South by Southwest

 TX By MARIO TARRADELL Music Critic mtarradell@dallasnews.com AUSTIN – South by Southwest is a music festival, right? So let's talk about music. Here are three concerts I took in on the final two full days of SXSW. The new-wave icons put on a refreshingly ... SXSW review: Devo Austin 360

 TX Friday night at Austin Music Hall, maybe my man could deliver the show of his I’d always wanted to see. “Rocking out” has never quite been one of Tricky’s skill sets, as much as he might like. At Austin Music Hall, he alternated between letting his ...

 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

 CA The annual South by Southwest (SXSW) festival and conference will be fully ramped up by about noon on Wednesday, but there was music to be had Tuesday night. Those with connections -- and willing to brave a line that stretched more than a block -- got ... SXSW review: Those Darlins Austin 360

 United States This past year, they've held much success — playing the popular Austin, Texas, music festival South by Southwest (SXSW) and the Sasquatch! Music Festival. (And they're on their way to SXSW '09 right now.) They've also opened up for indie hip-hop icons ...

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 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 Scott Weinberg Filed under: Comedy, Horror, SXSW, Lionsgate FilmsOne of the best things about last March's South By Southwest Film Festival was that I got to hang out with a bunch of Cinematipals like Kim, Erik, Pete, Jette, Snider and Gene ... and one of the best times we had together was during the world pre...

Austin, Texas is best known as being the home of the South By Southwest (SXSW) music conference, where thousands of musicians show up every year to showcase their wares for the industry and the press in the hopes of attracting the ...

By Jette Kernion The recent U.S. involvement in Iraq has become one of the biggest subjects for documentaries in the past few years, and it's hard not to feel weary of watching the variety of movies on this topic, no matter how varied and original they might be. Phil Donahue has contributed to the genre with Bod...

SXSW - Day Three - A review in pictures - Austin Texas -  UK - Mar 23, 2008 The Friday SXSW lineup was the one I was most looking forward to as I had the potential to see two new acts whose music I was really enjoying alongside my ...

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...

Movie Review: SXSW Live - 2007  - SXSW, for those uninitiated into indie culture, stand for South by Southwest, an annual (movie, music, art, culture, everything else too) festival which ...

By Dan MacIntosh South By Southwest is a must-see festival for diehard music fans. This DVD won’t replace that experience, but it’ll at least give you a good taste.

Music DVD Review: SXSW Live 2007 Blogcritics.org, OH - The South By Southwest (SXSW) music festival in Austin, Texas is regarded as one of the most influential live music showcases in the country. ...

By mattdentler(matt@sxsw.com) With the September 7 release of his new Sony Pictures comedy, The Brothers Solomon, I asked director Bob Odenkirk (Mr. Show) to answer some questions. Odenkirk has been a good friend of SXSW since 2003, when his feature directorial debut, Melvin Goes to Dinner, screened to enthusiastic re...

Review: 'SXSW LIVE 2007'  - By PETER BROWN, Associate Editor If you didn’t make it to South By SouthWest (SXSW) music festival in Austin, Texas this year, the festival organizers want ... SXSW Live 2007" DVD Arrives Net Music Countdown all 2 news articles

DVD Review: SXSW Live 2007  UK - The South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas is one of the largest music festivals in the United States. In 2007 more than 1400 acts performed ...

By Randy H. When approaching South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, the largest annual music event in the world, you've got to take the good with the bad (and the queen). With performances from over 1300 bands, this year's conference held March ...

By Rachelandthecity The only European music festival officially invited to showcase at SXSW, The Øya Festival has partnered with the online music website, Oh My Rockness to co-curate the event. The night, titled "Norway vs. The U.S. of A," will introduce festival-goers to Norwegian sensations Datarock, The L...

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 localbands@chron.com (Sara Cress / Joey Guerra) • And it's another festival: The MDA Crawfish Boil & Music Festival benefits the Muscular Dystrophy Association and will feature the only kind of music that goes well with crawfish: Texas-branded country. Honeybrowne, Russell Ray and more.

By Whitney Pastorek ZM: It’s definitely validation. We’ve been touring for two years, and we’ve played Austin six or seven times now, and we always play a place called Beerland. But Emo’s just rules everything, so it’s like, Oh, wow, we finally get to play at a nice big venue.

By Whitney Pastorek One last, fond howdy, PopWatchers: I'm sitting in the Houston airport getting ready to board my flight home from a music festival that, like the month in which it lives, came in like a lion and went out like a lamb. A lamb that stood in line for a really long time and didn't get to see any bands. A re...

SXSW Review: Satellite Party at Stubb's  - fired-up from start to finish; they came to see a rock star, and he didn't let them down. See the full South by Southwest recap at livedaily.com/sxsw/. SXSW Review: Satellite Party at Stubb's LiveDaily.com all 2 news articles

SXSW Review: The Good, The Bad and The Queen at Stubb's  - A good set that could've been great, if not for the setting. See the full South by Southwest recap at livedaily.com/sxsw/.

SXSW Review: Duncan Sheik at Central Presbyterian Church  - showcase with a rendition of "Touch Me" from the current Broadway musical "Spring Awakening." See the full South by Southwest recap at livedaily.com/sxsw/.

The Good, The Bad and The Queen sounded fantastic during their hour-long Friday night (3/16) South by Southwest showcase, and looked snappy, too; frontman Damon Albarn and a backing string section donned black top hats. The Good, The Bad and The Queen sounded fantastic during their hour...

By Shirley Halperin What's up with the lines, people?! Everywhere I went on this second day of my tenth South by Southwest, I saw frustrated badge holders doing their best to demonstrate that patience is, indeed, a virtue. Is the number of registrants just so astronomically large this year? Is there a shortag...

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...

SXSW Review: Thomas Dolby at Elysium  - since the presumably well-off Dolby isn't doing this for any other reason. See the full South by Southwest recap at livedaily.com/sxsw/.

 - A roundup of the Austin venues that get the most action during SXSW, plus a Send 2 Phone function to text the addresses to your cell. ... SXSW Review: Charlie Louvin at The Parish LiveDaily.com SXSW Review: The Hourly Radio LiveDaily.com South by Southwest: Best Bets and Big Stories NPR

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 Whitney Pastorek It's 11:15 a.m., and I’m sitting at Austin’s Tequila Mockingbird Studios, where Nic Harcourt, the voice of KCRW’s splendid alternative music radio show Morning Becomes Eclectic is holding court during SXSW (the show usually tapes out in Cali). This morning’s...

SXSW Review: Car Stereo (Wars) at Beauty Bar  - way into mixes with bass-heavy hip-hop, turning the entire bar into one big dancing machine. See the full South by Southwest recap at livedaily.com/sxsw/.

NPRSXSW Review: Charlie Louvin at The Parish  - That new album is dominated by re-worked versions of songs he's recorded previously, and Louvin's SXSW set included a few songs that appear on the ... South by Southwest: Best Bets and Big Stories NPR South By Snapshot: Thursday Esquire

Based on the group's Wednesday (3/14) performance at the annual South by Southwest music festival in Austin, TX, rock quartet The Hourly Radio (music) ... Why isn't SXSW Wi-Fi perfect? CNet News.com Blog South by Southwest: Best Bets and Big Stories NPR Music Video Wire

By Xeni Jardin Xeni Jardin: Over at Wired's "Listening Post" blog, Eliot Van Buskirk posts what I'm pretty sure are exclusive details on a soon-to-debut service called Slacker. One interesting side effect -- if this takes off, Sirius and XM may not have to worry about antitrust so much after all. Snip fro...

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Austin, beware: The SXSW geeks are back in town [CNET] The South by Southwest Interactive confab brings together bloggers, podcasters, and others for five days of shenanigans, partying, and networking."Adobe eyes fraud-busting tools for Photoshop [CNET]

By eug(ejh@indiewire.com) Austin, TX, site of SXSW. Photo by indieWIRE compiled by Brian Brooks and Eugene Hernandez (March 9, 2007) DOWNTOWN Places to go in an around the downtown area, homebase for SXSW. AROUND AUSTIN: Places that are still in Austin, but a little off the beaten path. OUTSIDE AUSTIN:

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...