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SXSW 2009 Preview : All Songs Considered On this edition of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen chats with Carrie Brownstein, Robin Hilton, Stephen Thompson about some of the bands they're most looking forward to seeing at SXSW.

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SXSW 2009 Preview

SXSW 2009 Preview

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NPR Music At SXSW

You can click here to listen to The Austin 100: A SXSW Mix, and click here to download a free 10-song sampler of artists NPR Music is presenting at SXSW.

NPR Music and All Songs Considered will be in Austin, Tex. this week, blogging, broadcasting and webcasting nearly a dozen live concerts from some of the year's most exciting bands, at this year's South by Southwest festival. You'll hear The Decemberists debut their entire new album, The Hazards of Love, along with performances by K'Naan, The Heartless Bastards and many more, all webcast live on NPR.org.

On this edition of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen chats with NPR Monitor Mix blogger Carrie Brownstein, producer and Second Stage host Robin Hilton, and Song of the Day editor Stephen Thompson about some of the bands they're most looking forward to seeing at this year's South by Southwest festival in Austin, Tex. Hear music from some great unknown bands, like Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned, Passion Pit, and The Weird Weeds, plus Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Mirah, and Ponytail.

SXSW 2009 Preview

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Grim Reaper Blues

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The Entrance Band

  • Song: Grim Reaper Blues
  • from Prayer of Death
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My Best Friend's Hot

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The Dollyrots

  • Song: My Best Friend's Hot
  • from Because I'm Awesome
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A March Through Charles Mingus' Garbage Pile

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Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned

  • Song: A March Through Charles Mingus' Garbage Pile
  • from A March Through Charles Mingus' Garbage Pile (Single)
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Pink Sabbath

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Dananananaykroyd

  • Song: Pink Sabbath
  • from Pink Sabbath (Single)
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You'll Disappear

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The Phenomenal Handclap Band

  • Song: You'll Disappear
  • from Ioda SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler 2009
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Sleepyhead

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Passion Pit

  • Song: Sleepyhead
  • from Chunk of Change
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Red

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The Weird Weeds

  • Song: Red
  • from I Miss This
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Never Ends

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Vijay Kishore

  • Song: Never Ends
  • from Never Ends (Single)
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Yours Truly, The Commuter

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Jason Lytle

  • Song: Yours Truly, The Commuter
  • from Yours Truly, The Commuter

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Tell Me It Ain't So

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Micah P. Hinson

  • Song: Tell Me It Ain't So
  • from Micah P. Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra
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Golden Phone

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Micachu & The Shapes

  • Song: Golden Phone
  • from Jewellery
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Eyes Hands Mouth

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Explode Into Colors

  • Song: Eyes Hands Mouth
  • from Eyes Hands Mouth (single)
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Celebrate the Body Electric (It Came from an Angel)

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Ponytail

  • Song: Celebrate the Body Electric (It Came from an Angel)
  • from Ice Cream Spiritual!
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Mold the Gold

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Pink Nasty

  • Song: Mold the Gold
  • from Mold the Gold
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Generosity

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Mirah

  • Song: Generosity
  • from (A)spera
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We Are Young

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The Shaky Hands

  • Song: We Are Young
  • from Lunglight

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