South by Southwest

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 ...

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 Ryan S. Editor’s note: The 22nd annual South By Southwest Festival, which featured some 1,700 acts on 80 stages, took place March 12-16. AUSTIN, Texas — South by Southwest, known to many as merely SXSW, is one of the biggest festivals in the world, covering the music, film and interactive categor...

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 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 We arrived at Emo's fairly early on Thursday night to make sure that we didn't have any trouble getting in, and although, the first person I approached was looking like a roadblock, someone else came outside and quickly ushered us in. Now, for a disclaimer, we drove to Austin Wedneday night...

By Rachelandthecity So, when I got a text message from him Thursday afternoon during SXSW saying that the band was playing the Nylon party at 6:30 - I grabbed my friends and we began to walk to the venue from Antones where we had just seen Blonde Redhead (more on that later). Since Tim had simply sent me the address o...

By localbands@chron.com (Sara Cress / Joey Guerra) Now that it's all a week back in the rearview mirror, my head is a bit clearer and it's time to get back to talking about Houston music in Houston. Details: Thursday-Saturday. Various locations. See the complete schedule here. $20 for the entire three days; tickets available here.

By Whitney Pastorek I mentioned these guys in my Saturday wrap-up, but thought they deserved a little more time. America? Meet Attractive and Popular, hailing from Bathhouse Row, Hot Springs National Park, in the gorgeous state of Arkansas. As I noted before, I...

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... And that was it. Four days of great music ended in front of a very large Norwegian man wi...

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

By zephoria(zephoria-vacation@zephoria.org) SXSW has come and gone and my phone might never recover. Y'see, last year i received over 500 Dodgeballs. To the best that i can tell, i received something like 3000 Tweets during the few days i was in Austin. My phone was constantly hitting its 100 message cap and...

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) While some of those documentaries certainly pack an emotional punch (particularly "Granny" and "Katrina"), the real carefully tender moments of cinematic documentation are contained with in two of the festivals best documentaries, "Silver Jew" and "Billy the Kid". Clocking in at ju...

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

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...

By Christopher Carfi Panelists are; Jory Des Jardins Co-Founder, BlogHer LLC Lisa: "Ask, don't tell. If you want an authentic community, lecturing people is a challenge. You need to ask the community what they want, and they'll tell you." Lisa: "No, I don't think anonymity is Kryptonite." Comments Tag: SXSW

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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 Austin film fans might enjoy seeing Rusty Kelley (from Dear Pillow) as young Max Cassidy, Cyndi Williams as one of the parents, and local comedian John Erler (of The Sinus Guys) playing the TV show's villain. The crew was full of well-known local filmmakers: for example, Kyle Henry (who di...