Popscene and Live 105 proudly present SXSF : A South By San Francisco Music Fest with Persephone's Bees (Oakland), The Duke Spirit (UK), Ting Tings (UK) and Hottub (Oakland). We all know (at least you should) that Persephone's Bees puts out some awesome Russian-influenced pop music but this particular show we are most excited about The Duke Spirit. They are hitting the West Coast for a run of dates through LA, Seattle and San......

Tonight, for one night only, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be featuring two sneak previews of Dirty Country, a highly entertaining documentary about the underground world of raunchy music, directed by Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, founders and hosts of the Found Footage Festival, which sold out four shows at the Red Vic last month. Dirty Country, which won the Audience Award at this year's South By Southwest, is part of Yerba......

We don't know about where you are, but it seems like spring can't decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren't sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it's not. Anyways, onto the -ists....

We hope to visit Boston soon, and when we do, we hope Bon Savants will be our ambassadors. Read lead singer Thom Moran's hilarious answers to the below questions and listen to their catchy, shoegazy pop, and you'll see what we mean. They are also humanitarians at heart and requested that we link to The Pendulum Project. Bon Savants are stopping in SF tonight to play a sold-out show at Cafe Du Nord with Portland band Menomena, who were featured in SF Weekly this week. Both bands are heading to South By Southwest next week. ...

Sure, we know SFists Jackson and Krissy are going down to Austin for the South By Southwest conferences, but we suspect that they'll be too busy carousing to bring us reports with any reasonable accuracy. Instead, we'll be relying on our BFFs at Austinist for the scoop. They're even archiving all their SXSW 2006 coverage here, for super-easy SXSW news access. You'll also be able to find daily summaries and updates of their coverage......

Jason Schupp is the man behind Over Queersville, which we linked in our sidebar from the get go because, well, we wanted some 'diversity.' And by 'diversity' we mean well-written blogs from folks with divergent backgrounds. And while Jason may be white, male and a techie, he's totally gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that! When Jason isn't exploring online worlds, or making friends with folks from around the globe using the power......

So what did we learn from South By Southwest? We learned to trust our baser instincts. You want stars, and we're doing our best to give them to you. But geek stars may be even more fleeting than those that you're used to. We are working with an entirely brand new medium here, and Moore's law applies socially almost as rigidly as it does in terms of semiconductor evolution. Tonight we got to hang......