this is not a music blog

Somewhere around 5:00pm as the work day was winding down, I became aware that the song I was listening to on the 2nd half of the SXSW torrent sounded familar. And the band name… it wasn’t a Z. I’d hit the end; Media Player deciding to loop back to the beginning instead of just falling into silence. I took a moment to congratulate myself for getting through all of that, told Gus the good news, and took my headphones off for the first time in days. 

So, you wanna know who made the cut? I’ll tell ya. But I won’t link ya, cause I’m too lazy to do that. I love you though. Lots. 

13th Ghosts
18th Dye
Adam Stephens
Alberta Cross
Amanda Palmer
An Horse
Battle Hymns
Birds Of  Tokyo
Braille
Buff1
Cecil Otter
Crocodile
D.O.
Da C.O.D. 
DADDY
David Dallas
Dead Confederate
Dmitry Fyodorov
Don’t Tell Sophie
Don Rimini
Easy Star All-Stars
Eyeris
Ezra Furman and the Harpoons
Fannius III
Gary Clark Jr. (duh)
Gavin Castleton
Geeks
Gentleman Reg (not new)
Glacier Hiking
Great Northern
Greg Camp
Ian Moore
Johnny Goudie and The Little Champions
Kill The Noise
Kristoffer Ragnstam
Kyle Andrews
Ladyhawke
Landon Pigg
Le Castle Vania
Li’l Cap’n Travis (not new)
Littl’ans
Macaco Bong
Mack Winston & The Reflections
MAGIC WANDS
Magneta Lane
MC Frontalot
Melissa Auf der Maur
More or Les
Motel Motel
Mr Lewis and The Funeral 5
Nadastrom
NID & SANCY
Passion Pit
Port O’Brien (duh)
Prolyphic
Scissors for Lefty
Sgt Dunbar and the Hobo Banned
Shiny Toy Guns
Shout Out Out Out Out
Solid Gold
Sonpub
The Brothers Movement
The Chesterfield Kings
The Cloud Room (not new)
The Ettes
The Gay Blades
The Gin Riots
The Golden Filter
The High Dials
The Hot Kicks
The Lemurs
The Love Language
The Moog
The River Phoenix
The Sea
The Von Bondies
We Were Promised Jetpacks
White Lies
Wintersleep
Little Black Dress
Living Things
Quaff
Rafter
Rediscover
Ringo Deathstarr
Ross Royce
Russian Futurists (not new)
Sam Roberts Band
Alaska in Winter

Now keep in mind this is just the stuff I deemed worthy of going on my iPod. At that moment. On second review, that might change. As you know, I am incredibly picky about what goes on Steve. Something may be iPod worthy but not really show worthy, so this is no guarantee that I will be attending said shows. But I love new music.

My next step should really be to make notes on the bands, like Gus does. [My favorite being the description he gave to Winter Gloves - "tokyo police club w less guitars and worse singing"] We’ll see how that goes. And then of course there is the party list to go through….