You haven't been invited to this year's SXSW music festival? Poor you! Well, actually, this is something we have in common. Anyway, that shouldn't keep us from having a closer look on what's been hot last week in the Southwest. It's already three days after the music industry's summit in Austin, Texas, so it is time to take stock of what has happend at SXSW 2010 with the latest edition of the NFOP Radio Show.

The festival had easily more than 1.400 acts performing on over eighty stages in downtown Austin, so one shouldn't even try not to lose track. When it comes to decide which artists have been "relevant" or "outstanding", the rather odd thing is that the important and influential media usually decide about this in advance. Thus, the selection below is not only just a small sample of who might be considered a promising new artist, but in addition inevitably biased by individual conception of significance. In any case, I've tried to focus on bands that have not released a proper album yet.

You can listen to the show either via the embedded player on top of this page (recommended) or here.

Listening note: The show is streamed via 8tracks. Their license requires a mix to be shuffled the second time someone listens to it. Moreover, the number of tracks the user can skip while listening to a mix is limited.

1. Fergus & Geronimo - Tell It (In My Ear)

2. Magic Kids - Superball

3. Beach Fossils - Daydream

4. Young Buffalo - Speak EZ

5. Holiday Shores - Bradley Bear

6. Warpaint - Elephant

7. Harlem - Gay Human Bones

8. The Mantles - Don't Lie

9. The Sandwitches - Kiss Your Feet

10. The Bitters - Can You Keep a Secret

11. Eternal Summers - Fall Straight Back

12. Diamond Rings - All Yr Songs

13. Thee Oh Sees - I Can't Pay You To Disappear

14. Young Prisms - Weekends and Treehouses

15. Fluffy Lumbers - Adoration

16. That Ghost - Your Backs

17. Mountain Man - Dog Song

18. Pearl Harbor - California Shakedown

19. Sleigh Bells - Beach Girls

20. Moon Duo - Dead West

21. SALEM - Frost