South by Southwest

By Robert Duffy My entire SXSW journey ended with Matt and Kim (mp3). Like I’ve siad when I’ve written about them in the past, it’s hard not to smile during the band’s entire set. A perfect way to end another great year at SXSW. Thanks, Austin, see you soon. Duffy photo by Lorne Thomson The last day started with a g...

By Robert Duffy Joseph Arthur will be playing the donewaiting.com day show during SXSW on Wednesday. Joseph Arthur will be releasing an EP every month through August. Here’s an MP3 from the first EP, out March 18. MP3: Rages of Babylon Joseph Arthur will be playing the donewaiting.com day show during SXSW on W...

By SXSW We invited Core Conversations organizers to produce a short podcast to introduce the issues they plan to discuss. A new programming element for the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival, Core Conversations will make it easier for more attendees to participate in the informal hallway-type ex...

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

By Chip Midnight The start of a new year usually brings a flood of tour date announcements from publicists. We received a few of those emails today, many of which had dates that included Austin during SXSW week. Here’s the latest list of bands that you can expect to see at SXSW: Hotel Cafe tour featuring Ingrid...

By mattdentler(matt@sxsw.com) In honor of Friday's totally, absolutely final SXSW submission deadline I wanted to perk things up with this lovely new ballad by Dan Bejar's project called Destroyer. Also a member of The New Pornographers, Bejar's next Destroyer record is due to hit stores in March. Right around SXSW 200...

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.

By James Rocchi What's the point of going to a festival like Cannes? Is there really a bigger appreciation of 'art' films in Europe? Why do movie studios spend millions of dollars for stunts and publicity at Cannes? When you're blogging, is anything ever really off the record? Joining us this week from th...

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

Despite the excellent lineups all over town, our daylight hours on Friday had been spoken for well before we made the trek to SouthBy (and particularly after spending Thursday systematically missing a bunch of the acts we'd hoped to...

Not sure what the contributing factors were, but it seemed like everybody was a little frustrated yesterday down at SouthBy; people showing up to the right day party at the wrong time, jumbling their schedules, taking wrong turns in what's...

Just when you thought it was impossible to find an Austin restaurant without a two-hour wait, Bre Pettis suggests a place called the Marisco Grill. Awesome Mexican seafood, dirt cheap and totally empty, allowing more that two dozen vloggers to converge over margaritas and enchiladas. He...

By localbands@chron.com (Sara Cress / Joey Guerra) This week's featured band is Peekaboo Theory, which was invited to perform at this year's SXSW Music festival, and here is the podcast. Listen in as the guys get serious about defining their sound and then get goofy near the end. Details: 11:30 p.m. Saturday. Club One 15 at SXSW in Austin.

By Jen Carlson Nicole Atkins is more than "just" a girl with a guitar. Her live shows are amongst the best we've seen - energetic, personable and with a sound so big there's little else to do but feel a part of the music. Tomorrow afternoon she'll take the stage at our show in Austin, and we suggest coming by if y...

By jon petitt Saturday 3/17 Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick's Day. Boston. Music. nuff said. Dropkick Murphys play the shit out of this weekend. Agganis Arena, $27.50 They also play Avalon both Friday and Saturday, also $27.50 Victoria Welch, Matt Durutti and C. Fernsebner contributed to this post

By jon petitt A little bit of SXSW and a little bit of Japan are converging tomorrow night in Central Square. The SXSW Japan Showcase makes a few U.S. stops in addition to the big indie weekend in Austin. And, lucky for those of us unable to make a pilgrimage to Texas, Japan Night drops by TT's this weekend.

By Jen Carlson For the past couple of years we've headed down to Austin for SXSW. One of the more enjoyable times of the year, can't really complain about an experience which includes: music, friends, avocado margaritas, sunshine and migas. That said, we'll be headed down again this year, the "festival"...

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...

By Roger Johansson So, let's say you're living in Sweden and want to go to a Web related conference. You've read about SXSW Interactive, Web Directions, Web Directions North, Webstock, @media, and others you want to attend. They've all been too far away, too expensive, or both.