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February 21, 2006
The road to Austin begins
Count Keith O'Brien as one of music-hungry masses at South by Southwest. Fortuitously, I will be attending the interactive festival (before the music festival) for my employer, and have taken vacation days off for the music part.
I will likely try to meet up with PR professionals at the music fest for work-related matters, but will otherwise spend my time drinking beers, eating Tex-Mex, watching March Madness, and, oh yes, seeing bands.
Just skimming the night shows, my wish list is the Matador Showcase (MS 2005 pick New Pornographers and 2006 front runners Cat Power and Belle & Sebastian), Serena Maneesh, The Gossip, Field Music, Pink Mountaintops, The Boy Least Likely To, Love is All, Clor, The Go! Team, and many, many others.
I started listening to some singles from bands previously unknown to me the weekend past, and found some early favorites: The Dead Science, Sound Team, and The Capitol Years. I also found some bad ones. So bad that when I explained to my fellow car passengers who accompanied me on a trip to DC that it was a SXSW CD hastily created without any editorial purview, they sighed.
So, you may notice the newly-created SXSW category on MS.com. This will be where I place my musings, reviews, and so on. Alternatively, you can also check out how I’m getting my folksonomies on via my del.icio.us page.
I am going Solo, Hans, so, if you don’t already have your chaperoned bus set up and wish to uncomfortably try to prove the social networkability of blogs, shout either via comments or at keithobrien@merryswankster.com.
Tags: SXSW, SWSXi, Austin, Clor, Sound Team
Posted by Keith O'Brien at February 21, 2006 05:15 PM
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I'll be there at the KCRW showcase.. check out AM... www.myspace.com/amsounds
Posted by: Laurie at February 26, 2006 03:13 AM
