Photos from the SXSW Music Fest

For four days in March, my life basically consisted of one of three things: shooting photos of bands, editing photos of bands and waiting in line for pizza from a truck.

This was my first year photographing the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, though I've been in Austin during that week since 2007.

Until this year, my South-By experience involved driving around town slower than usual, stuck at intersections while I muttered at the smug transplants from out of town with festival badges around their necks. This year, to paraphrase the great 1995 film Angus, we were those transplants. (Around 5:50 on this clip).

Thanks to the Observer music writers, I was never short on shows to cover, and got to discover all kinds of really great music. Check out all their work on our music blog, DC9 at Night. The Decemberists, a Danish band called Efterklang, and old Austin favorites Okkervil River put on some of the best sets I made it to.

...and here are the shots: