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'Mojo' Recommends

BY PHIL ALEXANDER

The best British music at SXSW as selected by Mojo Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander

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Spotlight: Harlem

BY AUSTIN POWELL

Psychedelic pop bust

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Spotlight: Those Darlins BY AUDRA SCHROEDER Coming down from the Tennessee mountain

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Spotlight: Country Joe McDonald BY DAN OKO Gimme an F!

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Spotlight: The Love Language

BY AUSTIN POWELL

Love is a four letter word

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Spotlight: Slum Village

BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

Detroit's other Hitsville

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Spotlight: Man or Astro-Man? BY RICHARD WHITTAKER It's a bird? It's a plane? It's sci-fi's surf guitar originators.

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Crazy Heart

BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

At the crazy heart of the 2009-10 Austin Music Awards sits Stephen Bruton

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Love Bath BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ SXSW 2010 keynote speaker Smokey Robinson originally wanted to be a cowboy, but they didn't have any horses in his hood

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Off the Record BY AUSTIN POWELL Checking in to South by Southwest 2010

THIS WEEK IN MUSIC

SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY

In Memoriam: Big Star Myths
BY KENT H. BENJAMIN

'Mojo' Recommends
BY PHIL ALEXANDER
The best British music at SXSW as selected by Mojo Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander

My SXSW
BY SIMÓN MEJÍA
Bomba Estéreo

Day Party Crawl

• Hella Hipster Hoedown
  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
• Pierced Arrows, Happy Birthday, Golden Triangle
  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
• 'Paste' Party
  BY DOUG FREEMAN

Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels

• SXSW Interview: Cheap Trick
  BY JIM CALIGIURI
• Lead Belly to Ludacris: From Analog to Digital
  BY THOMAS FAWCETT
• How Will We Listen to Music in 2020?
  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
• The Cloud vs. the Paradise of Infinite Storage
  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
• Green Touring: Stupid, Dumb, or Best Idea EveR?
  BY MELANIE HAUPT

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
SXSW news and carryings on

• The Trishas
• Fanfarlo
• Catherine MacLellan
• The Yellow Dogs
• Stones Throw Showcase
• Grooms
• Melissa Auf der Maur, Voivod, Michael Monroe
• Nneka
• Naam
• Pegi Young

WEEKLY ISSUE

2009-10 Austin Music Awards

Crazy Heart
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
At the crazy heart of the 2009-10 Austin Music Awards sits Stephen Bruton

Love Bath
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
SXSW 2010 keynote speaker Smokey Robinson originally wanted to be a cowboy, but they didn't have any horses in his hood

Wednesday Music Preview Guide

• Wednesday Picks & Sleepers
  The blurbing of SXSW
• SXSW Interviews
  Chamillionaire & Paul Wall: Texas' last great tag team gets back in the ring; Nas & Damian Marley: Kindred spirits or Distant Relatives?; Brian Posehn: Going to 11 with Fart and Wiener Jokes
• Wednesday Showcases
  Wednesday SXSW showcases at a glance
• International Bands

Thursday Music Preview Guide

• Thursday Picks & Sleepers
  Blurbing SXSW 2010
• SXSW Interviews
  Roky Erickson With Okkervil River: Does the pyramid finally meet the eye?
• Thursday Showcases
  All the SXSW showcases that fit
• International Bands
  Around the world in one-liners

Friday Music Preview Guide

• Friday Picks & Sleepers
  The blurbing of SXSW
• SXSW Interviews
  Danny Barnes: Old Weird America by the slice
• SXSW Showcases
  All the SXSW showcases that fit
• International Bands
  Around the world in one-liners

Saturday Music Preview Guide

• Saturday Picks & Sleepers
  The blurbing of SXSW 2010
• SXSW Interviews
  Death: Detroit's reunited proto-punks riff on the Motown connection; Big Star: Still shining brightly after 40 years
• SXSW Showcases
  All the SXSW showcases that fit
• International Bands

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Checking in to South by Southwest 2010

• Sixteen Deluxe
  Year One
• Fanfarlo
  Reservoir
• Broken Bells
• Mojoe
  Dirty Genes
• Freddie Gibbs
  Midwestgangstabox framecadillacmuzik, The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs
• Scale the Summit
  Carving Desert Canyons
• Balmorhea
  Constellations
• You Say Party! We Say Die!
  XXXX
• The Marshall Ford Swing Band
  It's About Dam Time
• Dawes
  North Hills
• The Morning Benders
  Big Echo
• Surfer Blood
  Astro Coast
• Maldita Vecindad y Los Hijos del Quinto Patio
  Circular Colectivo
• Ray Davies
  The Kinks Choral Collection
• Efterklang
  Magic Chairs
• U-N-I
  A Love Supreme 2.0
• Chico Mann
  Analog Drift (Muy...Esniqui)
• Black Dynamite Sound Orchestra
  Black Dynamite (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• Nneka
  Concrete Jungle
• The Very Best
  Warm Heart of Africa
• Solillaquists of Sound
  No More Heroes
• Binary Audio Misfits
  B.A.M.!
• People Under the Stairs
  Carried Away
• Phantogram
  Eyelid Movies
• Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
  Summer of Fear
• Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore
  Dear Companion
• Joe Pug
  Messenger
• Ólöf Arnalds
  Við og Við
• The Ruby Suns
  Fight Softly
• Rogue Wave
  Permalight
• She & Him
  Volume Two
• THE XX
• Golden Triangle
  Double Jointer
• Dum Dum Girls
  I Will Be
• Titus Andronicus
  The Monitor
• We Are Wolves
  Invisible Violence
• Pierced Arrows
  Descending Shadows
• Local Natives
  Gorilla Manor
• Let's Wrestle
  In the Court of the Wrestling Let's
• Drive-By Truckers
  The Big To-Do
• The Soft Pack
• Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights
  Pardon Me
• The Besnard Lakes
  The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
• Woodgrain
  The Bronze
• Texas Tornados
  ¡Está Bueno!
• BoDeans
  Mr. Sad Clown
• Boulder Acoustic Society
  Punchline
• Deadstring Brothers
  Sao Paulo
• Pirate Love
  Black Vodoun Space Blues
• Chuck Prophet
  ¡Let Freedom Ring!
• Quasi
  American Gong
• Anti-Pop Consortium
  Fluorescent Black
• Skyzoo
  The Salvation
• Fool's Gold
• Fashawn
  Boys Meets World.
• Fucked Up
  Couple Tracks
• Illa J
  Yancey Boys
• Moreland & Arbuckle
  Flood
• Freeway & Jake One
  The Stimulus Package
• The Explosives
  Three Ring Circus
• The Watson Twins
  Talking to You, Talking to Me

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