New Releases for Tues., Jan. 23 & 340 Bands That Are Playing SXSW

My new release column is up at Austinist, and a ton of stuff came out today. Head over for some links, videos, mp3s and some pointless musings on my part about the stuff that officially dropped today.

There’s also our update on SXSW: We’ve counted 340 or so bands, but no official list from headquarters just yet. Are they really that afraid of day parties stealing their thunder that they’d rather rogue journalists on the web make their announcements for them? Am I missing something?