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" By the third day of South by Southwest, everyone&amp;#039;s feet are sore, everyone&amp;#039;s still gossiping about who this year&amp;#039;s unofficial &amp;quot;breakout star&amp;quot; will be, and everyone&amp;#039;s a little punch drunk. (Or still drunk, depending.) And everyone&amp;#039;s apparently in some novelty band that dresses alike. So without further ado, the nominees for Best Band Costume for SXSW 2007 are...  ColourMusic Because, &amp;quot;all white&amp;quot; plus &amp;quot;pizza&amp;quot; equals novelty-band stain excitement!  DataRock The Beastie Boys, after a journey through the time/suck machine.  &amp;quot;These Guys&amp;quot; Sadly, we didn&amp;#039;t get a name, but judging from their appearance they&amp;#039;re equally influenced by Bob Marley and the guys from Pep Boys.  Noted Without Comment, Part One.      Number of times the Swedish pop-band Peter, Bjorn, and John have played &amp;quot;Young Folks&amp;quot; (that&amp;#039;s the video for the song up there, courtesy of YouTube.com) in the last three days: Approximately 6 Number of times we&amp;#039;ve seen &amp;quot;Young Folks&amp;quot; played live: 1 Number of times we&amp;#039;ve heard someone whistling &amp;quot;Young Folks&amp;quot; while walking down the street: 238 Looks like SXSW has a breakout single.  Lily Allen vs Amy Winehouse, Day 3: Hotel guests were greeted this morning by Lily Allen&amp;#039;s face on the fest&amp;#039;s official magazine, SXSWorld, putting her in an early lead; by the end of the day, though, Winehouse had played two more parties without going through a psychotic episode, one of which was an all-acoustic affair spotlighting her effortless voice (hip-hop producers take note: Winehouse could be your next hook-hit it girl.) Sadly, it&amp;#039;s just too close to call at this point, so for dramatic purposes, we&amp;#039;ll say it&amp;#039;s a draw going into the last, and deciding day.  The &amp;quot;it&amp;#039;s fun and all, but you can do that at home&amp;quot; award: SXSW&amp;#039;s after-hours shows are desperate affairs; all of them are invite-only and large bands often play unannounced. One of this year&amp;#039;s hottest tickets is for Blender&amp;#039;s all-night house, which is hosting Peter Bjorn and John and the Fratellis. Last night&amp;#039;s party boasted a great &amp;quot;to-the-front, please&amp;quot; set from Albert Hammond Jr. -- but some guests were distracted by guitar-rocking a bit more... er... interactive.  Noted Without Comment, Part Two: Electric Boogaloo.  Encore of the day: With a zillion things going on a trillion bands playing all at once, seasoned SXSWers know better than to see something they&amp;#039;ve already seen. Except for us. And we don&amp;#039;t regret it one bit. Ladies and gentlemen, once again: OreskaBand! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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