Austin Music Monkey

South by Southwest 2007 is here.

Some general sites with lots of lists of the unofficial and day shows:
ShowListAustin
the Austinist's Interactive Day Show Map
Don't Need No Badges

Some friends of mine are putting on their own this year, ShedXShedEast in a warehouse 3 of them live in on East 6th:
ShedXShedEast at the East Side Shed

That time has passed yet again where Austin is set upon by music from the four corners of the Earth. This year marks my first time attempting live on-the-scene coverage, or "moblogging" the event. Moblogging, for those of you technologically rooted in the era when "e-mail" meant you got on CompuServe or MCI, is live web logging from a mobile phone, PDA or other such gadgetry. For those of us technologically rooted even earlier, let's just be happy we got here at all.

So, join "moBaba" and ATL Gretchen ("mo-G") as they rock the SXSW in the ATX... [read more]

When I learned that my friend from high school was in charge of staffing all the venues and still needed more volunteers, I decided to take the plunge and give it a shot. As volunteers, my crew’s jobs would be to help move equipment between sets, answer questions for audience and crews, keep fire exits clear and keep people from smoking. Sounded pretty simple. In addition to hearing some amazing bands for free – including Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and a surprise performance by the Flaming Lips – I quickly learned a few truths about volunteering for SXSW…

1) There are 1,800 different terms for the restroom, depending on your nationality. This became one of the jokes of the week, as the most common question that we repeatedly answered was how to get to the bathroom, delivered with various accents and terms for the washroom. By the end of the week, you could almost recognize that desperate look in someone’s eyes and you would simultaneously answer, “Around the light booth to the left, down the hallway to your right.”

mosh-tastic!

God bless Beatle Bob.

Hard rockin' rock like grandma used to make

No murders were solved but norwegian pop is on the case

Rockin the house from Spain

Animated hard rock brits in white t-shirts

Day

food and rest

Night

• 8pm
  DJ Logic (NY) @ Oslo
  Vasallo Crab 75 (Japan) @ Elysium
  Cadence Weapon (Canada) @ 8:30pm - Caribbean Lights
• 9pm
  LoneLady (UK) @ Exodus
  Forward Russia (UK) @ Fox and Hound
  The Rodeo Carburettor (Japan) @ Elysium
  Birdy Nam Nam (France) @ 9:30pm - Oslo
• 10pm
  The Datsuns (NZ) @ Emo's Main Room
  Gitogito Hustler (Japan) @ Beerland
  Coco Solid (NZ) @ Caribbean Lights
• 11pm
  The Jessica Fletchers (Norway) @ Blender Bar / Ritz
• 12am
  She Wants Revenge (LA) @ Fox and Hound
  Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re (Japan) @ Elysium
  Lords of Altamont (LA) @ Beerland
  Holy Fuck (Canada) @ Momo's
• 1am
  The Hellacopters (Sweden) @ Emo's Main Room
  The Charlatans (UK) @ Exodus
  Die! Die! Die! (NZ) @ Lava Lounge
  We Are Scientists (NY) @ Fox and Hound
  The Emeralds (Japan) @ Elysium

we had few real-time updates for friday night, cellular data service was really flaky yesterday. the influx of leather-jacketted greasy a&r types on their RAZR-z probably overloaded the system.

Firday Night Highlights

Gemma Hayes @ Soho
Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles showcase @ the Jackalope:
- Turn Me On Dead Man
- Zolar X (from Pluto and the past)
- eX-Girl (dancing lobsters with guitars rock)

Long hair NZ boys in da house

Hard rockers from jersey