SXSW 2009 in Dallas-Fort Worth: Still cheaper than the real thing!

by Erin Rice

SXSW: Who has the time to go down to Austin and spend all that money for wristbands, merely to stand in line forever and see only a few acts in a given night? Why bother when you can catch so many SXSW bands on their predictable gas money stopover/rehearsal gig in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Denton?

It's still a tad early for some of the club calendars, but thus far we've compiled a list of more than 70 local shows in March featuring at least one SXSW band. Keep checking back as more will likely be added in the upcoming weeks.

1919 Hemphill (Fort Worth)

This Bike is a Pipebomb / Mose Giganticus / Shellshag / Stupid Party / Hermit Thrushes (Tuesday, March 17)

Japanther / Video Hippos / Prizzy Prizzy Please / Drug Mountain (Wednesday, March 18)

The Aardvark (Fort Worth)

The Drones (Monday, March 16)

Green River Ordinance / Jordan Critiz / The Campaign (Friday, March 27)

AllGood Cafe

Danny Schmidt / Carrie Elkin (Saturday, March 7)

Jon Dee Graham / The O's (Thursday, March 12)

Andy's Basement (Denton)

Siren City / Sounds Under Radio (Saturday, March 7)

Boiler Room

We Are Dios (Wednesday, March 18)

Tub Ring / Raven Charter / Steam Engine / The Noise (Saturday, March 21)

The Cavern (Dallas)

Tyvjk / Teenage Cool Kids / Caleb Barnard / Schwa (Wednesday, March 4)

Austin Hartley-Leonard (Thursday, March 12)

Sounds Under Radio (Friday, March 13)

The Republic Tigers / Anya Marina (Monday, March 16)

Transfer / The Shys / Crash Encore (Tuesday, March 17)

Chat Room Pub (Fort Worth)

The Great Tyrant / Spindrift / The Gunslingers (Wednesday, March 18)

City Tavern (Dallas)

Somebody’s Darlin / Hymns (Saturday, March 14)

Club Dada (Dallas)

Woven Hand / True Widow / Shiny Around the Edges (Saturday, March 7)

Lydia / Black Gold / The Felons (Saturday, March 14)

The Boat Lights / Death To Athens / Sybris (Monday, March 16)

Valient Thorr / St. Diablo / Imperial Battle Snake / Droids Attack (Tuesday, March 17)

Skeleton Witch / Keylesa (Wednesday, March 18)

Voniva / Semi Precious Weapons (Sunday, March 22)

Dan's Silverleaf (Denton)

Bosque Brown (Sunday, March 1)

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band / The Disappears (Wednesday, March 18)

Hamell on Trial (Thursday, March 19)

The Door (Dallas)

Little Brazil / Ladyfinger / The Red Airplanes / Intake (Saturday, March 21)

Double Wide (Dallas)

Rivercrest Yacht Club / Awquarius / PVC Street Gang (Friday, March 6)

Lions / Dead Twins / Here, Holy Spain (Saturday, March 14)

Or, the Whale / The Parlour Suite (Saturday, March 21)

Langhorne Slim / Sam Lowry (Sunday, March 22)

Granada Theater (Dallas)

The Gourds / Boys Named Sue / Southern Drive (Thursday, March 5)

Derek Trucks Band / Gary Clark Jr. (Friday, March 6)

Cut Copy / Matt & Kim / DJ Knightlife (Saturday, March 7)

Ian Moore / Dan Dyer / The Slack (Thursday, March 12)

James McMurtry / Jon Dee Graham (Friday, March 13)

Tokyo Police Club / Ra Ra Riot / Ruby Coast (Saturday, March 14)

Tricky / Natalie Stewart (of Floetry) (Monday, March 16)

The Egg / 2020 Sound System (Thursday, March 19

Andrew Bird / Haley Bonar (Sunday, March 22)

Hailey's (Denton)

Efterklang (Tuesday, March 17)

Futurecop! / Theophilus London (Sunday, March 22)

House of Blues (Dallas)

Delta Spirit / Other Lives / Dawes (Sunday, March 1)

Ben Sollee / Daniel Martin Moore (Thursday, March 5)

What Made Milwaukee Famous / Dove Hunter / Doug Burr / The Orbans / Telegraph Canyon (Saturday, March 7)

Estelle / Solange (Monday, March 9)

Lisa Hannigan (Monday, March 16)

Evaline / The Burning Hotels / Satellite Eyes (Tuesday, March 17)

Rocco DeLuca and The Burden / honeyhoney (Tuesday, March 17)

Bishop Allen / Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band / Singsing & Marmar (Wednesday, March 18)

3OH!3 / Family Force 5 / The Maine / Hit The Lights / A Rocket to The Moon (Friday, March 20)

MSTRKRFT / Felix Cartal (Friday, March 20)

Chairlift / Yacht (Sunday, March 22)

Green River Ordinance (Saturday, March 28)

Lola's (Fort Worth)

Sybris / Bridges and Blinking Lights / The Diamond Center / Madeline (Friday, March 13)

The Subjects / Eliot Lipp / Michna (Sunday, March 22)

Lola's Stockyards (Fort Worth)

Hot Club of Cowtown (Friday, March 6)

Brooke Waggoner / Cotton Jones (Tuesday, March 17)

Those Darlins (Saturday, March 21)

The Devil Makes Three / Drew Andrews (Sunday, March 22)

The Chameleon Chamber Group / Shibboleth (Friday, March 27)

Opening Bell Coffee

Madi Diaz (Tuesday, March 17)

Act of Congress / Poor Rich Folk (Friday, March 20)

Palladium Ballroom (Dallas)

Devo (Wednesday, March 18)

Pendulum (Friday, March 20)

Poor David's Pub (Dallas)

Patrice Pike Band / Kate Gaffney (Saturday, March 14)

Josh Charles (Tuesday, March 24)

Prophet Bar

The Color of May / Menkena / Tigercity / Stem & Leaf (Friday, March 13)

Dear & the Headlights / Reubens Accomplice / Miniature Tigers / Aftertraces (Sunday, March 15)

Jay Nash / Greg Laswell / Anya Marina / Big Surrender / Kayla Owens (Monday, March 16)

Tyrone Wells / Jason Reeves / Keaton Simons / The Autumn Film (Tuesday, March 17)

Bastardos de Sancho / Sleep As the Enemy / Castledoor / Lynn Grayburn (Friday, March 20)

Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios (Denton)

William Elliot Whitmore / Samantha Crain / Chris Welch (Sunday, March 1)

Arms And Sleepers / Curvette (Wednesday, March 4)

Lydia / Black Gold / All Get Out (Sunday, March 15)

dd/mm/yyyy / William Maker (Monday, March 16)

Hot Panda / The Pack A.D. / Tweakbird (Tuesday, March 17)

Early Man / Red Fang (Wednesday, March 18)

TAT (Thursday, March 19)

These Arms Are Snakes / Tera Melos / Orphan (Saturday, March 21)

Asobi Seksu / Tyvek / The Antlers (Sunday, March 22)

Appomattox / TK Webb And the Visions / These United States / Cartright (Monday, March 23)

Peelander-Z / Birthday Suits (Tuesday, March 24)

Scott H. Biram / Burnt Sienna Trio (Friday, March 27)

If you know of a show we've missed send us an email so we can add it to the list.

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