What with Vivian Girls, Girls and Women all blowing up on the scene things can get pretty confusing. All of these groups have a lo-fi quality, some more than others, they are also all showcasing at SXSW, but the most important thing they have in common is that they are all bands to watch!
They are also all playing lots of free showcases, sometimes together so you can get have a girly overload. You'll find the details about those shows, courtesty of ShowListAustin after the jump...
Free Mp3 ---> Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run To
Free Mp3 ---> Girls - Lust For Life
Free Mp3 ---> Women - Black Rice
Free Mp3 ---> Women - Group Transport Hall
Free Mp3's courtesy of JagJaguwar Records, the Official SXSW pages, and Merry Swankster
Catch 'em at SXSW for free:
Urban Outfitters Back Lot Performances - Ground Control presents
* Ponytail (5pm), Titus Andronicus (4pm), Vivian Girls (3pm), Abe Vigoda (2pm), Women (1pm), Crystal Stilts (noon) at Urban Outfitters (Thu. 3/19, 2406 Guadalupe, free) [free]
Terrorbird/Force Field Day Party
* Vivian Girls, Beach House, The Thermals, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Themselves, Yoni Wolf (of Why?), Max Tundra, Wavves, Loney Dear, Shout Out Out Out, Fol Chen, Lake, Rainbow Arabia, DMG$, Larytta at Red 7 [Wed. 3/18, noon-6pm, free, all ages, no rsvp]
twosyllable/I Guess I'm Floating party
* Bell, Women, New Villager, more TBA at Scholz Garten (Thu. 3/19, 1607 San Jacinto)
Gorilla Vs. Bear presents Gorilla vs Booze III
* Vivian Girls, White Denim, Wavves, The Golden Filter, Girls, Here We Go Magic, Harlem, DJ Sober at the Peacock [Thu. 3/19, free, free beer, 21+]
Starcleaner Big Texas Party 2
* Vivian Girls, more TBA at the Typewriter Museum (Thu. 3/19, 1306 E. 6th St.) [noon-10pm, free, all ages]
Rhapsody Rocks
* And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Glasvegas, School of Seven bells, Vivian Girls, DJ Small Change at the Mohawk [Thu. 3/19, free, 21+]
Gigotron and Videothing.com presents
* Vivian Girls (11:30pm), Crystal Antlers (10:30pm), The Strange Boys (9:30pm), Seaspin (8:30pm), PRE (7:30pm), All the Saints (6:30pm), Golden Triangle (5:30pm), The Soft Pack (4:30pm), Graham Forest (3:30pm) at Club 1808 [Thu. 3/19, outside stage, free]
* Crystal Stilts (midnight), Deer Tick (11pm), Chairlift (10pm), Ponytail (9pm), Tallest Man on Earth (8pm), Kurt Vile (7pm), Aids Wolf (6pm), Real Estate (5pm), Mi Ami (4pm), Non Plus (3pm) at Club 1808 [Thu. 3/19, inside stage, free]
KVRXplosion
* Vivian Girls, Total Abuse, AIDS Wolf, Finally Punk, XYX at Ballet Austin (Thu. 3/19, 501 W. 3rd St.)
Mess With Texas 3
* The Black Lips, Soft Pack (The Muslims), King Khan & the Shrines, The Thermals, Akron/Family, Japanther, Coalesce, Monotonix, Trash Talk, Jason Lyttle, The Bronx, Vetiver, Abe Vigoda, Vivian Girls, Gentlemen Jessie, Death Set at Waterloo Park (Sat. 3/21, 1301 Trinity St.) [more TBA]
Like, I know it's like totally like unfair to like not like feature a like music video for the like Vivian Girls but like these videos were like everywhere for like a second and you should like see like at least one of them and junk...
Vivian Girls - Just Write a Good Song video via YouTube
Girls - Morning Light video via YouTube
Women - Shaking Hand video via YouTube