Power Pop at SXSW (Part 1).

Music festival SXSW is almost upon us, and they've just released the schedule of artists and bands to play. The great part of this for the vast majority of us who won't end up attending is that they make an mp3 for most of the artists available for download at their site.

So here's a list of downloads that I would recommend for you, the reader, from the opening day (Wednesday) acts. I'll do a post for Thursday's later today or tomorrow, and, so on, for each day. These will be plenty to get you started:

David Mead-Wherever You Are (!)
Derby-Sunk a Few (more on them to come on this site)
The Capitol Years-Juicers
Oranger-New Comes and Goes
The Whigs-Violet Furs
Modern Skirts-My Bully
Irving-White Hot
The Heavy Blinkers-Try Telling That to My Baby
Matt Mays & El Torpedo-On The Hood
The M's-Future Women (we discussed them here the other day)
Of Montreal-Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games
Sam Champion-Slow Rewind
Chris Mills-Chris Mills Is Living The Dream
Healthy White Baby-Soul
Maritime-Parade of Punk Rock T Shirts

Also, here are some alt-country/Americana acts that I've taken a shine to:
Limbeck-People Don't Change
Dan Israel-Good Times
The Mudville Project-The Tea
Collin Herring-The Other Side of Kindness

The full Wednesday list is here. If you think I've missed someone of interest from Wednesday's lineup that has an mp3 available (note that some acts like The New Pornographers don't), please let us know in the comments.