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  16 Best Indie Rock Street Styles

  March 22, 2011 –  …
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  SPIN Staff's Best & Worst of SXSW 2011

  March 21, 2011 – DOUG BROD -- EDITOR IN CHIEF, SPINBest Set: The Jim Jones Revue at Emo's Jr., Friday night. Until the Hives get back to touring this London quintet is simply the most electrifying live rock'n'roll act on the planet -- period. Hyperbole? Have you seen them?Best Discovery: Dinosaur Pile-Up, a trio from Leeds, England, that brings to mind a power-pop Nirvana or an aggro Ash. …
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  Best & Worst Moments of SXSW 2011: Day Four

  March 20, 2011 – BEST BAND TO WATCH THROUGH A FENCE: PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEARTCheer Up Charlie's hit capacity for the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, but it wasn't a problem for those left out in the line. All that separated them from the crowd was a chain-link fence, so they stopped sweating the wait and spread out with beer cans in hand. The band seemed relieved to be playing something so endearingly informal. …
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  Kanye West & Jay-Z Close Out SXSW

  March 20, 2011 – The fact that Kanye West was gracing Austin with his presence was no surprise. Even the fact that he'd brought Jay-Z with him wasn't a total surprise, given the spontaneous "Ho-va! Ho-va!" chant an hour into West's festival-capping set at a converted power plant downtown, sponsored by Vevo. …
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  'Mess With Texas' Megashow Helps Close out SXSW

  March 20, 2011 – It was no stunner that Ted Leo, punk-ethos lifer and reluctant interlocutor in South By Southwest's music-industry minstrel show, provided the most cutting epilogue to this year's cluster of the fucked: "I'm not impressed with your desire to be the biggest in the bowl," he sang on "The Sword in the Stone," at the fifth MWTX (Mess With Texas) party in a dusty, bi-level trailer park in East Austin. …
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  Best Photos from SXSW: Day 4

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  Best & Worst Moments of SXSW 2011: Day 3

  March 19, 2011 – BEST RIDDIMS: LITTLE DRAGONBacked by her chopsy wrecking crew of stone-cold Swedes, Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano was the perfect musical muse and master of ceremonies, vamping and vogueing to the band's unerring mix of live drumming and arty electro pulse. …
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  SXSW's Best Foxy Girl Group: Puro Instinct

  March 19, 2011 – As the Isley Brothers' cinematic wet kiss "Between the Sheets" faded down (at the buzzkillingly named Klub Krucial), Los Angeles indie-pop troupe Puro Instinct launched into their own hypnotic brand of bratty pillow talk. The band is led, and almost entirely defined, by the unavoidably blond swagger and Pretty Poison preociousness of the Kaplan sisters, Piper and Skylar. …
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  TVOTR, Kills, OFF!, Vaccines Play SPIN's Party

  March 19, 2011 – If TV on the Radio wanted to reintroduce themselves to their audience and get people excited about April's Nine Types of Light, they couldn't have done much better for themselves than their headlining set to a densely packed, sun-baked throng at SPIN's annual party at Stubb's BBQ in Austin. …
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  No Blood, No Glory: Thrasher Party Wilding at SXSW

  March 19, 2011 – In a SXSW sideshow with no shortage of highlights -- the proposition of Odd Future, Das Racist and a 40-year-old doom metal band sharing a bill hosted by Andrew W.K. frankly boggles the mind -- there was an irrefutable apex to Friday's Thrasher Magazine day party. As Los Angeles rap misfits Odd Future wrapped up their second song, crew leader Tyler the Creator eyed the onstage double-stack of massive speakers with a wicked grin. …
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