South by Southwest, you are a treacherous siren. Many a good sailor did I see washed up on your rocky shores and beer-filled curbs, all allured by your many, many sweet songs. I count myself among one of the satisfied adventurers who endured your temptations, and survived with minimal suffering. Here lies the account of [...]

So, lots of catching up to do. But what do you expect? it was the last two days of South By Southwest, I had to go all out. Can’t spend all one’s time sitting in front of a computer screen when there are exciting new bands to see. All work and no play makes an [...]

I can’t say I’m not proud of myself for yesterday. Twelve bands in about five hours… pretty good stuff. Felt like I was compensating for my pathetic showing on Wednesday. I actually saw enough bands just yesterday afternoon at The Spiderhouse (Which had FOUR stages set up) that I didn’t have to brave the ever-more [...]

I don’t know about the rest of the inhabitants of Austin, but I’m gettin’ tired. The ears are ringing, the head is throbbing, the feet are sore… I do think it’s starting to get to folks around here. Car horns blaring at pedestrians, bikers and other cars seem to be making about as much noise [...]

What a long freaking Wednesday that was. Talked to some people outside a bar that said they’d seen 12 bands in four hours. Gotta be a record. Made me feel incredibly bad for folks in line outside of Austin’s most popular music venues, Emo’s, The Mohawk, and Stubb’s Barbeque. Hundreds of people, many of them [...]

The streets downtown are only getting more crowded. The people sitting on curbs with guitar cases, interviewing random civilians on the street and passing out swag almost outnumber the actual concert goers. Seems like everybody is either trying to discover the next big thing, or be it. For Music Notes, we are wandering without purpose, [...]

We pulled in to downtown Austin yesterday, looking for parking, trying to get to the convention center. It was only Tuesday, nothing had really started yet music wise, but lord there were a lot of people wandering around. Dusty, shoeless 20 somethings, stumbling out of their vans, tacos in hand, after hours and hours of driving [...]

Music Notes has officially landed in Austin, TX, South by Southwest’s home and ours, too, for the next, oh, six or seven days… we’ll see how much we can take. A note now on our journey and arrival, expect longer posts in the next few days as the clubs fill up with bands from all [...]