This isn’t really much of a video, but it balances out by being a hell of a song. Crystal Stilts are back with In Love With Oblivion this spring. It’s some powerful pop with instrumentals that radiate light, but surprisingly dark vocals.

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Deer Tick: “Blew” I had heard a bit about Deer Tick becoming “Deervana” to do some Nirvana covers at SXSW. “Incredible,” I thought. Then I found out that they’d done this before. Then I found out they’d done this a lot. Apparently you’d probably have to beg Deer Tick not to bust out a Nirvana [...]

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This professional quality video of Sharon Van Etten’s new song “All I Can” comes to us from IFC.com‘s stream of a few SXSW performances. Quality song from a fantastic musician. Don’t forget that she’ll be at MusicNOW in Cincinnati very soon!

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DFA1979: “Romantic Rights” Death From Above 1979′s reunion and first live show in five years was a strongly-rumored possibility going into SXSW 2011, but seeing as how I spent the weekend in West Virginia with no internet, this is the first I’m seeing of it. The results of DFA1979 playing a smaller bar in Austin [...]

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I’ve managed to avoid hearing anything about SXSW 2011 that’s so awesome that I would rip my hair out. But now that I’m digging through Youtube to find some gems, I doubt that’ll stay the case for long. Mister Heavenly (Honus from Man Man, Nick from Islands/the Unicorns, Joe from Modest Mouse and Michael Cera [...]

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It seems like forever since we last heard from SebastiAn. Now we get to break that absence with new music AND a new video. And I know the temptation to click “PLAY” and look at another window is extreme, but this is a video that you don’t want to watch halfheartedly. It’s funny, charming and [...]

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This is pretty cool. Some kind soul thought it would be a great idea to plot thousands of movies on a map based on their set locations. Incredible. What movies were filmed in or around your hometown? We’ll see who’s got the lamest claim to fame. For me it’s Elizabethtown, KY, so we’ve got Stripes [...]

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Jack wanted to play “a Texas song” for his SXSW audience, so he busted out a cover of Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away.” What a lucky, lucky audience. [via CMS]

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If this isn’t a new one from Jaill, it’s a pre-Sub Pop one that I’m not familiar with. Either way I’m sure I’ll eventually get to hear a studio recording of it. The guitar solo is a little rough, but that just makes me look forward to the level of roughness they achieve in the [...]

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