South by Southwest

YouTube Treats - Daniel Johnston at Studio SX - "I Feel Like A Monkey In A Zoo In This Place!"

source: SXSW Podcasts

As a former and sometimes current resident of Austin, I am familiar with the interesting, sad, sometimes funny, often sweet tale of Daniel Johnston. We were lucky enough to have Daniel over to Studio SX this year for a little chat. A meandering journey of an interview that takes us through hi...

Published Fri, Jul 17

YouTube Treats - Daniel Johnston at Studio SX - "I Feel Like A Monkey In A Zoo In This Place!"

source: The Latest Videos and Podcasts from SXSW

As a former and sometimes current resident of Austin, I am familiar with the interesting, sad, sometimes funny, often sweet tale of Daniel Johnston. We were lucky enough to have Daniel over to Studio SX this year for a little chat. A meandering journey of an interview that takes us through hi...

Published Fri, Jul 17

Midnight Youth Auction Private Gig For Charity. - Scoop.co.nz

source: Scoop.co.nz

press release), New Zealand The Warner Music signed band formed in 2006. It has toured in North America with appearances at the acclaimed SXSW music festival in Austin (Texas), New York as well as the famed Los Angeles venue The Viper Room. In New Zealand it played support for ...

Published Wed, Jun 17

Zee Avi at Hunter-Gatherer

source: Free Times

 SC Before long, Avi was being whisked to Austin to perform at the SXSW Music Festival to Los Angeles to record her self-titled Brushfire Records debut. Avi's self-titled record very much keeps with the Jack Johnson aesthetic: it's warm and cozy; ...

Published Wed, Jun 17

AT&T: Can its network take the next wave of iPhone 3GS?

source: Computerworld

 MA Another sign of what's to come: At this years SXSW conference in Austin, so many iPhones were in use that the network became unusable. AT&T was forced to bring out some more equpment. When I visited my family in Cleveland a few months ago, ...

Published Tue, Jun 16

Recap: A Northside Festival postmortem

source: Decider New York

by Paul Caine June 15, 2009 It's one thing for the indie music world to converge on Austin, Texas for SXSW. It's another thing for young, easily impressed college radio programmers to converge on Manhattan for the CMJ Music Marathon. ...

Published Mon, Jun 15

Wither Radio Room?

source: Austin 360

 TX Although the inside and outside rooms were used during SXSW, the club shows no signs of life. “It's been on hold as we reduce the scale of our original project,” owner Michael Terrazas said. The original idea was an outdoor live music venue with a 1000 ...

Published Mon, Jun 15

Room 710 is (probably) dead, long live ….. something else, maybe

source: Austin 360

 TX The reboot likely will keep the new room viable as a venue for SXSW. “But it's no longer going to be a practice field for new bands,” Garber said. “That's the big change.” If things go well, Garber says the new venue would be open six to eight weeks ...

Published Mon, Jun 15