Great way to wrap a week saturated in music: fancy fretwork from Peninsula product Roland Curtis of French Miami. I don't think all the magnitude of this much good live music in 72 hours will sink in for a few days. Rock steady.

Street Sweeper Social Club was a nice highlight of SXSW, between Rage vet Tom Morrelo's solo and covers of "Mama Said Knock You Out" and the Slumdog Millionaire hit by MIA. "It's more than a band," said Boots Riley (left, late of Oakland's The Coup). "It's a social club."

French Miami heat - big girders of synth sounds sparked by nimble guitar and fiery power punk chorus - pullin people off the street.

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Much-adored Stubb's barbecue...here's the bbq chopped beef. Plain great.

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Stamina and then some: Noon on Sunday and French Miami is readying for another show, maybe their 5th or 6th. Pacific Grove native/exhibitionist on guitar. For a show at Blue Fin a week ago he played at length in briefs.

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Sixth looks a little bit different today. "Here's the hard part, cleaning up," says one worker, his grinning hospitality somehow still intact. "Have a good one."

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Poster and record bazaar part of the proceedings at conference center, where folks like Smokey Robinson and DJ Spooky have spoken.

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Charger Charger.

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Cali "string metal" rockers Judgement Day are doing several shows this week. They haven't visited Monterey since Live's demise but hopefully will be after hearing word of Blue Fin's rebirth.

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Two adventures in movement, captured on video: a runner-powered rickshaw and an I'm-not-sure-who's-steering-thing.

More Sixth Street senses (?).

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Hard Times from right here in the capital. Having a hard time myself loving all this live loveliness enough.

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Told by insiders that downtown joints don't generate the best mex - and this fly flavor, it seems, which lies on the advised outskirts, redeems that read supremely.

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Pressman on stand-up base. Music on hit from noon to 3am everyday. I wonder how many folks check into the school for the deaf I walked past on the way to Twangfest after live overload.

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From Texas Alcohol Beverage Commision. Posted in men's room.

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Andrew Pressman out of Carmel Valley orchestrated this sequence at Vortex's Big Sur-esque patch of escape: folk with feeling, including three of his own groups, one of which hits CV this summer at Adam Zerbe's newborn Roost House near Mouth of the Valley.

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Rushad E and Tornado Riders in the proverbial mix at a grassy spot called Vortex. The Peninsula-based maniacs just pulled in from El Paso. "I like motion," Eggleston says. I don't think he's talking about driving. The scaffolding here may be in play when they take - then leap from - the stage.

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"You see some freaky people with funny faces today?" the eastside cabby is asked. "There is no more doubt," he said. "It is time for good fun."

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Nice place, this Austin.

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Colorful Texas chow. The governator should challenge W to a AmeriMex Enchilada-off.

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Who remembers one-time local promoter-musician Josh White? (Picture the now-gone d-locks, or him on stage with MC Lars or Brea) Found Otter alum on a side street near Sixth (finally the overused word "random" works). He's working for Dangerbird out of Silverlake.

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Stuart Thornton. On location.

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Lot of booths promoting regional music - Ireland had some good schwag. Memphis seen here has assembled a sweet-hearted and sweet-sounding sitch saluting their own Alex Chilton.

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Austin Convention Center bursting with breaking artist management, photog, festival, production, printing, media and speed dating.

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Scenes from the back seat of the shuttle. Driver having to take all kinds of obscure surface streets to avoid clogged highways and arteries, but we still can't hide from legion lines of fans.

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Neckware from Oakland pop outfit MNDR's lady talent Amanda something. She's on our shuttle to town...you can't sneeze without landing a booger on a musician around here. Every conversation's a portal into passion about some form of funk, soul or unmitigates rock.

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Classic Austin event a night back: We heard some good music from the street and ducked in to discover a strong rockin' English group called Doll and the Kicks. Here's a look/listen to their sound.

Asked the old pedicabbie to pump it a little bit more intensely last night. He complied - and promptly threw his chain.

P.G. native Matt the Electrician, just named one of the top songwriters in the music capital of the country by the Austin Chronicle, performing a song on dropping out of college yesterday.

See if you recognize the new incarnation of a long crazy-popular song by the man who wrote it and his new rootsy-rock band.

Congress Avenue in Austin. As the city cements a rep as the live music capital of the country, easy to forget it's the head of Texas government.

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A group of otters is called a raft. A group of whales, a pod. An assembly of owls, a paliament. A threesome of peeps on Segways: rich dorks.

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Nice to see tasty Mo Co wines like Carmel Road prominently features at Austin's favorite spot for spirits...

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And who do we run into in an alley behind Encore where Big Sur regulars Mother Hips (who play Fernwood in April ) are going on stage? Folk Yeah! playcaller Brit Govea of Seaside (right). He flew in last minute to ink a crucial contract.

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Liquor stores close at 9 in Texas. Hence this is what 8:40 looks like at the only shop near downtown.

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Steak-bacon-queso fresco by One Taco "urban eatery truck." They're awarding free tacos to people tracking them on the new app Gowalla that's wrestling with Four Square for command of the GPS community locator colony that relays where people are when they post real time opinions, if that makes any sense.

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Sometimes you gotta mooch a ride back to downtown from performers like fuzzy faced Matt the Electrician. Those bike tuk tuk dudes can get extortionist.

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Nice sidewalk touch. Flat tires never felt so good.

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Matt the Electrician plucking through "Rainin' in Osaka," as well as a song about dropping out of Humboldt U and another about his dog. He's got a new CD out stuffed with such seemingly simple but clever ballads that spill insight along the way.

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Matt the Electrician. From P.G. to Austin. Going on in a minute at Twangfest. Was just throwing love to old Pagrovian pals who mastermind Alt Cafe in Seaside, where he appeared last month.

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Paging KPIG fans: Ray Wylie Hubbard just crushed at Twangfest.

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Mean grill. Parked in front of a place called a Caffeine Dealership.

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Heart of Texas.

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FWD:

MCW icon Stuart Thornton prefers Heart of Texas Pedicab to reach Twangfest across the river from Sixth.

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Back inside - Dinosaur Jr. vet Lou Barlow's (left) new thing, Lou Barlow and the Missingmen. Seems the spectacular music ain't braking; Five-hour energy drink found a fitting nonstop scene to sponsor. None for the Weekly team though - fueled purely by sunshine and moonshine.

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Lotta pretender beards out and about in Austin. Not here.

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Walk 25 yards at the close of one set to see Gordon Gano (of Violent Femmes fame) and the Ryans launching into their own. Playing pieces from new disc Under the Sun. Sounds damn promising.

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Places like Paste are packed at 2pm. Here it's for an 11 band indoor-outdoor lineup. These Fanfarlo dudes in the distance are killing it with relative-of-REM/80s English folk rock stuff with peels of violin and thumps of trumpet. Worth looking up later.

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Free waters distributed on already rocking Sixth.

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Got cornered by an animated Southern, self-described "soulful" artist named Rory Partin at this SESAC thing. We decided he's going to sing at the Golden State. (Hosts are playing "Alex Chilton" by the Replacements in tribute to AC, who just died.)

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