Who’s Headed South? Seattle Represents in SXSW

Tomorrow (Mar 12) kicks off the 2008 SXSW Music festival. I had the full intention of pouring through the line-up and pulling out all of the must-see shows as well as showcasing the bands making the pilgrimage from our fine and soggy city to the Lone Star State, but Jesus, have you looked at the schedule. Where the hell am I supposed to begin? Why the hell am I still in Seattle?

So to make things at least semi-digestible as well as minimizing my jealousy, I thought I’d give you a quick lo-down on which of our local kiddies are part of (and hosting) some of the parties down in Austin

Seattle Label Sarathan Records – Thu, Mar 13th Noon-5pm
Friends Bar (208 East 6th Street, Austin TX)
FREE RSVP @ sxsarathan08@gmail.com
click here to listen and learn more …
Abra Moore (12:00 ) Peter Bradley Adams (12:45 ) Jason & Rachel Trachtenburg (1:30) Two Loons for Tea (2:15) The Ettes (3:00) Feral Children (SEA)(3:45) War Tapes (4:30)

SX Seattle
12:00 pm to 5:30 pm Palm Door (401 Sabine) (All SEA)
Get your Saturday party started here with some of our rising stars. Performing live are Fleet Foxes, The Shackeltons, Feral Children, Holy Ghost Revival, The Cops, Sirens & Sailors and Throw Me The Statue. Free Seattle’s Best Coffee, mmmmm yeah! COFFEE!!! Pacific Northwest food, and open bar! Please RSVP to sxseattlevip@gmail.com

Free Ballard SXSW Day Party
Thursday 03/13 @ Longbranch Inn 1133 E. 11th
The Hands (SEA)(6pm), The Beltholes (SEA)(5:15pm), Lonely H (SEA)(4:30pm), Mostly Bears (3:45pm), The Cops (SEA)(3pm), Eddie Spaghetti (SEA)(solo, of The Supersuckers, 2:25pm), Mannequin Men (1:30pm), Feral Children(SEA) (1:30pm), Thee Sgt Major III (Sea)(noon)

Above The Radar partially hosted by our friends at Sound on the Sound
Trophy’s on South Congress on Thursday, March 13th.
With two stages and 12 different musical acts from all over the map, there will be more than enough for everyone.
ON THE INSIDE STAGE
Dead Confederate
The Shackeltons
Land of Talk
Monahans
Thee Emergency (SEA)
UME

ON THE OUTSIDE STAGE
Ghislain Poirier
1/2Alive
Table Manners Crew
The Death Set
Transmography
Lady Pterodactyl

KEXP will of course be on hand and doing their remote broadcast from The Parish and KLRU Studios
For more info about who’s playing live on the Keckhepuh, check this

After the break there is as full a listing as I could come up with for the moss-backed SEA bands that are going to be performing at and around the festival as well as some from other WA cities. Austin, be wary, NWMB Party comin your way next year!

David Bazan (Seattle WA)
Beehive (Seattle WA)
The Beltholes (Seattle WA)
Black Top Demon (Aberdeen WA)
The Blakes (Seattle WA)
Karl Blau (Anacortes WA)
Blue Scholars (Seattle WA)
The Boss Martians (Seattle WA)
Sera Cahoone (Seattle WA)
Choklate (Seattle WA)
Coconut Coolouts (Seattle WA)
The Cops (Seattle WA)
Danger Radio (Seattle WA)
The Fall-Outs (Seattle WA)
Femurs (Seattle WA)
Feral Children (Seattle WA)
Fleet Foxes (Seattle WA)
Fourcolorzack & Pretty Titty (Seattle WA)
Grand Archives (Seattle WA)
Grayskul (Seattle WA)
The Hands (Seattle WA)
Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden (Seattle WA)
The Lonely H (Seattle WA)
Los Campesinos! (Wales WA)
Lozen (Tacoma WA)
Ian Moore (Seattle WA)
Mark Pickerel (Seattle WA)
The Presidents of The United States of America (Seattle WA)
The Saturday Knights (Seattle WA)
Say Hi (Seattle WA)
Search/Rescue (Seattle WA)
The Stems (Fremantle WA)
Steve E Nix & the Cute Lepers (Seattle WA)
Supersuckies (Seattle WA)
Thee Emergency (Seattle WA)
Throw Me The Statue (Seattle WA)
J. Tillman (Seattle WA)
Trespassers William (Seattle WA)
Unnatural Helpers (Seattle WA)

You might notice that many of the Seattle Bands are not listed on the “official” SXSW list. Some are just heading sown to peddle their asses a bit and party like the rock stars they are. In those cases, their shows are listed in the party posts above. If you wanna have your mind blown, you can go here for the whole friggen she-bang