SXSW and Exploding In Sound... Together At Last!

***REVIEW - DAY 5: RIVAL SCHOOLS / AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR / FANG ISLAND / and more***

***REVIEW - DAY 4: KARNIVOOL / MINUS THE BEAR / JUNIUS / and more***

***REVIEW - DAY 3: DEAD CONFEDERATE / DARKER MY LOVE / VIOLENT SOHO / and more***

***REVIEW - DAY 2: STONE TEMPLE PILOTS / SLANG CHICKENS / MAGNET SCHOOL / and more***

***REVIEW - DAY 1: EXETER / LIONS***

SXSW 2010 is finally upon us, and I for one couldn't be more excited. It has been a dream of mine to attend the countries largest music festival for many years, and I am happy to say thanks to DecoyMusic.com in conjunction with ExplodingInSound.com, I will be attending and bringing you full coverage of all the rock you can cram into five days. SXSW has created the opportunity to see many of my favorite up-and-coming bands that haven't made it out to our East Coast headquarters just yet. This post will be updated daily with complete action from Austin, TX including many of the site's absolute favorite bands. While maintaining a strict schedule seems more and more ridiculous by the day, due to set time changes and the unbelievable amount of great bands performing, I have mapped out a very tentative schedule of where you can find ExplodingInSound.com and shows that can't be missed.

If you are attending, please come say hello. This is not only an opportunity for me to see an enormous amount of bands I love, but to meet many of the people that have helped make ExplodingInSound.com a place to find great new music from all around the world. Our schedule is...

Wednesday 3/17 (there are many great bands performing throughout the day, however my schedule doesn't start til the late evening due to my flight):

11:45 PM: Exeter (Captiva Showcase @ The Bayou Lounge)*
12:30 AM: LIONS (Red Eyed Fly)

Thursday 3/18:

12:30 PM: Quest For Fire (BGBH Party @ Annie’s West – 706 W. 6th St.)
1:00 PM: Slang Chickens (BGBH Party @ Annie’s West – 706 W. 6th St.)
2:00 PM: Chylde (Encore - Converse/Thrasher Magazine/Small Stone Records Day Party)*
3:00 PM: Magnet School (Converse/Thrasher Magazine/Small Stone Records Day Party)*
4:30 PM: Gozu (Converse/Thrasher Magazine/Small Stone Records Day Party)*
5:30 PM: Suplecs (Converse/Thrasher Magazine/Small Stone Records Day Party)*
6:15 PM: Fever Dreams (Killredrocketrecords Party - Metropolis Apartments)*
8:00 PM: Monument To No One (Killredrocketrecords Party - Metropolis Apartments)*
8:45 PM: Bloody Knives (Killredrocketrecords Party - Metropolis Apartments)*
10:30 PM: Stone Temple Pilots (Austin Music Hall)

Friday 3/19:

1:20 PM: Dead Confederate (Little Radio Day Party @ Red Eyed Fly)*
2:20 PM: Darker My Love (Little Radio Day Party @ Red Eyed Fly)*
4:45 PM: Violent Soho (Molotov Lounge)*
7:15 PM: Apteka (Killredrocketrecords Party - Metropolis Apartments)*
8:00 PM: Bloody Knives (Killredrocketrecords Party - Metropolis Apartments)*
8:45 PM: Gift Horse (Killredrocketrecords Party - Metropolis Apartments)*
9:30 PM: Exeter (Killredrocketrecords Party - Metropolis Apartments)*
12:00 AM: True Widow (Encore)
1:15 AM: Demolished Thoughts (J Mascis/Thurston Moore) (Ecstatic Peace Records Showcase - Red Patio 7)

Saturday 3/20:

12:00 PM: Karnivool (WAM Showcase @ Maggie Mae’s Gibson Room)
1:00 PM: LIONS (Peckerhead’s - 402 East 6th Street)
3:00 PM: Left Lane Cruiser (The Belmont)
4:00 PM: Karnivool (Acoustic) (The Belmont)
7:00 PM: Open Hand (Canvas Bar & Gallery, 105 East 5th Street)
9:00 PM: Minus the Bear (Stubb’s)
10:00 PM: Midnight Masses (Buffalo Billiards)
11:00 PM: Junius (Valhalla - 710 Red River St.)
12:15 AM: J Mascis (Red 7 Patio)
1:00 AM: Karnivool (Maggie Mae’s Gibson Room)

Sunday 3/21:

1:00 PM: STEREO IS A LIE (Six Stages Over Texas - San Antonio St.)
2:30 PM: Turbo Fruits (Panache Hangover Party @ Beerland)*
4:15 PM: And So I Watch You From Afar (Red 7)
4:45 PM: Butterfly Explosion (Red 7)
5:45 PM: Juarez (Red 7)
8:45 PM: Native (Red 7)
9:45 PM: Junius (Red 7)
10:15 PM: Fang Island (Red 7)
10:45 PM: Constants (Red 7)
11:15 PM: Caspian (Red 7)
11:45 PM: Rival Schools (Red 7)

* = FREE show (many others may be free as well, but these I know for sure...)

That being said, there are MANY MANY more amazing bands to see at this year's SXSW, including: Priestess, Good Old War, Obsolete Machines, Woven Bones, The Depreciation Guild, UME, A Shoreline Dream, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Adam Franklin, Bad Veins, Royal Bangs, Band of Horses, Black Helicopter, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Delta Spirit, Dios, Hopewell, Imaad Wasif, Japandroids, Jason Simon (Dead Meadow), Jimmy Gnecco (Ours), Kreisor, Local Natives, Lou Barlow, Maps & Atlases, Mariachi El Bronx, MG&V, Middle Class Rut, Midnight Masses, Mini Mansions, Naam, Quasi, Sasquatch, Sleepy Sun, Street Sweeper Social Club, The Black Angels, The Chinese Stars, The Main Street Gospel, The Megaphonic Thrift, The Strange Boys, The Whigs, Tides of Man, Torche, Twin Tigers, The Boxing Lesson, and many more...