Friday, March 9, 2007

SXSW in Dallas/Fort Worth: Cheaper than the real thing!

By Erin Rice

If you are like me and cannot afford the time nor the costs associated with heading down to Austin for the SXSW music festival, don't despair, because you can still catch tons of SXSW bands playing at DFW venues. Being in Dallas/Fort Worth, we are in a prime position for bands that plan to get in more practice on their way to Austin, or just need a gas-money stopover. As such there are literally going to be hundreds of bands coming through and playing shows on the way to and from the capitol, for much cheaper than actually going to SXSW.

To help you out, I have put together a list of nearly 70 shows in the area that feature SXSW artists. Some criteria to remember when reading the list: 1) A show made the list if at least one band in the lineup is playing an official SXSW show, meaning that not all the artists/bands in the lineup are necessarily going to SXSW, also meaning that I did not include bands that are playing in non-SXSW showcases in Austin during the festival, and 2) I decided to arbitrarily cut the listing off at March 24, so if there is an official SXSW band playing here after the 24th, it is not on this list. Without further ado, here is the Pegasus News SXSW ala Dallas list:

1919 Hemphill

The Trashies / Druids on Parade (Thursday, March 15)

The Aardvark

The Campaign / Radiant* / Foreign Oren / Greater Good (Friday, March 9)

Le Meu De Purr / The Valley Arena (Tuesday, March 13)

David Mastler / Two Dollar Bash / Shive Tree / Machine Gun Hand (Wednesday, March 14)

The Hourly Radio / Plain Jane Automobile (Sunday, March 18)

Andy’s Basement Bar and Grill

Dead Twins / Melismatics / The Stranger (Thursday, March 15)

The Cavern

The Explorers Club / Doug Burr / 100 Damned Guns (Friday, March 9)

Aqueduct / Beachhouse / Dios (Wednesday, March 14)

Sybris (Thursday, March 15)

The Hourly Radio / Plain Jane Automobile / Bird Monster (Saturday, March 17)

Menomena / Tree Wave (Sunday, March 18)

Robert Gomez (Friday, March 23)

Bill Baird / The Black (Saturday, March 24)

Club Dada

Brimstone Howl / Stag Film / Pink Reason / Psychedelic Horseshit (Monday, March 12)

Catfish Haven / American Werewolf Academy / Minmae / White Rabbits (Tuesday, March 13)

Outformation / Tall (Friday, March 16)

The Hoodoo Gurus (Saturday, March 17)

Barbez / Plexus Loom / Black Moth Super Rainbow / Dogme (Sunday, March 18)

The Silent Years / Scissors for Lefty / The Ettes / Beauxregard (Monday, March 19)

Popup / Blackheart Society (Thursday, March 29)

Curtain Club

Stars of Track and Field / Greater Good / Envoy / Thomas Lunch (Tuesday, March 13)

Darkside Lounge

Youth Brigade / The Briefs / Clorox Girls / Nothington (Thursday, March 15)

Gito Gito Hustler (Friday, March 16)

Hopewell / Constants / Carrigan / Bob White and the F-Electrics (Sunday, March 18)

The Door (Dallas)

Halifax / Greeley Estates / Madina Lake / The Vincent Black Shadow (Friday, March 9)

Sages and Saints / The Salutation / Levi Weaver / Porcelain / Mark the Man (Saturday, March 10)

The Echoes / J vs K / The Trainwreck Riders / Caufield (Monday, March 12)

The Early November / The Rocket Summer / Melee / The Verdict (Wednesday, March 14)

The Hush Sound / Straylight Run / Spitalfield / Pablo (Tuesday, March 20)

Anberlin / Bayside / Meg & Dia / Jonezetta (Friday, March 23)

Double Wide

Levi Weaver / Becky Middleton (Friday, March 9)

Lions in the Street / Be/Non / Imperial Battlesnake (Tuesday, March 13)

Paybacks (Wednesday, March 14)

Sasquatch / Mescalero / Blood of the Sun (Thursday, March 15)

The Gore Gore Girls / SSM (Sunday, March 18)

Giant Squid / Grayceon / The Hard Lessons (Monday, March 19)

Hogpig / Dove Hunter / Tre Orsi (Saturday, March 24)

Good Records

Goldenboy (Monday, March 12)

Dreamend (Sunday, March 18)

Black Moth Super Rainbow (Sunday, March 18)

Gypsy Tea Room

David Garza / Maneja Beto (March 10)

The Wrights (March 11)

Ben Jelen (Monday, March 12)

Albert Hammond, Jr. / Mooney Suzuki / Dead Trees (Tuesday, March 13)

Andrew Bird / Cold War Kids / Elvis Perkins in Dearland / Tokyo Police Club / Delta Spirits (Wednesday, March 14)

Olbio / Exit Clov / A Pacific Model (Thursday, March 15)

Sondre Lerche / Willy Mason / Thomas Dybdahl (Saturday, March 17)

Public Enemy / X-Clan / The baNNed / Heet Mob (Saturday, March 17)

JJ Grey & Mofro / Hobex (Sunday, March 18)

Rocky Votolato / Drag the River / The Great Depression (Sunday, March 18)

Everybody Else / Simon Dawes (Tuesday, March 20)

Hailey’s

Dead Meadow / Spindrift / Stumptone (Monday, March 12)

Cloud Cult / The Changes (Tuesday, March 13)

RJD2 / Busdriver / Happy Chichester (Wednesday, March 14)

The Besnard Lakes / Lo-Fi Chorus / Handbrake (Friday, March 16)

Calla (Wednesday, March 21)

Robert Gomez / Bosque Brown (Saturday, March 24)

Poor David’s Pub

The Small-Stars (Friday, March 9)

Riprocks

Northern State / Polyphonic Spree / The Valentines (Saturday, March 24)

Rubber Glove's Rehearsal Studio

Cassavettes / The Grass Fight / The Sterns (Sunday, March 11)

Hella / Dirty Projectors / Who's Your Favorite Son God? (Wednesday, March 14)

Green Milk From the Planet Orange / Akimbo / The Capitol Years (Thursday, March 15)

Lords / Dead Child / Mescalero (Friday, March 16)

The Draft / Civilian Outbreak (Saturday, March 17)

Chin Up Chin Up / Narrator / Phantom Family Halo (Sunday, March 18)

Astronautilus / Bleubird / Filkoe / Babel Fish (Tuesday, March 20)

Peelander-Z / Potential Johns / Swedish Teens (Thursday, March 22)

Hogpig / Cartright / Tre Orsi (Friday, March 23)

Sons of Hermann Hall

Sorta / The Drams / Pleasant Grove (Saturday, March 10)

If that listing doesn't quite get rid of your festival envy, keep in mind that DFW has two music festivals of its own coming up. North By Southwest will feature more than 40 bands over four days at ellum:ONSTAGE from March 10-13. Over in Fort Worth at the Ridglea Theatre you can find the Ridglea Music Festival featuring over 100 of the top national, regional, and local acts of all different genres on four stages from March 15-18.

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