On this edition –> A report from Austin’s SXSW music fest, the annual event that can be an overdose of commercial chaos, or an opportunity to see loads of new artists in small venues, backyard patios and sidewalks. Michele K-tel plays new discoveries and nostalgic favorites.

Playlist 3.26.15

Kate Tempest “Circles” Everybody Down (Big Dada)
Laura Marling “Strange” Short Movie (Ribbon Music)
Courtney Barnett “Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go to the Party” Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom & Pop)
SOAK “Shuvels” Before We Forgot How To Dream (Rough Trade)

Girlpool “American Beauty” Girlpool (Wichita Recordings)
Moon City Boys “Let My Love Dance” Let My Love Dance (8tta 7uor)
Hard Girls “Punkers,Too” Hard (Asian Man)
Girl Band “Lawman” The Early Years EP (Rough Trade)

Thee Oh Sees “Web” Mutilator Defeated At Last (Castleface)
Summer Cannibals “Something New” Show Us Your Mind (New Moss)
White Reaper “Cool” White Reaper (Polyvinyl)
Jacco Gardner “Find Yourself” Find Yourself (Polyvinyl)
The Parrots “Hello Stranger”
Songhoy Blues “Nick” Music In Exile (Atlantic)

Tanya Tagaq “Umingmak” Animism (Six Shooter Records)
Little Simz “Devour” E.D.G.E (Boom Ting)
The Residents “Smack your Lips (Clap your Teeth)” The Tunes Of Two Cities (Cryptic)
Half Japanese “As Good Can Be” Overjoyed (Joyful Noise)

The Damned “I think I’m Wonderful” Strawberries (Sanctuary)
METZ “Acetate” II (Sub Pop)
Chastity Belt “Trapped” Time to Go Home (Hardly Art)
Mac McCaughan “Lost Again” Non-Believers (Merge)
Howard “Song About Something” Religion (Fashion People)
Springtime Carnivore “Collectors” (Autumn Tone)

Barberettes “Rum And Coca-Cola” (EggPlant)
Mighty Sparrow “Sparrow Dead” Soca Anthology: Dr. Bird – The Mighty Sparrow (VP)
Mitski “Last Words Of A Shooting Star” Bury Me At Makeout Creek (Don Giovanni)