We’re less than two weeks away from the South By Southwest Music/Film/Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. I’ll be there from March 12th-22nd for both the Interactive festival and the 5 amazing-non-stop music festival. I’ll be writing about all the shows I see along with lots of pictures from the week. We might even talk to some bands. As we get closer, each day I’ll be posting about a band that I’m looking forward to seeing at SXSW. And I’ll put up my usual playlist as well.

The great thing about being in Austin that week is that you’ll see a lot of bands that you wanted to and also discover a bunch of new bands whose records you’ll be playing all year long (and everyone else will too). Here is my short list of bands that I’m hoping to catch this year: Spoon, Surfer Blood, Those Darlins, Lovely Feathers, Pomogranates, Broken Social Scene, Delta Spirit, Quiet Company, The Rural Alberta Advantage, She & Him, Rogue Wave, Golden Filter, Neon Indian, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Suckers, Antlers, Real Estate, The XX, The Drums, Wave Machines, Wye Oak, Morning Benders, Local Natives, Bear in Heaven, Titus Andronicus and Brasstronaut just to name a few.

If that list looks as daunting to you as it does to me, then that’s good.