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The folks at Japan Nite usually put their house in order before most other entities, and this year is no different. Per their announcement on Christmas Day, Japan Nite SXSW 2010, scheduled for March 19th, will feature six of the country’s finest, including Chatmonchy, Red Bacteria Vacuum, Dolly, Omodaka, and Okamoto’s. (Sixth band TBA.) Japan Nite has invariably delivered intriguing and exciting talent at SXSW for fourteen years now and we’re anticipating another stellar night of “musical madness from Japan” come March 2010.

Balmorhea are getting ready to release their latest album, Constellations, on Austin's Western Vinyl record label. This week there's more exciting new for the instrumental troupe: a spate of North American tour dates with Denmark's Efterklang.

We're pleased to have been chosen to present "Freelance Isn't Free: The Twisted Economics of Writing Today" as part of the 2010 South by Southwest Interactive Festival.

In honor of Mayor Will Wynn's last day in office, Austinist compiled these top five lighter moments from his eight-year-long tenure. As News 8 reports, Wynn plans to stick around Austin and will be working for a Dallas-based energy firm, so, you know, you'll totes be able to hang out with him at Key Bar.

They brought all their usual tricks to Waterloo Park for Mess With Texas 3 on Saturday the 21st, disrobing and parting the crowd in half right off the bat. Singer Ami Shalev then jumped into the open space in the middle of the audience, rolling around on the grass with his fellow band mates much to everyone’s amusement (or was it bemusement).

Austinist music writer Tom Thornton recently went back on Andy Langer's show on News 8 Austin to discuss how the economy affected SXSW, the secret performances that everyone seemed to know about well in advance, and the role that Twitter played during the festival. [News8Austin]

Vanity Fair is calling El Paso the next Brooklyn, citing Tony Rancich's Sonic Ranch (recently used by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Conor Oberst) as ground zero for the new movement. Al Jourgensen agrees.

Though it’s been years and years and years since their debut (back in the days when Live was one of the world’s most relevant bands), they’ve recently brought their practically-mythologized live show back on the road, and the early bird crowd at Mohawk on Friday was damn lucky for it.

Another one of those “stick around here all day because every band is awesome” shows, the Radio Room was home to this event on the 19th. The crowd enjoyed sets by Cursive and The Avett Brothers, but the top highlights had to be an intimate set by Daniel Johnston and a blistering set by The Wrens, both clearly proving that the magic is still there.

Austinist Presents Gonna Gonna Get Down 4: We were definitely pleased with the plethora of talent we had tapped for our day show on the 18th -- Telekinesis, Here We Go Magic, J. Tillman, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Vetiver, and The Mae Shi all made an impression on our guests. Highlights had to be the ferocious hardcore-metal assault of Young Widows, channeling the Jesus Lizard just hours before David Yow took the stage at the Austin Music Hall, and the amazing live show from Akron/Family, who are currently touring to support their upcoming release, Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free.

Every weekday morning we'll be featuring a photo (or two) from our readers. Please feel free to submit your photos (min 600px width) by adding them to the Austinist Flickr Group.

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• Sex research is well and good, but when is someone going to study our drunken hook-ups?
• SXSW made money. Duh.
• People came to SXSW to find work.

At the Dim Mak Party at the Radio Room on Saturday night with MSTRKRFT/Steve Aoki/LA Riots,etc, a riot broke out in the alley by the people who couldn't get into the show during the middle of MSTRKRFT. I guess this means Austin really is going more Blog-House. There were cops on horses and all, but from inside the party, it didn't seem nearly this intense, but I love that it led into "All I do Is Party".

• Geithner: The man with (yet another) plan for those toxic assets
• Rolling Stones' Matt Taibbi on the global economic crisis: "We're officially, royally f$^%ed."
• More Signs of the Economic Times: Women needing cash go from jobless to topless

Well, we survived. As the dust (both literal and figurative) settles, we're taking a moment to take stock of all the week's most interesting moments, magical photo opportunities and occasional blunders from 2009's SXSW music festival in Austin. Have a story for us? Email Email us.

Reprinted, for your convenience, from our master list.

Flatstock, the ultimate showcase and market for the world's best gigposter artists, starts today at Austin Convention Center. Presented by American Poster Institute (API) and SXSW, the show runs through Sunday and is open to the public.

Find out who won here.

li>Overall, the daytime crowds seemed smaller on Red River and East 6th on Wednesday. Few long lines were reported, even for hyped shows like the Paste party at Radio Room, where people were reportedly able to walk right in for M. Ward.

Thanks to everyone who made it out to our fourth annual day party at the Mohawk! If you would like to share your photos from the party with our readers, tag 'em 'austinistdayparty' on flickr. We'll have more photos of the bands, plus video, shortly.

Oh America, sometimes the Western democracy living in your attic just wants to be invited downstairs for breakfast—instead of scrounging for the crumbs you left on the chesterfield after going to work.

Juliette Lewis, best known for her performances in films like Natural Born Killers and From Dusk Till Dawn, took a few minutes off during layover en route to Austin to chat with us about her new band, Juliette and the New Romantiques. The group is the second musical project for Lewis, who toured and released the 2007 album Four on the Floor with Juliette and the Licks. Lewis was fresh off of shooting for Betty Anne Waters, directed by Tony Goldwyn and starring Hilary Swank.

On Saturday, Vinyl Entertainment (along with MTVu, PaperTank Productions, Lucky Rabbit Films, and Study Breaks Magazine) presents Party To The End, a six hour extravaganza at The Compound. Entertainment comes in the form of live music by PHANTOGRAM, Solid Gold, Buddy, The Story Of, CLIPD BEAKS, as well as a DJ set by Play-N-Skillz.

There's good news if you're looking to turn your blog into a book like Stephanie Klein, Guy Kawasaki, or Hugh MacLeod have done. Heck, they're even happy to help you. All you have to do is make something great.

Langhorne Slim is an enchanting folk singer/songwriter from Brooklyn. He leads the band - also consisting of Malachi DeLorenzo on drums/vocals and Jeff Ratner on bass/vocals - with steady acoustic strums and a soulful, organic, sometimes quaking voice.

Austinist Interviews Heather Armstrong from Austinist.com on Vimeo.

Leading up to SXSW week, we were warned that the state of the economy this year would equate to less money being allotted, fewer sponsors in the mix, maybe even a decline in the amount of free music on every corner in town. And gasp, quite possibly a shortage of free beer and tacos. For the large part, it can be safely said that has not been the case. We’re still anticipating day shows galore and nightcaps aplenty -- keep checking our big post with information on SXSW and related events.

Here's the quick points regarding street closures and general traffic info for SXSW Music week, mostly culled from a festival press release:

Each year, science fiction writer Bruce Sterling takes the stage for an hour at South by Southwest Interactive and turns on the jets: it's described as a state of the cybersphere address, but that's not an adequate phrase to encompass the dizzying stream of topics Sterling covers.

For those viewers few and far between who found Slumdog Millionaire infuriatingly glib about poverty instead of heartwarming, we recommend Garbage Dreams, a documentary about the Zaballeen, a group of impoverished Egyptians living in Cairo who survive off of the money they make from recycling the trash of others.