I know it’s always easier to answer the question “Who’s playing SXSW this year?” with
“Everyone.”, but let’s just play along. They have announced
a preliminary handful of acts, which includes: David Cross, The Delgados, The Fiery Furnaces, Junior Senior, Modest Mouse, N.E.R.D., Radio 4, The Sleepy Jackson, The Stills, TV on the Radio, and The Walkmen. As I mentioned yesterday, there’s also Britt, Sally Crewe, Joel RL Phelps, Silkworm, etc.
Expect the list of performers to grow exponentially over the next 2 months.*UPDATE*-There’s a full list here (yahoo group registration req’d)(via ToT).

A 2nd PSOI track has been
released by Matador: Caught In The Rain

And here’s John Darnielle’s holiday Mountain Goats track that I guess I missed ’round holiday-time: Stable Boy Song.

In non-music news, murmur pointed out that, holy shit,
Freaks and Geeks is actually getting the DVD treatment!
It’ll be out in April, but you should sign up now
if you want to order the special edition which will “contain all of the episodes
plus an eighty page yearbook filled with photos and fun stuff from the show, plus more extras than you
can imagine”.

I can’t believe this is really coming out. Now where the hell is the Pete & Pete Collection?