713 Songs

Go to SXSW.com right now and get your free 713 songs. It's incredibly easy to do (I mean, I did it), I've been listening to them all week, and they're amazing. The songs come as 128 bps MP3s, not my favorite things to listen to, but the quality of the songs & performances is so good and the diversity of styles is so wide that we can overlook the lame & skinny format. Not only is the music great, the list demolishes my current theory that the great art of naming bands has died. In just the H's alone are the bands Hurts to Purr and Healthy White Baby.