SXSW Wednesday, 3/13/13 [Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cafe Tacuba, Alt-J]

Any night in Austin that begins with the sinister strains of the human spider himself, Nick Cave, and his Bad Seeds is sure to end in a peculiar fashion. The pinnacle of my first night at South by Southwest was certainly at NPR's showcase at Stubb's — where Cave & Co. played songs new and old, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs played their new single "Sacrilege" live for the very first time. But my Wednesday night ended amid the fallout of a Nashville-bred atom bomb by the name of Natural Child, and there may or may not have been some shady scooter riding somewhere in the mix as well.