We’re five days from hearing the full lineup for the 2008 Austin City Limits music festival, but a hint at the first 29 performers just appeared online. The clue comes in the form of a musical mash-up of all 29 performers, mixed together by Car Stereo (Wars). Check out the streaming coolness here, but for those of us who aren’t familiar with everything out there, here’s a taste:

• Gnarls Barkley

• The Raconteurs

• Neko Care

• Del the Funky Homosapien

• Okkervil River

• Octopus Project

• Sharon Jones

The full list will be up next Tuesday, but if you’re just too excited you can go ahead and get tickets now.

Although My Chemical Romance’s tour is not over, they are going to release a new album. With their myspace friends a buzzing, no one knows what will be in store for this album.

Except the person who wrote the file name. As I downloaded the image from the MCR bulletin, the file name was MCR_LIVE_coverFNL. So there is no need to become Sherlock Holmes in this situation.

It is obviously a release of their live tour and will probably be released as a double DVD/CD.

I already have Black Parade so I don’t want to spend more moohlah and what I already have. So suck it!

Tomorrow we’ll see two new albums that have a lot to live up to: both are follow ups to major 2006 albums, and both were leaked on the Internet prior to release.  Here’s an idea of what to expect before they’re released on the 25th.

The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely

Last Monday The Raconteurs announced that in eight days they would be releasing Consolers Of The Lonely, the followup to their acclaimed Broken Boy Soldiers album. That’s obviously not much time to bombard the public with advertisements and pre-release buzz, but according to The Raconteurs that’s the point: “We wanted to get this record to fans, the press, radio, etc., all at the EXACT SAME TIME so that no one has an upper hand on anyone else regarding it’s availability, reception or perception.” You can pick the album up tomorrow and make up your own mind.

Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple

Gnarls Barkley’s second album wasn’t as much of a surprise as The Raconteurs’, but its release date was: after being leaked online, the band moved the April release up to March 25. The singles “Run” and “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” came out weeks before The Odd Couple’s release, and now that reviews for the full album are coming out the consensus seems very positive. Though there’s no “Crazy”-caliber hit, the album apparently still offers plenty to love.

In this picture of this computer, there is where SXSWi is operating allowing everyone to have an opportunity to actually be up to date with any and every article being written on the event. By the computer there are also a pair of headphones that allow all of the convention goers to preview some of the many artists that were performing. At South by Southwest (SXSW) this year they have made it a point to be a revolutionary convention not only in artistic culture but in all technological advances. SXSW is being fed live to the public through more than one outlet. With that little information I am sure you realize that SXSW articles and reporting are going through twitter that can also be viewed on the SXSW computer.

Video is a major element in SXSW this year. A new video networking application called Kyte is allowing to send recorded or even live video to be posted on the web. Many recording artists are using this application to “break the wall between fan and artist”. The most noted recording artist using this is rapper 50 cent how constantly sends new video for his public to comment on. In regards to SXSW, Kyte is allowing convention goers to actually send there recorded or live video to be viewed on large plasmas set up throughout the convention. The hardware of choice to recording on is a mobile phone. With a data plan it is very possible to send live video. With an email or sms plan anyone can send the video over the Kyte website the very second it is recorded.

The phone has to be one of the major focal points in the festival. Regardless of new applications, SXSW has created a mobile site SXSW.mobi to allow everyone to get schedules, mp3’s, videos, and more. But also if you sent a text-message you can find out the 5 w’s of any aspect of the whole convention.

If you purchased a SXSW interactive pass then Microsoft is gave you a free trial version of the newly released Microsoft Silverlight. This was given as one of many gifts in the SXSW Big Bag. Microsoft created a lounge with a large plasma allowing all convention goers to play some Guitar Hero 3.