Every year I download the SXSW samples for the bands playing there and find music I like. This year it was 1,100 songs and I found 20 or so I really enjoy, but this was the year’s stand out for me. I know nothing about the band, their first album comes out in April according [...]
I am about one quarter of the way done listening to the SXSW samples for this year. The ones I like best so far can be found here. It is a real mix of genres, with a lot of Rock, some Hip-Hop, some Electronic, and a fair bit of Folk. Folk and Country are at [...]
The annual South by South West Music Festival starts next weekend in Austin, Tx. This is the mother of all music shows for new artists and attending one of these is on my list of things to do before I die. Every year they release samples from the artists, last year this was 761 songs, [...]
This article by Paul Ford is great. He reviews every single song from the SXSW torrent* in exactly six words for each song and provides a link to each one on the side of the review, you can’t ask for more, the man is a god. I love the reviews, Like a dog fucking a [...]