Post-SXSW Post: Camera Obscura, Telekinesis, Buddy, I Love Math, Great Northern, Orchid Hwy., Morning Benders, Postelles, Conil, You Me At Six

We promised more tunes by SXSW favebands and--surprise!--we keep a promise. True, SXSW 2009 is now one week’s history, and the bands are scattered to winds NSE&W, possibly making this post a bit untimely. Hopefully, you won't mind. Click song titles to hear and/or download songs and artist names to go to their SXSW site.

First Time With Us-ers

Buddy - Is it Cold in Silverlake (advance premix version) mp3 - My sweet Lord if this doesn't resonate of "Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)," our alltime favorite by Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians! So fine!

Telekinesis - Coast of Carolina mp3

You Me At Six - Jealous Minds Think Alike mp3

The Postelles - 123 Stop mp3

Conil - If You Really Want To Leave mp3

Repeat Performers

Camera Obscura (pic)

Let's Get Out Of This Country mp3

Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken mp3

If Looks Could Kill mp3

Great Northern

The Middle mp3
Houses mp3
Telling Lies mp3

The Morning Benders - Waiting for a War mp3

The Orchid Highway

Next World mp3

Sofa Surfer Girl mp3

I Love Math

A Good Flying Bird (Guided By Voices cover) mp3

I Remember When I Loved Her (The Zombies cover) mp3

Josephine Street mp3

SXSW 2009 - Post Seven: Capsula, Cut Off Your Hands, The Girls, DeBretts, Dressy Bessy, Grates, Manhattan Love Suicides, Happy Hollows, Palomar, PB&J

Yes, it officially begins. . .right about now: the South by Southwest Music Festival. Even from afar we feel the excitement. We've plunged into our archives to pull out some primo offerings for SXSW 2009 bands who either didn't post songs at the official SXSW website this year or perhaps previously made available tunes we like an ooch better. Probably shouldn't keep saying this, but, yes, we have even more, so check back in a day or two. Don't wanta overdo it now, do we? We begin with one of our very favorite bands from last year (back again this) and go from strength to strength. Click song titles to play, artist names to go to their SXSW bandpage. Click here for previous SXSW postings at Powerpopulist.

Capsula - Voices Underground mp3

Cut Off Your Hands - Happy As Can Be mp3

The Girls

Transfer Station mp3
This Is Goodbye mp3

The DeBretts - Hole In The Head mp3 - Don't take the lyrics literally. In fact, we really, really love you--and the song.

Dressy Bessy
Side 2 mp3
Simple Girlz! mp3

The Grates - Lies are Much More Fun wma & asx - Click as needed: Windows - Mac - Click here for free download of Aussies' new Burn Bridges EP.

The Manhattan Love Suicides

Suzy Jones mp3
Last Stand mp3
You’ll Never Get That Guy mp3

The Happy Hollows
Tambourine mp3

Monster Room mp3

Palomar

You’re Keeping Us Up mp3
Woah! mp3

Peter Bjorn and John

Let's Call It Off (single mix) mp3
Young Folks wma

SWSW 2009 - Post Six: Everyday Visuals, Shiny Toy Guns, Heavenly States, Pretty & Nice, Clutters, Lazywall, We Were Lovers, My Sad Captains

(Band might cause problems this go-around.)

So, the big week's here, and so are we: South by Southwest, aka SXSW. For a shut-in such as moi, the main joyride is the cornucopia of songs the festival makes available at its splendid website. As some of you might have noticed, we've already posted a few of our favorites (c. 45), but we've got plenty more to go. Absent the onus of writing these silly little intros, we'd already have posted lots more. We're in this for the music, though, so if you are, too, start clicking (song titles to hear songs, artist names to go to their SXSW page). For the full schedule of bands-cum-mp3s, click here.

The Everyday Visuals - Boom! Boom! Boom! mp3
Shiny Toy Guns - Ghost Town mp3

The Heavenly States - Lost in the Light mp3
Pretty & Nice - Tora Tora Tora mp3

The Clutters - 9999 (Ways To Hate Us) mp3
Lazywall - Back To The Cradle mp3 - Morocckers!

We Were Lovers - Birds of a Feather mp3
My Sad Captains - Great Expectations mp3

SXSW 2009 - Post Five: Botticellis, Black Hollies, High Dials, B. Scary, Gramercy Arms, Marching Band, Magic Wands, K. Andrews

We've taken a few days off from this now, so let's head back south by southwest. (I personally would have to climb totally inward, being pretty much exactly sxsw.) Anyway, the following are songs we've posted before but are still very much enjoying. Maybe you missed them the first time around or would like to hear them again? (Middle finger over index.) We've still got plenty of newbies to post, coming soon. Click artist names to go to band's SWSW site, song titles to download songs. Previous SXSW posts here.

The Botticellis - Up Against the Glass mp3

The Black Hollies - Paisley Pattern Ground mp3

The High Dials - Killer of Dragons mp3

Bryan Scary and The Shredding Tears - Imitation of the Sky mp3

Gramercy Arms – Automatic mp3

Marching Band - Make No Plans mp3

Magic Wands - Black Magic mp3

Kyle Andrews – Sushi mp3

SXSW 2009 - Post Four: We Should Be Dead, Seedy Seeds, Ringo Deathstarr, Sleepover Disaster, Moog, My Fed., Elemeno P, Baddies, Earlimart, Viva Voce

Behold! a few more songs we very much like-to-love by artists scheduled to play at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas next month. Sorry about the generic titles this year for these SXSW posts. Last year it was Franglish and oh-so-chic. This year, well, as you see. (Fortunately it doesn't seem to affect the music.) Click song titles to play songs, artist names to go to their SXSW page. SXSW posts for this and previous years can be found here.

We Should Be Dead - Forget Romance, Let's Dance! mp3 - We bought a bunch of this Limerick band's songs last month, as noted here. (Scroll way down when you get to the page.)

The Seedy Seeds - The Push mp3

Ringo Deathstarr - In Love mp3

The Sleepover Disaster - Funnel Cloud mp3

The Moog - You Raised A Vampire mp3

My Federation - Bus Stop Lovers mp3

Elemeno P - Baby Come On mp3

Baddies – Battleships mp3

Earlimart - Face Down In The Right Town mp3

Viva Voce - Drown Them Out mp3

SXSW 2009 - Post Three: CHOO CHOO, TPOBPAH, Princeton, Golden Dogs, THEART, Von Bondies, Steps, Beat Poets

We continue to explore bands appearing next month at the SXSW Music Festival in the Capitol City. Previous SXSW posts for this and a couple of previous years can be found here. Clicking band names will take you to their SXSW page. Clicking song titles will play songs. We've got a little dog & butterfly thing going here. We'll let you decide which set is which.

CHOO CHOO - A Little Wiser Now mp3 - Yeh, I posted them a week ago, but they're going to be at freakin' SXSW, a mere 60 miles from where I sit!
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Come Saturday mp3
Princeton - The Waves mp3
The Golden Dogs – Lester mp3

THEART – NEWTOWN mp3
The Von Bondies - This Is Our Perfect Crime mp3
The Steps – Dagger mp3
The Beat Poets - Staring Stars Down mp3

SXSW 2009 - Post Two: Asteroid #4, Transpersonals, Magic Christian, Light FM, Higher State, Ugly B's, Geeks, JC&Co., Blue Aeroplanes, Fastball, CKs

We continue with more of our favorite bands appearing at this year's South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. The full schedule of showcases is here. More such posts will appear here at Powerpopulist in the coming days. Previous SXSW posts, with lots of mp3s, can be found here.

A Mix of Known & New (to Me)

The Asteroid #4 - These Flowers of Ours mp3

The Transpersonals - Twenty Twelve mp3
Magic Christian - All The Stars mp3
Light FM - Black Magic Marker mp3

The Higher State - Automatic Motion mp3

The Ugly Beats - Take a Stand mp3

Geeks - GET BACK mp3
JC & Co. – Wonder mp3

Some Long-Time Friends

The Blue Aeroplanes - Jacket Hangs mp3
Fastball - Always Never mp3
The Chesterfield Kings - Up And Down mp3

SXSW 2009 - Post One: Dollyrots, Zolof the R&R Destroyer, Artefacts For Space Travel, Cocktail Slippers, Magneta Lane

I know I sound like a broken mp3 but I really do get excited every year when the Southwest by Southwest Music Festival posts its schedule of showcases, along with hundreds and hundreds of mp3s by artists who will be performing in Austin, Texas (USA) on the dates indicated above. Over the next I don't know how many days, I'll be posting some of my favorites. Some of them are actually old friends, some I've already posted, but one of the great pleasures is coming across bands totally new to me. Clicking the song titles will unleash the music. Clicking the artist names will take you to that particular act's SXSW page, where you can see pictures and visit band and MySpace pages. I hope you find a lot to like. After experimenting a bit, I'm going to do two quick initial posts because some of these groups have long names and I want to be sure and get all these groups included in the LABELS thingies at the bottom of the post. I probably didn't need to share that bit of bloggatrivia, but oh well. Incidentally, SXSW posts from previous years can be found here.

The Dollyrots - My Best Friend's Hot mp3
Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer - Death or Radio mp3
Artefacts For Space Travel – Recoup mp3
The Cocktail Slippers - Give It To Me mp3
Magneta Lane - Lady Bones mp3

SXSW 2008: Post Six

Now, where were we? Oh, yes, SXSW, which kicks off this week, if the above dates are correct. As mentioned previously, clicking the green artist names will take you to their SXSW webpage. Clicking the song titles should launch the songs. Previous SXSW posts can be found here. The bag is mixed today.

Kate Bradley / The Goodbye Horses - Gold Body 2 mp3
Scary Mansion - Sorry We Took All Yr Money mp3
The Young Republic - Paper Ships mp3
The Submarines - You, Me and the Bourgeoisie mp3

The Law - Still Got Friday To Go mp3
The Mission District - Youth Games mp3
Moke - Here Comes The Summer mp3
Magic Christian - Turn Up The Heat mp3

Zambri - God mp3
Dreamend - Are You Waking mp3

SXSW 2008: Post Cinq

All right, let us continue looking forward to SXSW 2008. The previous 42 songs we've posted so far this year can be found here, here, here, and here. Lots more gooduns are queued up and ready to play, so keep coming back if you like.

Chikita Violenta – Laydown mp3

Longwave - No Direction mp3

King of Prussia - Misadventures of the Campaign Kids mp3

Pink Nasty - Away Message mp3

The Ettes - Marathon mp3

Bo Pepper - Blinkandyou'llmissit! mp3

Hank IV - Dirty Poncho mp3

The High Class Elite - They Call It Dancin' mp3

The Pigeon Detectives - I'm Not Sorry mp3

The Golden Dogs - Construction Worker mp3

Clicking song names should play the song. Clicking artists' names will take you to their SXSW page. You might already know these factoids, but I'm just trying to be helpful.

SXSW 2008 - Post Quatre

We continue getting happy ears from some of the fab artists due to perform at SXSW 2008 next month. The second set below is slightly softer than the first, in case you want to plan accordingly. Previous SXSW 2008 posts can be found here, here, and here. Everything we've labeled SXSW can be found here. We've got way plenty more on the way. Have a great weekend and thanks for visiting.

The Feds – Saturday Girl mp3
Look See Proof – Casualty mp3
Wussy – Rigor Mortis mp3
The Von Bondies – Pale Bride mp3
Magnet School – Crush mp3

David Garza – Dead French Dudes mp3 - "Dah-VEED"
Samara Lubelski – Taste The Candy mp3
Search/Rescue – Fireflies mp3
The Krayolas – Little Fox (Spanish) mp3
Paul Collins Beat – Don't Wait Up For Me mp3

Clicking the artist names takes you to their SXSW page for more infomatter.

SXSW 2008 - Post Trois

We continue featuring our favorite artists and songs found at the SXSW 2008 Showcasing Artists website. We still have a lot more to go, so keep dropping by if you like. I should have said earlier how incredibly generous it is of the SXSW folks to make these available, so in case any of those busy eyes peer here, THANKS! Our previous SXSW 2008 posts can be found here and here. Hope you're finding things to enjoy.

My Dad is Dead – My Safe Place mp3
Attack in Black – Young Leaves mp3
Ari Shine – Cooler Than Me mp3

Mannequin Men – Boys (They Don't Mind) mp3
The Black Hollies – Paisley Pattern Ground mp3

Gliss – Kissing the Blvd - reverb rick mp3
Twin Crystals – Twin Crystals - Two Girls mp3

The Duke Spirit – Lassoo mp3
The Cliks – Eyes In The Back Of My Head mp3

Citay – First Fantasy mp3
Birds of Wales – Cinderella (Has Nothing on You) mp3

The Singles - Summer mp3

Click artist names to go to their SXSW pages for pictures, information, etc.

SXSW 2008 - Post Deux

Maybe we pounded it a bit too hard in that first SXSW post (relatively speaking), so maybe we'll tone it down a notch in this one. We'll be bock.

The People's Revolutionary Choir - Do You Feel Like I Do? mp3

Something With Numbers - Apple Of The Eye mp3

The Playing Favorites - Indigenous mp3

The Pillows - Ladybird Girl mp3

Frightened Rabbit - Modern Leper mp3

The Blood Lines - Modern Science mp3

Plants and Animals - Faerie Dance mp3

Secret Shine - Lost Memory mp3

Magic Wands - Black Magic mp3

The Steps - Belle mp3

Click artist names to go to their SXSW pages for information, etc.

SXSW 2008 - We Get It

All week long I've been anxiously on the lookout for the magic moment when the SXSW Music and Media Conference posts its list of artist bios and mp3s for this year's festival, which runs in Austin, Texas, from March 11-16. I've just spent seven hours poring over the list and compiled my own list of the 286 artists I liked best. Some of them don't really fit here, but I've got a hunch you're going to like quite a few. Last year I did a series of posts, beginning with the longish Big Bloc 4, most of which you can still hear by clicking here and here. This year I'm trying something different, posting 10 or so at a time. Hopefully this will be more manageable for you and will also let me attach labels to all the artists, in case visitors want to check them out in the future. Anyway, here's the first post, with others soon to follow. Clicking the artist names will take you to their SXSW page, which also has links to more information about them. I imagine everybody and his blog is linking to these SXSW pages right about now, and I've noticed that the songs are sometimes slow to load. Patience is advised.

Capsula - Voices Underground mp3
Carlis Star - Hereby No One mp3
The Chevelles - Get It On mp3
Cruiserweight - Balboa mp3
Darker My Love - Summer Is Here mp3

The Deadbeat Poets - Ernest T. mp3

The Happy Hollows - Monster Room mp3

Jet Lag Gemini - Run This City mp3

Le Concorde - International Flight mp3

Toddle - Colonnade mp3

Humptaggers: Fields, Mary Timony Band, Palomar, Noodles

Yes, someone actually found this blog this week using a Google Search for "Humptag." Whether they found what they were looking for I might never know. But where was I? Right, nowhere, so let's go where. I just found the Fields song earlier this evening at AOL’s Spinner.com, which I strongly encourage you to visit for more great music. I really liked their "If You Fail, We All Fail," which I posted on April Fools' Day (really), and am very glad to have today's tune as well. I sent some of you scurrying over to another blog to get The Mary Timony Band song last month and delight in finally having it here. Palomar have also given pleasure here (and here ) before and I suspect will do so with "Woah!" I nabbed it with Pitchfork. We conclude with a SXSW 2005 fave by a band new to me called Noodles. You can read more about all these bands by clicking on their names. Personally, I like to listen first and read later, but suit yourself, I'm easy. I hope both sides of the hump prove good for you this week.

Fields - Song for the Fields mp3 (pic)
The Mary Timony Band - Sharp Shooter mp3
Palomar – Woah! mp3
Noodles - Fuzz Hill mp3

Ash, Starky, Young Galaxy, Kelly's Heels

So much music, so little time. Over the weekend I dug back into the SXSW 2005 site and found another 50 or 60 songs I rated at three stars or better. (Translation: I like 'em a lot.) For the next several weeks I'll be working in a few per day, along with current goodstuff I happen upon. Thanks to visitor "John's" recent tout, Ireland's Ash have been for me one of the most exciting close encounters of the heard kind in many a moon. Imagine if you dare (and why not) my embarrassment/excitement to find them right there as one of the SXSW Showcasing bands back in 2005, which is by way of saying we lead off with them. Next we're calling Sydney for a song by Starky I've liked for a year or two now. (I posted Starky's "Hey Bang Bang" at Big Bloc 4, which I must confess is one of my favorite posts since I started blogging.) Then we get a bit more au courant with a goodun by Montrealers Young Galaxy, brought to earth at the excellent AOL Spinner.com. We close this set with a pleaser brought to our attention by a representative of the London band, Kelly's Heels. Thanks, Katy! Click the artists' names for more info, music, etc.

Ash - Meltdown mp3
Starky - Girl Talk mp3
Young Galaxy - Outside the City mp3
Kelly’s Heels – Invisible Hold mp3 (pic)

FanoFanatic 2: Bang Gang & Sleeping in the Aviary

It's a bit of a dodge calling this "FanoFanatic 2" because Mark Davis over at Fanatic Promotion has been sending highly listenable product to me and other bloggers on a steady basis of late, and I've repeatedly indulged. I've been a fan of Iceland's Bang Gang (weird how one little word reversal and we're into entirely different territory) since posting "Find What You Get" on the SXSW Big Bloc 4 extravagonzo back in February. I'm reposting that song, plus two recent arrivals. Sleeping in the Aviary hail from one of my favorite cities I've never been to, Madison, WI. Clever name, although I instinctively reach for protective gear, particularly if the birds are awake. "Pop Song" describes itself, and at this blog, that's good. "Another Girl" was good if iffy until that Kinksy riff at the 1:30 mark canceled reservations. Aha! I just noticed the FP blurb on SITA actually uses the word "spastic!" I knew it wasn't just me.

Bang Gang

Find What You Get mp3 - Thanks to spin.com.
Something Wrong mp3
It's Alright mp3

Sleeping in the Aviary

Pop Song mp3
Another Girl mp3

SXSW 2007: Let The Music Begin!

Yessss, the big day has finally arrived. We celebrate with a triple handful, mostly of groups not yet posted here. (There are a couple of exceptions.) I'll put them in groups of five just to make it seem less daunting. Links are provided for each band. If the mp3 link doesn't work, clink on the band name to go to the SXSW bandsite, where the song should be downloadable. These SXSW links have been finicky at times. Previous SXSW 2007 postings can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Alamo Race Track – Don’t Beat This mp3
Cities - Capitol mp3
Erase Errata – Tax Dollar mp3
The Faintest Ideas – You’re Beautiful mp3
Fair to Midland – A Seafarer’s Knot (Live) mp3

Foreign Islands – We Know You Want It mp3
Goldrush – We Will Not Be Machines mp3
The Great Spy Experiment – Class ‘A’ Love Affair mp3
Honeydogs – Rattling My Tin Cup mp3
Mammút - Midnaeturmetall mp3

Melee – Built to Last mp3
Mother Mother – Touch Up mp3
Prosser – Summer Song 3 mp3
Raising the Fawn - Gwendolyn mp3
The Redwalls - Memories mp3

Three Imaginary Girls Might Have The Cure For The Blues

Here's some tempting news from Three Imaginary Girls, and since I'm reasonably close, I'm quite inclined to go. They even threw in some free mp3s I'm passing along to you, so maybe we're all happy. Here's part of their email message.

Three Imaginary Girls is pleased as punch to announce our first-ever showcase at SXSW in Austin, Texas, with co-sponsors Magic Marker Records, Music Nation, and KOOP 91.7FM. The event will take place at Lovejoy's in downtown Austin on Thursday, March 15, 2007, from 12-6p. The show is free to the public, with free beer (while supplies last), and delightful live music from an international line-up of pop superstar bands:
12p: The Zebras (Brisbane, Australia)
1p: The Manhattan Love Suicides (Leeds, UK)
2p: BOAT (Seattle, WA)
3p: Tullycraft (Seattle, WA)
4p: The Faintest Ideas (Gothenburg, Sweden)
5p: Palomar (Brooklyn, NY)

And here are some of the tunes. We're having a bit of linking trouble, so please be patient. I'm leaving out some of the band links so the songs will work.

The Zebras – You Look Ready mp3 - See microlips for more good stripey sounds.

The Manhattan Love Suicides – Suzy Jones mp3

BOAT - The Bar Is Too Low To Fail mp3

The Faintest Ideas - Nosebleeders on the Track mp3

Tullycraft - Popsongs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid to Know About mp3

And now for the moral conundrum: Am I being used? I hope so.

SXSW 2007, cont'd: Alternative Champs, Dirty Skirts, Hedrons, Melismatics, Oxford Collapse

Oh, yeh, I've still got some SXSW bands yet to post. I just don't know how you're taking to the whole SXSW gig I've been doing and don't want to overdo it. I remember liking Capetown's The Dirty Skirts (pic) and pointed visitors toward the excellent The Muso because I didn't have a link. Now I do, so voila. The Hedrons are not covering AC/DC here, but that's okay, they're sufficiently hot. As for Oxford Collapse, I don't often go for the amusical hyperscreech so beloved of many indie bloggers, not to mention the overlong intro, but the rootsy guitar riffs pull this one back from the edge. Well, santa caca, look at me just opining away like I'm a real blogger or something. Ya basta.

Alternative Champs – Monkey Boy mp3
The Dirty Skirts – Feeling the Pressure mp3
The Hedrons – Heatseeker mp3
The Melismatics – Industry of Cool mp3
Oxford Collapse – Please Visit Your National Parks mp3