ATH SXSW Guide & Sampler
It’s that time of year again for us to share with you two of our favorite things in the world: free music and show recommendations. First up is a sampler consisting of 27 songs from some of the best up and coming bands performing at SXSW this year. We tried to drop in some of the bigger names you already know with some of the small time guys you may not know much about. Check out the sampler as a zip file or stream the whole thing on the sampler site. The guys at Paravel really outdid themselves this year on the design.
Next up is our fancy SXSW guide that started last year and continues on in full power again this year. The guide features a day by day list of 3-4 of the absolute best shows to attend. Our goal is to try and slim down that massive list of unofficial shows you have and give you something that’s easy to read, print, or bring up on your slick iphone. Each day should give you a few free day show options and at least one show to check out at night. We also kept around our handy dandy food guide created last year by our friend Bonnie. This guide is of course intended as an “ATH Recommends SXSW” guide and by no means a complete list of unofficial SXSW shows. For that, we recommend Do512, showlistaustin, ultra8201, donewaiting, or the many many facebook groups.
SXSW only comes once a year, don’t blow it.
Yeah yeah. Gettin’ me in the mood and shit!