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 !!


Man, SXSW would have been awesome to go to. Hope you had fun man.
Posted by: Jing Wang | March 23, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Crazy number of bands ... I love Efterklang :)
Posted by: Doug Gorton | April 01, 2009 at 03:22 PM