Austin based non-profit, Grounded In Music is having its launch party tonight at the Gibson Show Room in Austin with all proceeds going toward their on-going effort to buy music instruments and provide free music lessons for underprivileged children at the Boys and Girls Club. Local favorites Vallejo will be providing music, and the event will also have a silent auction. ...

Sure, there are billions of day parties going down tomorrow, but how many of them are going to be a setting as intimate as Whisky Bar, eh? That’s right. Not many. In fact, one has to wonder, how exactly are they going to fit all this goodness IN there? Will there be room for you AND your lover’s crippling hang over? The answer is yes. And the method is magic. The magic of SxSW......

FRIDAY [19] [music] Cross Canadian Ragweed w/ Micky & the Motorcars at Stubb's (link) [music] Clint Small Jr. Middle School's Phat Cats Jazz Ensemble at Waterloo Records (Free, 6pm) (link) [music] Moth Fight! at End of an Ear (Free, 7pm) (link) [music] Faceless Werewolves, Hotrails, Tokyo Nites at Beerland (link) [music] Dynah CD release at Red Eyed Fly (link) [music] Wilco Hoot Night with "many, many Austin bands" at Trophy's (link) [music] Pudge Zeppelin with......

If you're still choked up over Marisa dying or forgot to pre-order tickets to The Da Vinci Code, consider drunk-dancing your sorrows away tonight at the Velvet Spade, where NYC mas fuego DJ Tim Sweeney will be spinning with DJ Jeff of Houston's Boys+Girls Club. Sweeney's the wiz kid behind NYC radio show beats in space, the mix disc of DFA Record's Compilation #2, and the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. He also......