My 20 Favorite CDs of 2007

A lot of great music came out this year. Here are a couple lists of what I liked and didn't like this year.

1. Deerhunter - Cryptograms
2. The National - Boxer
3. A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
4. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
5. Battles - Mirrored
6. Carribou - Andorra
   
7. The Field - From Here We go to Sublime
8. Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew - Spirit If
9. Pela - Anytown Graffiti
10. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
11. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
12. !!! - Myth Takes
13. St. Vincent - Marry Me
14. Apparat - Walls
15. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
16. M.I.A. - Kala
17. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
18. Peter, Bjorn and John - Writers Block
19. Rob Crow - Living Well
20. Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs

Recent purchases that are on several end of year lists, in order of how much I think I might end up liking them.

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows
2. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
   
3. Burial - Untrue
4. Holy Fuck - LP
5. Band of Horses - Cease To Begin
6. No Age - Wierdo Rippers
7. Los Campesinos! - Sticking Fingers into Sockets
   
8. Stars of the Lid - and Their Refinement of the Decline
9. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
   
10. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
    
11. Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightmare
12. Feist - The Reminder
13. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
14. Liars - Liars
15. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
16. Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me
17. Justice - t

Not as great as I'd hoped they'd be - This list is in order of how much I liked the CD compared to how much I thought I'd like it before I bought it. So if I was really excited about a CD and then it sucked it would be ranked at that top of the list. If it was a CD that some friends recommended and I bought it and didn't care for it, then I had lower expectations so it's ranked lower. In the case of Amon Tobin, it's a good CD but my expectations for him are completely unrealistic.

1. Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
2. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
3. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
4. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
5. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
6. Blonde Redhead - 23
7. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
8. Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
9. Interpol - Our Love to Admire
10. Amon Tobin - Foley Room

Be sure to check for typo's

The title is from a slide in a power point presentation on the topic of giving presentations.

Damn Rainbow Pinwheel!

I bought one of the new 160 Gb classic iPods after I got back from Ireland. I like the iPod itself as it's a 2 revision upgrade over my old 60 Gb iPod. The additional disk space and the ability to play movies were the compelling reasons for the upgrade. However, the iTunes integration with it is complete shit. I have 9400 songs on the iPod and everything I try to do is mind numbingly slow. Trying to create a playlist can take half an hour, god forbid you have to edit track information. I have no idea what the issue is. I've updated iTunes and installed the iPod update. That damn processing/thinking pinwheel is driving me batty.

Counties Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, Kerry and back to Dublin

I finally have internet access again. We're at the airport hotel in Dublin getting ready to head back home early tomorrow morning. The only news I've heard from the states is that Dallas is 2-0, UT is 3-0 and OJ is back in jail, all good news. Hopefully nothing big has happened over the past 2 weeks.

I didn't jot down as many comments the last couple days, probably due to the constant drinking and traveling. Here's what I got:

More Clare

• After 7 days, doing laundry has finally become a desperate matter. Drove from Milltown to Killrush about 45 minutes for the nearest laundromat. At least that's what we thought, I don't think Ireland has laundromats, but there are places that will launder and fold your cloths, which is even better. This means that we have 3 hours to kill in Killrush a town of probably less than 3,000. Of course Killrush is an adorable "irish looking" town, like they all are. I think 3 different older gentlemen crossed the street to say, "hello" to my Aunt Patty, kinda welcoming and creepy at the same time.
  
• Dolphins frequent the waters near Killrush, which would explain how I learned from a statue by the bay that dolphins when they give birth have a pair of midwives that bring the newborn dolphin up to the surface, carried on their noses, for it's first breath otherwise it will die. Sometimes I think the Irish are constantly fucking with me.
• One morning, I climbed the rocks in the small cove near the hotel. Around 11:3o in the morning the tide is almost completely out and the water recedes from a huge rock formation that is much like a finger extending from the coast into the middle of the small bay. I was able to walk out on the rocks for about 2oo yards and check out all the tide pools full of small fish, sea anemones and muscles in the rock hallows. The whole time the waves crashed on either side of this narrow rock peninsula. This may have been my favorite hour in Ireland.
• Clare, the owner of the Spanish Armada is the best hostess I've ever encountered. She has a knack for telling a story that she's probably told a thousand times as though it's for the first time.
• In the pictures I have on my flickr page, there are pictures of a ruin near the Armada hotel. It was a hotel build in the early 1900s. After WWII there was a tax in Ireland on any structure that had a roof. So they took the roof off. I wouldn't recommend doing this with your home.
  

County Limerick

• Had lunch in a refurbished old castle. The food and service was really good. As a general rule the service in Ireland sucks ass. The waiters and waitresses, even in the fine dining establishments, wouldn't know how to refill your water much less open a bottle of wine. What was kinda funny was that our waitress was from Ennis, Ireland but had what seemed to be an affected British accent. It think it might be because most of the old mansions were built by the English land owners and some of that mystique lingers on.
• My great great grandfather on my fathers side comes from the Parish of Oola in county Limerick. We'd heard a couple stories of people looking for their ancestors in Ireland, they typically go like this, "I met this _____ who went to ______ looking for his relatives. He steps into this bus/pub/church mentions that he's from American and looking for his relatives. Then _______ says, 'why you look just like ______.' The person is then reunited with his family and spends 3 or 4 days with them catching up on everything that has happened over the past 100-150 years." This didn't happen to us. We went to a couple cemeteries, and there are tons of Ryans. In fact, there are so many Ryans in this area that the different Ryan families have nicknames. If you don't know your ancestor's nickname you're pretty much out of luck, because they're all named James, Patrick, John or Tim. Everyone was still very helpful in this possibly impossible endeavor.
  
• While we were waiting for the heritage foundation to tell us that they can't trace us down our ancestors because of there being so many possibilities, we stopped in another Ryan pub. We met Michael Ryan, owner of the pub, who was really nice. He told me how most Americans really don't like living in Ireland; because the towns are really small like 2,000 to 5,000. This means that people can be pretty closed to strangers, but then once they get to know you, they're all in your business.
• While we were in the County of Limerick we stayed at the Dundrum Hotel. My dad really liked the golfing on the grounds. He hopes to bring some of his buddies back to Ireland for a golfing tour. I found the accommodations lacking. I felt like I was sleeping on the original mattress and pillows from when the manor was built, but the owner Austin Crowe is one super cool dude.
  
• There was this wedding party going on the last night we were there. We didn't see much of it. I was in one of the bars in the manor and the bartender mentioned that the bar was closing down at 1:00 to reopen in the basement, to stay open until 4:00. I'm still cursing Tim for the Jameson shots and myself for the vodka/red bulls earlier in the evening that helped to convince me that staying up and crashing an Irish wedding party at 2 in the morning would be a great idea. It started out at 2 with a all-day-drinking-Neddie arguing with me about how Bush and by extension I were essentially fuckers. Took about half an hour to enlighten all-day-drinking-Neddie about my leftist political leanings. It doesn't matter, next thing I know he's singing some songs about the black and tans. I really couldn't understand what he was talking about most of the time. He kept calling me a "Republican" but wouldn't tell me if he meant US or IRA, damn we were drunk. Then the rest of the wedding party shows up and I don't really remember the rest. At least I didn't get the shit beat out of me.
• The next day in Limerick was rough.
  

County Kerry

• On the way to Dingle in County Kerry we kept seeing all these pennants on cars for Kerry and Cork, all we knew was that there was an important game between them, but had no idea what game it was.
  
• Football could be the most misinterpreted word in the world. For instance, what we call soccer is also called football in the rest of the world. Yet, other parts of the world could call rugby, football, and then there is Gaelic football which is like a combination of soccer, rugby and volleyball.
• At one point, I felt like I kinda knew what was going on with Rugy. My dad and I'd seen a couple games on TV, Ireland and South Africa looked like they were good, we were even starting to talk to people about the games in Clare and Limerick. That's how good we were assimilating. It's Saturday, and we meet our first rude Irishman, a bartender in a pub. We thought we'd drop a little rugby knowledge on this bartender by asking if they would be playing the rugby game of Ireland vs Ukraine on TV. To which he replies "we won't be supportin' that!" Plus some other obviously American guy asks for a martini and he asks what that is, as if he'd never heard of it, calling it some "American drink". Tim says, " I can see why they have a bouncer outside."
• After watching Kerry play Cork in their game, I finally realized that there was Gaelic football, I think this might be what the bartender "supported". Damn there are so many types of football.
• Owna outside a bar in Dingle says that "Kyle" is "Colum" in Irish.
• When we tell a cabbie in Dublin where we're from he replies with "Walk the plank", cockney rhyming slang for yank. He also turns off the meter to show us a round tower.
  

Random

• My power converter makes a buzzing sound when I plug in my laptop. This concerns me.
• With the flipped up collars, all the young kids here look look like they're the cool/bad kids from a John Hughes film. Is this coming back or is it just now hitting Ireland?
• I think the best possibly part about traveling is the perpetually clean bathroom.
  

County Clare (continued)

More whatevers:

• The Aran isles are made up of four islands the smallest and closest to the Irish mainland is Innismeer. This is the island we visited. The people of the Aran Isles are fluent in Irish. It's been their primary language since Cromwell in the 17th century, when many Irish fled to the islands. Today many Irish send there kids to the islands for the summer to learn the Irish language. They stay with families where they learn Irish through immersion.
• I didn't find the locals to be particularly friendly toward the tourists, but I'm sure it gets old when four boats a day unload a fresh batch of people, especially in a region with so few people. By nature of living on an island for much of your life with 3oo people (max) you probably don't have gregarious tendencies.
• There were so many rocks on Innismeer that they'd stack them into walls just to get them out of the way. So it looks like there are crazy mazes all over the island. Check my flickr pages to see what I'm talking about. They would also mix layers of sand and seaweed on top of rocks to create fertile soil in order to be self sufficient.
• On the island there was this one church which was completely submerged by sand. You can still see into the church by looking through the roof. The site has become a cemetary which is at the same level as the church. It was pretty odd.
• Day 4 still no snakes.
• We got a flat tire on the way back from the Aran Isles to Spanish Point. No spare in the trunk. Took three hours to get a replacement car. But it turned out to be pretty cool because we met this wonderful man Mike Wolf (just now realized that Josh has a friend from San Marcus with the same name) who was originally from England who lived across the highway from where we parked. He was extremely helpful. There were three stangers, probably cussing across the street, on this very quiet stretch of highway, and he looked up taxis and check on us several times to make sure everything was ok. He showed Patty and I his conservatory and even gave me a copy of the Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook Volume 9 that he put together in his spare time over 4 years. I will find his email address someday and send him a thank you message.
• Where we stopped with the flat tire was next to a field with a lot of cows. Mike told us this story of how the owner bought this special breed of bull from France that was particularly mean. It was so mean it broke the owner's ribs when he first approached it. So he called in the vet whose ankle he broke. The owner ended up having to call in the Irish military to take down the bull because he couldn't seem to take it down himself. Now that's one mean ass bull.
• Haven't seen a single big box store here. Haven't missed them. Unrelated thought, it's not easy to find bottled water here.
• I fucked up and left my windows open with the light on in my hotel room. When I got back several hours later, I had hundreds of tiny flying insects waiting in the room for me. Fortunately, I was told earlier in the night that Ireland doesn't have any mosquitoes, because if it, did I'd probably have West Nile virus right now. After living in a state where just about any creature could kill you, it's comforting to be in a land without any poisonous critters...not sure how much I believe this...
  
• The rumors are true, people like to drink here.
• Bands I can't stop listening to on this trip:
• Pela
• The Twilight Sad
• Apparat
  
• St. Vincent
• Oh, and Enya since she seems to be playing everywhere we go.
  

County Clare

On Sunday my dad, aunt Patty and I drove from Dublin to Spanish Point in County Clare. Here are my notes from the last couple days.

Driving.

• The scenery along N7 which runs east-west across Ireland looks a lot like upstate New York. I can see why so many Irish settled there.
• On the drive Patty filled us in on an article she read in the paper on "Stab City" aka Limerick. Apparently there is quite a bit of violent crime.
• I thought I might die a gruesome death several times riding down R474. Tim did a great job of driving, but the roads are as narrow as the car we're driving. There was one bridge that would only allow one car through at a time. A couple times I suggested "Get in the middle" of the bridge. Finally, I could see this stone wall coming at me so I shouted "Get in the middle!" Thankfully Tim obliged.
  

Notes about County Clare.

• We're staying at the Burke Armada hotel which is named after the Spanish Armada. The hotel is owned by Clare Burke, who's family has lived in County Clare for as far back as she knows. The hotel is named after the Spanish Armada which fought the English off the coast.
• Clare's husband John opened the Armada as a small pub in the late 60's. Over time they added a little bit here and a little bit there. Now it's a huge hotel with over 100 rooms and a new addition starting later this year.
• Clare was surprised when I asked about boxties, they're like potato crepes. I guess they haven't been made in a couple generations. I had some a Fado's in Austin, they're very tasty.
• It's been wonderful sleeping with the windows open, letting in the cool ocean breeze and listening to the waves crashing on the shore.
• In Doolin I ordered a cafe americano and asked for it in a to-go cup. The guy served it in a coffee cup. I asked if he has any cups I could use while I'm wandering around the town and he said, "That's the problem with you americans, you're always wandering." I think the tourist season is wearing on him a bit.
• I found a map with Oola on it, this is the town where my great great grandfather came from. Tim was saying that it's kinda of far away from where we were and I said, "it's about an hour away. We've been waiting three generations to get there. It's not too far."
• Riding the front upper deck of the ferry to Inisheer, Tim says, "Look out there's rainbows coming at us." Right before the splash hits our faces.
• Priest I was talking to on the ferry, "You can't tell an Irishman what to do." Explaining why Ireland had stopped mandatory Irish in the schools. Irish is still taught in the better schools, so parents are putting their kids in those schools. But when it was forced on everyone it was a different story.
• More to come....
  

Day 2 in Dublin

No internet access the past couple days. Here's the run down of the last day in Dublin. By the way, I've been posting pictures of the trip on flicker

Here are observations I jotted down while wandering around:

• It's impossible to get a cup o' joe. The only option most places is cafe americano which is espresso with hot water. Other places just have instant coffee.
• There are a ton people from other countries in Dublin. This impression could be the result of only spending time at the tourist spots.
• 45 pounds per year for 9000 years. This is the sweetheart deal Guinness has for 60 acres in downtown. My dad mentions that the properties in the newspaper are going for anywhere from 500,000 Euros to over a million for modest sized homes.
• My cell doesn't work in Europe because it's CDMA. So I haven't had it with me for the last couple days. Sometimes I think I that feel the vibration of it going off in my pocket, like an itch amputees get on their missing limbs.
• Finally found fresh brewed coffee. It comes in the irish coffee at the Jameson's distillery.
• The Guinness brewery has the best view of downtown Dublin. There aren't any tall buildings in Dublin. So the 7th story bar towers over the rest of the city. All the walls of the bar are glass so you have a 360 degree view of the surrounding area.
• The river Lifey is pronounced like "lift" not "life".

Quotes from Dublin:

• "It's like sheep porn." Comment after looking at a rack of post cards containing hundreds of pictures of sheep.
• "What team do you play for?" by my aunt Patty. The Celtic games were taking place in Dublin the weekend we were there, so we saw lots of people in different jerseys. Patty asked this question of the girls below, who we found out were going to a 72 hour dj festival, which I regrettably missed.

• "Don't worry, it'd cost me too much if I hit you." - Taxi driver to Tim after he jumped away from his car, because Tim got a little nervous.
• "Took the smile right off your face, didn't I?" - Dublin tour bus driver. We were running up as he closed the door and drove 10 feet. The he opened the door and let us on.
  

4,694 Miles Later

I'm about to finish my first day in Dublin. I think I feel right now how Sammy must feel most of the time. I've had approximately 2 bad hours of sleep the past two days. Woke up at 7am Wed to finish packing and get to the airport. Had a 5 hour layover in Newark. The layover wasn't bad, since my dad hooked me up with a Continental Presidents Club card and I had the free drink hookup. The flight for Dublin left at 10pm EST, landed at Dublin airport at 10am local time. It was impossible to get comfortable enough to sleep for long on the plane.

In this sleep deprived state, we now get to drive from the airport to the hotel. I'm really glad Tim was driving. But it was pretty funny when he got in to back up the car and was sitting on the wrong side. I must admit that riding on the other side of the road is pretty intense.

I notice that I bump into people while walking here all the time. You know how when people are walking in opposite directions back home how everyone gravitates to the right side of the sidewalk or door? Well here it's the opposite, just like the driving. It's really hard to rewire myself to dodge by going to the left.

All I wanted to do was sleep when I got to the hotel this morning, but every jet lag suggestions site says to force yourself to stay up and go to sleep at the regular local time. So we ended up taking a train into downtown Dublin and took a site seeing tour bus around the city. Which would have seemed lame to me two days ago, but it was about all I could handle in my sleep deprived state. Now I'm thinking it was a good idea, because we know were everything is and got more ideas on what to go see and do tomorrow.

My Aunt Patty can't stop mentioning how Irish everyone looks. It is kinda weird, in that everyone has similar features to me, my dad and my aunt, which is different from about every place I've been outside of upstate New York. Another thing that's cool is most of the people here are paler than I am. I don't know that I've ever experienced this. Except for the time I delivered pizza to 3 african-american albinos who shared and apartment in Denton. But that was freaky, this is cool.

White is the New Beige

Has anyone else noticed that Apple has moved away from white devices? With the new iPods there isn't a single white option. The new iMac has taken on a brushed aluminum over the previous white. The MacBook is one of the last with the white option. I remember when it came out the black MacBooks were priced $200 more just because they were black. This may have signaled the end of Apple's sparked white molded plastic electronics movement.

I give it 10 years before retro white devices make a comeback.

ps About the new iPods, couldn't they have made a touch iPod with a hard drive? 16 Gb doesn't cut it.

Emerald Isle

I'm finally packed for my first overseas trip to Ireland. Many thanks to Molly for suggesting the compression bags, because of them I have tons of room to stash a bottle or two of Jameson's in it for the return trip. Also thanks to Mary and Sammy for their recommendations on where to go and what to do.

I'm meeting up with my dad and aunt Patty in the Continental Airlines presidents lounge in Newark tomorrow where we leave for Dublin. My layover is for four hours, so I should be sleeping pretty well on the flight.

We'll be in Dublin for a couple days before heading to County Clare. From there I have no idea where we're going, but I'm sure we'll cross a pub or two. Our hope is to track down more info on where my great great grandfather came from, we know the general area from his gravestone in Keeseville, New York but we don't know anything about his parents, siblings or other relatives.

With any luck, I'll find free wireless while I'm there and be able to post pictures of the trip and be able to maintain a bit of a travel blog.

And Now Something Really Sweet

NINJAS!!!

One of my earlier posts on this blog three years ago was devoted to ninjas. Incredibly they're no less cool now than they were then. But it's only been recently that people have begun to uncover how ninjas work.

In Case You're Looking For Me This Month ...

I'll be at Emos.

13th - Die! Die! Die!
14th - Sebadoh with original lineup
18th - Deerhunter with the Pony's and Brightblack Morning Light
20th - Parts and Labor
21st - Tapes N Tapes
27th - Sunset Rubdown

Can the body take that many Sparkleberries?

SXSW 2007 Show Reviews

Here are some short notes on the bands I saw this past week. Most of them written after drinking for hours.

Wednesday

• Prototypes - Looks like they have garages in France too.
• Menomena - Fire sound guy at Beauty Bar. Sammy says, "Boring. Pussy rock."
• Black Angels - Incredible percussion. Dark guitar riffs. Moody vocals. Check!
• Hogpig - Can I get a little metal, please?
• Blacklist - Drummer wearing a leather jacket? Too busy looking cool not being good.
  
• Lilly Allen - Live dancehall with full band. Damn she's sassy.
• The Comas - Why the fuck am I back at the Beauty Bar?
• Rob Crowe - Love his voice, wish I could catch the lyrics.
  
• Die! Die! Die! - Please don't take my knee out. I think I'll need that later
• Blonde Redhead - Would sound much better at home with the lights out.
  
• Schwazy - schweet slacker rap and there's enough crack (butt) here for everyone.

Thursday

• Andrew Bird - Whistling, violin, xylophone and harmonica are not typical components of music I like, but this was great.
• Pete Townsend - Solo acoustic rendition of a song off quadraphenia. He's been doing this for 45+ years, wow!
• Kid Beyond - Spot on beatbox remix of Nine Inch Nails song, incredible!
• The Shys - Only song I liked was the sample from SXSW site.
• Bob Mould - Solo acoustic. Is there anyone better than him and Rob Crowe at crafting a bitter sweet pop song?
• Cold War Kids - Best show of SXSW at this point. Start with 4 people on stage end with 30.
• Don Caballero - Not doing it for me.
• Jesu - The sound guy really likes bass. Can't hear any of the guitar, which is what I came for.
• These Arms Are Snakes - I just moshed myself sober.

Friday

• Breast Feeders - Sharing a garage with the Prototypes. Best tambourine player ever!
• Thurston Moore - It's a feedback party and you're invited. Set list = 1 song.
• Clem Snide - Please something good happen to this man. If not, I'll continue to enjoy the music his misery creates.
• Perry Ferrell's Satellite Party - Nice shiny pants. Steve keeps saying "Kill me now!"
• Yuppie Pricks - Hummer in My Hummer, an instant classic.
• The Clutter - Always great straight up Rock & Roll.
• Ariel Pink - Why, oh why did I have to see this show?

Saturday

• Pink Nasty - CD is good, no advantage in hearing the songs live.
• 7 Shot Screamers - Ooops forgot that every rock-a-billy song sounds the same.
• Walter Meego - Wish I'd gotten here earlier, good electronic pop.
• The Parlor Mob - Singer has a picture of Robert Plant on his bedroom wall.
• Danielia Cotton - Little black girl rocked my world. Back in Black finale, magnificent!
• Marnie Stern - I really hate it when bands start 15 minutes late. Josh reports that badge line at Stubbs is around the block for Stooges.
• Kid Koala - Amazing, spins 3 records without headphones.
• Amon Tobin - One of the best shows I've ever seen! I felt like I was in one of the crowd scenes from It's All Gone Pete Tong. Encore with Kid Koala was insane, speed metal scratches with Tobins big beats, oh so crunchy, I think this is what the big bang sounded like.
  

SXSW 2007

Well I starting to feel pretty good about the upcoming SXSW. I spent a couple weeks listening to over 700 songs from different bands that are playing this year. There are almost 1800 bands playing showcases this year.

Here's my list of bands that to check out. There no way I'll be able to see everything, so I've highlighted the ones I can't miss.

Wednesday, 14 March 2007

08:00PM Chris Letcher (Red 7)
08:00PM The Diffs (Redrum)
08:15PM iLiKETRAiNS (Emo's Jr)
08:30PM the Comas (Beauty Bar Patio)
09:00PM Rubicks (Co-op Bar)
09:00PM Hogpig (Bourbon Rocks)
09:00PM Imperial Teen (Antone's)
09:45PM Blacklist (Elysium)
10:00PM The Dansettes (Continental Club)
10:45PM The Twilight Sad (Mohawk Patio)
11:00PM Lily Allen (Stubb's)
11:15PM Calla (Emo's Jr)
11:20PM The Faceless Werewolves (Beerland)
11:45PM Rob Crow (Mohawk Patio)
12:00AM Experimental Aircraft (Blender Balcony at the Ritz)
12:00AM All the Saints (Lambert's)
12:00AM Holy Fuck (Beauty Bar)
12:00AM Damien Dempsey (Copa)
12:00AM mothercoat (Latitude 30)
12:00AM The Sammies (Light Bar)
12:00AM Manic (Bourbon Rocks)
12:15AM Die! Die! Die! (Habana Calle 6 Patio)
12:30AM Peter, Bjorn and John (La Zona Rosa)
12:45AM Blonde Redhead (Emo's Main Room)
01:00AM Black Moth Super Rainbow (Blender Balcony at the Ritz)
01:00AM KTU (Pohjonen, Gunn, Mastelotto) (Uncle Flirty's Loft)
01:00AM Bermuda Triangle (Co-op Bar)
01:00AM The Wombats (Friends)
01:00AM Les Savy Fav (Red Eyed Fly)
01:00AM Special Guests from Austin TX (Antone's)

Thursday, 15 March 2007

06:00PM Rachel Fuller w/ Special Guests (La Zona Rosa)
08:00PM Errors (Karma Lounge)
08:00PM Ana Laan (Visions)
08:00PM Kid Beyond (Elysium)
08:00PM The Cinematics (Flamingo Cantina)
08:30PM The Shys (Exodus)
08:30PM The Besnard Lakes (Mohawk Patio)
09:00PM Young Widows (Lambert's)
09:00PM Bob Mould (Buffalo Billiards)
09:30PM Jim Bianco (The Parish)
09:40PM Bisc1 (Spiro's)
10:00PM Cut Off Your Hands (Co-op Bar)
10:00PM Cold War Kids (La Zona Rosa)
10:00PM Bang Bang Bang (Opal Divine's Freehouse)
10:00PM Special Guest (Eternal)
10:30PM Shout Out Out Out Out (Beauty Bar Patio)
11:00PM Champion (Maggie Mae's Rooftop)
11:00PM Fujiya & Miyagi (Karma Lounge)
11:00PM The Octopus Project (Emo's Main Room)
11:00PM The Dears (Stubb's)
11:00PM David Vandervelde (Mohawk)
11:00PM MuteMath (Dirty Dog Bar)
11:00PM Lionheart Brothers (Emo's Jr)
11:00PM Architecture in Helsinki (La Zona Rosa)
11:00PM Panthers (Flamingo Cantina)
11:00PM Don Caballero (Room 710)
11:15PM Ocelot (Beauty Bar)
11:30PM Land Of Talk (Maggie Mae's)
11:30PM JESU (Emo's Annex)
11:40PM Air Traffic (The Rio)
12:00AM RWAKE (Room 710)
12:00AM DATAROCK (Emo's Jr)
12:00AM Deerhunter (Soho Lounge)
12:00AM Ghostland Observatory (La Zona Rosa)
12:00AM Bloc Party (Stubb's)
12:00AM Amy Winehouse (Eternal)
12:00AM Fucked Up (Lambert's)
12:00AM Special Guest (Karma Lounge)
12:15AM Shitdisco (Beauty Bar Patio)
12:30AM Vashti Bunyan (Central Presbyterian Church)
12:45AM Okkervil River (Mohawk Patio)
01:00AM Fair to Midland (Eternal)
01:00AM Asobi Seksu (The Parish II)
01:00AM Menomena (Buffalo Billiards)
01:00AM Voxtrot (Emo's Main Room)
01:00AM Pop Levi (The Ale House)
01:00AM These Arms Are Snakes (Lambert's)
01:00AM Special Guests (Habana Calle 6)

Friday, 16 March 2007

01:00PM The Buzzcocks (SXSW Live Austin Convention Center)
07:45PM Public Enemy (SXSW Dew Music Festival at Town Lake)
08:00PM Thurston Moore Instrumental (Mohawk)
08:00PM Cities (Dirty Dog Bar)
08:00PM Special Guests (Club de Ville)
09:00PM Adrienne Pierce (Light Bar)
09:00PM Clem Snide (Buffalo Billiards)
09:00PM Peter, Bjorn and John (SXSW Live Austin Convention Center)
09:30PM Andrew Bird (Stubb's)
09:30PM Smut Peddlers (Emo's Jr)
09:30PM Sybris (Red Eyed Fly)
10:00PM Ane Brun (18th Floor at Hilton Garden Inn)
10:00PM Six Parts Seven (Maggie Mae's)
10:30PM Perry Farrell's Satellite Party (Stubb's)
11:00PM Yuppie Pricks (Habana Calle 6)
11:00PM The Black Angels (Antone's)
11:00PM Los Abandoned (The Rio)
11:00PM Clockcleaner (Exodus)
11:20PM Bedroom Walls (Club One 15)
11:30PM Daedelus (Zero Degrees)
11:30PM Badly Drawn Boy (Stubb's)
11:30PM Thurston Moore Songz plus special guest (Mohawk Patio)
11:40PM Hoodoo Gurus (Blender Bar at the Ritz)
11:45PM Special Guest (La Zona Rosa)
12:00AM The Clutters (Habana Calle 6)
12:00AM Apostle of Hustle (Habana Calle 6 Annex)
12:45AM The Walkmen (Emo's Annex)
12:45AM The Good, The Bad & The Queen (Stubb's)
01:00AM The Ettes (Whisky Bar)
01:00AM The Emeralds (Elysium)
01:00AM Ariel Pink (The Ale House)
01:00AM Beach House (The Tap Room at Six)
01:00AM Sasquatch (Room 710)
01:00AM The Woggles (Habana Calle 6)
01:00AM Special Guests (Habana Calle 6 Annex)

Saturday, 17 March 2007

02:00PM Gallows (SXSW Dew Music Festival at Town Lake)
07:30PM Special Guest (Whisky Bar)
08:00PM 7 Shot Screamers (Dirty Dog Bar)
08:00PM Pink Nasty (Elysium)
08:00PM Buzzcocks (Emo's Main Room)
08:00PM Walter Meego (Exodus)
08:00PM Mastodon (SXSW Dew Music Festival at Town Lake)
09:00PM Danielia Cotton (The Ale House)
09:00PM The Parlor Mob (Bourbon Rocks)
09:00PM Mew (La Zona Rosa)
09:00PM Honky (Dirty Dog Bar)
09:00PM The Berg Sans Nipple (Elysium)
09:00PM Jello Biafra (spoken word) (The Parish II)
09:15PM Electric Apricot featuring Les Claypool (Opal Divine's Freehouse)
09:15PM Meat Puppets (Emo's Main Room)
09:40PM ANAVAN (Emo's Jr)
10:00PM Golem (Habana Calle 6 Annex)
10:00PM Metro Riots (Lambert's)
10:00PM Tia Carrera (Red 7)
10:00PM Marnie Stern (Emo's IV Lounge)
10:00PM Kings of Leon (Stubb's)
10:00PM The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello solo acoustic) (Central Presbyterian Church)
11:00PM Bang Gang (Elysium)
11:00PM Lions (Bourbon Rocks)
11:10PM Lesbians On Ecstasy (Exodus)
11:10PM Ryno (Zero Degrees)
11:30PM Detroit Cobras (Red Eyed Fly)
12:00AM Lab Partners (Lambert's)
12:00AM Lions In The Street (Club de Ville)
12:00AM Au Revoir Simone (Copa)
12:00AM Prototypes (Exodus)
12:00AM The Presidents of the United States of America (Maggie Mae's Rooftop)
12:15AM Amon Tobin (The Parish)
12:30AM The Stooges (Stubb's)
12:30AM Special Guests (Cedar Street Courtyard)
12:30AM Special Guests (Emo's Annex)
01:00AM Gorch Fock (Red 7)
01:00AM Special Guests (Room 710)