Give Your Love to SXSW
Holly Fuck Kids, Give your love to the organizers/bands @ SXSW,
Pick Up 2.6 Gigs (Yes, 2.6 Gigs) of mp3's from the bands that are playing. According to the Wired article:

"For the bands, providing a free MP3 of their music is optional. Of the more than 1,350 bands scheduled to play the festival, 758 offered an MP3. The songs can also be downloaded individually from the conference website."

This is amazing. SXSW is the premier even for up and coming bands. This is a great, legal use for technology like bittorrent. As a geek, I commend everybody involved. I am currently downloading it, and looking forward to listening to the collection.

South by Southwest festivals + conferences


20 Random Tracks
Finally the World famous (Not really) 20 random tracks. OneclickPlay picked well today. It's a fine collection, excluding the Christiana with such fine lyrical content as: "I'm a genie in a bottle, baby, you've got to rub me the right way". GBV, Lemonheads, Ben Folds, Sonic Youth, Placebo, BAD... Very, very good.

1. Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI (2:56)
2. Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray (3:07)
3. Ben Folds Five - Jackson Cannery (4:01)
4. The B-52's - Love Shack (4:19)
5. B.T.K. - Peppyrock (3:38)
6. Story of the Year - And the Hero will Drown (3:13)
7. Stereophonics - Have A Nice Day (3:25)
8. Sloan - Lucky For Me (3:11)
9. Jamiroquai - Love Foolsophy (3:45)
10. Tears For Fears - Mad World (3:35)
11. Flogging Molly - The Ol' Beggars Bush (4:33)
12. Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why (5:27)
13. The Raveonettes - Heartbreak Stroll (2:26)
14. Placebo - Every You Every Me (3:33)
15. Sonic Youth - Androgynous Mind (3:30)
16. Foo Fighters - See You (2:26)
17. Big Audio Dynamite - The Globe (6:03)
18. Violent Femmes - Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You) - Violent Femmes - Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You) (3:21)
19. The Sundays - Goodbye (4:46)
20. Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle (3:37)