The team made it back in one piece, no snow storm can stop the likes of our Raincity expedition. After days of music and booth hopping we need a quick recap on the event and how others enjoyed themselves.

One of Raincity's biggest footprints left was the sheer epicness of the swag we handed out. When comments like "Where I can buy the Vancouver's Raincity Studios t-shirt??? It's fantastic..." are being thrown around you know someone did something right. tcritic.com agrees in Drupal Vader and RoboGames.

I discovered that it’s actually based on the Drupal logo and was just some schwag that the Raincity Studios team (a drupal based developer/community builder) put together for SXSW. I wish they would sell the damn thing, it’s awesome.

So as March continues to lumber toward us, Raincity has been making preparations for the big event in Austin.

One thing I'm curious about is the artists that will be performing. I don't know many of them and I need some people to rattle off lists of say 5-10 artists that they would rather die than miss, so feel free to throw in your two cents.

I have noticed after studying the bandlist is that Vancouver is sending a legion of bands to Texas. In all, I've found ten bands from Vancouver alone are going to the event.

• Bella (Vancouver BC)
• Black Mountain (Vancouver BC)
• The Choir Practice (Vancouver BC)
• Destroyer (Vancouver BC)
• Jeremy Fisher (Vancouver BC)
• Dan Mangan (Vancouver BC)
• Marianas Trench (Vancouver BC)
• No Kids (Vancouver BC)
• The Pack A.D. (Vancouver BC)
• Pride Tiger (Vancouver BC)

Ace photgrapher Kris Krug has used SXSW as an opportunity to take some cool shots in the past and will be again this year.

Another list of must see bands going to SXSW is underway at SxSW Insider community. SxSW Insider is totally worth signing up to stay in the loop and make friends with the Raincity clan - Scales, KK, DaveO, Roland and our pals coming from Vancouver and beyond.

Its crunch time folks, if you haven’t booked your room in Boston, its time to get on it ! Raincity + Now public will be staying at the:

Courtyard Boston-South Boston
63 R BOSTON ST
Boston, MA 02125
$129
Phone: 1-617-436-8200

About 10 minutes from the BCEC center, traffic permitting, and a short cab ride downtown.

The hotel sales coordinator has put a side 10 rooms for Drupalcon at 129 a night but will increase room numbers if there is a demand. Also, if you are trying to book a large group ask for sales directly and you might wrangle a better rate.

These rooms will be held till Feb. 15 after that the price goes up.

There will be arranged shuttle service to the Drupalcon.

So practice your Boston accents and have fun.

say it frenchie, say “chowder!”