Friday.

Recommendations for Friday non-SXSW free shows below. These are all free shows, and include free beer(while supplies last) and potentially free food, and none of these, so far as Showlist Austin is concerned, requires an RSVP to attend:

The Stem & Leaf Day Party @ The Khabele School(801 Rio Grande St.)

Free Beer!

The Theater Fire (7:40pm)

The Unbearables (6:50pm)

Agent Ribbons (6pm)

The Bubbles (5:10pm)

The Cartographers (4:20pm)

Jasper James (3:10pm)

Tiny Animals (2:30pm)

One Hundred Flowers, (1:40pm)

Wild Moccasins (12:50pm)

Elaine Greer (noon)

Dickies Battle @ The Compound(1300 E. 4th St.)

1-6pm, free, free beer and BBQ, live screen
printing

The lineup(no times provided):

The Story Of
6 Day Battle
Facts on File
Golden Triangle
Holy Hail
Roll the
Tanks
The Ferocious Four
The Snake Trap

Type By Type Writer @ the Typewriter Museum (1306 E. 6th St.)

Free Beer!

Split Hoof (7:40pm)

Flat Car Rattlers (7:10pm)

The Somethin' Ain't Rights (6:50pm)

Corrinne Rose (6:20pm)

That Damned Band (6pm)

Lucas Hudgins (5:30pm)

Billy Cook (5:10pm)

Reid Wilson and his So-Called Friends (4:40pm)

Colin Swietek (4:20pm)

Woodgrain (3:50pm)

Gay Duo (Mexico, 3:30pm)

Asakusa Jinta (Japan, 3pm)

The Slants (Portland, 2:40pm)

Ume (2:10pm)

Butcher Bear and Charlie's Roller Coaster Band (1:50pm)

The Roller (1:20pm)

Seven Black Tornadoes (1pm)

Peelander Z (Japan, 12:30pm)

Forcefield PR/Asthmatic Kitty present a SXSW Junk Yard Piznik

Okay Mountain Gallery (1312 E. Cesar Chavez, Ste. B (at Navasota))

Free Beer! All Ages!

Bosque Brown (5:30pm)

DM Stith (4:40pm)

Dent May and his Magnificent Ukulele (3:50pm)

Jookabox (3pm)

Tune-Yards (2:10pm)

Benjy Ferree (1:20pm)

Shiny Around the Edges (12:30pm)

8th Impression day party @ Lovejoys(604 Neches St)

free beer! 21+

The Raggedy Anns (Seattle, 6:00pm)

Bang Camaro (Boston, 4:30pm)

Cetan Clawson (Detroit, 3:30pm)

State & Madison (Chicago, 2:30pm)

Slaves to Gravity (London, 1:30pm)

Kim Taylor (Cincinatti, 12:30pm)

People In A Position To Know Recordings and Olympia All Ages Project day party

1024 E. 44th St. - 11 AM - 7 PM

Free Beer!

Muggabears (7pm)

Ryan Anderson (6:30pm)

Bearsuit (5:45pm)

Fishboy (5:15pm),

Hot Lava (4:30pm)

Hermit Thrushes (4pm)

Casper and the Cookies (3:15pm)

Ruby Isle (2:30pm)

Forever (2:10pm)

LAKE (1:30pm)

Little Birds (12:50pm)

RTB2 (12:20pm)

Geoffrey Reacher (11:50pm)

Pezzettino (11:30pm)

After the Jump Festival house party @ US Royalty at 1204 Salina St. - 1PM - 11 PM

Free Beer!

Superdrag

The Parenthetical Girls

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Cause Co-Motion

Blank Dogs

Nite Jewel

Girls

Golden Triangle

Owl Tree Roasting (3421 N. IH 35)

Free beer!

The Nervebreakers (5pm)

The Transgressors (4pm)

Ariel Abshire (3pm)

Churchwood (2pm)

T.Tex and Out On Parole (1pm)

Gina Lee and her Brisket Boys (noon)

Rubydog Music presents TeXchromosome @ Opal Divine's Freehouse (700 W. 6th St.)

Free Beer!

Penny Jo Pullus (7:30pm)

Bex Marshall (6:30pm)

Chrissy Flatt (5:30pm)

Bonny Holmes (4:30pm)

Claire Small (3:30pm)

Ruthie and The Wranglers (2:45pm)

Janine Wilson (2pm)

Kate Gaffney (1:15pm)

Amanda Cunningham (12:30pm)

Carrie Engdahl (11:45am)

Cream Vintage (2532 Guadalupe)

Free Beer!

The Vitamins (7pm)

Sugar and Gold (6pm)

Motel Aviv (5pm)

The Steps (4pm)

Through the Trees (3pm)

Army Navy (2pm)

Hymns (1pm)

Moon Jaw Records Day Party @ Brave New Books (1904 Guadalupe St. B)

Free Beer! 2-7pm

Theodore

Southeast Engine

Frontier Ruckus

Monahans

Emily Rodgers

SpaceBySpaceCave @ Space Cave (3109 Walnut Ave.)

free drinks, free root beer, mud pit, etc - I dunno if this means free beer, but root beer kinda counts, plus I like two of the bands in this lineup a lot.

DJ Richard Gear (2am)

DJ Bill (1am)

Mos Jeficit (midnight)

Transmography (11pm)

Little Stolen Moment/Stanley Roy and his Vice
(10pm)

Quiet Hooves (9pm)

Fiction (8pm)

Canopy (7pm)

Celebration (6pm)

Project Jenny Project Jan (5pm)

No Mas Bodas (4pm)

Dry River Yacht Club (3pm)

Alice Russel (2pm)

The Migrant (1pm)

Little Radio presents @ Red Eyed Fly(715 Red River St):

Free Bloody Marys & Beer!

White Denim (5:20pm)

Restavrant (4:50pm)

Phosphorescent (4:20pm)

Henry Clay People (3:50pm)

Horse Feathers (3:20pm)

MAdM (2:50pm)

Great Northern (2:20pm)

Pity Party (1:50pm)

Spindrift (1:20pm)

Matt Ellis (12:30pm)

That's it! Now, for bands that I would recommend amongst these(I could probably recommend more, but I don't know most of these groups, so these are the ones I've seen):

One Hundred Flowers - a very polite group of youngsters with a big ol' drum and some synths and guitars and stuff and things. My pal Eva, who organized the first show in this list, sings backing vocs and does synth stuff and bangs on the aforementioned huge drum thing. She is also in:

The Unbearables - The group that resulted in One Hundred Flowers, this is I think a nine piece with regular instances of multiple part harmonies and some songs about zombies and things. They're fantastic, and not unbearable at all.

Transmography - These guys are high energy noise-rockers with a keyboardist and a drummer, last time I saw them. That lineup could have changed since then, but they are a good goddamn pleasure to see.

No Mas Bodas - is weird. My pal Sonya plays cello in this band, and the lead singer shoots the audience with a ray gun.

White Denim - These guys are amazing.

And these bands, just because I like their names:

Mos Jeficit

Southeast Engine
Frontier Ruckus

Jookabox

Peelander Z

The Somethin' Ain't Rights

Aaaand for the hell of it, here are some bands that I really like and think you should see, even though there is no free beer. Ordered by how much I like them, top to bottom:

The Spinto Band, 5:30 at Red House Pizzeria(1917 Manor Rd.)

Invincible Czars, at Salvage Vanguard Theater(2803 Manor Rd)

Wine and Revolution, 5 PM at Spiderhouse(2908 Fruth St, just off Guadalupe, north of the drag)

Black Joe Lewis, 4PM at Waterloo Records(600 N Lamar Blvd # A)

The Boxing Lesson, 7:30 PM at Gueros Taco Bar (1412 S. Congress Ave.)

Enjoy!

SXSW can be free and awesome and that is the truth.

I headed over last night to this dumpy dive on the east side of 6th street called Ms. Bea's to check out some music with a couple friends. Since I am a broke-ass, the entrance fee of 0.00 was exceedingly satisfactory.

The first group that was on stage when I got there was actually a dude with a loop station and a drum kit. He was pretty awesome and had a headset microphone. Since none of the bands said their name I'm just going to guess from the showlist I found online that he was Daniel Francis Doyle. I really dug his set.

Next up was Numerators, who were a noise rock band that had approximately 18,000 members, most of whom played various pieces of a disassembled drum kit, giving the band a very drum circle-y feel. Three of the members played guitar, there was no bass, and I'm pretty sure none of them sang. They were introduced by a diminutive child with hipster clothes on.

I did not enjoy Numerators.

Dikes of Holland were enjoyable. It was more noise rock but with garage rock elements thrown in, and I'm pretty sure they were singing about their baby most of the time. Noting the hipsters staring at their shoes, I joined the only three people who appeared to have any fun, and we moshed around a bit.

White Denim was fantastic as always. The lead singer delivers his lines in a very classically soulful manner, and their drummer is essentially a badass. The music is dancy but they do have a tendency to slip into jam band territory a little bit, which is not something I'm a fan of in general, but for the most part they are ridiculously good. Rolling Stone Magazine did a better job talking about them than I could, so read that.

Tonight? I might go to Hole in the Wall to see One Eyed Doll. It's free.

Waylaid.

I hear we are having some TRYING ECONOMIC TIMES right now, and in light of that, I've decided to scale back my spending. Of course, the economy hasn't really hit my wallet yet, but my insatiable appetite for the finer things like lunch meat that is not on sale, and non-dollar menu food items at Wendy's has.

And so! I've decided to seek out that which is cheap or free, and fun to do in Austin. I figure having to blog about it will likely help motivate me to get off my ass and do it, so here we are.

A little background info on me: I'm in one of the hundreds of shitty bands here in Austin. As a musician, I'm fortunate to be able to barely afford my own apartment and a car, but indulging in such frivolties has rendered me largely penniless. I have a 9 to 6 job that places me in front of a computer all day, and I'm trying to quit smoking.

That's all you need to know, for now. I'll be updating in the near future about some of my favorite places to go.