SXSW Band Sampler: Playlist of Artists and Bands from N – R

Austin band Okkervil River

Today marks the officially beginning of the South by Southwest music conference. Yesterday, we published a list of 35 artists and bands to look out for at SXSW 09. Here is the completion of that list featuring songs from SXSW booked artists, letters N through R.

“Automatic Blues”Neat Neat Neat from Hamburg DE

“Beast” Nico Vega from Los Angeles CA

“Eraser”No Age from Los Angeles, CA

“Lost Coastlines”Okkervil River from Austin TX

“Hard Times in America”Willie Nile from New York NY

“Wet Gold”The Octopus Project from Austin TX

“Let’s Get It Started”Oh No Not Stereo from Los Angeles CA

“Ferocious”OK City OK from Tokyo Japan

“Sofa Surfer Girl”The Orchid Highway from Vancouver BC

“Young Adult Friction”The Pains of Being Pure at Heart from New York, NY

“No Place Like Home”Out From Animals from Chester UK

“Walk On”Palomar from Brooklyn NY

“Sleepyhead”Passion Pit from Boston MA

“Mr. Understanding”Pete and The Pirates from Reading UK

“Gimme Chemicals”The Pink Spiders from Nashville TN

“I Woke Up Today”Port O’Brien from Cambria CA

“Tora Tora Tora”Pretty & Nice from Boston MA

“Dying is Fine”Ra Ra Riot from Syracuse NY

“New Scissors” Royal Bangs from Knoxville TN

“Frank AB”The Rural Alberta Advantage from Toronto ON

Bands S through Z coming up.

More Best Indie of 2008 – Born Ruffians, Annuals, Travel By Sea and More

Woahhh. Page traffic shows a good chunk of people are still very interested in hearing more great indie music from 2008. Okie dokie.

The following is a playlist of 08 indie songs featuring Born Ruffians, Annuals, Travel by Sea, Annuals, Pete and the Pirates and The Sound of Arrows.

“Badonkadonkey”Born Ruffians from Red, Yellow and Blue (EP)

“Around Your Neck”Annuals from Wet Zoo (EP)

“Truth Was”Travel by Sea from Days of My Escape

“Eyes Like Tar”Pete And The Pirates from Little Death

“A Very Sad Song”The Sound of Arrows from Danger! (EP)