SXSW 2007: Big Bloc 4

It's always exciting when South by Southwest announces its schedule and posts songs by many of the bands that will be appearing at the festival. I just spent several--okay, six--pleasant hours making my way through the entire list from Aa to zZz (I skipped +/- because they didn't provide a sample mp3). I admit I didn't listen to every single song. Certain categories didn't really interest me, not yet at least. But I did give ear to everything labelled rock and pop that I didn't already know, plus a few others. I actually want to go back and listen to a few more categories, but I've compiled a list of a couple hundred tunes that I liked. The eternal question at a blog: to post only a few at a time or post the whole lot? I know it's daunting to see a long list, so if you're interested, you might only want to sample a few at a time. Hopefully they'll be here for awhile. SXSW seems to leave them posted semi-permanently, as I showed with my recent posts for SXSW 2005 and SXSW 2006. Anyway, enough chatter, let's to the tunes. I begin with the ones that comport most closely with two of the three terms at the masthead of this blog: powerpop and indie. I've got a bunch more, especially of the indie variety, but most of those have pp tendencies. I'll be posting some of them over the next couple of days. Here are a stingy baker's three dozen. Links are provided to the SXSW band sites.

Air Traffic - Charlotte mp3
The Apples in Stereo - Energy mp3
The Ark – One of Us Is Gonna Die Young mp3
The Awkward Stage – Heaven is for Easy Girls mp3
Bang Gang – Find What You Get mp3
The Breakup Society – Robin Zander mp3
Broadfield Marchers – Kingdom for Lions mp3
The Capitol Years – You Can Stay There mp3
The Comas – New Wolf mp3
The Dagons – It Flies Out mp3
E>K>U>K – KeMo Thera-P mp3
Electrico – Love in New Wave mp3
Elemeno P - 1157 mp3
The Ends – Nice Quiet You mp3
The Explorers Club - Forever mp3
Fernando – Howard Hughes mp3
Future Clouds and Radar – Quicksilver mp3
The Gear – Eight Arms to Hold You mp3
Going Home – Act 7, Scene 8 mp3
Goldenboy – Summer of the Evening mp3
The Jellydots - Bicycle mp3
The Little Ones – Lovers Who Uncover mp3
Los Abandoned – a la mode mp3
Luminous Orange - EverySingleChild mp3
The Moog – I Like You mp3
Paul Collins Beat - Helen mp3
Patrick Pike – Beautiful Thing mp3
Pop Levi – Sugar Assault Me Now mp3
The Procession – Major and Minor mp3
Starky – Hey Bang Bang mp3
The Sterns – Supreme Girl mp3
The Teeth – Trumpet Blared mp3
Winterpills – Broken Arm mp3
The Yoko Casionos – Loose Cannon mp3
The Zebras – You Look Ready mp3