Remember those SXSW torrents? Over the last couple of months I’ve managed to listen to a decent portion of the 900-something songs that were contained within, and I’ve been slowly building a playlist of those that I have enjoyed. This is not to say these are my 20 most favorite considering I haven’t managed to listen to every song downloaded, but I certainly like them.
If you haven’t downloaded the torrents and you have the bandwidth (and the disk space), you may as well; it’s free music! If you have, then maybe give these a listen:
- Avantcore
Busdriver - Be Gentle With Me
The Boy Least LIkely To - Blue Sky
Gliss - Cowbell
Tapes ‘N Tapes - Devils & Angels
Toby Lightman - Don’t Let Me Down
A.J. Croce - Everyone’s a Winner
The Meligrove Band - Fork in the Road
The Stringdusters - Freewheel
Duke Special - Get Your Way
Jamie Cullum
- Ghetto Ways
Scissors for Lefty - Girl Anachronism
The Dresden Dolls - Give a Little Mo’
The Mutaytor - God of Hell
The Rodeo Carburettor - Junkyard
Page France - Love Don’t Care
Lab Partners - New Comes and Goes
Oranger - Right About Now
Talib Kweli - The Vice & Virtue Ministry
The Happy Bullets - Walkin’ on Nails
Mac Lethal
PDF said:
Mostly nice choices. Talib Kweli never seems to fit in. Maybe it’s just me. I like that your list has almost zero in common with the list that sparked the downloading of these files in the first place.
And the ratio of The bands is uncanny.
00:33 on 12 May 2006
matches said:
I think it’s cause he’s the only one who stands out as “not rock” on the list. But yeah - he’s a little out of place even though he deserves a spot.
I forgot about that list you mentioned, but I’m happy to see The Dresden Dolls are on it because I think that’s the strongest song here.
07:23 on 12 May 2006