SXSW has tons of mp3s every year. Hear Ya links to every [correction: most] SXSW mp3 available. You can also get started here.

I had dreams of listening all of them, but, seriously, no one can do that (unless you’re music for robots).

Anyway, I did manage to get all the way through the B’s though. I’ve split them up into tiers, first being the best.

1st tier: excellent

Bishop Allen – Click Click Click (light, fun indie pop)

Beirut – Elephant Gun (balkan influenced indie rock)

The Berg Sans Nipple – Mystic Song (synth and electro-organic smooth-voiced, wall-of-sound, indie pop)

2nd tier: better than good

AA Sound System – Laissez Faire (singer songwriter indie pop)

Alternative Champs – Monkey Boy (quirky pop)

American Princess – Open Letter (mopey indie rock with guitar lines that are a little bit 90s indie rock, a chorus that’s a bright and poppy)

the Apples in Stereo – Energy (sunshiney indie pop)

Balkan Beat Box – Bulgarian Chicks (about what you’d expect-Balkan brass/ vocal music)

Jill Barber – Hard Line (female-fronted alt-country)

Bedroom Walls – Somewhere in Newhall (dark, string-heavy pop)

Boat – Last Cans of Paint (fragile-voiced indie pop)

Tom Brosseau – Dark Garage (folkish singer songwriter)

3rd tier: good

Pierre Aderne – Cristalina (light, french-speaking indie pop)

AM – Stepping Stone (dreamy pop)

Art in Manila – Our Addictions (subdued indie pop with a dark side)

Awesome Cool Dudes – Dorm Room Disco Fantasy (fun , quirky, dancy, 80s-fluenced pop)

The Awkward Stage – Heaven is for Easy Girls (easy-going indie pop)

Asobi Seksu – Thursday (lush pop)

Astronautalis – Meet Me Here Later (interesting electro-organic)

Au Revoir Simone – Fallen Snow (light, 60’s-reminiscent pop)

Bang Gang – Find What You Get (shoe-gazey)

Thavius Beck featuring Nocando (personal hip hop)

Kim Beggs – Lips Stained Red with Wine (simple, nice alt-country)

Marit Bergman – No Party (guilt worthy swedish radio pop)

Carly Binding – So Radiate (pop, slightly pedestrian, but catchy)

The Blakes – Don’t Bother Me (poppy rough-rock)

Bone Box – Dragging Wires (part classical, part fragile-voiced pop, part alt-country)

Brenmar – The Comings and Goings of (experimental/ electronic)

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