No wristband? Quit yer whinin'!

Check it out y'all! (to borrow a phrase from the Beastie Boys)

If you ain't got a wristband or a badge, quit yer bitchin' people. Look at all these great FREE SXSW showcases on the Town Lake Stage at Auditorium Shores! including...yes, it's true, Echo and the Bunnymen!!



The Bunnymen perform Thursday night, along with Blackalicious & Spoon. Friday's headliner is Roseanne Cash, complete with a grand finale of incredible fireworks. And Saturday all day is a New Orleans Tribute/Fundraiser - Louisiana at Town Lake. All these shows are FREE to the public!

SXSW International

From this week's Austin Chronicle, here is the SXSW International Bands supplement. A good little guide that covers the cool bands comin' in from th UK, Canada, Japan, Germany, etc.

The SXSW site is pretty cool on that fact. For example, you can search all the bands coming in from Australia, and perform other searches like that.

Attention! SXSW Showcasing Artists!

Hey SXSW Showcasing Bands & Artists! Be sure to pick up your artist package on TUESDAY MARCH 14, opening day of Music Registration, so that you, too, can take advantage of the excellent Panels, Crash Courses, and Interviews that are on Opening Wednesday of Music! Artist Wristbands (without the badge) are allowed access to all the Wednesday Panels! One day only! (A Badge is needed with an Artist Wristband Thursday through Saturday.)

Everyone local or in town on Tuesday should really pick up their SXSW Music Badges on Tuesday. Reg is open all day until 8pm.

* Tuesday March 14, SXSW Registration Hours, 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM *

Wednesday March 15: The first round of panels (SXSW Interview: Ted Cohen, Crash Course - Management, and the Mentor Sessions) begins promptly at NOON on Wednesday, so get your badge the Tuesday before!

And yet another reason to get yo' ass on up to the Convention Center on Wednesday March 15 with your Artist Wristband on:

SXSW Audience Interview: Beastie Boys
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

oh yeah.

More info here.

And so, on that note, the Song of the Day: Shake Your Rump

SXSW Text Messaging

Well besides the fact that I'm way behind the times and have no idea how to use text messaging (yeah, I know, "Catch up, Jill!"), well, I think SXSW is way ahead of the times with their new SMS text messaging.

You can ask where the closest mexican food restaurant or pizza joint is, what time a certain panel is, which night/venue your favorite band is playing, etc etc.

So jump on the high-tech bandwagon! And then let me know how cool it is cuz I don't have text messaging capabilities...ha!

SXSW Music Festival Showcasing Over 1200 Acts

Brett Dennen, Castanets, Dionne Farris, Fatal Flying Guilloteens, Gomez, Gretchen Peters, Jon Langford, Kiss me Deadly, Love Is All, Polytechnic, Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves, Snow Patrol, The Appleseed Cast, The Exit, The Meligrove Band, Tilly and the Wall, and Vega 4 represent just a glimmer on the surface of the ocean of over 1200 confirmed SXSW Music Festival performers. In the next few weeks, individual band pages including music samples and descriptions will be included on the website. In the meantime you can review the alpha list currently available online.