SXSW Bands to Meet

Below is a list of Bands playing SXSW that I have found on the OFFICIAL listings only. I am going to try and meet these people, give them a FG album, and hope for the best! There are a few I missed, mostly because their name sounded really, really lame. Some of these bands are really, really lame, but so what, they might be really cool and help us out! I've made little notes to myself about genre, and if I like them, next to some of the names, hope it's not terrible cryptic.

CHICAGO

The Poison Arrows- cool experimental

Friday, March 20 8:00 p.m.

Barcelona (209 E 6th St)

Holywood Holt- Hip Hop

Thursday, March 19 8:00 p.m.

Beauty Bar Backyard (617 E 7th St)

Pelican- Rock

Friday, March 20 1:00 a.m.
Emo's Annex (600 Red River St)

Maps & Atlases (pop)

Friday, March 20 10:10 p.m.

Karma Lounge (119 W 8th St)

Pugs Atomz (rap- krs one)

Saturday, March 21 8:45 p.m.

Barcelona (209 E 6th St)

Andre Williams (R&B – good)

Saturday, March 21 11:00 p.m.
Continental Club (1315 S Congress Ave)

Ezra Furman and the Harpoons

Saturday, March 21 10:00 p.m.
Submerged (333 E 2nd St)

Disappears

Friday, March 20 8:00 p.m.
Flamingo Cantina (515 E 6th St)

TENNESSE

The Magic Kids (awesome pop)

Saturday, March 21 9:00 p.m.
Red 7 (611 E 7th St)

Jack Oblivian and the Tennessee Tearjerkers (ehh, rock)

Thursday, March 19 7:00 p.m.
Dirty Dog Bar (505 E 6th St)

Leslie Keffer (bad dance music)

Saturday, March 21 11:50 p.m.
The Hideout (617 Congress Ave)

Lord T and Eloise (rap)

Friday, March 20 12:10 a.m.
Prague (422 B Congress Ave)

Backseat Goodbye (cheesy Pop- Murfreesboro TN)

Saturday, March 21 12:00 a.m.
Cedar Street Courtyard (208 W 4th St)

Ryan Jewell (Columbus ohio, experimental?)

Saturday, March 21 11:00 p.m.
The Hideout (617 Congress Ave)

OKLAHOMA CITY

Shiny Toy Guns

Friday, March 20 8:00 p.m.

SXSW Live (The Bat Bar) Austin Convention Center (500 E Cesar Chavez St)

The City Lives (shitty rock, 30 sec. to mars)

Saturday, March 21 9:00 p.m.
Habana Bar (708 E 6th St)

IOWA

Diplomats of Solid Sound (awesome funk!) Iowa City IA

Saturday, March 21 8:00 p.m.
Opal Divine's Freehouse (700 W 6th St )