ORIGINAL HIPSTER

I am not going to the SXSW music festival this year. I cannot tell you how relieved I am not to be going. The pressure to be hip, to be in five places at once, and to drink free beer before it runs out is not something I’m going to miss. Austin is not equipped to accommodate the drunken clusterfuck that the SXSW music festival has become. So I’ll gladly be skipping town after SXSW Interactive.

To all you folks who will descend on Austin the day I’ll be leaving, I can only say…good luck, suckas. Wouldn’t wanna be ya, but if I were ya, here’s who I’d go see.

If you see only one band at SXSW, see this one.

The Black Angels

Black Cobra*

Black Tusk

Buxton

Carolyn Wonderland

Corrosion of Conformity*

The Cult

Dixie Witch

Eve 6

Fiona Apple

Girl in a Coma

Gossip

High on Fire

Holy Grail

Howlin’ Rain

Justin Townes Earle

Lo-Pan

Shiny Toy Guns

Skrillex

The Sword

Sxip Shirey

Suzanna Choffel

The Ting Tings

Trixie Whitley

YACHT

Zoroaster*

*If you see no other show, see this one: Zoroaster, A Storm of Light, Rwake, Saviours, Black Cobra, Corrosion of Conformity, Wednesday 3/14 7:30 p.m. Dirty Dog Bar. Do not miss Zoroaster.