FGTW SXSW Update

Grace Potter (Grace Potter and the Nocturnals)

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals – White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals @ Rusty Spurs at SXSW 2010 performing their White Rabbit cover which was on the recently released Tim Burton’s “Almost Alice” soundtrack. “The band will be releasing their third album (June 8 on Hollywood Records).

A candid interview with the boys and we mean boys of Surfer Blood

Marina and the Diamonds – Girls

Marina feeling very comfortable in her skin at SXSW stage

The Very Best perform a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Will You Be There” at SXSW to a lit up audience.

Efterklang – Modern Drift
Efterklang plays Modern Drift at the Danish Dynamite Party at SXSW 2010

Dreamy surf rock from Beth and Co. with “When I’m With You” at the NPR stage at SXSW. Note she blogged that SXSW is “insane and I want to go home”  Her calendar looks like she is homebound after this with an actual birthday party for Alley in Upland, California set planned. See her calendar here

Also we caught up with her and the Vivian Girls in Portland last month. A blast from the past from our days soaking up that California beach vibe of fuzzy guitars on those ‘June Gloom’ summer mornings when the cloud shrouded beaches break into hazy sunshine and the surfer boys are riding around in  fast cars scoping out all the beach babes.

She and Him perform their traditional “Black Hole” at SXSW

Sharon Van Etten performing “Much More Than That” at the Driskell Hotel in Austin, Texas during SXSW

Sum 41 make an appearance at SXSW here performing “In Too Deep”