Well, pretty much everyone who's anyone in indie rock this weekend (including your regular columnist and SFist's new music editor SFist Krissy) is in Austin for SXSW. The rest of us forlornly left behind can comfort ourselves with the following shows.

Tonight, local country-folk rockers The Court and Spark are playing at the Hemlock. Get some dreamy twang with your smokers' lounge!

There's an embarrassment of riches on Friday: Metal band the F***ing Champs play 12 Galaxies, Elephone brings their avant-garde electronica to the Bottom of the Hill, Xhibit plays the Fillmore (maybe if you ask nicely, he'll pimp your ride), and for those of you looking for cheap laffs, Mandonna will be bringing the cross-dressing pointy bras and headsets to the Great American (watch out for blood from the Ian Brown show -- FYI: SFPD has decided they won't prosecute but have encouraged GAMH to sue).

On Saturday, for those of you who can't spend $24-42 on tickets to blues and soul legend Solomon Burke's Friday SFJAZZ show at the Palace of Fine Arts, he's doing a free show at Amoeba on Saturday. Show starts at 1:30 but in our experience, those free shows fill up pretty fast, so get there around noonish and do some browsing while you wait. (You may remember Solomon Burke also as the man who wrote the single that got Rob and Laura together in Nick Hornby's High Fidelity.) If you make it out alive from the crazed crush at Amoeba, stop by BotH later that evening and catch Nerf Herder, the guys who recorded the Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme song.

Listings for the next work week, after the jump.

Picture of Solomon Burke by Kathy Willens of the AP.

Sunday looked kind of bleak, so we'll just skip it and move on to Monday. Beth Lisick brings her Porch Light spoken word series to Cafe Du Nord on the 21st, where the theme is "biting the hand that feeds you." Ooooh, we love tales of sticking it to the man! Space-folker Etienne de Rocher will play too.

On Tuesday, show off some pre-Arcade Fire street cred and go see the Decemberists and their art rock that kicked off the whole intricate-pop trend at Bimbo's. Or, if you're rich and have horn rims, pay $45-59.50 to see Elvis Costello at Oakland's beautiful Paramount Theater.

Wednesday, only one more day for SFist Krissy's vastly-superior column to come back, so you can wipe away the memory of this completely ill-informed post as it scrolls away into the SFist archives! The hugely-hyped alternarockers The Kills come to the Independent, with Elephone opening, and local favorites Erase Errata take it to the Bottom of the Hill.