Dizzee Rascal played a Friday afternoon set to a packed house at the Bat Bar (which is actually inside the convention center - which also confused the hell out of me since I thought it was an actual bar). An expanded US release of Maths + English is coming out in April from Def Jux.

Just found this great list from Largehartedboy.com

Downloads & Streams:

A.A. Bondy: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]
Basia Bulat: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]

Billy Bragg: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]
Blitzen Trapper: 2008-03-15, Austin [streaming audio]
Bon Iver: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]

Carbon/Silicon: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]
Christine Fellows: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]
Cloud Cult: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]

Constantines: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]
Darondo & Nino Moschella: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]
Dead Confederate: 2008-03-12, Austin [streaming audio]

DeVotchka: 2008-03-13, Austin [mp3]
DeVotchka: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]
Dizzee Rascal: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]

Duffy: 2008-03-14, Austin [flac]*^
Duffy: 2008-03-14, Austin (Mercury private showcase) [flac]*
The Duke Spirit: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]

Grand Analog: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]
The Heavy: 2008-03-15, Austin [streaming audio]
Hot Springs: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]

Jens Lekman: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]
Jesca Hoop: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]
Jim Noir: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]

John Doe: 2008-03-15, Austin [streaming audio]
Johnathan Rice: 2008-03-12, Austin [streaming audio]
Kaki King: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]

Kevin Barnes: 2008-03-15, Austin [mp3]
Liam Finn: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]
Lightspeed Champion: 2008-03-15, Austin [mp3]

Lightspeed Champion: All Songs Considered performance [streaming video]
Lightspeed Champion: 2008-03-15, Austin [streaming audio]
Meredith Bragg: 2008-03-13, Austin [flac]*^

Meredith Bragg: 2008-03-14, Austin [flac]*^
My Morning Jacket: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]
Nicole Atkins: 2008-03-15, Austin [streaming audio]

North Mississippi Allstars: 2008-03-13, Austin [flac]^
Papercranes: 2008-03-12, Austin [streaming audio]
The Rascals: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]

REM: 2008-03-12, Austin [streaming audio]
REM: 2008-03-12, Austin [mp3]
Raveonettes: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]

Raveonettes: 2008-03-15, Austin [flac]*^
She & Him: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]
Shout Out Louds: 2008-03-13, Austin [mp3]

Shout Out Louds: 2008-03-13, Austin [flac]*^
Shout Out Louds: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]
The Stills: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]
Sons and Daughters: 2008-03-12, Austin [flac]^*
Sons and Daughters: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]

Summerbirds in the Cellar: 2008-03-12, Austin [streaming audio]
Tokyo Police Club: 2008-03-15, Austin [streaming audio]
Vampire Weekend: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]

Vampire Weekend: 2008-03-13, Austin [mp3]
Weakerthans: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]
Whigs: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]

Whigs: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]
White Williams: 2008-03-14, Austin [streaming audio]
Wye Oak: 2008-03-15, Austin [streaming audio]

Yeasayer: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]
Yo La Tengo: 2008-03-13, Austin [streaming audio]

*registration required
^bittorrent download

Enjoy.

I kept hearing about them during the first two days of SXSW - Cool Kids this… Cool Kids that - it really seemed like they were the buzz artist to see at this year’s SXSW. Once they went onstage at Emo’s I instantly knew why. Overall it was just an incredible lineup between Kid Sister, A-Trak & Clipse (photo’s from The Clipse portion of the show are here) taking over Emo’s main room and the Cool Kids fit right in and without question played an amazing set that the crowd was completely feeling. Cool Kids also played the Red Bull Moontower - video footage from that will be up pretty quick…

I was pretty clear on what I was about to write until I got back on the dock and realized that my 24 hour $11 internet connection had prematurley expired, so we are free balling this one.

First and foremost, however, BALLS. Bollocks, if you will.

Sadly, Jill (whom I mentioned from a previous post) never made it to the dock for our tentative cigarette/wine date. The pleasant news, however, is that following Saturday night’s Spin/American Spirit SXSW after party featuring my new band I’m in, Soundtrack of Our Lives (I hope to get more into that bit later…), I ran into Karen (formerly indifferent) and Al (formerly cunt-y) outside the venue. Karen was far more warm, and Al was absolutely chagrin about his behaviour the night prior (”U” intentional, they’re from the UK, after all). Al was sweet, sheepish and apologetic for his caustic discourse. I gave him a bit more good-natured ribbing and once Jill appeared from the closing venue, we all walked back to the hotel together, quickly figuring out we were staying on the same floor. I was drunk….very drunk….and decidedly less charming than the previous night. Still, Jill asked if I was married, so I took that optimistically as a good sign. We made tentative plans to repeat Friday’s late-nite dock circle.

I feel a bit sick at the moment. My Synthesis compatriots have left me by myself on the dock hours ago, a slave to insomnia and the hopes of a brief snogging encounter with one leggy British heart-thief. Regardless, I still just had a rather cathartic ending to my SXSW, 2008. No, not the bats underneath the bridge (though they were pretty spectacular), but the crashing destruction of a former life.

Way back when, I used to own and operate a car windshield repair service, GlassMan out of Sacramento, CA. I fixed rock chips and installed new windows on cars and trucks. As I lay on the hammock behind the 8.5 Weeks Hotel (formerly the 4 Seasons Hotel…we really trashed the joint and brought the place to an all new low) I watched on as a dozen men manipulated a 15′ x 12′ glass window to its new home. As I chatted with one of the glass workers operating away from the action, I heard the thunderous and sadly familiar roar of hundreds of pounds of glass shattering to the concrete. Though unfortunate for the glass company, that Shiva-approved demolition of clear, perfect glass proved to be the perfect capstone to the most prolific (personally) SXSW I’ve had the pleasure of participating in. And that shattering destruction wasn’t even caused by me, though I had momentarily considered launching my mostly empty bottle of Japanese plum wine through its flawless double-planed beauty.

Victory or Death my friends, victory or death. I am sure I had more to talk about, but the post is long and mainly without original pictures…fucking broken camera.

Oh, and for the record, Shannon at Touche bar on 6th street is the radest provider of libations I’ve ever met. Sorry Duffy’s, you’ve been served. /pun

OOOh, I just saw a bat………. And I just puked. First time during sxsw08. Glad Jill didn’t make it after all to see me in this state. Drunkorexia!!!!!!!!!!!!1!111!!!!danieltaylor!!!111!!!

Chiodos performing “Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered” Live at the La Zona Rosa at South By Southwest 2008 in Austin:

Some live footage from Tilly and the Wall from SXSW 2008: