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For years, the Austinist staff has fielded queries from friends and acquaintances about SXSW goings-on. "Can I walk to The Salt Lick?" "Does it really take 90 minutes for a Casino El Camino burger?" But most of all: "What showcase do you recommend to see some good new bands I don't know about?" This year, we've made the answer official. Austinist is presenting an official nighttime showcase featuring six different American acts at Spiro's on Thursday, March 13. We've done a lot of listening to different bands and entire showcases, and believe that this one has great potential to impress you. The roster:

One of the Elephant Six Collective’s flagship acts, Elf Power have steadily released albums since the late '90s, eventually infusing their psych-pop song craft with a sturdy dose of big T. Rex glam guitars and enough classic rock oomph to derail any notion that the band will ever get stuck on just one style. Lead singer Andrew Rieger chatted with Austinist via email about the band’s new album, collaborations with other artists, and what’s been going on creatively in Athens, Georgia, the city this band calls home.

Moth!Fight! are a band who have had a much longer gestation period than most of their peers, a time in which one can assume songwriter and “conductor” Kevin Adickes painstakingly perfecting both the rumpled antique aesthetics that dominate his band’s look, performances and sound – the latter of which calls to mind both the inspired trippy noise-pop of The Olivia Tremor Control, but which also speaks in the lexicon of the band’s clear, more current...

It looks like we were hornswoggled by the fake announcement earlier this week from Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel, Elephant Six Collective), announcing an upcoming album and tour dates. In an E6 message board posting, Fakey McMotherFaker claimed that new material might be on the way, and went on to ramble about giant eggs and Michael Bolton and other crazy things.