinks)
Shout It Loud Music/GBH
 
2:20 PM – Hussle Club
3:10 PM – Evan Voytas
4:00 PM – Ringo Deathstarr
5:00 PM – Anamanaguchi
6:00 PM – BRAHMS (photos, photos, photos, photos)
 
The people who bring dance parties to places like the Tribeca Grand (QRO venue review) in New York put on a good show in Austin.
 
Beerland (711 Red River St.)  (free)
Can’t Stop Bleeding
 
1:00 PM – Fungi Girls
1:40 PM – Pop. 1290
2:20 PM – Bare Wires

3:00 PM – James Arthur’s ManhuntBRAHMS
3:40 PM – Wiccans
4:30 PM – Wounded Lion
5:20 PM – Unholy Two
6:00 PM – Cheap Time
 
The Belmont (305 W. 6th St.)  (free)
West Rocks
 
12:10 PM – Communist Daughter
12:50 PM – FIM
1:30 PM – Black Cherry
2:10 PM – The Travelling Band
2:50 PM – The Rassle (photos)
3:30 PM – Rocketboys
4:10 PM – Josh Beech & The Johns
4:50 PM – Delilah
5:30 PM – White Arrows
6:10 PM – Vanaprasta
 
Brush Square Park (East Tent)  (free food)
Canadian Blast
 
3:00 PM – Imaginary Cities
3:00 PM – More Or Les
3:00 PM – Diamond Rings
3:00 PM – PS I Love You (Northside coverage, photos)
3:00 PM – Karkwa
3:00 PM – Buck 65 w/ Jenn Grant
 
Come to Canadian Blast for the brisket; stay for PS I Love You.
 
Brush Square Park (West Tent)  (badges only)  (free food & drinks)
New Zealand BBQ
 
6:30 PM – Brooke Fraser
 
Cedar Street Courtyard (208 W. 4th St.)  (free)
Buzz Bands
 
11:00 AM – The Deer TracksPS I Love You
12:00 PM – Miracle Parade
1:00 PM – Hanni El Khatib
2:00 PM – Brite Futures
3:00 PM – Deep Dark Robot
4:00 PM – Letting Up Despite Great Faults (interview, album review)
5:00 PM – Other Lives 
6:00 PM – Eastern Conference Champions
7:00 PM – Voxhaul Broadcast
 
Cheapo Discs (914 N. Lamar Blvd.)  (free)
 
11:00 AM – Justin Cross
11:30 AM – Michelle Buzz

12:00 PM – Say Hello To the Angels

1:00 PM – American Pinup
2:00 PM – Jukebox Romantics
3:00 PM – Said the Whale
4:00 PM – Unstoppable Death Machines
5:00 PM – Turbo Fruits (CMJ coverage, photos)
6:00 PM – Ice Black Birds
 
Cheer Up Charlie’s (1104 E. 6th St.)  (free)  (free drinks)
Storychord.com
 
12:00 PM – Tenements
12:30 PM – tba
1:00 PM – Steffaloo & friends
1:30 PM – Keegan DeWitt
2:00 PM – Holy Spirits
2:30 PM – Reggie O’Farrell
3:00 PM – Twin Tigers (album review, photos, photos, photos, photos, photos, photos, photos)
3:30 PM – Mission To the Sea
4:00 PM – Night Manager
4:30 PM – Emperor X
5:00 PM – MillionYoung
 
Cheers Shot Bar (416 E. 6th St.)  (free)  (free food)
Treehouse
 
12:00 PM – Bears of Blue River
12:45 PM – The Lines
1:30 PM – Or the Whale
2:15 PM – Tim Easton & The Freelan’ Barons
3:45 PM – Big Light
4:30 PM – The Moondoggies
5:15 PM – The Growlers
6:30 PM – LesandsThese United States
7:15 PM – Floating Action
8:00 PM – Fletcher C. Johnson
 
Cherrywood Coffeehouse (inside) (1400 E 38th 1/2 St.) (1400 E 38th 1/2 St.)  (free)/(RSVP)
 
12:15 PM – Bad Blood
1:00 PM – The Lonesome Heroes
1:45 PM – Aunt Martha
2:30 PM – Chris Brecht & Dead Flowers
3:15 PM – CAT CAUGHT LARK
4:00 PM – nerdkween
4:45 PM – BRAINSTORM
5:30 PM – Buoyant Sea
6:15 PM – Whale Watch
7:00 PM – Miss Jackson
 
Cherrywood Coffeehouse (outside) (1400 E 38th 1/2 St.)  (free)/(RSVP)
 
12:00 PM – The Bell Riots
12:45 PM – Ghost Lapse
1:30 PM – Day vs. Night
2:15 PM – The Dead Records
3:00 PM – The Coast of Nebraska
3:45 PM – Darwin’s Finches
4:30 PM – No Mas Bodas
5:15 PM – SCHOOL
6:00 PM – Summer People
6:45 PM – Mermaid Blonde
 
Club 1808 (1808 E. 12th St.)  (unofficial)
Party Partners
 
1:00 PM – Bleak-end at Bernie’s
1:20 PM – secret guest
1:40 PM – Supercluster
2:00 PM – Bouyant Sea
2:20 PM – Sea of Dogs
2:40 PM – The New Sound of Numbers
3:00 PM – Blood Beach
3:20 PM – Gardenella
3:40 PM – The Mole People
4:00 PM – The Back Pockets
4:20 PM – Amen Dunes
4:40 PM – Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt
5:00 PM – tba
5:20 PM – Foot Patrol
5:40 PM – Nerdy
6:00 PM – Daughters of the Sun
6:20 PM – special guest
6:40 PM – Iroquois FallsThe Smith Westerns
 
Club de Ville (900 Red River St.)  (free)
Fat Possum Records/Insound
 
12:30 PM – Therapies Son
1:05 PM – Dirty Beaches
1:40 PM – Mellow Hype
2:15 PM – Bass Drum of Death
2:50 PM – Porcelain Raft (photos)
3:25 PM – Tennis
4:05 PM – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
4:45 PM – Yuck
5:30 PM – The Smith Westerns (Pitchfork coverage, photos, photos)
 
The Continental Club (1315 S. Congress Ave.)  (unofficial)
 
12:00 PM – Miss Tess
1:00 PM – Woody Pines
2:00 PM – Defibulators
3:00 PM – Shotgun Party
4:30 PM – Stone River Boys
 
Counter Culture (120 N. Loop Blvd.)  (free)
Counter Culture
 
12:00 PM – Melissa Bryan
12:45 PM – Andrew Sandoval
1:30 PM – Pinche Gringo
2:15 PM – Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion
3:00 PM – The Really Rottens
3:45 PM – special guest
4:30 PM – tba
5:15 PM – Guadalupe Plata
6:00 PM – The Types
6:45 PM – JWW & The Prospectors
 
Cream Vintage (2532 Guadalupe)  (free)  (free drinks)
KVRX
 
12:25 PM – Drastik
12:50 PM – Sore Losers
1:35 PM – Esso
2:35 PM – Stik Figa & D/Will
3:00 PM – Smoke DZA
3:25 PM – Tiron
3:50 PM – Brandun Deshay
4:20 PM – Phil Ade
4:50 PM – Pil
5:25 PM – BluShilpa Ray
 
District 301 (301 E. 6th St.)  (RSVP)
BRMG/The Feedbak
 
12:00 PM – Hero & Rad
12:00 PM – Modern Man
12:00 PM – Tee Double
12:00 PM – Fly Union
12:00 PM – Mic Skillz
12:00 PM – Iron Solomon
12:00 PM – XO
12:00 PM – Nonense
12:00 PM – Kartune
12:00 PM – Poise & 20-20
12:00 PM – Feddi Man
 
The Dogwood (715 W. 6th St.)  (free)
Guitartown + Conqueroo
 
11:00 AM – Andy Friedman
11:30 AM – Wagons
12:00 PM – Leslie Stevens
12:30 PM – Willie Nile
1:00 PM – Kevin Welch
1:30 PM – Small Ponds
2:00 PM – The Hobart Brothers
2:30 PM – Steve Poltz
3:00 PM – Jon Dee Graham
3:30 PM – Maxim Ludwig & The Santa Fe Seven
4:00 PM – Syd Straw
4:30 PM – Ian Moore
5:00 PM – Slaid Cleaves
5:30 PM – Shurman
6:00 PM – Hot Club of Cowtown
6:30 PM – The Silos
7:00 PM – Emory Quinn
7:30 PM – Michael Des Barres
8:00 PM – Chip Robinson
8:30 PM – Thunderosa
 
Dominican Joe (515 S. Congress Ave.)  (free)
Shimmer IslandBeach Fossils
 
12:00 PM – Birds & Batteries
1:00 PM – Dream Boat Crusaderz
2:00 PM – Malika
3:00 PM – Lighthouse
4:00 PM – Swords of Chaos
5:00 PM – The Back Pockets
6:00 PM – Shimmering War
7:00 PM – Golden Ages
 
Dot Com Day Stage Austin Convention Center (500 E. Cesar Chavez St.)  (official/free)
SESAC/The Smoking Section
 
12:00 PM – Country Mice
1:00 PM – Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers (album review, album review, photos, photos)
2:00 PM – Woodsman
3:00 PM – Kid Daytona
3:50 PM – Mistah FAB
4:40 PM – Danny Brown
5:30 PM – L.E.P. BOGUS BOYS
 
The Eastern (1511-B East 6th St.)  (unofficial)
Live Music Capitol – Psych Fest 4
 
4:00 PM – Caveman
5:00 PM – Bambara
 
New Austin venue The Eastern hosts four days of ‘Psych Fest 4’, starting with Friends of the Q like Hooray For Earth & Subjects (QRO spotlight on) spin-off Caveman.
 
Elysium (705 Red River St.)  (RSVP)  (free food)
Chicken Ranch Records
 
12:00 PM – Starlings
12:45 PM – Dean Beadles One Man Band
1:30 PM – Beautiful Supermachines
2:15 PM – Mr. Lewis & The Funeral 5
3:00 PM – The Clutters
3:45 PM – The Wobbles
4:45 PM – Peelander-Z
 
Emo’s Annex (602 Red River St.)  (free)
IODA
 
12:00 PM – Withered HandClass Actress
12:20 PM – Geographer
12:45 PM – Queen Sea Big Shark
1:15 PM – Fredrik (live review, album review, photos)
1:45 PM – Weekend
2:30 PM – Aphasia
3:00 PM – True Widow
3:30 PM – The Bewitched Hands
4:15 PM – Typhoon
5:00 PM – Beach Fossils (photos)
5:30 PM – Gold Panda (live review, album review, photos)
 
IODA always has a nice, if not overwhelming, showcase at Emo’s Annex to start SXSW.
 
Emo’s Jr. (603 Red River St.)  (free)  (free food & drinks)
Brooklyn Vegan/Feed the Beat
 
12:20 PM – The Roller
1:10 PM – Deafheaven
1:55 PM – The Secret
2:40 PM – KEN Mode
3:30 PM – Dax Riggs
4:20 PM – Trash Talk
5:10 PM – Kylesa
 
Emo’s Main Room (603 Red River St.)  (free)  (free food & drinks)
Brooklyn Vegan
 
12:00 PM – Anamanaguchi
12:45 PM – Turbo Fruits (CMJ coverage, photos)
2:15 PM – Darwin Deez (photos)
3:00 PM – Chiddy Bang
3:45 PM – The Vaccines (live review, photos)
4:30 PM – Mister Heavenly
 
Empire Automotive (inside stage) (604 E. 7th St.)  (unofficial)
Wild Honey Pie/Eventbrite
 
1:00 PM – Class Actress (Northside coverage, photos, photos, photos)
1:00 PM – Oberhofer (CMJ coverage, photos, photos)
1:00 PM – A B & The Sea
1:00 PM – 1,2,3
1:00 PM – Lady Lamb the Beekeeper
1:00 PM – Fierce Creatures
1:00 PM – Chapin Sisters
 
Empire Automotive (outside stage) (604 E. 7th St.)  (unofficial)
Wild Honey Pie/Eventbrite
 
1:00 PM – Superhumanoids
1:50 PM – The Jezabels
1:00 PM – Jukebox the Ghost
1:00 PM – Braids
4:40 PM – Jonquil
1:00 PM – ARMS (album review, photos, photos, photos, photos, video, video)
 
End of an Ear (2209 S. 1st St.)  (free)ARMS
End of an Ear
 
3:00 PM – Las Robertas
 
Epoch Coffee (inside) (221 W. North Loop Blvd)  (donation)
Austin Pets Alive
 
2:00 PM – Megafauna
3:00 PM – The Loom (photos)
4:00 PM – Dirty Dishes
5:00 PM – FM Campers
6:00 PM – Fredrik (live review, album review, photos)
7:00 PM – Alcoholic Faith Mission
8:00 PM – Zorch
 
Epoch Coffee (outside) (221 W. North Loop Blvd)  (donation)
Austin Pets Alive
 
6:30 PM – Baths (photos)
7:30 PM – Butcher Bear
8:30 PM – Bodytronix
 
FADER Fort (1101 E. 5th St.)  (RSVP)
FADER
 
1:30 PM – Toro Y Moi
2:15 PM – Jonquil
4:30 PM – Young the Giant
5:15 PM – Friendly Fires (album review, photos, photos, photos)
6:00 PM – Raphael Saadiq
6:45 PM – Twin Shadow
7:30 PM – YelaWolf
 
The biggest & best unofficial showcase of SXSW, FADER Fort, goes even more beats-friendly this year.
 
Fado Irish Pub (214 W. 4th St.)  (unofficial)
Beyond Race
 
3:45 PM – Family of the Year (album review)
4:00 PM – Alcoholic Faith Mission
 
French Legation Museum (802 San Marcos St.)  (free)  (free food & drinks)
Yours Truly/Bella Union
 
1:00 PM – Lanterns On the Lake
1:40 PM – BOBBY (mp3 review, photos)
2:20 PM – Alessi’s Ark
3:00 PM – Thousands
3:40 PM – Marques Toliver
4:20 PM – Still Corners
5:00 PM – Vetiver
 
Friends (208 E. 6th St.)  (free food & drinks)DOM
Oklahoma
 
12:00 PM – Audra Mae
12:00 PM – Kite Flying Robot
12:00 PM – Flawna Forte
12:00 PM – Ben Kilgore
12:00 PM – Emory Grey
12:00 PM – Sherree Chamberlin (photos)
12:00 PM – John Fulbright
 
The Ghost Room (304 W 4th St.)  (RSVP)
Riot Act Media
 
11:30 AM – Robin Bacior (album review, photos)
12:05 PM – Matt Bauer
12:40 PM – Cobirds Unite w/ Maggie Bjorklyn
1:15 PM – Brass Bed
1:50 PM – Follow That Bird
2:25 PM – Quiet Life
3:00 PM – The Idle Hands
3:35 PM – Laura Stevenson & The Cans
4:10 PM – Hot Panda (SXSW coverage, album review, photos, photos)
4:45 PM – secret guest
 
The Gingerman (301 Lavaca St.)  (free)
Saint Arnold Brewing Co./Steady Boy Records
 
1:00 PM – Eve & The Exiles
2:00 PM – Thunderchiefs
3:00 PM – Al Staehely & 10K Hrs.
4:00 PM – Ugly Beats
5:00 PM – The Freddie Steady 5
 
The Grackle (1700 E. 6th St.)  (free)  (free drinks)
Austin Facial Hair Club
 
12:30 PM – The Little Morts
1:15 PM – Friends
2:00 PM – Fiona Silver
2:45 PM – Monarch Box
3:15 PM – Carsick Cars
4:00 PM – Bajzel
4:45 PM – Sky Acre Spy Plane
5:30 PM – Black Loop
6:15 PM – Corrinne Rose
6:55 PM – One Hundred Flowers
 
Guero’s Taco Bar (1412 S. Congress Ave.)  (donation)
Combo Plate BookingMiniBoone
 
1:30 PM – Jiminy Cricket
2:00 PM – Elizabeth McQueen
2:50 PM – Michael Fracasso
3:40 PM – Matt the Electrician
4:30 PM – Moonlight Towers
5:20 PM – Eric Hisaw
6:10 PM – Monahans
7:00 PM – A.J. Roach
7:50 PM – Elliott, Rose & da Costa
 
Hole In the Wall (back stage) (2538 Guadalupe St.)  (free)
The Midgetmen
 
12:30 PM – Hounds Below
1:30 PM – Goes Cube
2:30 PM – The Midgetmen
3:30 PM – The Gay Blades (photos)
4:30 PM – Hollerado (SXSW coverage, photos, photos)
5:30 PM – Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers (album review, album review, photos, photos)
 
Hole In the Wall (front stage) (2538 Guadalupe St.)  (free)
The Midgetmen
 
12:00 PM – 1,2,3
1:00 PM – Ham Sandwich
2:00 PM – Golden Dogs
3:00 PM – Sleeptalkers
4:00 PM – Country Mice
5:00 PM – Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
 
Hotel San Jose (1316 S. Congress Ave.)  (free)
Beatles Complete on Ukulele
 
12:00 PM – various artists, including Ben Kweller, Drew Smith, Amy Cook, and David Berkeley (Ben Kweller photos)
 
Hotel Vegas (inside stage) (1502 E. 6th St.)  (free)
 
3:00 PM – Nothing
4:00 PM – Slam Donahue
5:00 PM – Creepoid
6:00 PM – HEAVEN
 
Hotel Vegas (outside stage) (1502 E. 6th St.)  (free)Ben Kweller
 
2:30 PM – Tiny Victories
3:30 PM – The Deer Tracks
4:30 PM – Fan-Tan
5:30 PM – Sensual Harassment
6:30 PM – Christopher Anton
 
IFC House (612 Brazos St.)  (RSVP)
IFC
 
1:00 PM – Brett Dennen
1:45 PM – Ivan & Alyosha
4:00 PM – Portugal. The Man (Haldern coverage, HoH coverage, album review, photos, photos, photos)
4:45 PM – K. Flay
7:00 PM – Lupe Fiasco (photos)
 
The Jackalope (404 E. 6th St.)  (unofficial)
Scratch Audio
 
12:00 PM – Meg & Dia (photos)
12:00 PM – Kinch
12:00 PM – Fake Problems
6:00 PM – The Gay Blades (photos)
 
Klub Krucial (612 E. 6th St.)  (RSVP)
Boston Phoenix/Great Scott/Pirate Promotion!
 
12:15 PM – Young Adults (album review, mp3 review, mp3 review)
12:55 PM – The Seedy Seeds (SXSW coverage, album review, mp3 review, mp3 review, mp3 review, photos)
1:35 PM – Girlfriends (album review)
2:15 PM – Funeral Party (live review, photos)
3:15 PM – Eugene Mirman (photos)
4:25 PM – The Good Natured
 
Some of the best of Boston (and Brooklyn) come to Klub Krucial.
 
Lamberts (401 W. 2nd St.)  (unofficial)
C3 Presents
 
12:50 PM – Sun Airway
2:30 PM – Lord Huron
 
Latitude 30 (512 San Jacinto Blvd.)  (RSVP)
British Music Embassy – Wales
 
12:15 PM – We Are AnimalLupe Fiasco

1:00 PM – Bright Light Bright Light
1:45 PM – The Last Republic
2:30 PM – Gallops
 
Latitude 30 (512 San Jacinto Blvd.)  (official/invite-only)
British Music Embassy
 

5:15 PM – Dry the River
5:55 PM – Jamie Woon

6:35 PM – Bombay Bicycle Club
 
The Liberty (1618 1/2 E. 6th St.)  (free)
Bridge Club
 
12:45 PM – Pujol (photos)
1:30 PM – Headless Horseman
2:15 PM – Dominique Young Unique
3:00 PM – Penguin Prison
3:45 PM – BRAHMS (photos, photos, photos, photos)
4:30 PM – Keepaway (photos, photos)
5:00 PM – Neiliyo
5:30 PM – The Hood Internet (CMJ coverage, photos)
 
Lipstick24 (inside) (606 E. 7th St.)  (RSVP)
Flavorwire/I Rock I Roll/Musebox/Bell House
 
12:30 PM – Milagres (CMJ coverage, photos)
1:30 PM – Operator Please
2:30 PM – Esben & The Witch (Haldern coverage, Truck coverage, photos, photos)
3:30 PM – Class Actress (Northside coverage, photos, photos, photos)
4:30 PM – Cloud Control
5:30 PM – Nite Jewel
 
Lipstick24 (outside) (606 E. 7th St.)  (RSVP)
Flavorwire/I Rock I Roll
 

1:00 PM – Kids of 88

2:00 PM – Megaphonic Thrift
3:00 PM – Deluka
4:00 PM – Violens (album review, CMJ coverage, photos, photos, photos, photos)
 
Brooklyn blogger I Rock I Roll, Brooklyn venue Bell House (QRO venue review) & more have a nice showcase at SXSW.
 

Lovejoy’s (604 Neches St.)  (free)

DC Does TX/Dogfish Head
 
12:00 PM – Carol Bui
12:50 PM – Tereau Tereau
1:45 PM – Typefighter
2:40 PM – Deleted Scenes
3:35 PM – True Womanhood
4:20 PM – The Caribbean
 
Lustre Pearl (97 Rainey St.)  (RSVP)  (free food & drinks)
San Diego Music Foundation
 
12:00 PM – Ume
12:00 PM – The Silent ComedyPortugal. The Man
12:00 PM – Little Hurricane
12:00 PM – Leslie & The Badgers
12:00 PM – Writer
12:00 PM – Saint Motel
12:00 PM – American Royalty
 
Maggie Mae’s (323 E. 6th St.)  (unofficial)
 
12:00 PM – Quadron
1:00 PM – Empire
12:00 PM – Goldheart Assembly
3:00 PM – Mansions
12:00 PM – In Tall Buildings
12:00 PM – We Are Empires
 
Maria’s Taco Xpress (3600 S. 2nd St.)  (unofficial)
Traveling Barn Dance
 
2:00 PM – Claudia Nygard
2:00 PM – Pop Up
2:00 PM – Leeann Atherton
2:00 PM – Julieann Banks
2:00 PM – Erin Harpe
2:00 PM – Caroline Aiken
2:00 PM – Lisa Marshall
 
Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop (400 Nueces St.)  (free)
KEXP
 
12:30 PM – The Head & The Heart
2:30 PM – Yuck
4:30 PM – Grouplove (mp3 review)
6:30 PM – Wild Flag (photos)
 
Mellow Mushroom (2426 Guadalupe St.)  (free)
Mellow Mushroom
 
12:00 PM – The KinfolkOh Land
1:00 PM – American Aquarium
2:00 PM – Twenty Four Thousand Dollars
3:00 PM – The Orbans
4:00 PM – Ponderosa
 
Mohawk (912 Red River St.)  (free)
Windish Agency/Laneway Festival/Eat Your Own Ears/Austinist
 
1:00 PM – Jamie Woon
2:00 PM – Cloud Control
3:00 PM – The Holidays
4:00 PM – Hanni el Khatib
5:00 PM – The Jezabels
 
Mohawk Patio (912 Red River St.)  (free)
Windish Agency/Laneway Festival/Eat Your Own Ears/Austinist
 
12:15 PM – Mount Kimble
1:15 PM – Twin Shadow
2:15 PM – Givers
3:15 PM – Cloud Nothings
4:15 PM – Royal Bangs
5:15 PM – Foster the People
 
Momo’s (618 W. 6th St. #200)  (free)
Indie Sounds NY & Austin
 
12:00 PM – Galapaghost
12:45 PM – Ted Songs, by Drew Smith
1:30 PM – Hands Off My Sister
2:15 PM – The Tiny Tin Hearts
3:15 PM – The Mastersons
4:15 PM – The Spring Standards
5:15 PM – Breaking Laces
 
ND (501 IH-35)  (free)
Altered Zones
 
12:00 PM – Matthewdavid
12:45 PM – Laurel Halo
1:30 PM – Sleep Over
2:15 PM – Girl Unit
3:00 PM – Pictureplane (photos)Oh No Oh My
4:00 PM – Puro Instinct
5:00 PM – John Maus
 
Opa! Coffee & Wine Bar (2050 S. Lamar Blvd.)  (free)
Opa!
 
12:00 PM – Emily Rae Lively
1:00 PM – Mandy Rowden
2:00 PM – Dale Watson
3:00 PM – Slaid Cleaves
4:00 PM – Reckless Kelly
 
Opal Divine’s Freehouse (700 W. 6th St.)  (free)
Pigeon Publicity
 
11:00 AM – Tennessee Volunteers
11:30 AM – Jeff Talmadge
12:00 PM – Ray Bonneville
12:30 PM – Brandon Jenkins
1:00 PM – Darryl Lee Rush
1:45 PM – Randy Weeks
2:30 PM – Ramsay Midwood
4:00 PM – Delta Saints
4:45 PM – Somebody’s Darling
5:30 PM – Walt Wilkins
6:30 PM – Mike & The Moonpies
 
Peckerheads (402 E. 6th St.)  (RSVP)
My Old Kentucky Blog
 
12:00 PM – Dirty Guv’nahs
12:30 PM – Stepdad
1:00 PM – Coolrunnings
1:30 PM – The Electric
2:00 PM – Soul Track Mind
2:30 PM – The Snowdroppers
3:00 PM – Diplomats of Solid Sound
3:30 PM – Sandwitches
4:00 PM – T Bird & The Breaks
4:30 PM – Starfucker
5:00 PM – Houses
5:30 PM – Toubab KreweScreaming Females
6:00 PM – Millionyoung
6:30 PM – Adventure
7:00 PM – RAC
 
The Phoenix (409 B. Colorado St.)  (free)
Baeble Music
 
12:30 PM – K-Flay
1:30 PM – Cadence Weapon
2:30 PM – Jim-E-O
3:30 PM – Sims
4:30 PM – The Knux
5:30 PM – Opio, Casual & DJ Toure (of Hieroglyphics)
 

Plush (617 Red River St.)  (free)

Count Your Lucky Stars/Topshelf Records
 
11:15 AM – The Clippers
11:55 AM – The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
12:35 PM – Annabel
1:15 PM – Joie de Vivre
1:55 PM – Reptillian
2:35 PM – Pswingset
3:15 PM – Into It. Over It.

4:00 PM – Football, Etc.

4:45 PM – Grown Ups
5:30 PM – Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
6:15 PM – Caravels 

7:00 PM – Moving Mountains

7:45 PM – Defeater

 
PureVolume House (504 Trinity St.)  (RSVP)
PureVolume/Macbeth/Keep-a-Breast
 
2:00 PM – Poema
3:00 PM – Grand Tarantula
4:00 PM – Twin Atlantic (CMJ coverage, photos)
5:00 PM – The New Regime
6:00 PM – Anthony Green
 
Radio Day Stage Austin Convention Center (500 E. Cesar Chavez St.)  (official/free)
Radionica Colombia/KCRW.com
 
12:00 PM – Profetas
1:00 PM – CasioKids (live review, photos)
2:00 PM – Ximena Sariñana
3:00 PM – James Vincent McMorrowtUnE-yArDs
4:00 PM – Jessica Lea Mayfield
5:00 PM – Brett Dennen
 
Red 7 (611 E. 7th St.)  (free)  (free food)
Force Field PR/Terrorbird
 
12:00 PM – Exray’s
12:30 PM – Cloud Nothings
1:15 PM – Pictureplane (photos)
2:05 PM – Rainbow Arabia
2:55 PM – Nite Jewel
3:40 PM – Lower Dens
4:25 PM – The Death Set (photos, photos)
5:15 PM – The Soft Moon
 
Red 7 Patio (611 E. 7th St.)  (free)  (free food)
Force Field PR/Terrorbird
 
12:00 PM – Lord Huron
12:45 PM – Violens (album review, CMJ coverage, photos, photos, photos, photos)
1:25 PM – Screaming Females (CMJ coverage, Siren coverage, album review, photos, photos)

2:15 PM – Braids
3:00 PM – Generationals
3:40 PM – Weekend
4:40 PM – Toro y Moi (album review)
5:30 PM – tUnE-yArDs (photos)
 
Red Eyed Fly (715 Red River St.)  (free)/(RSVP)
Tiger Mountain/Noise Pop
 
12:30 PM – Sea of Bees (photos)
12:45 PM – We Barbarians (photos)
1:15 PM – Dream Diary
1:25 PM – The Limousines
2:00 PM – Taxes

2:05 PM – Warm Ghost

2:35 PM – Smoosh
2:45 PM – The Spinto Band (FFF coverage, album review, photos, photos, photos, video)

3:15 PM – Delicate Steve
3:30 PM – John Vanderslice 
4:15 PM – O’Death (album review, photos, photos, photos)
4:35 PM – Milagres (CMJ coverage, photos)
5:15 PM – Mark Eitzel
 
San Francisco vs. Brooklyn (but even with the deck stacked towards the City By the Bay, still a draw…)
 
Red Shed Tavern (8504 S. Congress Ave.)  (unofficial)
Planet LA/Indie on Air
 
4:00 PM – Sparks & SilhouettesThe Dodos
4:00 PM – Stretford End
9:10 PM – Lovebettie
4:00 PM – Danika Holmes
4:00 PM – Big Kettledrum
4:00 PM – Native June
4:00 PM – Evolove
4:00 PM – Djinn
4:00 PM – Jessie Torrisi
 
Scoot Inn (inside) (1308 E. 4th St.)   (unofficial)
Thrasher Magazine
 
1:30 PM – Lo Pan
2:30 PM – Suplecs
3:30 PM – Gay For Johnny Depp
4:30 PM – Easy Action
 
Scoot Inn (outside) (1308 E. 4th St.)   (unofficial)
Thrasher Magazine
 
1:00 PM – Dixie Witch
2:00 PM – Dark Castle
3:00 PM – Rwake
4:00 PM – All Pigs Must Die
5:00 PM – KEN Mode
 
Shangri-La (1016 E. 6th St.)  (RSVP)  (free drinks)
IAMSOUND
 
12:00 PM – New Villager
2:00 PM – Friendly Fires (album review, photos, photos, photos)
3:00 PM – Foster the People
4:00 PM – Mount Kimble
5:00 PM – Theophilus London (HARD coverage, CMJ coverage, CMJ coverage, photos, photos, photos)
 
Skinny’s Ballroom (115 San Jacinto Blvd.)  (free)
Thirsty Planet Brewing
 
12:15 PM – Perfect Pants
1:05 PM – Il Gato
2:00 PM – Zest of Yore
2:55 PM – Mucho Backflips!
3:50 PM – The Lovely Sparrows
4:45 PM – Stereo Is a Lie
 
SoHo Lounge (217 E. 6th St.)  (free)
PBJ Records/Drel Productions
 
12:00 PM – Lemon Yellow Sun
12:00 PM – Eric Sartin
12:00 PM – Judith Miller BandFriendly Fires
12:00 PM – The News
12:00 PM – Post Society
12:00 PM – Ethan Schexnyder
 
Speakeasy (412 Congress Ave.)  (free)
 
3:00 PM – Rocky Business
1:00 PM – Ra the MC
1:00 PM – Bodega Girls (photos)
1:00 PM – Click Clack Boom
1:00 PM – The Upperclassmen
2:00 PM – Hollis Brown
1:00 PM – Jared Evan
1:00 PM – Shinobi Ninja
1:00 PM – Das Racist (ATJ coverage, photos)
1:00 PM – The White House Band
 
Spiderhouse Stage #1 (2908 Fruth St.)  (free)
Panache Booking
 
12:00 PM – Slim Cessna’s Auto Club
12:00 PM – Cheeseburger (CMJ coverage, photos)
12:00 PM – Thee Oh Sees (Siren coverage, photos, photos, photos)
12:00 PM – Football
12:00 PM – Bare Wires
12:00 PM – Surf City (album review, album review)
3:00 PM – Xray Eyeballs (mp3 review)
12:00 PM – Grave Babies
12:00 PM – Butts
12:00 PM – Dream Diary
12:00 PM – Chapter 24
 
Spiderhouse Stage #2 (2908 Fruth St.)  (free)
Panache Booking
 
12:00 PM – Birds of Avalon
12:00 PM – Devon Williams
12:00 PM – Guantanamo Bay Watch
12:00 PM – Throwing Up
6:15 PM – Unnatural Helpers
12:00 PM – Terrible Twos
12:00 PM – Pujol (photos)
12:00 PM – Christmas
2:30 PM – Sea of Bees (photos)
12:00 PM – Silje Nes
12:00 PM – Carletta Sue KayTheophilus London
12:00 PM – Mark Eitzel
12:00 PM – The Lingering Doubts
 
The Stage on 6th (507 E. 6th St.)  (RSVP)
PASTE
 
12:30 PM – TV Torso
1:00 PM – Futurebirds
1:30 PM – The Wealthy West 
2:00 PM – The Civil Wars
2:30 PM – Keegan DeWitt
3:00 PM – Trampled By Turtles
3:30 PM – Jeremy Messersmith
4:00 PM – Lost In the Trees
4:30 PM – Matthew & The Atlas
5:00 PM – Lord Huron
5:30 PM – Kopecky Family Band
6:00 PM – Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
6:30 PM – Sondre Lerche (album review, photos)
7:00 PM – Eisley
 
Swan Dive (651 Red River St.)  (RSVP)
American Songwriter/Billy Reid
 
12:00 PM – Keegan DeWitt
12:45 PM – The Romany Rye
1:30 PM – Jessica Lea Mayfield
2:20 PM – The Apache Relay
3:10 PM – Hayes Carll
4:00 PM – Caitlin Rose
4:40 PM – Jason Isbell
5:30 PM – Civil Wars
 
Threadgill’s (6416 N. Lamar Blvd.)  (free)
 
11:10 AM – Alessi’s Ark
11:40 AM – Heidi Spencer
12:20 PM – Ian Moor & The Lossy Coils
1:20 PM – Uncle Lucius
2:10 PM – Brian Wright
2:40 PM – Guy Forsyth
3:20 PM – Foster & Lloyd
4:20 PM – The Civil Wars
5:20 PM – Ray Wylie Hubbard
6:20 PM – The Trishas
7:20 PM – Greg GaringSea of Bees
 
Threadgill’s World Headquarters (301 W. Riverside Dr.)  (unofficial)
Music Fog
 
11:10 AM – Alessi’s Ark
11:40 AM – Heidi Spencer
12:20 PM – Ian Moore & The Lossy Coils
1:20 PM – Uncle Lucius
2:10 PM – Brian Wright
2:40 PM – Guy Forsyth
3:20 PM – The Civil Wars
5:20 PM – Ray Wylie Hubbard
6:20 PM – The Trishas
7:20 PM – Greg Garing
 
Trailer Space (Ste. A 1401 Rosewood Ave.)  (free)
Burger Records
 
2:30 PM – Summer Twins
3:00 PM – Feeding People
3:30 PM – White Mystery (mp3 review, photos)
4:00 PM – Jaill
4:30 PM – Mean Jeans
5:00 PM – The Pizazz
5:30 PM – Dreamend
6:00 PM – Devon Williams
6:30 PM – Gentleman Jesse
 
Treasure Island (413 E. 6th St.)  (free)
Music Gorilla
 
3:00 PM – Castle Cruz
4:00 PM – tba
5:00 PM – Jes Hudak
 
Trophy Room (310 E. 6th St.)  (free)The Dig
SXCHI
 
3:00 PM – Curtis Evans
3:45 PM – Light Pollution
4:30 PM – For a Minor Reflection
5:15 PM – Ronny Robinson
6:00 PM – Matter of Fact
6:45 PM – Arma
 
Urban Outfitters (2406 Guadalupe St.)  (free)  (free drinks)
Urban Outfitters
 
1:00 PM – Prince Rama
2:00 PM – Dirty Beaches
3:00 PM – New Villager
4:00 PM – Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang
5:00 PM – Givers
6:00 PM – Memoryhouse (interview)
6:45 PM – Diamond Rings
 
Vortex (2307 Manor Rd.)  (free)
SFitall
 
1:00 PM – These Are Words
1:30 PM – Rayon Beach
2:00 PM – The Nouns
2:30 PM – John Wesley Coleman
3:00 PM – Birds & Batteries
3:30 PM – Fist Fam
4:00 PM – Soft White Sixties

4:30 PM – Speculator

5:00 PM – Fresh Millions
5:30 PM – Mist Giant
6:00 PM – Sister Crayon
6:30 PM – Social Studies
7:00 PM – Spiro Agnew
7:30 PM – The Frail
8:00 PM – The Ferocious Few
8:30 PM – Exray’s
9:00 PM – The Foreign Resort
 
Waterloo Icehouse (600 N. Lamar Blvd.)  (free)
Carolina Chicakdee
 
11:00 AM – Randy Weeks
11:00 AM – The Carper Family
11:00 AM – Tim Easton
11:00 AM – Jake LaBotz
11:00 AM – Caitian Cary & The Small Ponds
11:00 AM – David Ollney & Sergio Webb
11:00 AM – The Far WestTelekinesis
 
Waterloo Records (600 N. Lamar Blvd)  (free)
Waterloo Records
 
12:00 PM – Sahara Smith
1:00 PM – Morning Teleportation
2:00 PM – Wild Flag (photos)
2:30 PM – tba
3:00 PM – Fitz & The Tantrums
4:00 PM – Apex Manor (interview, album review)
5:00 PM – Hunx & His Punx
6:00 PM – Telekinesis (album review, photos)
 
Waterloo Records has one of the better line-ups during the (admitedly weak) first afternoons of SXSW, thanks to Merge artists like (post-Sleater-Kinney) Wild Flag, (post-Broken West), Apex Manor, and Telekinesis.
 
Yard Dog Gallery (1510 S. Congress Ave.)  (RSVP)  (free food & drinks)
BAAMO
 
12:15 PM – Hoots & Hellmouth

12:45 PM – Ronny Elliott
1:30 PM – Rebekah Pulley & The Reluctant Prophets

2:00 PM – The Human Condition
2:45 PM – The Silos
3:15 PM – Poetry ‘n Lotion
4:00 PM – Have Gun Will Travel
4:30 PM – Sleep Vikings
5:15 PM – The Beauvilles
6:00 PM – Exene Cervenka
 
Zen (3423 Guadalupe St.)  (free)
Elephant Productions/Inferno Films
 
11:00 AM – Heavy Love
12:00 PM – A Good Rodgering
1:00 PM – Charlie Belle
2:00 PM – Terri Lord
3:00 PM – The Long Tangles
4:00 PM – So Many Wizards
5:00 PM – Bad Wolf
6:00 PM – Peter Pants
 
 
 
 
 
18th Floor at Hilton Garden Inn (500 N. IH 35)Wild Flag
 
8:00 PM – Matt Haimovitz & Uccello
9:00 PM – The Fabulous Ginn Sisters
10:00 PM – Paleo
11:00 PM – Transmissor
12:00 AM – Star & Micey
1:00 AM – The Lost Brothers
 
21st Street Co-op (707 W. 21st St.)  (free)  (free drinks)
Backslider Booking
 
7:00 PM – Zorch
8:00 PM – Cousteau Press
9:00 PM – Knifight
10:00 PM – Legs Against Arms
11:00 PM – The Act Rights
12:00 AM – Prince_S
1:00 AM – Sphynx
2:00 AM – SiP SiP
 
512 (406 E. 6th St.)
 
8:00 PM – The Burning Hotels
9:00 PM – New Cassettes
11:00 PM – Mazes
12:00 AM – The Gay Blades (photos)
1:00 AM – Dexter Freebish
 
512 Rooftop (406 E. 6th St.)
French
 
8:00 PM – Lexicon
9:00 PM – The Inspector Cluzo
10:00 PM – The Bewitched Hands
11:00 PM – Yeti Lane
12:00 AM – Tahiti 80
 
The Ale House (310 E. 6th St.)
 
8:00 PM – Kublai Khan
9:00 PM – Eagle Claw
10:00 PM – Muffalo
11:00 PM – Easy Action
12:00 AM – Ordet
1:00 AM – Gay For Johnny Depp
 
Annie’s West (706 W. 6th St.)  (RSVP)The Gay Blades
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society/popantipop

7:00 PM – WhoMadeWho
8:00 PM – Twilight Sleep
9:00 PM – Sonoio
10:00 PM – special guest
11:00 PM – Carsick Cars

12:00 AM – Rooftop Revolutionaries

 
Antone’s (213 W. 5th St.)
 
8:00 PM – Chikita Violenta (live review, album review, photos)
9:00 PM – Hollerado (SXSW coverage, photos, photos)
10:00 PM – Mona
11:00 PM – Nicole Atkins & The Black Sea (live review, live review, MusicFest coverage, album review, album review, photos, photos, photos, video, video, video)
12:00 AM – The Greenhornes
1:00 AM – Stephen Kellogg
 
Aussies Grill & Beach Bar (306 Barton Springs Rd.)  (free)/(RSVP)
Southern Hemisphere Sounds
 
6:15 PM – The Chevelles
7:15 PM – Grand Atlantic
8:15 PM – Jackie Bristow
9:15 PM – Drawn From Bees
10:15 PM – black.loop
11:15 PM – Dead Black Hearts
 
Austin Music Hall (208 Nueces St.)  (limited tickets available to badges only)
2011 mtvU Woodie Awards
 
8:30 PM – Odd Future
8:30 PM – Two Door Cinema Club (CMJ coverage, album review, photos, photos, photos, video, video, video)
8:30 PM – Wiz Khalifa (photos)
11:00 PM – Foo Fighters
 
Limited tickets available to badgeholders only at SXXpress Booth at Austin Convention Center – but will Krist Novoselic be there?
 
Barbarella (615 Red River St.)Chikita Violenta
 
8:00 PM – Matthew and the Arrogant Sea
9:00 PM – Pink Nasty (album review)
10:00 PM – TV Torso
11:00 PM – O Emperor
12:00 AM – Love Inks
1:00 AM – Tigers That Talked
 
Barbarella Patio (615 Red River St.)
 
8:00 PM – Sunset
9:00 PM – The Riff Raff
10:00 PM – Augustana
11:00 PM – Eisley
12:00 AM – The Spinto Band (FFF coverage, album review, photos, photos, photos, video)
1:00 AM – Rooney
 
Barcelona (209 E. 6th St.)
 
8:00 PM – Mad Classy
9:00 PM – B L A C K I E All Caps, With Spaces
10:00 PM – High Rankin
11:00 PM – Drop The Lime
12:00 AM – DJ Soul Slinger
1:00 AM – Le Castle Vania
 
The Bat Bar (218 E. 6th St.)
Neon Gold
 
8:00 PM – Little Red
9:00 PM – Walk The Moon
10:00 PM – Alex Winston
11:00 PM – Clock Opera
12:00 AM – Ellie Goulding
1:00 AM – Penguin Prison
 
BD Riley’s (204 E. 6th St.)
 
7:00 PM – Coolrunnings
8:00 PM – Slang Chickens
9:00 PM – Dikes of Holland
10:00 PM – Disco Doom
11:00 PM – Amplified HeatSleigh Bells
12:00 AM – Cosmonauts
1:00 AM – The Growlers
 
Beauty Bar (617 E. 7th St.)
Moshi Moshi Records
 
8:00 PM – Beat Connection
10:00 PM – Idiot Glee
11:00 PM – Veronica Falls
12:00 AM – James Yuill
1:00 AM – CasioKids (live review, photos)
 
Beauty Bar Backyard (617 E. 7th St.)
Greco-Roman/Night Slugs/Numbers
 
8:00 PM – Greco-Roman Soundsystem
9:00 PM – Kingdom
9:50 PM – Deadboy
10:40 PM – Jackmaster
11:30 PM – Rediho
12:10 AM – Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

1:10 AM – Egyptrixx
 
Beauty Bar/Palm Door (401 Sabine St.)
Kanine Records
 
8:00 PM – Grooms (photos)
9:00 PM – Eternal Summers

10:00 PM – Pepper Rabbit

11:00 PM – Braids
12:00 AM – Xray Eyeballs (mp3 review)
 
Beerland (711 Red River St.)  (free)
Super Secret Records/Mortville Records
 
8:00 PM – Coyote Slingshot
8:40 PM – The Extravaganza
9:20 PM – Ichi Ni San Shi
10:00 PM – Scrabble Robot
10:40 PM – Simple CircuitCasioKids
11:20 PM – Ignorance Park
11:20 PM – Manikin
12:40 AM – OBN IIIs
1:20 AM – Super Motards
 
The Belmont (305 W. 6th St.)  (free)
Shot Entertainment/Charisma Artist Agency/Half Door Records/Fleck PR/Two Minutes 59 Records
 
7:00 PM – Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade
7:45 PM – The Tellers
8:30 PM – Hollis Brown
10:00 PM – The Delta Saints
10:45 PM – Hoots
11:30 PM – Baskery
12:15 AM – The Defibulators
 
Beso Cantina (307 W. 5th St.)  (RSVP)
GigaCrate
 
8:30 PM – Sober
9:15 PM – Hedspin & Pump
10:00 PM – Eleven
11:00 PM – Jayceeoh
11:00 PM – Smalltown DJs
1:00 AM – U-Tern
 
Black & Tan (405 E. 7th St.)
The Roxy/Swing House
 
8:30 PM – Olin & The Moon
9:30 PM – The Silent Comedy
10:30 PM – Hot Panda (SXSW coverage, album review, photos, photos)
11:30 PM – Brite Futures
12:30 AM – Locksley
 
Buffalo Billiards (201 E. 6th St.)
Billboard Magazine
 
8:00 PM – Gold Motel
9:00 PM – The Boxer Rebellion (live review, album review, photos, video, video, video, video)
11:00 PM – Royal Bangs
12:00 AM – Young the Giant
1:00 AM – The Gregory BrothersSurfer Blood
 
Central Presbyterian Church (200 E. 8th St.)
 
7:30 PM – BOBBY (mp3 review, photos)
8:30 PM – Bell Gardens
9:30 PM – Josh T Pearson
10:30 PM – The Loom (photos)
11:30 PM – Sea of Bees (photos)
12:30 AM – Strand of Oaks
 
Cheer Up Charlie’s (1104 E. 6th St.)  (free)
International Tapes
 
6:30 PM – Cloudland Canyon 
7:30 PM – "Moodswan"
8:00 PM – Dead Gaze
8:30 PM – Flight
9:00 PM – Phone Tag
9:30 PM – Computer Magic
10:00 PM – Toby Aronson
10:30 PM – Hubble
11:00 PM – La Big Vic
11:30 PM – secret guest
12:00 AM – Sweat
12:30 AM – Tearist
1:00 AM – "Rinse Pama"
 
Cherrywood Coffeehouse (inside) (1400 E 38th 1/2 St.)  (free)/(RSVP)
 
7:45 PM – Black Kettle
8:30 PM – The Cocker Spaniels
9:15 PM – Salesman
10:00 PM – You Are an Airplane
10:45 PM – CALLmeKAT
11:30 PM – Dance in Da Pants!!!
 
Cherrywood Coffeehouse (outside) (1400 E 38th 1/2 St.)  (free)/(RSVP)
 
7:30 PM – Giana Factory
8:15 PM – Tôg
9:00 PM – Ralph White
9:45 PM – Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang
 
Chupacabra Cantine (400 E. 6th St.)  (RSVP)  (free drinks)
Couch Professor
 
10:00 PM – Ice Black Birds
11:00 PM – Some Community (photos)
12:00 AM – Operator Please
1:00 AM – Zoobombs
 
Club 1808 (1808 E. 12th St.)  (unofficial)Gringo Star
Party Partners
 
7:00 PM – Rich Aucoin (Osheaga coverage, photos)
7:20 PM – Neon Windbreaker
7:40 PM – Doldrums
8:00 PM – Prince Rama
8:00 PM – Dreamboat
8:20 PM – The Great Valley
8:40 PM – Low Times
9:00 PM – Grimes
9:20 PM – digshovelig
9:40 PM – tba
10:00 PM – Bird Names
10:20 PM – Lord Scrummage
10:40 PM – Bubbly Mommy Gun
11:00 PM – Fungi Girls
11:20 PM – Delicte Steve
11:40 PM – Quiet Hooves
12:00 AM – Yoga Mom
12:20 AM – Janka Nabay
12:40 AM – Dominique Young Unigue
1:00 AM – Zorch
1:20 AM – Reverse X-rays
1:40 AM – Spiked Punch
2:00 AM – special guest
 
Club de Ville (900 Red River St.)
Paradigm/Coda Agencies
 
8:00 PM – Erland & The Carnival (photos)

9:00 PM – Porcelain Raft (photos)

10:00 PM – The Vaccines (live review, photos)
11:00 PM – White Denim (live review, live review, CMJ coverage, photos)
12:00 AM – Tennis
1:00 AM – Yuck
 
The Continental Club (1315 S. Congress Ave.)
Davis McLarty Agency
 
7:15 PM – James Hyland and The Joint ChiefsBOBBY
8:00 PM – Dale Watson
9:00 PM – Amber Digby & Midnight Flyer
10:00 PM – The Gourds
11:00 PM – Stonehoney
12:00 AM – Shinyribs
1:00 AM – The Jungle Rockers
 
Copa Bar & Grill (217 Congress Ave.)
World Music
 
8:00 PM – 1001 Nights Orchestra
9:00 PM – OLIVETREEdance
10:00 PM – Playing For Change
11:00 PM – Beautiful Nubia & The Roots Renaissance Band
12:00 AM – CHIHA
1:00 AM – Sauti Sol
 
Creekside at Hilton Garden Inn (500 N. IH 35)
The Bedford
 
8:00 PM – The Travelling Band
9:00 PM – Robinson
10:00 PM – Gudrid Hansdottir
11:00 PM – Kill It Kid
12:00 AM – Jonathan Powell
1:00 AM – special guest (platinum selling act)
 
Dirty Dog Bar (505 E. 6th St.)
ASCAP
 
8:30 PM – Black Books
9:15 PM – The Dirty Guv’nahs
10:00 PM – Chappo (Northside coverage, photos)
10:45 PM – The Streets On Fire
11:30 PM – Gemini Club
12:15 AM – White Arrows
1:00 AM – Fake Problems
 
District 301 (301 E. 6th St.)  (RSVP)  (free drinks)
Dance Your Face Off!/slopnessmonster.comSome Community
 
7:00 PM – Cygnus
7:00 PM – Sextape
7:00 PM – Florene
7:00 PM – Sore Losers
7:00 PM – Hoyotohio
 
The Eastern (1511-B East 6th St.)  (unofficial)
Live Music Capitol – Psych Fest 4
 

7:00 PM – My Education

8:00 PM – Ringo Deathstarr
9:00 PM – Megaphonic Thrift
10:00 PM – Millionyoung
11:00 PM – New Moods

12:00 AM – Young Magic 

 
Easy Tiger (709 E. 6th St.)
Seoulsonic/Anova Music
 
8:00 PM – Galaxy Express
9:00 PM – Vidulgi OoyoO
10:00 PM – Idiotape
11:00 PM – Eatliz
12:00 AM – Electra
1:00 AM – Joel Laviolette and Rattletree Electric
 
Easy Tiger Patio (709 E. 6th St.)
 
8:00 PM – Death Letters
9:00 PM – The Deaf
10:00 PM – Hacienda
11:00 PM – Thee Attacks
12:00 AM – Tia Carrera
1:00 AM – Dax Riggs
 
Elysium (705 Red River St.)
Volumen/ACHE Producciones
 
8:00 PM – Washington
9:00 PM – Furland
10:00 PM – Chetes
11:00 PM – Rey Pila
12:00 AM – We Are Hex
1:00 AM – Mexican Institute of Sound
 
Emo’s Annex (602 Red River St.)White Denim
Blood Company
 
7:00 PM – Hell & Lula
7:40 PM – Beta Wolf
8:20 PM – American Scarecrows
9:15 PM – We Are Defiance
10:10 PM – For The Fallen Dreams
11:05 PM – Dawn of Ashes
12:05 AM – letlive.
1:00 AM – HORSE the band
 
Emo’s Jr (603 Red River St.)
Housecore
 
8:00 PM – Skatenigs
9:00 PM – Skrew
10:00 PM – Ponykiller
11:00 PM – Haarp
12:00 AM – Warbeast
1:00 AM – Arson Anthem
 
Emo’s Main Room (603 Red River St.)
Vans
 
8:00 PM – The Stripminers
9:00 PM – Trash Talk
9:50 PM – OFF! (CMJ coverage, photos)
10:40 PM – Bad Brains (FFF coverage, photos, photos)
11:50 PM – The Black Lips (live review, Siren coverage, album review, photos, photos, photos, photos, photos)
1:00 AM – Talib Kweli
 
Expect the crowd at Emo’s to go absolutely nuts for the likes of Trash Talk, (post-Circle Jerks) OFF!, Bad Brains, and The Black Lips!
 
Esther’s Follies (525 E. 6th St.)
 
8:00 PM – Chris Bathgate
9:00 PM – Yearbook Committee
10:00 PM – The Black Atlantic
11:00 PM – Telegraph Canyon
12:00 AM – Mont Lyons
1:00 AM – The Spring StandardsOFF!
 
Flamingo Cantina (515 E. 6th St.)
Doomtree
 
8:00 PM – Lazerbeak & Paper Tiger
8:45 PM – Four Fists (P.O.S & Astronautilus)
9:30 PM – Mike Mictlan
10:15 PM – Cecil Otter
11:00 PM – Dessa
11:45 PM – Sims
12:30 AM – P.O.S
1:15 AM – Doomtree
 
Friends (208 E. 6th St.)
Oklahoma Showcase
 
8:00 PM – BRONCHO
10:00 PM – The Pretty Black Chains
11:00 PM – Ok Sweetheart
12:00 AM – Graham Colton
1:00 AM – The Boom Bang
 
Fuze (505 Neches St.)
Quality Control
 
8:30 PM – Moe Green
9:00 PM – Droop-E
9:30 PM – The Jacka
10:00 PM – Foreign Legion
10:30 PM – Binary Star
11:00 PM – J-Live
11:30 PM – REKS
12:00 AM – Artifacts
 
The Ghost Room (304 W 4th St.)  (official/free)
City of Austin
 
7:30 PM – House of Songs BandThe Black Lips
9:00 PM – Suzanna Choffel
10:00 PM – Jon Dee Graham
11:00 PM – Mother Falcon
12:00 AM – Gary Clark Jr.
1:00 AM – Maneja Beto
 
The Grackle (1700 E. 6th St.)  (free)  (free drinks)
Austin Facial Hair Club
 
7:35 PM – Pompeii
8:15 PM – Sexy Finger Champs
9:00 PM – Fleshlights
9:45 PM – Lolita #18
 
Habana Bar (708 E. 6th St.)
 
8:00 PM – Shit Horse
9:00 PM – Red Queen
10:00 PM – Chapter 24
11:00 PM – Chips for the Poor
12:00 AM – The White Eyes
1:00 AM – Shit and Shine
 
Habana Bar Backyard (708 E. 6th St.)
Sumerian Records
 
8:00 PM – Ultrageist
9:00 PM – Structures
10:00 PM – Animals as Leaders
11:00 PM – Veil of Maya
12:00 AM – The Faceless
1:00 AM – Upon a Burning Body
 
Headhunters (720 Red River St.)
 
7:00 PM – Follow That Bird
7:55 PM – Ydestroyde
8:50 PM – Moja
9:45 PM – Mose Giganticus
10:40 PM – Apollo 18
11:35 PM – When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
12:30 AM – Bult
1:25 AM – Dagoba
 
The Hideout (617 Congress Ave.)
 
8:00 PM – IroquoisfallsColourmusic
9:00 PM – DJ Teraoka and the Revolution
10:00 PM – Joseph Keckler
11:00 PM – Hubble
12:00 AM – Volkova Sisters
1:00 AM – L’Altra (interview)
 
Hotel Vegas (inside stage) (1502 E. 6th St.)  (free)
 
7:00 PM – CTRL
8:00 PM – Reagan Jones
9:00 PM – A Sky Jet Black
10:00 PM – Guild
11:00 PM – Subnatural
 
Hotel Vegas (outside stage) (1502 E. 6th St.)  (free)
 
7:30 PM – Exit
8:30 PM – Art Versus Industry
9:30 PM – Chant
 
House of Guys (1907 Rio Grande)  (free)
 
6:15 PM – Mythological Horses
7:00 PM – The Organics
7:45 PM – Blow!
8:30 PM – Vintage Kicks
9:15 PM – Shells
10:00 PM – Manhattan Murder Mystery
10:45 PM – Saucy Yoda
11:30 PM – Grandfather
12:15 AM – Rabble Rabble
1:00 AM – Grandfather Child
 
Karma Lounge (119 W. 8th St.)
 
8:00 PM – Satchel Grande
9:00 PM – Palmbomen
10:00 PM – Akina Adderley & The Vintage Playboys
11:00 PM – The Vaudeville Smash
12:00 AM – Har Mar Superstar
1:00 AM – Solid Gold
 
Kiss & Fly (404 Colorado St.)  (official/free)J Mascis
 
8:00 PM – Jack Freeman
9:00 PM – Cooley Fry
10:00 PM – NeckBone
11:00 PM – The Wonderful Sound of Induce!
12:00 AM – The Stepkids
1:00 AM – DJ Car Stereo (Wars)
 
Klub Krucial (614 E. 6th St.)
Communion
 
8:00 PM – Matt Corby
9:00 PM – Rachel Sermanni
10:00 PM – Rachel Sermanni
11:00 PM – Nathaniel Rateliff (SXSW coverage, photos)
12:00 AM – The Apache Relay
1:00 AM – Cloud Control
 
La Zona Rosa (612 W. 4th St.)
Rolling Stone Magazine
 
8:00 PM – Beast Make Bomb
9:00 PM – J Mascis (photos, video)
10:00 PM – Mini Mansions
11:00 PM – The Black Angels (album review, photos)
12:15 AM – Queens of the Stone Age
 
Start lining up early, very early, for Queens of the Stone Age (playing their self-titled debut in its entirety) – not that you shouldn’t, to catch alt-punk guitar-god J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr. – QRO live review).
 
Lamberts (401 W. 2nd St.)
High Road Touring
 
8:00 PM – Sean Rowe
9:00 PM – Wagons
10:00 PM – The Lines
11:00 PM – Young Buffalo
12:00 AM – Colour Revolt (live review, photos)
1:00 AM – Wakey!Wakey!The Black Angels
 
Latitude 30 (512 San Jacinto Blvd.)
British Music Embassy/NME/PRS For Music
 
9:00 PM – Brother
10:00 PM – Wolf Gang
11:00 PM – Darwin Deez (photos)
12:00 AM – Grouplove (mp3 review)
1:00 AM – Summer Camp (Truck coverage, photos)
 
The Liberty (1618 1/2 E. 6th St.)  (free)  (free food & drinks)
Past/Future Records/Monster Nature Agency
 
7:00 PM – Eyes Lips Eyes
7:45 PM – Lighthouse Music
8:30 PM – Grandfather Child
9:15 PM – Bastard Lovechild of Rock & Roll
10:00 PM – Che Arthur
10:45 PM – The Beauvilles
11:30 PM – The Strange Attractors
 
Light Bar (downstairs) (408 Congress Ave.)  (free)
Holy Smokes Booking/Funny/Not Funny Records
 
7:30 PM – Emperor X
8:00 PM – My Milky Way Arms
9:20 PM – White Laces
10:00 PM – Invisible Hand
10:45 PM – Natural Child
11:30 PM – Fergus & Geronimo
12:20 AM – Grandchildren
1:15 AM – Sole Eros
 
Light Bar (upstairs) (408 Congress Ave.)  (free)
Holy Smokes Booking/Funny/Not Funny Records
 
7:30 PM – Ice Water
8:10 PM – Alana Amram & The Rough Gems
8:50 PM – Naked Gods
9:30 PM – Secret MountainsDarwin Deez
10:10 PM – Empress Hotel
10:50 PM – Brass Bed
11:30 PM – The Extraordinaires
 
Lipstick24 (606 E. 7th St.)  (RSVP)
Heard Entertainment/supergoodmusic.com
 
8:00 PM – The Tender Box
8:00 PM – Eye Slips Eye
8:00 PM – Baby Bay
8:00 PM – Oona
8:00 PM – The Kin
8:00 PM – Chasing Shade
8:00 PM – The Californian
8:00 PM – Stepdad
8:00 PM – Funeral Party (live review, photos)
8:00 PM – Tic Tic Boom
8:00 PM – Shinobi Ninja
8:00 PM – The Stone Foxes
8:00 PM – Saint Motel
 
Longbranch Inn (1133 E. 11th St.)  (free)
Impose Magazine
 
8:30 PM – Blissed Out
9:15 PM – Tearist
10:00 PM – Janka Nabay
10:45 PM – Pictureplane (photos)
11:30 PM – secret guest
12:30 AM – Beaner Threat AKA ?
 
Lustre Pearl (97 Rainey St.)
 
8:00 PM – Nelo
9:00 PM – The Last Republic
10:00 PM – Orbit
11:00 PM – Dikta
12:00 AM – Evaline
1:00 AM – Alpha Rev
 
Maggie Mae’s (323 E. 6th St.)
Creative Scotland
 
8:00 PM – Withered Hand
9:00 PM – Kid Canaveral
10:00 PM – Errors
11:00 PM – Twin Atlantic (CMJ coverage, photos)The Twilight Sad
12:00 AM – Admiral Fallow
 
Maggie Mae’s Gibson Room (323 E. 6th St.)
Flowerbooking
 
8:00 PM – Yourself and The Air
9:00 PM – Houses
10:00 PM – BRAHMS (photos, photos, photos, photos)
11:00 PM – Smoking Popes
12:00 AM – Small Sins
1:00 AM – The Delta Mirror
 
Maggie Mae’s Rooftop (323 E. 6th St.)
Chevrolet
 
8:00 PM – NewVillager
9:00 PM – Dinosaur Feathers (live review, Northside coverage, ATJ coverage, photos, photos, photos)
10:00 PM – Reptar
11:00 PM – The Kickback
12:00 AM – The Hounds Below
1:00 AM – Black Cards
 
Malaia (300 E. 6th St.)
 
8:00 PM – Hundreds
9:00 PM – Bass Drum of Death
10:00 PM – Harrys Gym
11:00 PM – Brandt Brauer Frick
12:00 AM – Bloodgroup
 
Malaia Upstairs (300 E. 6th St.)
 
8:00 PM – Kid Infinity
9:00 PM – Sampology
10:00 PM – Marco Morales
11:00 PM – Dame 55
12:00 AM – Database
1:00 AM – Ocelot
 
Malverde (400 W. 2nd St.)
 
8:00 PM – Alexis Foxe
9:00 PM – Moth Fight
10:00 PM – GrandchildrenDinosaur Feathers
11:00 PM – Aislyn
12:00 AM – Ava Luna (photos, photos)
1:00 AM – This Will Destroy You
 
The Marq (422 Congress Ave.)
 
8:00 PM – Ryan Michaels Band
9:00 PM – Dead Sara
10:00 PM – The Fervor
11:00 PM – Polyphase
12:00 AM – Kitten
1:00 AM – Eastern Conference Champions
 
Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop (400 Nueces St.)
Latin Stars of Texas
 
7:00 PM – Gina Chavez
8:00 PM – Johanan [Don Yojan & La Frescura]
9:00 PM – Master Blaster Sound System
10:00 PM – La Conquista
11:00 PM – Del Castillo
 
Mellow Mushroom (2426 Guadalupe St.)  (free)
Mellow Mushroom
 
9:00 PM – Aficionado
9:45 PM – Twin Killers

10:30 PM – Look Mexico (album review)

11:15 PM – Zlam Dunk

 
Mi Casa Cantina (503 E. 6th St.)
Sala de Espera
 
8:00 PM – 69 Nombres
9:00 PM – Pedropiedra
10:00 PM – Orlando
11:00 PM – Francisca Valenzuela
1:00 AM – Chikita Violenta (live review, album review, photos)
 
Mohawk (912 Red River St.)
Anticon.
 
8:00 PM – Asura and Anenon
9:20 PM – Low Limit
10:10 PM – Matthewdavid
11:00 PM – Gold Panda (live review, album review, photos)Gold Panda
12:00 AM – Beans
1:00 AM – Baths (photos)
 
Mohawk Patio (912 Red River St.)
Agency Group/XXL
 
8:00 PM – Blueprint
8:30 PM – Grieves with Budo
9:00 PM – Zion I & The Grouch
9:40 PM – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
10:20 PM – Freddie Gibbs (CMJ coverage, photos)
11:00 PM – Immortal Technique
11:40 PM – Mac Miller
12:20 AM – Curren$y
1:00 AM – Big K.R.I.T.
1:40 AM – Cyhi Da Prynce
 
Momo’s (618 W. 6th St. #200)
theconneXtion
 
8:00 PM – Jessie Frye
9:00 PM – Cheyenne Marie Mize
10:00 PM – Li’l Cap’n Travis
11:00 PM – Robbers On High Street (SXSW coverage, SXSW coverage, album review, album review, mp3 review, photos, photos)
12:00 AM – Patrice Pike
1:00 AM – Tracy Bonham
 
The Moody Theater (310 W. 2nd St.)
Austin City Limits
 
7:30 PM – Brett Dennen
8:30 PM – Matt Nathanson
9:30 PM – Moneybrother
10:30 PM – DeVotchKa (album review, album review, photos, photos)
11:45 PM – Flogging Molly (photos, photos, photos, photos, photos)
 
Live music show (QRO Indie on Late Night TV)/festival (QRO recap) Austin City Limits hosts acts at The Moody Theater throught SXSW, including Celtic-influenced punks Flogging Molly & Romani indie-romantics DeVotchKa.
 
ND (501 IH-35)
Windish Agency
 
8:00 PM – Esben & The Witch (Haldern coverage, Truck coverage, photos, photos)
9:00 PM – Bikini
10:00 PM – GeographerDeVotchKa
11:00 PM – The Fresh & Onlys
12:00 AM – Cults
1:00 AM – Asobi Seksu (album review, album review, photos, photos)
 
Indie super-booking agency Windish takes over the ND & more during SXSW.
 
Nuvola (105 E. 5th St.)
Primavera Sound
 
8:00 PM – Davila 666
9:00 PM – Mujeres
10:00 PM – Guadalupe Plata
11:00 PM – Luger
12:00 AM – The Baseball Project
1:00 AM – The Soft Moon
 
ONE-2-ONE Bar (121 E. 5th St.)  (free)
Head Above Water
 
7:00 PM – Chloe Charles
7:30 PM – Aly Tadros
8:00 PM – Cord Carpenter
8:30 PM – Zaac Pick
9:00 PM – Tim Lindberg
9:30 PM – Noah Gundersen
10:00 PM – Dear Lions
10:30 PM – Daniel Huscroft
11:00 PM – Ryan McAllister
11:30 PM – Paul Renna
 
Opa! Coffee & Wine Bar (2050 S. Lamar Blvd.)  (free)
Opa!
 
8:00 PM – Lisa Morales
9:00 PM – Junior Brown
10:00 PM – Transistordale
 

The Parish (214 E. 6th St.)

Frenchkiss Records
 
8:00 PM – Ivan & Alyosha
9:00 PM – Fidlar
10:00 PM – 1,2,3
11:00 PM – Young Man
 
Catch Frenchkiss acts before they blow up even further & jump to a major.
 
The Parish Underground (214 E. 6th St.)The Antlers
 
8:00 PM – Dead Stars
9:00 PM – Secret Colours
10:00 PM – Now, Now Every Children
11:00 PM – The Vandelles
12:00 AM – Sundress
1:00 AM – Twin Tigers (album review, photos, photos, photos, photos, photos, photos, photos)
 
Parlor (100 E. North Loop Blvd.)  (free)
The Triggerman
 
8:00 PM – C-Tezz All-Stars
8:00 PM – Terp 2it
8:00 PM – Skiggy Rapz
8:00 PM – The Triggerman
 
Pepsi MAX Lot (3rd & San Jacinto)  (unofficial)
Pepsi
 
5:00 PM – Deluka
5:00 PM – Skyzoo
5:00 PM – Hank & Cupcakes (photos)
5:00 PM – Pharoahe Monch (photos)
5:00 PM – Eclectic Method
 
The Phoenix (409 B. Colorado St.)
KCRW.com
 
8:00 PM – Tristen
9:00 PM – Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. (CMJ coverage, photos)
10:00 PM – The Belle Brigade
11:00 PM – Chapel Club
12:00 AM – The Naked and Famous
1:00 AM – Alexander
 
Prague (422 Congress Ave.)
 
8:00 PM – Ghost Animal
9:00 PM – Innerpartysystem (photos, photos)
10:00 PM – Black Cherry
11:00 PM – Cruel Black Dove (photos)
1:00 AM – She Wants Revenge (photos)
 
A dark, loud night at Prague (of varying quality…).Twin Tigers
 
PureVolume House (504 Trinity St.)  (RSVP)
PureVolume/RCRD LBL
 
12:00 AM – Oberhofer (CMJ coverage, photos, photos)
1:00 AM – Telephoned
2:00 AM – Moby (live review, photos)
3:00 AM – Drop the Lime
 
The bars & clubs may close at 2:00 AM in Austin, but PureVolume is only getting started as that’s when Moby takes the stge…
 
Red 7 (611 E. 7th St.)
Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans Record Group
 
8:00 PM – Suuns (photos)
9:00 PM – The Luyas (photos)
10:00 PM – Little Scream
11:00 PM – Sun Airway
12:00 AM – Small Black
 
Red 7 Patio (611 E. 7th St.)
Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans Record Group
 
8:30 PM – Lia Ices (album review, album review)
9:30 PM – special guests
10:35 PM – John Vanderslice
11:35 PM – The Cave Singers
12:50 AM – Okkervil River (live review, album review, album review, photos, video, video, video, video)
 
Sister labels Secretly Canadian, Jagjaguwar & Dead Oceans take over Red 7.
 
Red Eyed Fly (715 Red River St.)
Transgressive Records/Rockfeedback
 
8:00 PM – Marques ToliverMoby
9:00 PM – Summer Camp (Truck coverage, photos)
10:00 PM – Dry the River
11:00 PM – Liam Finn (album review, photos)
12:00 AM – Pulled Apart by Horses
1:00 AM – Pete & The Pirates
 
Rusty Spurs (405 E 7th St.)
Roxy/Swinghouse
 
8:00 PM – The Tender Box
9:00 PM – Vanaprasta
10:00 PM – AWOLNATION (live review)
11:00 PM – Deep Dark Robot
12:00 AM – Cisco Adler & The Pigeons
1:00 AM – Johnny Polygon
 
Saxon Pub (1320 S. Lamar Blvd.)
Hill Country BBQ
 
8:00 PM – Jack Grace Band
9:00 PM – Kurt BoDean and Wirefence
10:00 PM – Foster & Lloyd
11:00 PM – Paula Nelson
12:00 AM – Heybale
1:00 AM – Allstar Tribute Jam for Gary Claxton
 
Scoot Inn (1308 E. 4th St.)
Wax Poetica
 
7:55 PM – Ancient Astronauts
8:00 PM – 4th Pyramid
8:50 PM – The Echocentrics
9:40 PM – Calibro35
10:30 PM – Chalie Boy
11:20 PM – Chico Mann
12:10 AM – Kendra Morris
1:00 AM – Adrian Younge Sound Orchestra
 
Shangri-La (1016 E. 6th St.)  (RSVP)  (free food & drinks)
Spaceland/Origami
 
7:00 PM – Other Lives
7:00 PM – Superhumanoids
7:00 PM – tba
7:00 PM – Hanni El Khatib
7:00 PM – Creep
 
Skinny’s Ballroom (115 San Jacinto Blvd.)
HometapesShe Wants Revenge
 
8:00 PM – EMA
9:00 PM – Country Mice
10:00 PM – Ormonde
11:00 PM – The Caribbean
12:00 AM – All Tiny Creatures (interview, SXSW coverage, photos)
1:00 AM – Feathers
 
SoHo Lounge (217 E. 6th St.)
 
8:00 PM – Sophia Knapp
9:00 PM – Adam & Alma
10:00 PM – Chimes and Bells
11:00 PM – Woodsman
12:00 AM – Warm Ghost
1:00 AM – Indian Jewelry
 
Speakeasy (412 Congress Ave.)
Alligator
 
8:00 PM – John David Kent & The Dumb Angels
9:00 PM – Dan Dyer
10:00 PM – Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King
11:00 PM – Guitar Shorty
12:00 AM – Marcia Ball
1:00 AM – The Hobart Brothers, featuring Lil’ Sis Hobart
 
Speakeasy Kabaret (412 Congress Ave.)
 
8:00 PM – Ben Miller Band
9:00 PM – The Orbans
10:00 PM – Baskery
11:00 PM – Hot Club of Cowtown
12:00 AM – Chickasaw Mudd Puppies
1:00 AM – Dash Rip Rock
 
Spill (212 E. 6th St.)
M for Montreal
 
8:00 PM – Dance Laury Dance
9:00 PM – The Barr Brothers
10:00 PM – Karkwa
11:00 PM – The Dears (photos)
12:00 AM – Malajube (album review)
1:00 AM – Uncle Bad Touch
 
St David’s Bethell Hall (301 E 8th St.)
 
8:00 PM – Freedy Johnston
9:00 PM – The Second Grace
10:00 PM – Matrimony
11:00 PM – Nive NielsenThe Dears
12:00 AM – Marianne Dissard
1:00 AM – Dayna Kurtz
 
St David’s Historic Sanctuary (301 E 8th St.)
 
8:00 PM – Lost In The Trees
9:00 PM – Valleys
10:00 PM – Herman Dune
11:00 PM – Low (album review)
12:00 AM – Memoryhouse (interview)
1:00 AM – Vetiver
 
Stephen F’s Bar (701 Congress Ave.)
 
8:00 PM – Xenia Rubinos
9:00 PM – Colin Stetson
10:00 PM – Poetry ‘n Lotion
11:00 PM – Surprise Me Mr. Davis (photos)
12:00 AM – Leslie Sisson
1:00 AM – Haroula Rose
 
Stubb’s (801 Red River St.)
Time Out North America
 
8:15 PM – Yuck

9:15 PM – James Blake (live review, album review, photos)

9:55 PM – J. Roddy Walston and the Business (between sets) (photos)

10:15 PM – The Smith Westerns (Pitchfork coverage, photos, photos)

11:15 PM – Raphael Saadiq
12:30 AM – Duran Duran
 
Stubb’s has some highly-hyped youngers (James Blake & The Smith Westerns) before the at-this-point-venerable Duran Duran.
 
Swan Dive (651 Red River St.)
Brooklyn Vegan
 
8:00 PM – Lady Lamb the Beekeeper
9:00 PM – Olof Arnalds (photos, photos)
11:00 PM – Sam Amidon
12:00 AM – Sharon Van Etten (CMJ coverage, Northside coverage, album review, album review, photos, photos)
1:00 AM – Evan Voytas
 
Dave puts out a lot of nice names at his official Swan Dive show – now if we can only find out his last name…
 
The Tap Room at Six (311 Colorado St.)
 
8:00 PM – Shelley KingJames Blake
9:00 PM – Leeroy Stagger
10:00 PM – Lost Bayou Ramblers
11:00 PM – The Refreshments
12:00 AM – Willie Nile
1:00 AM – Semko Fontaine Taylor
 
tenOak (409 Colorado St.)
 
8:00 PM – Caitlin Cary & The Small Ponds
9:00 PM – The Rumour Said Fire
10:00 PM – The Eastern Sea
11:00 PM – The Mumlers
12:00 AM – J. Irvin Dally
 
Trailer Space (Ste. A 1401 Rosewood Ave.)  (free)
Burger Records
 
7:00 PM – Cosmonauts
7:30 PM – Audacity
8:00 PM – Peach Kelli Pop
8:30 PM – Apache
9:00 PM – Wrong Words
9:30 PM – Shannon & The Clams
10:00 PM – Hunx & His Punx
10:30 PM – Bad Sports
11:00 PM – Conspiracy of Owls
11:30 PM – King Tuff
 
Treasure Island (413 E. 6th St.)  (free)
Music Gorilla
 
7:00 PM – The Lost Boys
8:00 PM – Milhouse
9:00 PM – Dark Summer Dawn
10:00 PM – The Wandas
11:00 PM – Cody Beebe & The Crooks
12:00 AM – KillMatriarch
1:00 AM – David Dunn
 
Trophy Room (310 E. 6th St.)  (free)
SXCHI
 
7:30 PM – Famous Like You
8:15 PM – The Right Now
9:00 PM – Lehnen
9:45 PM – Ha Ha Tonka
10:30 PM – Death On Two Wheels
11:15 PM – HeyPennyTed Leo
12:00 AM – The Get Go
 
Trophy’s (2008 S. Congress Ave.)  (unofficial)
 
7:30 PM – Moondoggies

8:15 PM – Chicken Shift

9:00 PM – Foe Destroyer
9:45 PM – We Aim To Try
10:30 PM – We Were Wolves
11:15 PM – Town Hall Devils
12:00 AM – Pastures
12:45 AM – Mondo Drag (mp3 review)
1:30 AM – The Daze
 
Valhalla (710 Red River St.)
 
8:00 PM – Atomic Tom
9:00 PM – Go Back To The Zoo
10:00 PM – Battle Circus
11:00 PM – Hugo
12:00 AM – The Black Box Revelation
1:00 AM – The Daylights
 
The Velveeta Room (521 E. 6th St.)
 
8:00 PM – Brent Amaker & The Rodeo
9:00 PM – The R.G.Morrison
10:00 PM – Otis Gibbs
11:00 PM – Colin Gilmore
12:00 AM – Todd Thibaud
1:00 AM – Crooks
 
Venue 222 (222 E. 6th St.)  (official/RSVP)
International Hip-Hop
 
8:10 PM – Young L
8:40 PM – Husalah
9:15 PM – Chiddy Bang
10:45 PM – Bliss N Eso
11:30 PM – Mistah FAB
12:15 AM – Killer Mike aka Mike Bigga
1:00 AM – Tech N9neSharon Van Etten
 
Victorian Room at The Driskill (604 Brazos St.)
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival/Nancy Fly Agency
 
8:00 PM – Marshall Ford Swing Band
9:00 PM – Jimmie Dale Gilmore & The Wronglers
10:00 PM – Warren Hood & The Goods
11:00 PM – Hazel Dickens
12:00 AM – MilkDrive
1:00 AM – HSBF/Fly Pickin’ Party and Jam
 
Volstead Lounge (1500 E. 6th St.)  (free)
 
7:00 PM – CTRL
7:15 PM – Christopher Anton
8:00 PM – Reagan Jones
8:15 PM – Exit
9:00 PM – A Sky Jet Black
9:00 PM – Art Versus Industry
10:00 PM – Chant
10:00 PM – Guild
11:00 PM – subNatural

 

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