The popular SxSW festival is about to start, and the organization has already put out over 1000 legally-free mp3s for everyone to download. The Torrent weighs about 5.4 GBs, and it can be daunting to find out what’s good in there.

But I got your back. I spent most of the day yesterday going through these MP3s, and while I might have missed some good tracks, here are my top-50 tracks in the collection (right click to ’save as’).

1. Living Things – Oxygen
2. Scanners – Salvation
3. Glint – Freak
4. We Are Wolves – Blue
5. Hey Champ – Cold Dust Girl
6. Wiretree – Back in Town
7. Keepaway – Yellow Wings
8. Jenny Owen Youngs – Led to the Sea
9. Surfer Blood – Swim
10. Rubik – Wasteland
11. Anya Marina – All The Same To Me
12. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices
13. Twin Tigers – Automatic
14. I am Empire – You’re a Fake
15. Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer
16. Hollerado – Fake Drugs
17. The Walkmen – In the New Year
18. The Moondoggies – Changing
19. The Low Anthem – Charlie Darwin
20. The Melismatics – Digging Deep
21. The 88 – Love Is The Thing
22. Pictureplane – Goth Star
23. Land of Talk – Some Are Lakes
24. Choir of Young Believers – Action Reaction
25. Crystal Antlers – Swollen Sky
26. Barcelona – The Takers
27. Darker My Love – Blue Day
28. Imaad Wasif – Fangs
29. Freelance Whales – Generator 2nd Floor
30. The Depreciation Guild – Dream About Me
31. Pantha du Prince – The Splendour
32. Solid Gold – Synchronize
33. Memory Tapes – Memory Tapes
34. The Mynabirds – Numbers Don’t Lie
35. The Golden Filter – Hide Me
36. Minipop – Precious
37. Superdrag – keep it close to me
38. UUVVWWZ – Berry Can
39. Ume – The Conductor
40. The Ruby Suns – Cinco
41. Vandaveer – Divide and Conquer
42. Yes Giantess – Tuff’n'Stuff
43. CFCF – Big Love
44. The Pack A.D. – Crazy
45. Dappled Cities – The Price
46. Balmorhea – Bowsprit
47. Ruby Isle – So Damn High (Will Eastman Club Edit)
48. Body Language – New Day
49. Awesome Color – Transparent
50. Woodhands – Pockets