Here it is, our last piece of SXSW coverage. The warm sun has snuck out of our skin and we can barely taste the frozen avocado margaritas anymore, so for anything Austin related in the future you'll have to go here. The Cloud Room let you read all about their experience at South By, and now The National, a band we've recently been listening to more and more, opens up their diary to you. They......

Before heading down to Austin we asked a couple of New York bands if they could keep a tour diary of their experiences at SXSW for us. We ran into J, singer of Brooklyn band The Cloud Room, at the party on Friday night and he showed us some folded up papers filled with black ink scribblings. Below is what filled up those papers by the end of the weekend: Thursday We arrived around 10pm.......

Gothamist returned from Austin last night and headed straight to the Mercury Lounge for the Go! Team (who were fun - but not as good live as on their album). Needless to say we are tired, exhausted and sad to not be wearing flip flops and tank tops anymore. While down at South By (as the locals call it) we caught Fractious, The Prix, Idlewild, MC Chris and Maximo Park at the aforementioned party which......

Friday night Gothamist hung out at casa de Austinist for an exclusive list only party that was essentially put on by New York's own Ultragrrrl. Scanning over the list during the calm of the storm (ie: an hour before the house was invaded by Brit pop bands and the people who love them) we noticed one name that stuck out, Jay-Z. Check it out here. We just hoped he liked Sparks and Red Stripe......

Today kicks off the music portion of SXSW. Gothamist heads out before sunrise on Friday morning to the great state of Texas. And we're totally planning on messing with it, even if that t-shirt in Urban Outfitters says not to. We defy you t-shirt! Ahem. Anyway, as we said, we'll be going to Austin to cover the SXSW music conference for you. We use the term "conference" lightly, as we've been told that SXSW......

This is the week that NYC takes a field trip to Austin, Texas for SXSW. Gothamist will be heading out very, very early Friday morning to report on the rock for you, so stay tuned for coverage and special features here as well as at Austinist. We plan to rest up this week but not until after the SXSW Pep Rally! We figure a pep rally is like the equivalent of drinking Sparks (minus the......