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SXSW, Day 2: Lies and Repeats [Jason Crock]

Jason Crock · 20 Mar 2009, 1:07 PM · 1 Comment

The barrage of showcases and parties of SXSW are easy to navigate and choose between so long you’re not being lied to, which is all the time. Start times for the sets? More of a guideline. RSVP? Whatever. Enjoy that line down the block. Free food? Sorry, all out. Free booze? We’re all out of that, too, or wait for the promo girls to hand it out, or I wouldn’t know anything about that, I’m just a bartender. Special guests? Yeah, they can come out perform one song, as I learned last night at Austin Music Hall. So when “Daniel Johnston and the Hymns” started their set with two Johnston-less Hymns songs, I was ready to weep into my four-dollar beer.

But Johnston did indeed come out, as promised.

Still showing up: Daniel Johnston

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SXSW09 Daniel Johnston, Hymns, The Homosexuals, The Oh Sees, Tyvek, Wrens

SXSW09, Day 2: The Real World, Austin [Marc Masters]

Marc Masters · 20 Mar 2009, 12:34 PM · 2 Comments

Traveling can be frustrating: Visiting any place is great, but I want to know what it’s like to live there, and that’s pretty tough to do without spending time with locals. It seems almost an impossible task at SXSW, as daily life in Austin gets masked by layers of bands, filmmakers, industry types and reams of other visitors. But I think I got lucky enough today to catch a glimpse of the real town, or at least its underground art world.

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SXSW09 Cut Off Your Hands, Diagonals, King Khann, Pre, Psychedelic Horseshit, The Oh Sees