South by Southwest

By Robert Duffy I can’t see myself reading any of this, but I could be wrong. AOL is trying its most ambitious super-content project yet with freelance content site Seed.com: offering 2,000 $50 assignments on SXSW bands for its music site Spinner.com. New Seed programming director Saul Hansell sees it as th...

By Robert Duffy KCRW’s Official Night Showcase – Wed, March 17 OZOMATLI MIIKE SNOW FANFARLO CHOIR OF YOUNG BELIEVERS SOKO FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS Also, KCRW is hosting an Official Day Showcase for the first time at the Convention Center on SATURDAY, MARCH 20 from noon to 3pm. We know you need some incentive t...

By Robert Duffy For the third year running, NPR Music will present, broadcast and webcast the opening night showcase of the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, TX, when it brings Spoon to headline Stubbs on Wednesday, March 17. The concert will kick off Spoon’s U.S. concert tour in supp...

By Robert Duffy Preliminary schedules are now available on SXSW.com! The SXSW schedules will help you navigate your way through the vast amount of programming for SXSW 2010 and allow you to plan your personal schedule for this year’s event. Browse through everything, including: Music Showcases, Music...

By Robert Duffy While it’s not a complete break, [Todd] Patrick claims to be cleaning his hands of South by Southwest. “I think the festival kinda blows,” he says. “After all these years we’ve helped the value of the festival. We’ve given people justification for going to South by Southwest even if they hate...

10 years of Austin music memories: Michael Corcoran blog) I had never heard of them before I saw them at Emo's around 1999-2000, but by the end I swore I'd never see a better band at SXSW. ... and more »

Sure, SXSW doesn't allow sound checks, but come on — this ain't SXSW. The Miami Music Festival was a good idea, but it has a long way to go to improve for ... The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at Miami Music Festival The Good, the Bad and ...Miami New Times (blog)

A SXSW showcase has been suggested. “The version of the song from the 20th anniversary tour was pretty basic, and I felt at the time that we didn't really ... and more »

Mims is currently a senior at Cal Arts.) “Thompson” won best short at SXSW in March. Description: “Since second grade, Matt and Ryan have shared the bond ...

Mims is currently a senior at Cal Arts.) “Thompson” won best short at SXSW in March. More HERE. Another Austin filmmaker's exceptional short documentary ...

By SXSW Ah, the return of Dead Confederate to the SXSW Music Bloggy. If you recall, we featured a clip of the band performing "Yer Circus" in June. The SXSW Video Czars are busy editing away so we'll have more excellent musical goodness coming to you VERY SOON. In the meantime, you can hang out at our sup...

 TX This is still the best band I've ever seen at SXSW. With Black Panda and Broken Gold, 7111\/2 Red River St. 479-7625. — Michael Corcoran Also recommended: Propagandhi at Mohawk; Carolyn Wonderland at Shady Grove; Indigo Girls at Stubb's; Extra Golden, ...

By andy007 on SXSW Snapshot: Joe Swanberg's "Alexander The Last" Introducing SnagFilmsFAST our new "Festival-Approved Submissions Tool" making it easier for filmmakers to submit films for expedited review & distribution by SnagFilms. ...

By Robert Duffy SXSW is the greatest music festival, hands down. Don’t forget to get some vitamins in you during SXSW. Pizza is delicious, though. It was great meeting old and new friends alike. For readers of DW who aren’t into SXSW, coverage is over! (for now) 2010 SXSW can’t come soon enough.

 TX By Peter Mongillo | Thursday, March 19, 2009, 11:56 AM The strongest asset of Austin garage rock band the Heartless Bastards is lead singer Erika Wennerstrom’s voice. The band was the first of three groups (the Avett Brothers and the Decemberists) to ... Dallas Observer - Austin 360

By Robert Duffy The first full day of SXSW music has passed and I have the aching feet to prove it. Watching music from 12pm to 1:30am is hard work people, but I do it for you. The day started at the Austinist party with Garotas Suecas, a band made up a bunch of 19 year old Brazilian [...]

By Robert Duffy Austin, we meet again. You’re as wonderful as I remember you. I got into town yesterday around 4pm. Hotel check in, badge check in, good to go. I’m always amazed at how friendly the volunteers of SXSW are. Everyone is in a good mood and it lasts the whole week during the festival. It’s [...]

By Chip Midnight I’m no stranger to Joey Stevens’ music, I used to work with his cousin Arlene and she was always happily passing along burned CD-Rs full of his stuff to me. Not really easy to describe what he was doing then (or is doing now with Rumspringa) but it’s sort of a mix of roots rock [...]

By Chip Midnight Though you’ve got some dates leading up to SXSW, do you consider the music festival your true coming out party? I noticed only a showcase SXSW gig on your MySpace page. Will you be performing at any parties? Will you be hanging out in Austin for a few days and, if so, any bands that you’re intere...

Anvil! made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. Since then it has made the rounds at some of the more prestigious film festivals, receiving critical praise the entire time. Now you’ll be able to see it at SXSW and if you do you definitely ...

By Robert Duffy Cursive’s official SXSW show is 3/20/09 @ 1am at Radio Room. Click here to see the shows they’ll be doing while in Austin.

By Robert Duffy If you haven’t figured this out by now, I love SXSW. Being asked to join this panel is a real honor to me and definitely a highlight of the 6 years I’ve been doing donewaiting.com. I’ve been to the festival five out of the last six years. Once I went to the entire festival, from tech to film to music, b...

By Cinematical staff Nights and Weekends marks writer-director Joe Swanberg's fourth consecutive film at the South by Southwest Film Festival, and it's quite possibly his strongest work yet. Here, Swanberg co-directs and stars alongside girl-next-door-with-an-edge Greta Gerwig - and the two play a cou...

By James Rocchi What were the big films at SXSW? What buzzword's rapidly becoming synonymous with lazy film journalism? And what happens when an alternative to the Oscars documentary nomination process follows close in the Academy's wake? Joining us this week on The Rocchi Review to talk abot SXSW and...

By Robert Duffy She ran through a set of covers (Cold War Kids, Beirut) and originals that really showcased her vocal range. And oh her lyrics! Whether it was singing about a woman whose eye she had to cut out (see mp3 above), or a bird she had to kill to stop talking, each song was just a delight to hear.

By Robert Duffy The evening began with my UK cousin Duffy at Stubb’s. I had been listening to her album for awhile now and was hoping that she would be able to pull it off live. And.. she did! I know people are going to want to peg her as the new Amy Winehouse, but I think there’s a lot more going on than just that.

By Robert Duffy Evening started at the Big Shout Touring evening showcase with Ravens and Chimes (mp3). I described them as Arcade Fire meets Polyvinyl Records, if that means anything to anyone. I enjoyed their set, wish they sold their record at the show.

By Chip Midnight While we wait for the Donewaiting crew stationed in Austin to wake from their slumber and blog about last night’s festivities (sadly, I had to cancel my plans to go to Austin this year), let’s see what a few people had to saw about R.E.M.’s performance at Stubb’s.

By Kevin J Elliott Read a full review of For Emma, Forever Ago on World of Wumme. At my first SXSW, ’round the turn of the century, before iphones, bit torrents, and blogs, my posse seemed stalked by Matt Suggs of Butterglory. Every year since there’s always one band that tends to follow me through my Austin adve...

By Chip Midnight Daniel Johnston - Austin legend? Any interest in seeing him perform this year? Pimp your SXSWshow(s)/websites/whatever: Our confirmed SXSW shows thus far: March 12th – Tee Pee Records showcase SXSW with Earthless and Witch March 13th – Birds Barbershop day party SXSW

SXSW’s strong 2008 line-up announced subscription), TX - go to Sundance when SXSW is importing a chunk of the best from this year’s Park City soiree — including the big Austin-linked movies — to town in March? ...

By Dave Reader Request: Give us your SXSW concert lineup, win a dvd! January 16th, 2008 - by Dave Reader Request There’s been a lot hype lately for the South By Southwest music festival. We’re keeping up the excitement at 52 Shows with a special Reader Request contest. Leave a comment and you could wi...

By mattdentler(matt@sxsw.com) Rob VanAlkemade's SXSW 2007 premiere documentary, What Would Jesus Buy?, has become a solid grassroots hit during its limited theatrical release across the nation. This weekend, the holiday-consumerism documentary opens in Denver, San Diego, Sacramento, Indianapolis, and Norfol...

OK, I don't feel quite so bad about how long it takes us to occasionally get all of our audio feeds from the conferences up online. The fine folks at SXSW Interactive just posted the podcast from the second BlogHer session at SXSW this past March. Session details: mp3 Link

By mattdentler(matt@sxsw.com) At SXSW 2005, we premiered the emotional and heartbreaking documentary You're Gonna Miss Me (directed by Keven McAlester), a portrait of legendary (but troubled) psychedelic rocker Roky Erickson. The film received a very warm reception, helped by the fact that Roky has lived in Austin...

By Rachelandthecity 26 Mar 2007 Mod Club Theatre w/ Mew Toronto, Ontario 27 Mar 2007 St. Andrews Hall w/ Mew Detroit, Michigan 28 Mar 2007 Double Door w/ Mew Chicago, Illinois 2 Apr 2007 Neumos w/ Mew Seattle, Washington 3 Apr 2007 Richard's On Richards w/ Mew Vancouver, British Columbia

By Rachelandthecity One of the best events I attended this year at the South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Conferences and Festivals held March 9-18 in Austin, TX was the Inaugural Hot Freaks! Blogger Curated Music Experience. Produced by two local Austinites, the two day event was booked with the...

By Jen Carlson Pela was one of the many New York bands at SXSW last week. They kept a journal of their time there for us (which included bbq, hotel antics and a car crash)...yeehaw! Also check out My Brightest Diamonds's second journal entry for us, here. Listen: Lost to the Lonesome - remix.mp3

By Whitney Pastorek Next up, allegedly, was Amy Winehouse, who is just freakin' everywhere these days. Not sure why we need to review her again, but hey, it's my job... but on the way over to her venue, I learned two things: 1) Amy Winehouse got bumped to 1 a.m. 2) Rage Against the Machine may have just played a show at Emo...

By eug(ejh@indiewire.com) With an incredibly varied program offeatures put together by event producer Matt Dentler and panels and production manager Jarod Neece, one can easily find something to enjoy at the SXSW Film Festival. Obvious choices (and big ticket sellers) are films like the Morgan Spurlock produce...

By Simon Vozick-Levinson As you may have noticed, all the cool kids are in Austin, TX this week for the annual SXSW music festival. But not the Shins! Those indie mainstays have opted instead to continue their cross-country tour, which brought them last night to a sold-out Theater at NYC's Madison Square Garden. It'...

By Alice Interactive is riding this generational wave. It's a cultural overtake process. There's a lot of people who've spent a lot of time with linear, but this whole generation is coming up... who are more comfortable in interactive. Games are being thought of as a tool for self expression, like a hobb...

By Kevin Kelly We're live in Austin, front and center for the Will Wright keynote speech, where the attendees seem a lot more excited for this one than they did for the Dan Rather speech yesterday. I guess that might change if Dan Rather was actually working on a groundbreaking new game that has almost as mu...

By Sean Ammirati The SXSW conference has multiple panels going on at the same time. I started my SXSW experience by attending the "World Domination Via Collaboration" panel. The presenters were: Jory Des Jardins Co-Founder, BlogHer LLC; Betsy Aoki Program Mgr, Microsoft; Jessica Hardwick Founder and C...

By alyk2006(miu@socialitelife.com) Tis the season for music festival line-up announcements. While major festivals such as Coachella and SXSW grabbed most of the blog headlines recently, a newer festival jumped the gate this year with one of the most impressive line-ups of the season. Bonnaroo, first held in 2002 on a 700-ac...

Long considered one of the best interview subjects in rock, the Who's Pete Townshend will give the keynote address at the 2007 South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, on March 14.

By Jette Kernion Filed under: Independent, SXSW, Mystery & Suspense After seeing Hard Candy at SXSW, I participated in a roundtable interview with director David Slade (shown above) and writer Brian Nelson. Hard Candy was the first feature film credit for both the writer and director.

By Karina Longworth But then, because irony is a virus that we cannot escape, and can only hope to contain, in the Spring of 2004 Pixies came back, for an almost-two-year, sold-out tour called - wait for it - Pixies Sell Out. loudQUIETloud, a film by Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin which had its world premiere l...

By Jette Kernion Jumping Off Bridges was the last of a half-dozen feature-length films shot in Austin that I saw during SXSW this year. I wish I could say all the films shared some vital Austin trait, or that they each reminded me of Austin in different ways. But Jumping Off Bridges has a universal look and feel...

By Jette Kernion The Cassidy Kids nearly sold out the Paramount in its premiere screening during SXSW. The crowd contained a number of people affiliated with Burnt Orange Productions, a local production company. Burnt Orange partners with the University of Texas so film students can work as crew on local...