All links point to the 2005 SXSW Showcasing Artist page for the artist mentioned, except in the cases where I could not find a page (which probably means that the MP3 is located in the “add-on” batch of 20 songs).

The music ranges from bluegrass (Runaway Planet), dub (Sub Oslo), Americana, pure pop, punk and loads of decent acoustic tracks. There are also a small handful of bands seeking to revive the glam-punk of The Boys (Ends, Bones, Real Heroes) and some good electronica tracks. If you have been listening to my podcasts you will have already have heard a third of these tracks; I recommend you get the rest as well while you can (this batch of MP3s will probably be taken offline when the 2006 festival comes along).

A dozen or so artists are not listed simply because I already had the songs. So no Jawbone or Kings of Convenience in the list.

Sturgeons Law applies; this is the top 5%.

I listened to every one of the 750+ tracks and brought the list down to those below. Should you prefer to download all 750 tracks there is a couple of torrent feeds at SXSW’s Fest4Pod.

I’ll see if I can get time later to include direct links for the MP3s; but for now you will have to go each SXSW artist page to get the MP3s.

• S2SG2 — Aero Wave
• The Littlest Birds — Be Good Tanyas
• 3 Sheets to the Wind — The Black Halos
• Do You Wanna — The Bones
• Blah, Blah, Blah — Cartel de Santa
• Where You Are — Clare Burson
• Erotik Platonik — Cubiky
• Handful Savants — Cue
• New Hope Cemetery — The Damnations
• Ohh La La — Ditty Bops
• Just As Well — Emily Sparks
• Pucker Up — The Ends
• Kanon — Enon
• Trampoline — The Grates
• Pass and Fail — Heartless Bastards
• The Hustler — Jeff Klein
• Not Going Anywhere — Keren Ann
• Metal on a Gun — L-D Section I
• Too Late for Tonight — Laura Cantrell
• Ablaze — Liz Durrett
• I’ll Be Yr Bird — M. Ward
• Mercy Now — Mary Gauthier
• Nutopia — Meg Lee Chin
• Workshy Wunderkind — Nightingales
• Tonight, the Night — Bonnie Pink
• Move That Strut — The Real Heroes
• How Shall I Love Thee? — Rose Polenzani
• Rocking This Disaster — Roue
• Burn the Clutch Out — Runaway Planet
• List of Demands(Reparations) — Saul Williams
• Some Girls Have All The Fuck — Some Girls
• Afghan/Forlift — Stan Ridgway
• Sub Oslo Vs. Bookshelf Speakers — Sub Oslo
• Lucky Lipstick — Surferosa
• Walking With a Ghost — Tegan & Sara
• Happiness and Misery — Tywanna Jo Baskette
• The Ghost of the Girl — Willard Grant Conspiracy
• Glee Foundation — Xcella