
Here is a quick list of the bands I saw at SXSW (and links to videos where I managed to take video). I really didn’t get to see as many bands as I would have seen if I had not been there for work, but I was as always more than thrilled to have the opportunity to spend the entire week in Austin chasing down clients, drinking with said clients, watching bands and then calling it a day’s (week’s) work. Thank goodness for Twitter; I don’t think I would have otherwise remembered all these names.
- Ishii
- Grand Hallway
- The Non
- The Boxing Lesson
- The Gary
- The Great Nostalgic
- Temper Trap
- Octopus Project
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- Electric Valentine
- The Watson Twins
- Wall With One Eye
- Free Energy
- Zoe Keating
- Ellen Fullman & The Long String Instrument
I spoke on a well-attended, feisty panel about music licensing for emerging media. More on this later.
Unrelated/related note: I wrote and performed a song about SXSW to open the conference at the introductory panel How To Rawk SXSW. It ended up on the PepsiCo blog.



You’re in rarefied company if you saw the Gary. I’ve heard their first album and it’s pretty great.