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Peligrosa House presents four days of free music during SXSW week
DJ Orion is part of the collective, Peligrosa. Discos Peligrosa, the label arm of Austin’s most crucial Latin fusion dance party, is setting up Peligrosa House at the North Door during South by...
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Hanson coming to SXSW, back where it all started for them
Hanson will play a Tulsa showcase at South by Southwest 2017. Contributed/Jiro Schneider The Monsters of “MMMBop” are coming back to South By Southwest. Hanson, the Oklahoma band whose childhood rise...
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Neko Case, M. Ward to play ‘Twin Peaks’ party during SXSW
Neko Case performs on the third day of Austin City Limits, Sunday, October 6th, 2013. ERIKA RICH / AMERICAN-STATESMAN The Collide agency returns to South by Southwest this year with a series of parties...
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Waterloo Records free SXSW parties include Spoon, Real Estate, Minus the...
2014 photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr. / American-Statesman For the last several years, Waterloo Records’ parking lot parties have been a favorite South by Southwest attraction for local music lovers who...
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SXSW adds Garth Brooks as music keynote, plus many other featured speakers
Garth Brooks will be a keynote speaker at South by Southwest on March 17. CONTRIBUTED Garth Brooks, the 1990s country superstar who remains the biggest-selling solo artist in music history, will...
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SXSW: An intimate evening with Weezer is a sing-along trip down memory lane
Like so many who grew up in the ’90s, I remember my experience with The Blue Album. It was impossibly cool — a foundational pillar for my budding teenage musical persona and probably the first not...
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M. Ward at Twin Peaks party was quite the SXSW chill pill
03/17/2017 M. Ward performs at The Showtime House (Clive Bar) during an event at SXSW. The music of Portland, Ore., singer-songwriter (and Zooey Deschanel collaborator) M. Ward is as tranquil as a...
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Neko Case: ‘I know it’s SXSW, but don’t be cool. Just nerd.’
03/17/2017 Neko Case performs at The Showtime House (Clive Bar) during an event at SXSW. Neko Case loves “Twin Peaks.” Neko Case loves “Twin Peaks” so much that she came to the stage in an owl costume...
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SXSW 2017: Big Star’s Third mesmerizes with strings at downtown church
“We either did something really right, or really wrong,” Ken Stringfellow deadpanned as the giant stained-glass panels on both sides of the Central Presbyterian Church stage suddenly beamed with...
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Half Waif on the secret of surviving SXSW: Cheese and Jeopardy
“This has been a real rollercoaster of emotions. We just got done playing a show and I was nervous about that, then I was excited after we played, and now I’m nervous again,” singer Nandi Rose Plunkett...
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Lil Yachty at SXSW is what happens when fame meets a lack of skill
Lil Yachty is joined by others on stage during a performance at the Quality Control Showcase at the Youtube Coppertank venue during the 2017 SXSW Convention March 17. 03/17/17 by Tom McCarthy Jr. If...
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Once in a lifetime: Garth Brooks super fans camp out for tonight’s SXSW show
At Auditorium Shores Saturday afternoon there was a calm before the coming storm as crowds for the night’s Garth Brooks show were still sparse and entry was easy. With many likely waiting until closer...
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SXSW 2017: Graham Williams stresses importance of small venues during...
Discussing the high rate of turnover in the small music venue segment of the Austin ecosystem Saturday, local promoter Graham Williams made a startling observation; that the Continental Club is perhaps...
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SXSW: You’ve never seen anything like Anna Meredith
There’s more than a fair share of lo-fi surf-rock bands, left-field rappers and indie electronic acts at SXSW 2017, but there’s nothing I’ve seen quite like Anna Meredith. Anna Meredith. (Photo credit:...
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Garth Brooks serenades SXSW, and all his fans sing along
Out there in the middle of the crowd, you couldn’t help but get swept up in it: A giant mob of Garth Brooks fans packed into the South by Southwest Outdoor Stage at Lady Bird Lake, singing along at...
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Hanson remembers the SXSW softball game, brisket, and the Alamo
“This is what happens when you try to sing a song you basically haven’t sung in 23 years.” The three brothers of Hanson have convened for a Saturday afternoon video shoot at Krieg Softball Complex,...
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Mastodon goes back to roots, debuts new music at SXSW, in warm up for ACL...
Mastodon didn’t have lasers back in the day, but the band has played rooms like Empire before. They performed Friday, March 17, during South by Southwest. Andy O’Connor/For American-Statesman Before...
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SXSW announces 2017 Grulke Prize winners: Lemon Twigs, Jain, Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Hitchcock performs at Central Presbyterian Church during SXSW on Friday, March 17, 2017. JAY JANNER / AMERICAN-STATESMAN Another South by Southwest is in the books, and the conference has...
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SXSW releases dates for 2018 fest
03/17/17 Suzanne Cordeiro/ for American-Statesman Kelvin Mercer of De La Soul fist bumps a fan during Rachael Ray’s 10th Annual Feedback at Stubb’s in Austin, Texas. South by Southwest 2018 will take...
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Lil Yachty at SXSW is what happens when fame meets a lack of skill
If you went to an at all socially diverse college or university in the ‘90s then there’s a decent chance you attended or were aware of an open-mic hip hop cypher, where hopeful MCs would gather and...
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