ABOVE: A plateful of Austin BBQ tangentially but not directly related to the massive list of bands below
Now that it’s mid-April I think we’re nearly done rolling out our SXSW ’09 content. Just in time for Coachella. Huzzah! After the jump, a list of the bands I personally enjoyed in Austin this year, alpha by artist. (G’head click through, you know you’re curious.)
| A | Ali Harter Andrew Bird Asobi Seksu |
| B |
Bar-Kays Beach House Beau Jennings Billy Bob Thornton / The Boxmasters Bishop Allen Black Lips Blitzen Trapper BLK JKS Blue Scholars |
| C |
Camera Obscura Colourmusic Common Market Crystal Antlers Cursive |
| D |
Dananananananaykroyd Daniel Johnston Daniel Walcher Decemberists DEVO Dinosaur Jr Dosh |
| E |
Echo & The Bunnymen Efterklang Entrance Band |
| F | Forms |
| G |
Glasvegas Grizzly Bear |
| H | Handsome Furs Heartless Bastards Hold Steady Hot Legs (The Darkness) |
| J | Jason Lytle Juliette Lewis & The I Feel Sorry For Backing Band |
| K | King Khan & The Shrines |
| L | Let’s Wrestle Loney Dear Lovvers Lucero (note: very, very drunk. him, not me) |
| M | M Ward Marnie Stern Metallica Mumford and Sons |
| N | Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head New York Dolls No Age |
| P | Past Lives Perry Ferrell PJ Harvey & John Parish Primal Scream Proclaimers Pyschedelic Horseshit |
| R | Razorlight Rural Alberta Advantage |
| S | Silversun Pickups Spindrift St Vincent Stars Go Dim |
| T | These Arms Are Snakes Third Eye Blind Tinted Windows (James Iha + Cheap Trick + Taylor Hanson) (“World Premiere!”) Tori Amos Trash Talk |
| U | Uglysuit |
| V | Vivian Girls |
| W | Wavves White Lies Wrens |
Last but far from least LA’s own The Little Ones, whom I finally got a chance to chat with, albeit briefly. Very fun. I’ll try to add more bands as memory sees fit; no doubt I’ve left out a lot of stuff above (eg, where the fuck are all the “Q” bands, huh?) Some quick math: ~71 bands above = roughly 18 bands/day over four days, give or take, not counting several bands I’ve forgotten and leaving out all the nonsense that transpired on St Pat’s. Sláinte. Also, apparently I favor bands that start with “B”, go figure.