Little Radio Party @ Red Eyed Fly
715 Red River St.
12pm-6pm
FREE, 18+, No Wristbands Required, Free Beer

Wednesday, March 17th
05:20P-06:00P TBA
04:50P-05:20P The Growlers
04:20P-05:00P The Entrance Band
03:50P-04:20P The Happy Hollows
03:20P-04:00P Miles Kurosky (Beulah)
02:50P-03:20P Popwreck
02:20P-03:00P The Henry Clay People
01:50P-02:20P Findlay Brown
01:20P-02:00P Red Cortez
12:00P-01:20P Tenlons Fort + guests

Thursday, March 18th
05:20P-06:00P TBA
04:50P-05:20P Chief
04:20P-05:00P Jason Collett (Broken Social Scene)
03:50P-04:20P Those Darlins
03:20P-04:00P Sarah Jaffe
02:50P-03:20P Soko
02:20P-03:00P Shadow Shadow Shade (formerly The Afternoons)
01:50P-02:20P Matt Ellis
01:20P-02:00P Andy Clockwise
12:00P-01:20P Tenlons Fort + The Eastern Sea

Yours Truly, Indie-Verse, Weekly Tape Deck, Transparent, Friendship Bracelet and Underwater Peoples are throwing a three day bash at SXSW. Some of the confirmed acts are: Family Portrait, Woodsman, Fergus & Geronimo, Fungi Girls, The Mantles, Young Prisms, Banjo or Freakout, Weed Diamond, Electric Tickle Machine, Twin Sister, and Pure Ecstasy. Check out the killer video for the full list.

Venue: Karibu Ethiopian Restaurant (1209 East 7th Street – Austin, TX 78702)

Thursday, March 18th @ Stubbs BBQ with Drive-By Truckers and Broken Social Scene
Friday, March 19th @ Central Presbyterian Church

Mexican Summer & Gorilla vs. Bear are teaming up for a day & night, official/unofficial party in Austin on Friday, March 19. Lineup includes Real Estate, The Sandwitches, Dum Dum Girls, Best Coast, Pearl Harbor, Woodsman, jj, and others.

MP3: The Sandwitches – Tarantula Arms
MP3: Real Estate – Suburban Dogs
MP3: Woodsman – Sunglass

Sharon Jones

SXSW added several more heavyweight acts to the festival lineup. New additions include Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, jj, The xx, The Very Best, Spoon, and Mayer Hawthorne & The County.

MP3: Greyboy Ft. Sharon Jones – Got To Be A Love
MP3: Spoon – The Way We Get By (KCRW)

South by Southwest funneled $99 million into the local economy last year, according to a comprehensive study released today by Greyhill Advisors. The 2009 South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Conferences and Festivals was the 23rd time the city threw the several day event. This year’s kicks off March 11.

Though the music portion has long experienced the highest draw, film events posted significant growth last year and SXSW Interactive attendance jumped 30 percent.
The five-nights of music featured more than 1,900 artists from 80 stages last year, while 330 films were cast on eight screens. Greyhill officials said SXSW was directly and indirectly responsible for injecting approximately $99 million into the Austin economy. Operations contributed $20 million to that total and attendance accounted for about $78.8 million.
Considering the combined value of media coverage across television broadcasts, news stories, and sponsor advertising in 2009, this city also benefited from another $21.4 million.

[Via –Austin Business Journal – Via Daily Swarm]

SXSW Music added several hundred bands to the festival list this weekend. Darker My Love, Woods, Brazos, An Horse, Allo Darlin’, Califone, The Soft Pack, The Peelies, Ty Segall, Twin Sister, Ozomatli and Fergus & Geronimo are several of the acts that will be performing in Austin. For the full list click here.

MP3: Califone – Ventilator Blues (Stones Cover)
MP3: Brazos – Day Glo
MP3: Ty Segall – Die Tonight

Emily Haines of Metric

Having announced over 400 bands, SXSW organizers added some big names to the festival today. New additions include: Broken Social Scene, Metric, She & Him, Cheap Trick and Dan the Automator.

MP3: Metric – Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right (Bob Dylan Cover)
MP3: Broken Social Scene – Death Cock

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