Keane at Cedar Street

Please read our previous SXSW coverage. Below is Brody’s report. More photographs on facebook.com.

Zula Winter at Mohawk

Blood Orange at Mohawk

Django Django @ Flat Top Burger Shop

Top 10 Best Performances SXSW 2012!!!!!

1. Django Django @ Flat Top Burger Shop

2. Michael Kiwanuka @ St. David’s Church

3. Free Energy ND

4. Jonquil @ Flat Top Burger Shop

5. Lee Mayfield and the Expressions Red

6. Kaiser Chiefs @ Cedar Street Courtyard

7. Pomegranates Beauty Bar

8. Fanfarlo @ club de ville

9. We Were Promised Jet Packs @ Red 7

10. Blood Orange @ Mohawk

NOTE: Sydney Wayser would have been on this list if I would have seen her showcase. Seven out the top ten are from England, what a surprise? The Staves, Cults, Tennis, The Twilight Sad, and Keane, were all great shows too.

Disappointments

1. Belaire

2. Zula Winter

3. Band of Skulls

The 20 Artists I missed

1. Kasabian*

2. Alabama Shakes

3. Andrew Bird

4. Ben Howard

5. The Envy Corps*

6. Nikki and the Dove

7. Mumford and Sons*

8. Slowdance

9. Zola Jesus

10. Oberhofer

11. The Shins

12. Young Buffalo

13. Fort Lean

14. Housse De Racket

15. The Love Language*

16. Electric Guest

17. Gringo Starr

18. Lake Street Dive

19. Fiction

20. Balthazar

* previously already seen

Miike Snow, Edward Sharpe, Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple, The Cult, Old Crow Medicine Show, Cage the Elephant, Skrillex, Erykah Badu, were also all there this year.

I leave you with a very memorable video of SXSW! Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs! More videos on youtube.com