Donewaiting.com’s 2009 SXSW coverage brought to you by Energizer’s Energi to Go Okay, lot’s going on. Hard to keep up. Don’t forget Showlist Austin and SCHED* for all your SXSW prep work. RSVP for the Fader Fort here. No info of line-up or location yet. Rumors continue to fly...

Show info: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit / Deer Tick perform at the Rumba Cafe on Friday, March 6. Tickets are $10 (advance) / $12 (at the door) and the show is 18 and over (under 21 pays a $2 surcharge). (Jason is also playing SXSW) Ex-Drive-By Trucker guitarist Jason Isbell and his band - The 400 ...

MP3: Hell or High Water by Blue Giant I remember the first time I saw an M&M ice cream sandwich at the ice cream truck and thought, “Holy crap, I never thought of putting M&Ms, cookies and ice cream together but it makes more sense than anything else I’ve ever learned in this s...

Oh man, things are starting to get crazy. Right? Music by the Slice has a lot of great bands including Mason Proper, Jason Isbell, and Flosstradamus. And I hear their pizza is pretty dope. The Hype Machine is launching their new Radio show at SXSW with a pretty cool show featuring Thomas Function, T...

I am really happy to announce that I will be part of the Bloggers Are Now in Charge panel at SXSW. Now, I’m not exactly sure what I am in charge of other than picking out what I’m going to wear in the morning, but I think it’s gonna be a pretty sweet panel. Description: Amid the ru...

214 W. 4th St. between Colorado and Lavaca Sts., Austin Wednesday, March 18 – 12 noon til 10:30 p.m. List of Artists and Schedule of set times: Outdoor Stage: 12:00-12:20 My Jerusalem- New Orleans, LA 12:40-1:05 Gurf Morlix-Austin TX 1:25-1:50 Bukka Allen-Austin TX 2:10-2:35 Randy Weeks- Austin TX...

How the hell do these people get together to form a band? I mean, I guess you can play connect the dots to a certain extent - Bassist Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne) and guitarist James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins) co-own a studio. And Iha undoubtedly is a Cheap Trick fan which is where drummer Bun...

I had complained that it was difficult to go through the 1,800+ band list on SXSW’s site and find what bands had been added and removed. A few hours later, a kind donewaiting.com reader (Jay Sutton) sent me lists of just the bands added and removed. He used computer magic. Silversun Pickups we...

It’s a big day for The Damnwells . At 9 a.m., the band will release it’s third full-length CD, One Last Century, exclusively through Paste Magazine’s website. Fans of the band’s first two releases will want to download the new CD for tracks like “55 Pictures”, ...

SXSW has updated their band list yet again… These seem like the fastest updates they’ve done in a long time, right? Notables include Grizzly Bear, Au Revoir Simone, The Long Winters, The Raveonettes, Nashville Pussy, Langhorne Slim, THE VASELINES, more. It’s always a bit overwhelmi...