Coachella is three days away now, which means we're three days away from seeing Kim Deal reclaim the main stage, like she did when her former band the Pixies played what is still the most-anticipated and most-hyped Coachella renion ever.

Sure, punters are excited about seeing Kim and her reunited Breeders get the old "Cannonball" rolling again at this year's festival (after all, Kim's so cool, the Dandy Warhols wrote a song about her). But it's Kim's 2004 appearance with Pixies bandmates Black Francis, Joey Santiago, and David Lovering that will undoubtedly go down in Coachella history.

So check out this classic clip from the Pixies' Coachella reunion below. It's the real Deal.

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"This is the hottest party at South By Southwest!" declared fuchsia-fauxhawked cewebrity Perez Hilton, serving as emcee at his hot-ticket private afterparty on SXSW's final night. And you know what? He was right.

Yes, with 9,000-plus RSVPs on the guestlist but only a few hundred people actually lucky enough to make it to the other side of the velvet rope, Perez's "One Night In Austin" wee-hours blowout was THE place to be Saturday night (or Sunday morning, to be more accurate, since the festivities raged on until 7am). It certainly had all the makings of a guaranteed good time: scrumptious Cuban coffee cocktails courtesy of Cafe De Bustelo (addictive stuff, with or without cognac in it); free got2b product-stocked hairstyling stations; cigarette girls in Martian makeup passing out packs from party sponsor 5Gum (to ensure good post-party makeout breath, natch); a seen-and-be-scene crowd of beautiful people who resembled extras from The Hills; and of course, swag-bags aplenty.

But it was

This year's lineup for the normally rock/country/folk-centric South By Southwest fest offered more hip-hop than possibly any previous year--with such urban music luminaries as Ice Cube, David Banner, Bun B, Pharrell Williams, GZA, the Clipse, Dizzee Rascal, 2 Live Crew, and Talib Kweli spitting rhymes at various showcases within spitting distance of each other across Austin.

But when it came to appealing to the convention's electrorock-obsessed indie crowd, perhaps no other SXSW '08 rapper had such a finger on the proverbial pulse as did that impeccably manicured crossover MC, Kid Sister.

This Kanye West-endorsed, female-friendly Chi-Town rapstress behind the beauty-salon anthem "Pro Nails" (and the acrylic-tipped star of the greatest music video ever) appeared Friday night at Emo's...where, excitingly, clubbers of presumably either gender could take advantage of complimentary pre-show manicures:

And on a bill alongside the Clipse and the Cool Kids, Kid Sister easily proved she can

It was a sweltering 92 degrees at South By Southwest on Friday--an almost unheard of temperature for Austin in March, and almost 20 degrees hotter than it was on Thursday. But did this crazy Coachella-like climate deter Britain's best-dressed baby band, Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong, from getting all dolled up in their usual autumnal haberdashery?

Of course not. It's pretty hard to imagine these fashionably pasty Londoners ever trading in their trademark scarves, vests, and suit jackets for cargo shorts and flip-flops.

Yes, JL&TJJJ beat the heat in style, never letting fans see 'em sweat (they don't sweat, they glisten), and never running out of steam, when they made their U.S. debut at the Mercury Records party on Friday afternoon. Check out their red-hot live party pics below, and see the Mercury rising indeed: