The Music Festival portion of South By Southwest  2011 (usually written SXSW, which is what I will do too) held each year in Austin, Texas, begins with a few official events tomorrow night and in full on Wednesday.  It runs through Sunday.  During that time there will be approximately 2000 band performing at about 100 venues, plus perhaps another 500 bands performing unofficially.  I’ll be traveling down there tomorrow and posting daily reports about SXSW over at Now I’ve Heard Everything.  If things work as they have in years past, expect those posts to appear sometime before Noon each day.

But there’s a lot of music going on in New York City during that time. Click here for a complete listing of worthwhile performances by Jon Graboff, Poundcake, Julia Haltigan, Karla Bonoff, James Maddock (two shows), David Roche, The Bright White, My Pet Dragon, Ursa Minor and Alana Sveta.

–Eliot Wagner