2009 Indie Rock Job Fair

I got to see approximately 3% of the 1900 bands that played this year at SXSW.  Here are my ratings of these select few...

Rating System:

• " " = Either I didn't like your style of music, or I did like your style of music and you sucked
• "!" = You didn't suck
• "!!" = I'm gonna buy your cd
• "!!!" = I'm gonna buy your cd and your tshirt and tell my friends how awesome you are

Bands I saw during SXSW Interactive (before the music festival):

• White Denim
• The Black & White Years !!!
• Hey Champ !

Bands I saw Wednesday:

• Here We Go Magic !
• The Young
• Von Bondies !
• Dawes
• These United States !
• Easy star all stars !
• The Thermals !
• The Noise FM
• Amplified Heat
• Wax Fang !!
• Heartless Bastards
• Peter Bjorn and John !
• School of Seven Bells

Bands I saw Thursday:

• Porcelain
• Elvis Perkins In Dearland !!
• Cold War Kids !
• M Ward
• Choo Choo !
• N.A.S.A. !
• As Tall As Lions !
• Matt & Kim !!!
• Ben Harper & RELENTLESS7 !(played too much blues)
• Max Tundra (sounds like an early 90's Nintendo game)

Bands I saw Friday:

• Great Northern
• Cut Off Your Hands !
• Ra Ra Riot !!
• Future Of The Left
• ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
• Port O'brien !
• The Black & White Years !!!
• Dananananakroyd !
• The Japanese Motors
• The Pains of Being Pure of Heart !
• Black Lips + GZA !!!
• Black Lips !!
• Okkervil River !

Bands I saw Saturday:

• Say Hi !
• Natccu
• Vivian Girls !
• King Kahan & the Shrines !
• Cursive !
• Thao Nyguen !
• Vivian Girls !
• The Thermals !
• Tyvek !
• The Morning After
• The Astroid Galexy Tour
• Full Service
• Gil Mantera's Party Dream
• The Octopus Project !!!
• Efterklang !
• An Horse !
• Yelle !
• The Proclaimers !
• Indigo Girls !
• Third Eye Blind !!

Comments

[Jing Wang]

Man, SXSW would have been awesome to go to. Hope you had fun man.

[Doug Gorton]

Crazy number of bands ... I love Efterklang :)