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Our sisters in arms down the road a piece have created something from nothing; That is, they went through a bunch of press releases, MySpace sites and Purevolume profiles --all of which are "information" only in the softest, squishiest, most generous sense of the word, and extracted the concrete details of who's going to be at SXSW this year. The list, in contrast to most press releases and MySpace pages, is something that's actually useful. Holy crap, guys. The list is long and distinguished, as we've come to expect from SXSW, and contains big name bona fides like Interpol, Emmylou fucking Harris and Pete motherfucking Townsend as well as a ton of bands we're not cool enough to have ever heard of like all the ones we're not going to list here to avoid admitting to not knowing and loving them as they surely deserve. Like Go! Go! 7188, for example.

So the last two days we heard seven bands. And that was a Sunday and Monday night! Our ears are tired. Not that you care. Where the hell were you, anyway? About 20 people showed up for the El Corazon show. It was all-ages, but only four under-21ers skipped Sunday-night homework to come. A bunch of Euro-sausage arrived late to catch Starsailor at the Crocodile. You know, with their Euro-pop t-shirts and orange sneakers. It was like a tale of two night clubs: one gritty (i.e., an actual leaking ceiling) and over-amplified, with a fiercely indie audience, and the other gritty (the ceiling has various kinds of sound baffles nailed to it) and over-amplified, with a used-to-know-someone-who-was-fiercely-indie crowd.

German archaeologists at the famous Hohle Fels site have unearthed a 28,000 year old stone dildo: