{Are you at SXSW right now? Or are you like me, sadly not rocking out in Austin but eager for updates from the field? Either way, TIG is going to post an "open thread" for each day of SXSW, where show-going fans can post comments, and the rest of us can send suggestions/pleas for updates to those lucky peeps (ahem, LIZ!!) who are hooting it up Texas stylee this week. So please — chime on in the comments section below!}

A ton of Seattle bands are playing on day three of the festival, including:

• 8p Coconut Coolouts, Fado Patio
• 8p Helms Alee, Red 7
• 9p The Fall Outs, Fado Patio
• 9p Sera Cahoone, Bourbon Rocks
• 9:30 Grayskul, Volume
• 10p Grand Archives, Bourbon Rocks
• 10p Unnatural Helpers, Fado Patio
• 11p Say Hi, Red Eyed Fly
• 11:30 Reggie Watts, Esther's Follies
• 12a Fleet Foxes, Bourbon Rocks
• 12:30 Reggie Watts, The Velveeta Room
• 1a Supersuckers, Emo's Annex

I gotta admit, if I were there, tonight might be the night that I go for familiar faces over discovering new bands, and I would follow our hometown bands around Austin. Who would you go see??