SXSW live music review: Perez Hilton, Built to Spill, The Cult, Mumford and Sons

When SXSW began announcing the 2012 bands invited to play last month, we noticed Built to Spill had scheduled a ton of festival performances which made us grin ear-to-ear. We also saw an eclectic line-up at the Austin Music Hall for Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin, met We Were Promised Jet Packs, saw The Cult at Waterloo Records' insane parking lot show and got up early to watch Keane and Citizen Cope perform inside the W Hotel followed by an interview with Mumford and Sons and Edward Sharpe by Andy Langer and Bryan Beck of KGSR radio.

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Live SXSW music review: Delta Spirit, Springsteen, Quiet Company, Soldier Thread

With one half of SXSW music week behind us, we took a look back at the standout performances thus far. Rather than take the approach of skipping local acts we can see all year, Austin bands were mixed into our schedule with national acts. There were notable appearances by Spirit Animal, Delta Spirit, Bruce Springsteen, Ruthie Foster, Carolyn Wonderland, The Soldier Thread and Built To Spill. 

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Live music review: Radiohead ACL TV taping blows away fans

When Radiohead announced their tour stop in Austin at the Frank Erwin Center last year tickets sold-out in minutes. Their subsequent scheduling of an Austin City Limits TV taping only served to hype the indie-rock kings visit to the "Live Music Capital" further. Only the opening ACL TV taping at The Moody Theatre at the W Hotel had as much pre-concert buzz as Radiohead's taping did.

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SXSW music preview: Top 5 day parties

We know how daunting the listing of South by Southwest (SXSW) parties can be so we waded through a gargantuan pile of invites and selected our top five day parties for you. Below is only a sampling of the hundreds of events planned next week when the music officially kicks off on Tuesday. We chose one day party to highlight through Saturday. Yes, SXSW events scheduled on Sunday, but if your calendar is as full as ours is, you are going to want to rest at the end of what promises to be a jam-packed week of great independent bands performing in Austin.

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