20 SXSW Bands I Gotta See
People keep asking what I’m excited about seeing at SXSW. So I’ve made a list. Here you are. For your listening pleasure.
People keep asking what I’m excited about seeing at SXSW. So I’ve made a list. Here you are. For your listening pleasure.
I should probably format this better, but I haven’t the time nor the inclination. Forgive my sloth. None of these are ranked. I just wrote them down as they occurred to me. 50 seemed like a good number.
These are the songs that made me shout with joy this year.
50. Jake Bugg “Lightning Bolt”
49. HAIM “Forever”
48. Icona Pop feat Charli XCX “I Love It”
46. Sharon Van Etten “Leonard”
42. Will Hanson “In Her Loving Memory”
41. Death Grips “I’ve Seen Footage”
40. Japandriods “The Night of Wine and Roses”
38. Cloud Nothings “Wasted Days”
37. Rhye “Open”
36. Thee Oh Sees “Flood’s New Light”
32. Magnetic Fields “Andrew in Drag”
31. Pangea “River”
30. California Wives “Marianne”
27. Line & Circle “Roman Ruins”
24. Rudimental ft. John Newman “Feel The Love”
21. Kitten “G#”
19. The Peach Kings “Fisherman”
15. Ex Cops “James”
14. Andrew Bird “If I Needed You”
13. Allah Las “Tell Me What’s On Your Mind”
12. Veronica Falls “My Heart Beats”
11. Tilly and the Wall “Heavy Mood”
9. Tropical Popsicle “Ghost Beacons”
7. Fletcher C. Johnson “Messin’ Up My Mind”
6. Brendan Losch “Son of A Gun”
5. The Babies “Moonlight Mile”
4. So Many Wizards “Lose Your Mind”
People seem to want to know this, and people are never wrong. So without further ado…Band I Want to see at SXSW this year.
Bands I Haven’t Seen Before:
Mind Spiders - http://soundcloud.com/magic-arrows-blog-1/sets/mind-spiders-lp
Django Django - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcuqOiotVVU
The Mynabirds - What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood
Laura Burhenn’s solo album manages to fuse country and soul together in an oddly vintage sound or as she put it “sounds like Neil Young doing Motown.”
Mark Ronson and The Business Intl. - Record Collection
This producer/DJ tries his hand at actually being in the band and passes with flying colors.
The Limiñanas - The Limiñanas
Out of France came one of the best garage rock albums of the year.
