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Not quite SXSW around town
If you live far east of I-35, you would be excused for thinking it was just a regular Thursday in March. There were few signs that South By Southwest was even going on north of 12th Street and east of Chicon Street.
But various smaller venues east of I-35, the sorts of places that have regular live music when SXSW isn’t going on, are hosting unofficial day and night parties.
A small group gathered at the Parlor on East North Loop for a day show featuring such cult acts as the noise rock band Todd and locals When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.
Spot Long, owner of Trailer Space Records is hosting day and night parties organized by Austin band the Strange Boys. “We had several hundred people here (Wednesday night),” Long said while the band TV Ghost wailed away in front of a good-sized crowd Thursday afternoon. “The crowd carted off all the Vitamin Water I got as a give-away.”
But the closer you got to downtown Austin Thursday evening, the more intense and exhausting the traffic became, with band vans towing trailers navigating tight east side streets and fans looking for parking competing with city buses for space on the road. Downtown streets that feed into I-35 such as 15th and 11th streets came to a virtual standstill during rush hour Thursday.
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