South by Southwest

YouTube Treats - The Return of Dead Confederate

source: SXSW Podcasts

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...

Published Tue, Oct 6

YouTube Treats - The Return of Dead Confederate

source: The Latest Videos and Podcasts from 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...

Published Tue, Oct 6

Quincy Jones on Michael Jackson at SXSW '09

source: The Latest Videos and Podcasts from SXSW

The 2009 SXSW Music Keynote speech from Quincy Jones contained many unforgettable moments. Among them was a series of stories about his work and friendship with Michael Jackson. After meeting on the set of "The Wiz," Jackson convinced Jones to produce his next record, and went against lab...

Published Tue, Jun 30

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