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

Leg Tail Leg Edition: Teenage Head, Girls, Ettes, Monolators, Upsidedown, Telepathic B's, TBRP, Head of Femur, Bellfuries, Marching Band, et. al. . .

Girls, Girls, Girls!!!
One more time, in case we still have visitors. (Hopefully you haven't noticed our recent AWOLitude.) Here's what we've been up to. How 'bout youse?

Teenage Head - Top Down mp3

The Girls - Transfer Station mp3 from Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, No - Thanks to Pitchfork.

The Ettes - Marathon mp3 - off the forthcoming release Look At Live Again Soon - Thanks to Alyssa Kleven at Vitriol Independent Promotions.

The Monolators - This Is Goodbye mp3 - from Don't Dance, due 21st Oct

The Upsidedown - Silver Wind mp3 - They'll be supporting The Dandy Warhols on their upcoming fall tour of North America. You might notice sonic similarities.

The Telepathic Butterflies - Telescope mp3 - from Breakfast in Suburbia - Rainbow Quartz has another sample here (plus samples from other TTB albums). Not Lame has more samples and purchase info here.

The Broken River Prophet - This Gaping Wound in My Chest Is Like Reading Your Diary Out Loud mp3 - I'm kind of a psucker for this psychy Byrdsy pstuff.

Head of Femur - Acme: The Summit of a Mountain mp3

Bellfuries - Give It, Get It mp3 - from Palmyra (out 4th Nov)

Marching Band - Travel in Time mp3

Plushgun - Just Impolite mp3 from Plushgun (fires 19th Aug)

Psychic Stunts - Speaker's Block mp3 - from their 101 Pick Up Lines EP - Thanks to the wonderful Estogang over at microlips.

Further contrition: We regret we ran out of room to include the last period of the ellipsis in the postitle (not to mention Plushgun and Psychic Stunts). Sheesh.