Austin's Sixth Street unfolds things one couldn't expect - or even hope for - like Monterey County's own Hanif Wondir on the goddamn mic at Touché, a hip-hop spot central to the mayhem. (Full disclosure: He's a MCW intern who's turn on the mic never comes soon enough.)

FWD:

Even our shuttle driver is neck deep in indy music. He says he's got a little light and sound operation, an original rock n roll group called Moon Dog and doesn't need much music this week because it's "24-7 around here" normally. His rule on open containers: "Don't spill."

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Enterprising MCW music reporter-on-the-scene John Stuart Thornton III. The schedule of locally linked bands he has lined up bodes well for his cover story coming out in a week in your quazi-omnipresent Monterey County Weekly.

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Austin Chronicle edition out now rivals Weekly Best Of (coming out in a couple hours) in size. They review all sorts of artists. Their rankings of top resident rockers includes P.G. native Matt the Electrician Baldwin on Austin Musician of the Year (7), Male Vocals (7) and Songwriter (5).

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Lone Star. "Texas Born & Brewed" reads the can. Stephen F. Austin's mug even appears on the side.

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Hullahooping harmonicaing guitar strumming dude on SXSW main drag, 6th Street. Zoo don't do the 6pm scene justice.

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Quiet before storm.

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These guys are going for it in front of a hot dog stand on the sidewalk.

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Oh sweet Austin. NY idustry vet sharing my cab has been coming for 15 years. "It's a lot more than indy music," she says, "it's crazy how gentrified Austin has gotten."

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Ozark agua.

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Greyhound station, downtown S.A.

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Front seat on municipal bus.

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Angie is the third San Antoner who couldn't fly direct. Musician from NY. But she couldn't find her phone in this search at the bus stop and is heading back to airport. As quickly as my group went from 1 to 3, we're down to 2.

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Cameron's a radio DJ at Clemson in South Carolina where he likes to bring bands in live. He's on the San Antone ship with me because he couldn't get a standby seat to Austin.

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Here's the plan: Take this airport employee shuttle to city bus to Greyhound terminal and motor up 35. One of two SXSWers on board thinks we should hitch-hike 35.

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First thing to see off the plane. Welcome to San Antonio, Texas. And Happy St. Paddy's.

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Meeting Weekly music writer Stuart Thornton - here pictured in his ancestral Scandanavian garb - in Austin, where he has secured one of the last hotel rooms in a city overrun by hundreds of bands and tens of thousands of indy music fans.

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Buckling in for a flight to San Antonio because Rapid Rewards flights to SXSW/Austin were booked. Little more comprehensive quota of Texas culture that way. Greyhound may be in play.

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San Jose International. Celestial architecture. Ungodly hour.

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Proof of a higher power: South by Southwest already well underway.

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