[Listen/Download] – 170 MP3s From Artists Playing At SXSW

Every year for the past five or so, the SXSW organisers release a torrent of music containing hundreds of (free and legal) MP3s from the artists who are playing

Each year I dutifully download it and make my way through the copious amounts of new music, and this year was no exception; In order for me to bring this to you it took:

• Four weeks of listening to all 792 songs
• Going back through the 170 that I’d picked out and making sure they were still awesome on the second listen (they were)
• Making sure all of the songs had the correct ID3 tags and were labeled properly
• Putting the songs into six groups of ZIP files
• Uploading each ZIP file to Mediafire and then posting them below
• Listening to them all again and picking out my favourites
• Then going from the folder on my computer and copying the Artist – Song title, to pasting it in this post……170 times
• Uploading all of the songs to the site’s server
• Copying the MP3 location from the server, highlighting the song in the post and pasting the MP3 link so that it plays on this here page…..170 times
• And finally going through each song on this page and making sure they all worked (they did)

Don’t say I’m not good to you.

If you’re going to the festival you can use this as a guide to go check out some new music, and you can also use it as your soundtrack for the journey there (I included a handy dandy playlist (.m3u) file), but if you’re not going you can at least listen to what you’ll be missing.

Each song is playable by clicking on it and each song is downloadable by right clicking on it, or you can download the whole thing via the Mediafire links below. Because they were almost 1GB (total) in size I had to split them up into alphabetical groups. In bold underlinies are my favourites, and if you do end up going I’d love to see your pictures, hear your stories, and find out just how good any of these guys were.

If you go, don’t forget to check out We Listen For You’s Walking Show.  Tell them Franky B Rockafeller sent you.

Enjoy!

Playlist File For The Whole Shabang

Download ZIP files via Mediafire below (all smaller than 200MB each):

A-B | C-F | G-J | K-Q | R-S | T-Z

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A Great Big Pile Of Leaves – “We Don’t Need Our Heads”
Alcoholic Faith Mission – “My Eyes To See”
Alessi’s Ark – “The Robot”
Alvarez Kings – “Patience Is Strength”
Am – “Dark Into Light”
An Horse – “Trains And Tracks”
Anr – “The Endless Field Of Mercury”
Apollo Brown – “Desperation”
April Smith And The Great Picture Show – “Colors”
Artifacts – “Wrong Side Of The Tracks”
Automatic Loveletter – “Heart Song”
B. Bravo – “Computa Love”
Bahamas – “Already Yours”
Balmorhea – “Clamor”
Bare Wires – “Ready To Go”
Bear Driver – “Wolves”
Beat Connection – “Silver Screen”
Bell Gardens – “Through The Rain”
Belleruche – “Clockwatching”
Benjamin Francis Leftwich – “Atlas Hands”
Bikini – “Acheerlaeder”
Bloodgroup – “My Arms”
Blu – “Doinnothin’” (Featugod)
Boats – “Chrome Eyelids”
Body Language – “You Can”
Botany – “Waterparker”
Braveyoung – “And No Two Walked Together”
Candy Claws – “Sunbeam Show”
Capo – “Imposible”
Capsula – “Under The Woods”
Carmen Townsend – “Start All Over”
Cast Spells – “Glamorous Glowing”
Chappo – “Come Home”
Chapter 24 – “You Said”
Chikita Violenta – “Roni”
Christeene – “Fix My Dick”
Colour Revolt – “8 Years”
Cruel Black Dove – “Love Song”
Danny Malone And The Collar Bones – “Wait On Me”
De Staat – “Sweatshop”
Delicate Steve – “The Ballas Of Speck And Pebble”
Depressed Buttons – “Ow!”
Dignan – “Two Steps”
Dirty Ghosts – “Shout It In”
Erland & The Carnival – “Trouble In Mind”
Experimental Aircraft – “Paintings In The Attic”
Fake Problems – “Soulless”
Family Of The Year – “Chugjug”
Fast Romantics – “Cool Kids”
Fever Fever – “Monster”
For A Minor Reflection – “Flod”
Frazey Ford – “Blue Streak Mama”
Gallops – “Miami Spider”
Gemini Club – “Mirrors”
Geographer – “Kites”
Ghost Animal – “Single Man”
Giant Cloud – “Every Window Holds The Truth”
Gold Motel – “Safe In La”
Golden Ages – “Everything Will Be Alright”
Gospel Claws – “Avenues”
Grand Pianoramax – “Roulette”
Grass Widow – “Shadow”
Grimes – “Devon”
Guadalupe Plata – “Pobre Mary”
Gun Runner – “Fiber Glass”
Gypsyblood – “Take Your Picture”
Harrys Gym – “Old Man”
Homeboy Sandman – “The Carpenter”
Horse Thief – “Warrior”
Hospital Ships – “Bitter Radio Single”
I Was Totally Destroying It – “Come Out, Come Out”
Indigo Tree – “Leavingtimebehind”
In-Flight Safety – “Model Homes”
Inspired Flight – “Pull, Push, Let Go”
Intimate Stranger – “Beastie Queen”
Ivan Julian – “The Naked Flame”
Jeremy Messersmith – “Violet!”
Jesse Malin & The St Marks Social – “Burning The Bowery”
J-Live – “The Way That I Rhyme”
Karkwa – “Les Chemins De Verre”
Kastle – “You Know That I Know You Know”
Kimbra – “Settle Down”
Kinch – “Carolina Cannonball”
Kyla La Grange – “Walk Through Walls”
Lady Lamb The Beekeeper – “Penny Licks”
Les Handclaps – “Cliche”
Letting Up Despite Great Faults – “In Steps”
Light Fm – “Friends Aren’t Friends”
Literature – “It’s Cruel”
Los Rakas – “Soy Raka”
Maren Parusel – “Don’t Take Your Eyes Away”
Michael Lowenstern – “Trip”
Midnight Magic – “Beam Me Up”
Monogold – “Spirit Or Something”
Morning Teleportation – “Expanding Anyway”
Mujeres – “Reyerta”
My Gold Mask – “Violet Eyes”
Natalie Prass – “Bird Of Prey”
Nerdkween – “If”
Netherfriends – “Bret Easton Ellis Novel”
Nive Nielsen – “Done & Gone”
Norman Palm – “Easy”
Now, Now Every Children – “Neighbors”
Oh Sunshine – “I Belong To You”
Pictureplane – “Cyclical Cyclical (Atlantis)”
Prison Garde – “Where You Been”
Quadron – “Slippin”
Quiet Company – “How Do You Do It”
Rah Rah – “Arrows”
Random Axe – “Monster Babies”
Reptar – “Ready Or Not”
Revolver – “Get Around Town”
Roach Gigz – “Can I Rap”
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside – “Danger”
Salva – “Wake Ups”
Sarah Jaffe – “Clementine”
Sasquatch – “Took Me Away”
Sean Nicholas Savage – “Disco Dancing”
Secret Cities – “Boyfriends”
Sepalcure – “Love Pressure”
Sex With Strangers – “New City Anthem”
Sherlocks Daughter – “Reprise”
Shuttle – “Tunnel”
Sims – “Burn It Down”
Sister Crayon – “Anti Psalm”
Small Sins – “Why Don’t You Believe Me”
Social Studies – “Time Bandit”
Soft Swells – “Every Little Thing”
Something Fierce – “Empty Screens”
Stamps – “Things You Do To Me”
Strand Of Oaks – “Last To Swim”
Sun Araw – “Deep Cover”
Sunbears! – “Little Baby Pines”
Superhumanoids – “Persona”
Suzanna Choffel – “Animal”
Sweatshop Union – “Oh My”
The Black Angels – “Haunting At 1300 Mckinley”
The Boom Bang – “Tobacula”
The Brother Kite – “The Scene Is Changing”
The Bubble Puppy – “Hot Smoke And Sassafras”
The Chain Gang Of 1974 – “Hold On”
The Deer Tracks – “Ram Ram”
The Devil Whale – “Barracudas”
The Frontier Brothers – “The Strut”
The Growlers – “Sea Lion Goth Blues”
The High Dials – “Uruguay”
The Hounds Below – “Cumberland’s Crumblin’”
The Jezabels – “Mace Spray”
The Kingston Springs – “The Weight Of This World”
The Limousines – “Internet Killed The Video Star”
The Melovskys – “King Of The Boombox”
The Minutes – “Secret History”
The Niceguys – “Die Later”
The Novocaines – “Cup Of Coffee”
The Rocketboys – “Brothers”
The Rural Alberta Advantage – “Stamp”
The Seedy Seeds – “Verb Noun”
This Is The Kit – “See Here”
Tigers That Talked – “23 Fears (Summer ’10)”
Two Fresh – “Legal Tender”
Uncle Bad Touch – “I Wanna Love You”
Venice Is Sinking – “Tugboat”
Viva Viva – “Valentine”
Volkova Sisters – “Trouble”
Voxhaul Broadcast – “Leaving On The 5Th”
We Barbarians – “Chambray”
Wheelchair Sports Camp – “Party Song”
Withered Hand – “Religious Songs”
Zoe Muth And The Lost High Rollers – “You Only Believe Me When I’m Lying”
Zorch – “Zut Alore”