South by Southwest

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

Sundance Review: 'Black Dynamite'

source: HitFix

 CA This elaborate parody of the blacksploitation genre just won an Audience Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, it played Tribeca, I saw it back at Sundance, and I remember thinking about it again when I saw "Black" at the SXSW festival, ...

Published Tue, Jun 16

ZXZW Festival To Change Its Name

source: The Quietus

 UK We've grown substantially in the past four years, and since a great deal of our audience, artists and press coverage comes from abroad, we get more and more confused with the SXSW festival. Because we are a different festival, including arts, ...

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

Twitter's Backchannel: Next Best Thing To A Backstage Pass?

source: Ypulse

Not to mention the added perks of daily recommendations and heads up for last minute surprise shows provided by the magazine behind the festival. Early adopters may have already caught on to this benefit of Twitter way back at last year's SXSW Music ...

Published Mon, Jun 15

Can't Miss It: Monday

source: Seattlest

 Seattle The intimate, emotional film has won awards from festivals as diverse as SXSW, the Philadelphia Film Festival, and the San Francisco Documentary Festival. In a Dream screens at the NWFF through Thursday. NEVER PISS OFF MOTHER EARTH: If you're not ...

Published Mon, Jun 15

The Cipher Journey Concludes with Debut Album - Hip Hop Press

source: press release

Hip Hop Press (press release), NC Participants were required to complete writing exercises, partake in sociopolitical discussions, attend workshops lead by community leaders, perform live at events such as SXSW, First Night Austin, Pecan Street Festival, and more in order to be ...

Published Mon, Jun 15