Tuesday, February 26, 2008

SXSW 2008 in DFW: 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?

To help you out, I have put together a list of 98 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 playing in non-SXSW showcases in Austin during the festival. 2) I decided to arbitrarily start the listing at March 4 and cut it off at March 22. Without further ado, here is the Pegasus News SXSW 2008 (via DFW) list:

1919 Hemphill (Fort Worth)

Prizzy Prizzy Please / Sass Dragons / Totally Michael / The Pharmacy / Pleasureboaters (Tuesday, March 11)

Cougar Den / Trifle Tower / Healers / Wildildlife / Fight Amputation / Pools / Sohns (Wednesday, March 12)

The Aardvark (Fort Worth)

Big Red Rooster / Psyco Blues / The Ropes / Braker Lane (Thursday, March 6)

Bobby Bare Jr. / The Builders / The Butchers (Tuesday, March 11)

Nelo / Garrett Heinrichs (Wednesday, March 19)

AllGood Cafe

South Austin Jug Band (Saturday, March 8)

Andy's Basement Bar and Grill (Denton)

Torche / Harvey's Milk (Thursday, March 13)

The Cavern (Dallas)

Bowerbirds / Phosphorescent / Sarah Jaffe (Monday, March 10)

Evangelicals / Headlights / Gentlemen Auction House (Tuesday, March 11)

The Dreamed / Ezra Furman & the Harpoons / Aaron Robinson / The XYZ Affair (Wednesday, March 12)

White Rabbits / Minmae (Thursday, March 13)

Die! Die! Die! / Psychic Ills / Sian Alice Group (Monday, March 17)

The Chat Room Pub

Whiskey Folk Ramblers / Great Lakes Myth Society / Frontier Ruckus / Chris Bathgate (Saturday, March 15)

City Tavern (Dallas)

Austin Collins / Sleepercar (Saturday, March 8)

Sleepy Horses / Dexateens / The Dumps (Tuesday, March 11)

Club Dada (Dallas)

The Black Hollies (Saturday, March 8)

The Darkside Lounge

Tub Ring (Friday, March 14)

Dan's Silverleaf (Denton)

Grand Archives / The Acorn (Tuesday, March 11)

Raised by Tigers / Wolffe (Thursday, March 13)

Corn Mo (Friday, March 14)

Telegraph Canyon / Birds and Batteries / Tony Scherr (Saturday, March 15)

Austin Collins / Sleepercar (Thursday, March 20)

The Robert Gomez Band (Saturday, March 22)

The Door (Dallas)

News Team Assemble / The Photo Atlas / The Autumns / My Life on Film (Sunday, March 9)

Edison Glass / Lives of Famous Men / The Real You / The Morning State (Tuesday, March 11)

The Ropes / Innerpartysystem / The Motion Sick / Sequoyah Prep School (Tuesday, March 11)

Pelican Skeleton / Borius / Yanari / The Last American Buffalo / The Big Bang / Dillon Chevalier (Saturday, March 15)

Double Wide (Dallas)

The Weather Underground / Wild Sweet Orange (Tuesday, March 11)

The Meatmen / The Buck Brothers / Spector 45 (Wednesday, March 12)

Parts & Labor / Torche / Pterodactyl / Shooting Spires (Sunday, March 16)

Peelander-Z / The Dutch Treats / The Hack and Slashers (Tuesday, March 18)

Good Records (Dallas)

Blitzen Trapper (Tuesday, March 4)

Phosphorescent (Monday, March 10)

Cloud Cult (Tuesday, March 11)

Dreamend (Wednesday, March 12)

Kid Dakota (Wednesday, March 12)

The LK (Sunday, March 16)

Silje Nes (Tuesday, March 18)

The Dodos (Tuesday, March 18)

The Granada Theater (Dallas)

Centro-matic / South San Gabriel / Robert Gomez (Saturday, March 8)

Supersuckers / Railbenders / The cut*off (Monday, March 10)

Blue Cheer / Blood of the Sun (Tuesday, March 11)

Cloud Cult / My Brightest Diamond / Kid Dakota (Wednesday, March 12)

The Lemonheads / The Icarus Line (Thursday, March 13)

The English Beat / Eleven Fingered Charlie / Outlaw Nation / Jointmethod (Saturday, March 15)

Jens Lekman / Hanne Hukkelberg (Sunday, March 16)

Hailey's (Denton)

Blitzen Trapper / Fleet Foxes (Tuesday, March 4)

Grimy Styles / It's What You Get (Wednesday, March 5)

Beach House / Papercuts / Mom (Saturday, March 8)

Zest of Yore / Catfish Haven / Explorer's Club / Mannequin Men (Monday, March 10)

Islands (Wednesday, March 12)

Born Ruffians / Cadence Weapon (Saturday, March 15)

Crystal Castles / Health (Sunday, March 16)

Tacks, the Boy Disaster / The Silent Years (Wednesday, March 19)

The House of Blues (Dallas)

They Might be Giants / Oppenheimer (Tuesday, March 4)

The Subdudes / Paul Thorn (Thursday, March 6)

Nicole Atkins & the Sea / Astra Heights / The Parlor Mob (Sunday, March 9)

Back Door Slam / Teenage Prayers (Tuesday, March 11)

North Mississippi Allstars (Wednesday, March 12)

X (Thursday, March 13)

The Donnas / Romance Fantasy (Friday, March 14)

Sara Bareilles / Ingrid Michaelson / Cary Brothers / Joshua Radin / Greg Laswell (Friday, March 14)

Sia / Har Mar Superstar (Saturday, March 15)

All Time Low / The Rocket Summer / The Matches / Sonny / Forever The Sickest Kids (Sunday, March 16)

Horrorpops / The Pink Spiders / Steve E Nix & The Cute Lepers (Wednesday, March 19)

The Bodeans (Friday, March 21)

Lakewood Bar and Grill (Dallas)

The Dollyrots / Suffrajett (Tuesday, March 11)

The Loft (Dallas)

The Cribs (Wednesday, March 12)

MSTRKRFT / LA Riots / Lazaro Casanova (Sunday, March 16)

Lola's (Fort Worth)

Eliot Lipp / Astronautilus (Thursday, March 6)

Thee Emergency / The Hard Lessons / The Black Hollies (Monday, March 10)

The Most Serene Republic / Grand Archives / The Jealous Girlfriends (Wednesday, March 12)

Monotonix / RTX / Handbrake (Thursday, March 13)

Eleven Hundred Springs / The Wilders / 100 Damned Guns / Whiskey Folk Ramblers / The A.M. Ramblers (Saturday, March 15)

Gil Mantera's Party Dream / Say Hi / Kevin Devine (Sunday, March 16)

O'Death / Langhorne Slim / Blackland River Devils (Monday, March 17)

The Dodos / Silje Nes (Wednesday, March 19)

Collin Herring / Austin Collins / Sleeper Car / The Hope Trust (Friday, March 21)

Telegraph Canyon / Doug Burr / Cheyenne / Wynn Walent (Saturday, March 22)

McDavid Studio

Haale (Friday, March 14)

The Moon Bar (Fort Worth)

Oliver Future / The Burning Hotels (Saturday, March 8)

The Palladium Ballroom (Dallas)

Digitalism (Thursday, March 13)

Poor David's Pub (Dallas)

Shawn Phillips (Friday, March 14)

Girl in a Coma / Jen Foster / Lisa Dewey / Tile (Sunday, March 16)

The Redblood Club (Dallas)

Municipal Waste / Iron Lung / Brutal Knights / World Inferno Friendship Society / Boot Hill Gang (Wednesday, March 12)

Dead to Me / Teenage Bottlerocket / Broadway Calls / The Femurs (Sunday, March 16)

Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio (Denton)

Fishboy / Baby Walrus / Hymns (Thursday, March 6)

This Will Destroy You / Tame.. Tame and Quiet / Handbrake (Friday, March 7)

Shiny Around the Edges / Castanets / These are Powers (Sunday, March 9)

The Physics of Meaning / The Lisps / Le Concorde / Laura Palmer (Monday, March 10)

Why? / Cryptacize / Sunburned Hand of the Man (Tuesday, March 11)

Mahjongg / History at Our Disposal / The Show is the Rainbow (Thursday, March 13)

An Albatross / Apes / Eat Averys Bones (Sunday, March 16)

Peelander-Z / Last of the Interceptors / The Lash Outs (Wednesday, March 19)

Sloppyworld (Dallas)

Foreign Islands / Lipstick Terror / These Are Powers / Prince William (Monday, March 10)

White Mice / The Coathangers / Pleasureboaters / DJ Scotch Egg (Thursday, March 13)

White Rock Coffee (Dallas)

Donny Hue and the Colors / Olivia and the Housemates (Tuesday, March 11)

Meredith Bragg & the Terminals / Rogue Motel / Brandon Chandler (Sunday, March 16)

The list of bands could change so keep checking back.

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