Pitchfork - Tours — 03-24 Athens, GA - Caledonia Lounge %03-25 Atlanta, GA - The Drunken Unicorn %03-26 Greenville, NC - Tipsy Teapot %03-27 Baltimore, MD - Floristree %04-03 Hartford, CT - Trinity College @04-05 Brooklyn, NY - The Knitting Factory 04-11 Washington DC -... more info

Nialler9 — The final day of South By saw Perez Hilton party overshadow the official part of the festival, but there was still plenty of great music to be caught as long as the band didn’t cancel or move slots which seemed to happen a lot on Saturday. Rye Rye... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by P. Nick Curran "The worst group in history just finished on stage at the Fader Fort, Sleigh Bells." - Daniel Berkal "Sleigh Bells just blew the doors off the Fader Fort" - Enthusiastic Amateur "M.I.A.-anointed Sleigh Bells closed... more info

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Pitchfork — Photos by Erez Avissar; Above: The Pitchfork SXSW Showcase at the Scoot Inn What SXSW show could have a shot at topping our awesome Friday bash at Emo's? Why, the first ever official Pitchfork SXSW Showcase, of course. For our first full-on... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The likes of Perez Hilton and Rachael Ray threw in-demand parties on the fourth and -- for all intents and purposes -- final day of the South by Southwest music conference and festival in Austin, Texas. With just under 2,000... more info

NME - Radar — SXSW used to be way more about stumbling from shack to shack, soaking up what was on. But with the menacing mechanics of hype that thrusts approximately 342 new Myspace URLs on our laps each day it's way harder these days to make totally fresh 'disco... more info

Pitchfork — Photos by Ryan Dombal. Above, from top left: Evan Dando, Mike Mills, M. Ward, Ken Stringfellow, Jody Stephens, Jon Auer, John Doe, the Watson Twins, Sondre Lerche, Chuck Prophet, Chris Stamey, and Curt Kirkwood.A Tribute to Alex Chilton and Big Star ... more info

Pitchfork — It seems like only yesterday we were enjoying the Austin sun while taking in too much BBQ and trying to catch dozens (hundreds?) of the world's finest and/or most breathlessly hyped new bands. But that was an entire year ago. Which can only mean one ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — M.I.A. @ Outside Lands 2009 (more by Chris Graham) M.I.A. will be playing "HARD Fest" shows in L.A. and NYC this July - her first scheduled US shows for 2010. The L.A. date is July 17th at the Los Angeles... more info