What is the deal with SXSW anyway? It seems it is no longer a cattle call for
"new undiscovered" talent, but a chance for record companies to jerk off and
flaunt who they have in front of others. Ok, I can see someone playing to
maybe try to get a booking agent if they don't have one, or a manager, or even
better distribution bla bla, or hell, a label even. But you can't tell me that
many of the people they have playing don't already have much of that working
for them? Come on... Leon Russell, Lucinda, Cesar Rosas... man. If these guys
really need to play a cattle call then I am pretty damn depressed. I have
records by many of the bands I saw on the list. Are they paying these guys to
play to help draw a crowd?
Someone tell me, do these guys really need to do these gigs?
