This is simple: Sleigh Bells killed it at Sasquatch, and here's proof. Check out the eight Marshall cabinets: "Smoke" poured out of them when the set started. Incredible.

This was NPR Music's first time at this four-day festival. Listen to concerts from
Bob Mould, Dan Mangan, Death Cab For Cutie, Death From Above 1979, Foo Fighters, Iron And Wine, k-os, Local Natives, Mariachi El Bronx, Robyn, Rebecca Gates, Sharon Van Etten, The Antlers, The Head And The Heart, The Radio Dept., The Thermals, Washed Out, Wolf Parade, Wye Oak, Archers Of Loaf, Basia Bulat, Das Racist, Flogging Molly, Gayngs, Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, Typhoon, Black Joe Lewis, Black Mountain, City And Colour, Deerhunter, Guided By Voices, Major Lazer, Noah And The Whale, Rodrigo y Gabriela, S. Carey, Sharon Jones, The Decemberists, The Globes, Twin Shadow, Wavves and Wilco.

Beyond the blistering concert by Sleigh Bells, my favorite new discoveries include Other Lives, a band from Stillwater, Okla.

The band with the best sense of humor, Mariachi El Bronx, dressed in full Mariachi garb — and also played a larger stage a few hours later in a punk configuration called The Bronx.

A few bands I'd like to spend more time with include Washed Out, the electronic music from Georgia-based Ernest Greene, who performed as part of a four-piece band at Sasquatch.

A fascinating duo from Portland was Talkdemonic. Just processed viola and drums made for dreamy listening at the Gorge.

Crowd favorites included Das Racist, which included a brass section and the audience wearing Pizza Hut boxes for hats (in honor of the band's Pizza Hut and Taco Bell song).

The Head and the Heart already had a big fan base, but won over many new fans I talked with.

And a huge favorite was Chromeo, a band that makes the sort of music that I had hoped would never return: synth-poppy, later-period Hall and Oates-style cheesy dance music. One of the few moments at Sasquatch that I felt on the wrong side of the Gorge, though I might have been there all by myself.

For a bit of flavor, here are my 'minutes' from Sasquatch: 60-second video clips of some of the the many, many bands I've seen at the festival so far. I will post new videos as I shoot them, so keep checking back or follow us on Twitter @allsongs.

Of course, our main coverage of Sasquatch is here — click through for full concerts, photographs and much more. Enjoy!

I shot 67 one-minute videos of every band I saw at this year's SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas. Saturday, March 19 was the final day, and though it took me nearly two months to finish this project, here it is: The end of my collection of 2011 SXSW videos. You can see the others here.

On my fourth day, working on less than four hours of sleep, I was fairly disorganized. I knew we had some early-morning video shoots, and thankfully, they were a delight. Below are the Tiny SXSW concerts we shot Saturday morning at the Driskill Hotel. Sea of Bees was wonderful.

As exhausted as everyone was, the performers and yours truly included, the beautiful voices of Austra were so unexpected. I'd seen Austra as a full band and liked it a lot, but was sold on the group's talent when its members sang so beautifully so early in the day.

Scala and Kolacny Brothers were a 25-piece women's choir from Belgium along with the two brothers who arrange and conduct them. There's nothing more magnificent than the power of the human voice. Happy Saturday morning, world!

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It was hard to believe my Friday would get any better; I mean, it's only my first show of the day and I'm watching blinking snowmen and dancing under a huge blanket with Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt and the 30 other people who showed up. We all sang about love and hope, and it was only 2 p.m. SXSW life can be such exhausting fun.

Truth be told, my day had started at 8 a.m., just three and a half hours after I'd finished recording, editing and posting one of our late-night dispatch podcasts — those fun data dumps the NPR Music crew has at the end of each night.

I'd been up early to meet Emmylou Harris, Julianna Barwick and then Typhoon for some Tiny SXSW Concert video shoots, in which each artist performed just one song, shot in a beautiful space. We did six of them while in Austin.

Harris sang a beautiful song for Kate McGarrigle.

Barwick turned the space at the Driskill Hotel into a haunting personal cathedral by singing and looping her stunning voice.

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'Minutes' is a series of one-minute concert videos I take to document the shows I see.

Thursday was such a special day at SXSW. It was the day we worked so hard for, it was our big bash at The Parish. NPR Music's lineup had some of my favorite artists and it kicked off with sonic fireworks and the bass saxophone of Colin Stetson. One man, a reed and a hunk of metal making simply out of this world sounds. You can watch Colin Stetson's entire set here.

Watch more one-minute videos, after the jump.

You know it's going to be a good day when the first thing you see is Jack White performing in a parking lot. Could it get any better than this? Only at SXSW could the answer be yes. Which isn't to take anything away from getting a tour of the Third Man Records Rolling Record Store by Jack White — or hearing him play Texas hero Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" or The White Stripes' "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" with just him and a guitar. By the way, I'll put Jack White's audio tour of the truck on next week's edition of The Flipside With Jack White, right here on the blog.

Watch more one-minute videos, after the jump.

I will attempt to capture one minute video clips of every band I see at SXSW. I may fail: It's Tuesday and though this year's music festival hasn't officially started, the streets are already overflowing with people, and it's crazy.

The airport was filled with musicians — I met Smith Westerns at the baggage claim. My official day started by interviewing Josh Ritter about his soon-to-be-published novel Bright's Passage as part of SXSW Interactive. I'll try and get audio from that conversation, but for now you can download the first chapter of his book at his website.

When night fell I set out to see a few shows.

Here's what I saw.

The CMJ Music Marathon for 2010 is over. I spent three days at the five-day festival in New York and saw nearly 30 bands. I also made a point of videotaping one minute of every one of them. You can see each clip at the end of this post.

The College Music Journal puts on this event and scatters the music (and discussions of music) across lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn.

As a journalist and as a fan, I try to catch only acts that I've never seen before, hoping to hear something that is, if not new, certainly intriguing, adventurous and fun.

My favorites included electronic musician Jon Hopkins. His solo performance as an opening act for Four Tet at Webster Hall may have been the best solo electronic music set I've ever seen. His palette of sounds was thrilling, and his flow didn't rely on the thump-thump-thump that makes me run screaming from a lot of other electronic dance music. I thought his set was better than the act for which he opened.

On the charming and fun side was First Aid Kit, a duo of sisters from Sweden. The best guitar-based band I saw was called Suuns (pronounced soons). The group was fierce and angular. At CMJ, I graze, meaning I get a taste of a band and, whether I like it or don't like it, I'll often be off to another show before the one I'm already at ends. Only a few times did I stay for an entire set. Suuns was one. The Kopecky Family Band was another. I also sat through entire sets by Random Recipe and Lower Dens; I liked Lower Dens' music so much I had to see and hear it twice.

See 25 more of my CMJ minute videos and share your favorite CMJ moments after the jump.