# SXSW 2013: Best Bands Spotify Playlists, 10 Free SXSW Samplers and Thousand Song SXSW Torrents

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2013/03/sxsw-2013-best-bands-spotify-playlists-10-free-sxsw-music-samplers-and-9000-song-sxsw-torrents/
- Published: 2013-03-16T10:53:06-04:00
- Author: Max Hammer

A couple of days ago, we featured our first [SXSW 2013 Spotify ](https://indierockcafe.com/2013/03/sxsw-2013-spotify-playlist-of-must-see-bands-and-artists/)
playlist comprised of excellent songs from just some of our favorite bands and artists
performing at SXSW 2013, including **Alt-J, Why?, Shout Out Louds, Major Lazer, 
PS I Love You, Surfer Blood, Third Eye Blind, Toro Y Moi, Telekinesis, Thurston 
Moore, Kendrick LamarRhye, Gliss** and many others. In addition, the 2013 Top 10
Songs for February and January (determined by which songs listeners download and
stream the most), also feature amazing new singles from a variety of SXSW artists
and bands .

In addition to the first volume, we produced three other SXSW 2013 playlist mixes
via Spotify for a total of 120 outstanding songs by over 100 artists, from some 
of the most popular indie and alt. bands on the planet, to more obscure, DIY and
breakout artists creating a buzz in the past six months or so.

In volume two of IRC’s SXSW 2013 Best Bands Spotify Playlists series (featured to
the right), listen to new, and some older, choice tracks from artists like **DIIV,
Atlas Genius, FIDLAR, Boats, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Braids, Small Black, Deer
Tick, The Away Days, Guards, Lord Huron, Everything Everything, Skrillex, Dent May**,
and **Talib Kweli**, among others.

But wait, it gets even better. We’ve carefully assembled a list of 10 Free SXSW 
2013 Samplers, plus, a compendium of the world’s largest collection of SXSW torrents,
consisting of over 9,000 songs dating back to 2005. You’ll also find volume three
of our SXSW 2013 Best Bands Spotify Playlists, highlighting another set of 30 selected
tracks from some of our favorite SXSW 2013 bands and artists.

 1. The _Don’t Mess With Texas SXSW 2013 New Music Sampler_ is a free download on Amazon
    of 20 MP3 songs from artists such as **Local Natives, The Virgins, The Ocean Blue,
    Young Galaxy, Ra Ra Riot, Parenthetical Girls**, and **PAWS**.
 2. _SPIN_ spun up a mega zip of 60 tracks highlighting a broad genre and geo diversity
    of artists at SXSW 2013, including **The Coathangers, Beach Fossils, California
    X, Wavves, Toro Y Moi, The Soft Moon, Generationals, Lightouts, Dent May** and 
    dozens of others.
 3. _Paste_ put together a [SXSW 2013 free download](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/hgtvpaste-sxsw-2013-sampler)
    in conjunction with HGTV, and made available via NoiseTrade, titled _The Stages
    on Sixth_ (referring to 6th Street, the heart of Austin’s downtown music scene),
    featuring 25 artists booked for appearances at the _Paste/HGTV_ showcases during
    SXSW, like **Billy Bragg, Social Studies, City and Colour, Easter Island, Ron Sexsmith,
    Josh Rouse, The Virginmarys** and many more.
 4. ![emusicsxswphoto](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/emusicsxswphoto1-
    480x480.jpg "emusicsxswphoto")
 5. Emusic.com has assembled a sweet collection of 35 free tracks in their **eMusic
    SXSW 2013 Sampler**, available to be downloaded as one entire album, or by selecting
    individual tracks. Artists featured include **FIDLAR, Nu Sensae, Waxahatchee, Pissed
    Jeans, The 1975, Flume, Parquet Courts, King Tuff, Royal Baths, and Dana Falconberry**,
    to list just a few.
 6. As they have done every year for more than a decade, _NPR_ has put together an 
    extensive SXSW artist and music guide. This year, _NPR_ put together _[The Mix: The Austin 100](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/the-mix-the-austin-100)_,
    a collection of 100 songs from 100 artists from SXSW 2013, representing a diverse
    selection of talented musicians and bands. The 800+ MB zip includes tracks from
    the **Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Cafe Tacvba, Alt-J, Youth Lagoon,
    Waxahatchee** and **Le1f**.
 7. The website **SXSW Baby!** has put an 80 song 314 MB SXSW 2013 sampler broken into
    8 songs with 10 tracks apiece, with categories like _The British Sound Invasion_,
    _This Land Is Your Land_, and _A Little Bit of Rock With Your Roll._ Bands include**
    Conveyor, The Crookes, Roadkill Ghost Choir, LIttle Green Cars, Jack Bugg, Foxygen,
    Delta Rae, The Little Ones, Desert Noises** and Reptar.
 8. **Little Brother Music Publishing** released the [Little Brother SXSW 2013 Sampler](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/sxsw2013sampler.cfm)
    of 25 songs you can either listen to online and/or download for free. Artists include**
    Yellow Red Sparks, Babybird, Flogging Molly, The Tricks, Shurman, The White Buffalo,
    Baron Sisters**, among others.

![polyvinylsampler](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/51gKlNpgktL._SL500_AA280_.
jpg "polyvinylsampler")

 1. **Polyvinyl Records** released a free Amazon SXSW 2013 Sampler of its artists booked
    for SXSW 2013, such as **Generationals, STRFKR, Of Montreal, Japandroids, Deerhoof,
    Psychic Twin, Painted Palms** and five others.

  Texas-based blog _CultureMap_‘s **[Texas Showcase Showdown](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013musicsampler)**
  sampler includes songs from 15 of the Lone Star state’s own official **South by
  Southwest** showcase bands, including **Wild Child, Dana Falconberry, The Crooks**
  and **Band of Heathens**, to name a few.
  _Note: By the way, we need to put this out there. No one actually says “S-X-S-
  W” in a conversation – it’s either South By Southwest, which is actually respectful
  if you think about it, or ‘Southby,’ which is a hipster phraseology that we’re
  just not going to say. Simply put, “South By Southwest,” in conversation is the
  way to go. _
   1. The _We Can Only Be The Future_ website’s Future Sounds SXSW 2013 Spotify Sampler
      is a 20-song playlist with tracks by **FIDLAR, Spider Bags, Foxygen, Blue Hawaii,
      Bleached, Pissed Jeans, The Warlocks** and **The Afghan Whigs**.
   2. If you’re set up for torrents, and have disk space and time, you can go to town
      on the website [SXSWTorrent.com](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/sxswtorrent.com)–
      The (Unofficial) SXSW Torrents. SXSWBaby houses nine years and more than 9,000
      songs, totaling 45 gigs of SXSW samplers, beginning in 2005 right through to 
      this year. In fact, the 2013 torrent (in two parts) includes over 1,200 songs
      and 7.4 gigs in total size.
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