Every year Austin hosts an amazing festival called South by Southwest – SXSW.  Its the best of the industry for music, film, and interactive media.

They just announced the 2009 SXSW Showcase Schedule letting people know where the different musicians will be delighting crowds.

They used to release a torrent of all the sample mp3s they post to allow people to sample the music ahead of time to decide who they want to see live.

Some guy named Ben Stolt went to the effort to download the mp3s and put a torrent together himself.  So, check out the UNofficial SXSW 2009 mp3 torrent.  Just make sure not to leech and run.  These are all legal mp3s here folks – they’re publicly available on the SXSW site if you want to get them 1 by 1 on your own.

And if you’re in or arounf Austin, pop the money to go to the conference, it’ll be the best money you spend all summer.