Everyone is still looking back at SXSW, and deciding their personal highlights. I’m sure we’ll get to the Baby! team’s memories in the near future, but for now… how about the best guitar moments at SXSW Music?

It’s worth repeating that yes, it is actually possible to see bands play non-stop and around the clock for the entire week of SXSW. Perhaps not if you wanted to emerge with your feet, liver, ears, and brain intact, but you could do it. Or, you can remain unscathed, save your health, and just read about eight of the best players we saw this year.

But which eight are they? Find out at Premier Guitar (but we’re glad to see Marnie Stern is on the list).

If you tuned in to the temporary ‘pop-up’ radio station IHeartAustin on 103.1 FM during SXSW, they you might want to return your radio back to the frequency. News reaches us (from All Access) that Clear Channel are going to carry on the broadcast even though SXSW is over for 2013.

103.1 IHeartAustin provides a variety of emerging music to our listeners and by keeping this format thriving, it will help to keep the spirit of the Austin music festivals alive 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Left Austin and still want to tune in? Tune your browser to 1031iHeartAustin.com.

A quick heads up during the holiday weekend, but NPR’s 100 Bands from SXSW collection remains free to downlaod, but you only have until April 4th to grab the archive file with all the MP3′s in it.

Handpicked from among thousands of artists, this genre-traversing playlist picks highlights, discoveries and future thrills from this year’s festival — and, for the next 30 days, it’s available for free download in its entirety, as one 813 MB zip file, right here. Of course, for those without that much hard-drive space, you can download each song individually, as well as stream The Austin 100 on this page and through NPR Music’s various mobile devices.

You can get your copy on this page.

Looking behind the scenes at SXSW Music isn’t that difficult, everything is on show at changeover time, sound-checks and band prep are done on stage, and the whole environment is incredibly honest. But there’s a lot more going on. Conrad Schoenleber talks through his experiences of organising the CrowdNoize showcase last week on City Pages.

12 p.m.: Our first act, locals, the Chalice, is supposed to go on. Half of our speakers are missing, and the sound guy couldn’t be more clueless. My partner, Patrick Welby of CrowdNoize calls his in-house sound tech to sprint over. He arrives and immediately starts working damage control. So far our SXSW showcase is a huge success.

The diary for the rest of the day is online, and makes for fascinating reading.

This year at SXSW Music saw the inaugural Grulke Prize awarded to three acts. Set up in honour of SXSW’s long-time musical director Brett Grulke who died last year.

The winners were:

Developing US Act: Haim.

Non-US Act: CHVRCHES.

Career Act:  Flaming Lips.

Congratulations to all three acts, who start off what we expect to be a long lived and prestigious award.

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It’s your final night of SXSW and we really mean it this time, so Interactive badge holders can stop grumbling that it finished Tuesday (because it doesn’t). So a bit more flavour of the fun on offer at SXSW before we head out to Sixth for one last bag of memories

• Kii Arens (www.lalalandposters.com)
• Fredara Hadley (www.jooksi.com)
• ‘If Your Dad Doesn’t Have A Beard…’, by The Beards (www.thebeards.com.au)

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Here are more highlights from the SXSW schedule, as chosen by the SXSW Baby! team:

Music Panels

•  Start and Build Your Career on YouTube
2:00pm ACC 17A

Film

• Rewind This!
1:30pm Topher

• Downloaded
4:30pm Vimeo

Party

•  MPress Fest
12:00pm Soho Lounge

Showcases

•  Jenn Grant
10:00pm Friends

•  Delta Rae
11:00pm Antone’s

•  Lions in the Street
1:00am BD Rileys