March 11, 2013 – SXSW, the annual pulled-pork crawl and Frito pie gorge-sesh scored by hundred of bands, is almost upon us! Our bags are packed, our amazing parties are booked, and we've called St. David's South Austin Medical Center who has kindly reminded us that, no, we cannot put Stubb's BBQ sauce on an IV drip. The final thing missing is a proper soundtrack. To that end, here is a 60-track blowout of the hottest, most anticipated, must-see acts at SXSW.

March 11, 2013 – You already know that Kendrick Lamar will be headlining SPIN's insane SXSW party Friday afternoon at Stubb's along with Solange, CHVRCHES, Parquet Courts, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and a special guest appearance from Trinidad James (plus DJ sets from Jackmaster, Oneman, and Machinedrum). And we've told you about our daytime parties at the SPIN House featuring the Thermals, Fletcher C. Johnson, and Majical Clouds (Thursday) and Bleached, Savages, Cloud Nothings, and Jonathan Toubin (Saturday).Well, we've got one more announcement to make: full lineups and set times for the nighttime SPIN showcases at the SPIN House at Easy Tiger. We've got evenings dedicated to K-pop, up-and-coming hip-hop, indie rock, and more. Here's how it'll go down:Wednesday, March 138:00 p.m. — Lowdown 309:00 — Goonam10:00 p.m. — No Brain11:00 p.m. — The Geeks12:00 a.m. — 3rd Line Butterfly1:00 a.m.

March 8, 2013 – To hate the Darkness is to hate fun. To love the Darkness is to love schlock. And therein lies the frustrating side of this Suffolk glam band: lest you be labeled a complete bore or an utter dumbass, you're forced to tolerate Justin Hawkins right down to the ridiculous mustache on his face. Historically speaking, tolerance has its merits however, and without it SPIN wouldn't have bothered to confront the band's lead howler last year, and we might've missed this goofy remake of Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher."Above, Hot Cakes single "With a Woman" gets a visual narrative courtesy of director Warren Fu, but there's an unusual twist. When Miss Black's young admirer runs to the bathroom in order to, erm, relieve himself (via a wicked air-guitar solo, of course), the teacher undergoes an unexpected transformation.

March 7, 2013 – Are you headed to Austin next week? We've got plenty of great music lined up and a couple of different ways for you to join us at SPIN at Stubb's and the SPIN House.*SPIN at Stubbs:INSTAGRAM/TWITTER – #SPINSTUBBSWe want to see the Austin music scene through your lens (or phone, as the case may be) and we're offering some great prizes in return. SPIN is giving away 30 pairs of laminate passes to SPIN at Stubb's and the chance to have your photo featured in a gallery on SPIN.com. One lucky winner will also be awarded an iPad mini!It couldn't be easier to enter: Take some photos of your Austin music experience and upload them to Instagram/Twitter with the hashtag #SPINSTUBBS.

March 5, 2013 – SPIN has already announced that the man behind one of our favorite albums of last year, Kendrick Lamar, will be headlining our annual Austin throwdown on March 15 — now we're pleased to reveal the rest of the bill for our bash at Stubb's BBQ (and more!).The Stubb's lineup buzzes with a diverse array of today's most original young artists, led by provocative R&B innovator Solange, who released one of 2012 finest singles, "Losing You," and will unleash one of the the year's most-anticipated full-lengths in 2013. Other SPIN faves who will taking the Stubb's stage: heavenly Scottish synth-pop romantics CHVRCHES, intoxicatingly melancholy psych-soul trio Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and New York indie upstarts Parquet Courts, who come on like Pavement with Wire's rhythm section, yet also very stoned.

March 1, 2013 – The idea behind Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes and the band's former guitarist Warren Cuccurullo's side project TV Mania was so prescient, it's a little eerie: in the '90s, the two began work on what they imagined to be the soundtrack to a television show about a family who traded their freedom for reality-TV fame. The concept will come to full fruition on March 11 with the release of their new album Bored with Prozac and the Internet?. "Beautiful Clothes" tracks how the daughter will do anything to get her name in lights, and we've got a remix of the track via the brilliant MNDR and Peter Wade right here. Here's what Rhodes told us about it:“I first met MNDR when she interviewed me a few years ago about analogue synthesizers, a passion we both share. She played me some of her demos which sounded particularly inspired, so I was thrilled to hear her finished album.

March 1, 2013 – As SPIN has excitedly noted many times, the Breeders are celebrating the anniversary of one of our favorite albums, 1993's Last Splash, with a special tour featuring the album's lineup (Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson) and LSXX, a massive reissue of the platinum LP that's due April 23, 2013 on 4AD. Now we finally know what will be inside the limited-edition, seven-disc vinyl box set (which will also be sold as a three-CD package) — a plethora of previously unreleased tracks packaged up in artwork by the brilliant British designer Vaughan Oliver, who is responsible for all of Pixies' visionary album covers, and who also handled Last Splash.

February 25, 2013 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first Mosquito single is here, and it's a "Like a Prayer"-style spine-tingler featuring — yes — a 24-piece choir. SPIN is extremely psyched to bring you the U.S. premiere of the New York trio's first track off their April 16 album. The song, which was produced by David Andrew Sitek and Nick Launay, recalls the drama of Karen O's "psycho opera" Stop the Virgens with a solid throwback groove, keys by longtime Beastie Boys collaborator Money Mark (who appeared in the Virgens band), and a hauntingly intense vocal from the trio's gifted frontwoman.When Karen O, Nick Zinner, and Brian Chase announced the new LP, Karen O explained the new album is meant to stir up emotions. "We would love for this music to make our fans feel something, for it to stir some shit up inside of them, whatever that may be," she said.

February 21, 2013 – At around this time last year, Compton's Kendrick Lamar was just another underground rapper with potential and a forthcoming major-label debut. Fast forward to today and he may be hip-hop's brightest star — an accomplished, moving storyteller whose good kid, m.A.A.d city flaunted the industry by proving that there's still no formula to pop success. The album topped many critics’ lists in 2012 and is nudging up against platinum certification while appealing equally to teens sculpting the zeitgeist and old heads who haven't touched a radio dial in 15 years.On Friday, March 15, Lamar will bring his spotlight to Austin, Texas, where he'll headline our annual musical bacchanal at the legendarily finger-lickin' Stubb's BBQ. We'll reveal the rest of the lineup soon, along with info about how you can win the chance to attend this historic throwdown!

February 19, 2013 – The first time Dave Grohl appeared on the cover of SPIN was January 1992, when Lauren Spencer excitedly wrote, "Return to your seats, buckle up, and say your prayers: Nirvana is on a collision course with the world." Tomorrow, Grohl will grace his seventh SPIN cover, and this time it's the 44-year-old multihyphenate who's doing the gushing: "Can you imagine? Never in my wildest dreams did I think that in one evening I'd play Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Proud Mary' with John Fogerty, Fear's 'Beef Bologna' with Lee Ving, and Masters of Reality's 'Blue Garden' with Chris Goss. It was like my ultimate mixtape."Grohl was (excitedly) discussing the live debut of his Sound City Players, the collection of musicians he assembled both to a) promote his documentary about the storied L.A.