Austinist SXSW Coverage Certified "Punk Rock" by MTV News

Our recent SXSW coverage has been generating a lot of buzz. So much buzz, in fact, that MTV News recently tracked down Austinist writer Tom Thornton to discuss it. They even went so far as to call our unofficial SXSW lineup "a certifiably punk-rock way of sticking it to the man"! And though we would like to officially deny that our intent was to stick anything to anybody, we think Tom summed things up pretty well:

"We read the [Austin Chronicle] article, and we thought, 'Now, come on. That's just silly.' And we realized that lots of bands would just confirm that they were playing through their MySpace pages or their official Web sites, and so we figured that with a few phone calls and some digging that we could put together a pretty good list," Tom Thornton, a writer for the site, explained. "And though SXSW hasn't announced most of these bands, we feel pretty confident that they're all going to be here."

Before you say it - yes, we recognize the irony inherent in our coverage of MTV's coverage. And we can only hope that this triple-coverage doesn't precipitate some kind of terrible coverage feedback loop that spirals out of control and crushes us all under the weight of its absurdity.