South by Southwest (SXSW), one of the largest and coolest Music/Interactive/Film conferences in the world, is about to start up again in Austin, TX later this week. Hundreds of bands from around the world will showcase their music on over eighty stages.

In an effort to promote new music, each year MP3′s from artists that are scheduled to play SXSW are made available on the SXSW website.

The past few years Greg Hewgill collected the MP3s and released them via a torrent on his site. For 2009 Ben Stolt did the same thing: all 1267MP3 files (6.15GB) of music are available in three torrents posted on his site.