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Believe it or don't, cramming five folks and a drumkit into a rusted-out van and playing for dozens of people at $6 a pop does not the most financially lucrative career make. Still, they do it, these rockers, cuz they've got love for the game. And Baton Rouge, Louisiana's Spanish Moon club has got love for them. So, for a handful of bands headed to/from Austin for this week's South by Southwest, Spanish Moon is offering a stage, a crowd, and a paycheck to be spent (er, ideally) on SXSW-related expenses. They call it the Gas, Food and Lodging festival, and it's going down tonight (3/10) through March 18.

Tonight, Spanish Moon will play host to Athens, Georgia's We vs. the Shark and D.C's Middle Distance Runner. Tomorrow sees a Canadian invasion from Cadence Weapon (full disclosure, Pitchfork knows Rollie) and Born Ruffians. South by Southwest kicks off Wednesday, but you wouldn't know it from the Moon's humpday lineup, featuring Man Man, Blitzen Trapper, Fleet Foxes, and the Extraordinaires. Thursday and Friday find the bands (hopefully) on their merry way to south Texas, but Elf Power return to Baton Rouge Saturday to help them help themselves. A couple nights later, Why?, Panther, and Cryptacize will do what they do on the Spanish Moon stage, and the whole she-bang comes to a close on March 18 with Legendary Shack Shakers.

Gas, Food Lodging:

03-10 We vs. the Shark, Middle Distance Runner
03-11 Cadence Weapon, Born Ruffians
03-12 Man Man, Blitzen Trapper, Fleet Foxes, the Extraordinaires
03-15 Elf Power
03-17 Why?, Panther, Cryptacize
03-18 Legendary Shack Shakers