Steve Wilson and Michael Byars play some of their favorite new music of 2010 and highlight a number of Kansas City-area bands showcasing their talent at SXSW.
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The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference & Festival wraps up this weekend in Austin, Texas.
This week the SXSW Music and Media Conference is showcasing hundreds of musical acts from around the globe.
By day, conference attendees do business in the SXSW Trade Show in the Austin Convention Center and partake of a full agenda of panel discussions featuring hundreds of speakers. Beginning in the afternoon, those bands strut their stuff on over eighty stages in downtown Austin.
Guest host Stephen Steigman welcomes Steve Wilson from Kief's Downtown Music in Lawrence and writer for KCFreePress.com and KCUR Music Coordinator and Morning Edition Host Michael Byars to play some of their favorite new music of 2010 and highlight a number of Kansas City-area bands showcasing their talent at SXSW.
Additional Information:
Learn more about bands from the KC area playing at this year's SXSW Music Festival on the Midwasteland Takeover website .
You can download music from the bands at SXSW here.
NPR Music is providing live coverage of the SXSW Festival.
| Michael Byars Top Picks of 2010 (so far) | ||
| Artist | Song | Album |
| Vi Tran | Girl at the Bakery | Goodbye Summer |
| Gin (Wigmore) | Don't Stop | Holy Smoke |
| Eric Bibb | Tell Riley | Booker's Guitar |
| Sonya Kitchell | Mr. Suicidal | Convict of Conviction |
| Jimi Hendrix | Bleeding Heart | Valleys of Neptune |
| **Local Bands playing at SXSW | ||
| Roman Numerals | Go/No/Go | Midwasteland Takeover |
| Tiny Horse | On the Market | Midwasteland Takeover |
| ? | ||
| Steve Wilson's Top Picks of 2010 (so far) | ||
| Artist | Song | Album |
| Bleach Bloodz | I Try | Pure Rock N Roll |
| Owen Pallett | Oh Heartland, Up Yours | Heartland |
| Roky Erickson | Bring Back the Past | True Love Cast Out All Evil |
| Spoon | Trouble Comes Running | Transference |
| Magnetic Fields | You Must Be Out of Your Mind | Realism |
| **Local Bands playing at SXSW | ||
| Cowboy Indian Bear | Snowing in Sydney | It's True! |
| Soft Reeds | Hemel Dalingen | Soft Reeds Are Bastards |