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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