So South by Southwest is coming up next week and its usually about this point each year that I realize I still have various recordings from the previous year that I never got up! And this last year I was particularly slow - I think I've got over a dozen shows that I need to post. It'll all happen eventually!

Still, I'm pretty excited about next week - as always there's a hundred great bands and the challenge is trying to figure out how to be in at least 3 places at the same time.

But - that's next week! As a mentioned a few months ago I got to catch and record numerous mini-shows at the SXSW Free Yr Radio Broadcast Corner including She & Him playing one of their first ever gigs (their sixth...) and Dave Monks of Tokyo Police Club playing a spur of the moment (and unexplained) acoustic gig.

Now I liked She & Him at the time, I'd heard bits of the record and enjoyed what I heard. I'd seen M Ward several times before and always liked his music, and it doesn't hurt that Zooey Deschanel is beautiful to boot - but it wasn't til about 6 months later that I saw the movie Elf, and specifically heard Zooey sing Baby, It's Cold Outside that I woke up and realized what an amazing voice she had.

I ended up downloading the Elf soundtrack later that night to get the studio version of the Christmas classic, and wandered back to this show and the She & Him record for more listens and to rediscover something I'd already heard, all over again.

The good people at the Current were also hanging out broadcasting the whole thing. So if you want more you can listen to the whole show over their site here - and check out a couple of my favorite tracks from the show below.

Live MP3 MP3s:
Black Hole
Change Is Hard

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