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Why SXSW is cool ...
Published: 3/11/2008 4:21 PM
Last Modified: 3/11/2008 4:21 PM

I'm preparing to head out to Austin for five days of the South by Southwest music festival, and thought I'd share a few reasons why the music festival is great:

1. Bands we'll be covering/seeing/maybe blogging about: All have Tulsa ties! Hanson, RadioRadio, El Paso Hot Button, PDA, Congress of a Crow, The Effects, Junior Brown and maybe even Colourmusic, Cheyenne, Edison Glass and Brandon Jenkins! Stay tuned to the Tulsa World for more!

2. The Lemonheads will perform the entire "It's a Shame About Ray" album 1 a.m. Wednesday night at Emo's Annex, 600 Red River St. (The 1992 alt-pop classic has been remastered and will be released in a deluxe package on March 25.)

3. Bands with funky (and often hilarious) names like o'death, Ouija Radio, The Weather Underground, Flaming Arrows Mardi Gras Indians, Girl In A Coma, Songs for Moms, Be Your Own Pet (!!), Scary Mansion, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Ketchup Mania, Phantom Limb, Ringo Deathstarr, The Cuban Cowboys, Does It Offend You Yeah?, Care Bears on Fire, The Jonbenet, Afrobots, Die! Die! Die!, Wussy and possibly my favorite: Death Sentence: Panda! (exclamation point included).

4. Genre-bending fare such as Daryl Hall, R.E.M., Spoon, Yo La Tengo, Billy Bragg, Perry Farrell, NOFX, Phantom Planet, The Vines, My Morning Jacket, Ice Cube, Was (Not Was) and Paramore.

5. Who I'd like to see (wishful thinking, in addition to the local acts mentioned): The Lemonheads, Scott H. Biram, Legendary Shack*Shakers, o'death, Serj Tankian, The Cool Kids, Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet with Bela Fleck, Tom Morello, Jay Reatard, American Princes, DeVotchKa, Vampire Weekend, Supersuckers, Thurston Moore w/ Band, Man Man, Pit er Pat, X (!!!), Moby, Ice Cube, Tiny Masters of Today, Ra Ra Riot, The Raveonettes, Ian Moore, The Lonely H, South Austin Jug Band, Tapes 'N' Tapes, British Sea Power and Black Moth Super Rainbow. What?!!? There are, like, over 1,000 bands performing!

Bummer: Dolly Parton canceled her gig. Back problems. Go figure.

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charles (5 years ago)

Man, I love "Its a shame about Ray," reminds me of college. I'm still glad I opted out this yer, but sounds fun. Did you hear that "Rainbow Around the Sun" was called "the Tommy of our generation" by a Dallas reviewer?

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The festival was once cool, then in the mid to late 90s, the big shows started only giving out passes to industry and press folks. Now, it is a typical lame over-commercialized mess largely reserved for company brass. Too bad.

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