For the 4th consecutive year SXSW Interactive opens with your party…that's right, The Techset will once again kick-off SXSW Interactive with an evening that brings together the new influencers (that's you) to celebrate...
Meet part of the team behind @MasterpiecePBS "Sherlock": Emmy-nominated creator Steven Moffat (of “Doctor Who” fame) and his wife, series producer Sue Vertue. Music, food, pictures, autographs, t-shirts, fu...
Meet part of the team behind @MasterpiecePBS "Sherlock": Emmy-nominated creator Steven Moffat (of “Doctor Who” fame) and his wife, series producer Sue Vertue. Music, food, pictures, autographs, t-shirts, fu...
Click-Clack
presented by City of Austin (Free Show!)
Showcase
The Parish
8:00PM - 8:40PM
Presented by: City of Austin (Free Show!)
Eric Mikulak, also known as Click-Clack, is a 21 year old self produced hip-hop and r&b vocalist. Growing up in Austin, Texas, Eric was exposed to and submerged in all different styles of music from an early age. As year...
Schmillion
presented by City of Austin (Free Show!)
Showcase
The Parish
9:00PM - 9:40PM
Presented by: City of Austin (Free Show!)
Schmillion formed in the summer of 2009. Back then we were 13-15 years old. But most of us drive now and Natalie has advanced to higher ed. Our sound is built on crunchy guitar riffs and belting vocals. We all have diffe...
Marmalakes
presented by City of Austin (Free Show!)
Showcase
The Parish
10:00PM -10:40PM
Presented by: City of Austin (Free Show!)
MARMALAKES is a three-piece folk-pop outfit comprised of Austin natives. Dynamic and concise, their lyric-attentive songs are laced with harmonies, enthusiasm and rock-out moments. Together now for 4 years, they've self-...
• When you think “singer songwriter,” fierce is not a word that often comes to mind. But there is something slightly fierce about the opening seconds of Lex Land’s new album “Were My Sweetheart To Go”. It’s...
Simple, El Tule is for those who love to dance, feel good and enjoy the positive expression of music.
For eight years El Tule (el TOO-lay) has been honing its unique sound combining influences of Cumbia, Merengue, Sal...
Nakia, known for his larger-than-life, soulful vocal performances and ability to connect with an audience, is a true Austin success story. Since his arrival at “The Live Music Capital of the World” in 2002, he has qu...
Everyone can now make music. The increasing access to music related technology and the liquid flow of music and information is a blessing to aspiring musicians, but a curse to those who have to sift through the terrible ...
Whether Kissy Sell Out is DJing to a packed out crowd, mixing avant garde new sounds on his weekly Radio One radio show, producing his own material or remixing for others, the results are always the same: Exhilarating. I...
“My music sounds like commercial American hip-hop and death metal being played through various farm animals.”
– Borgore, from an interview with Spinner.com
Lock up your livestock: Borgore – bass culture’s e...
SAVOY is a live electronic music hybrid. Consisting of DJs Ben Eberdt, Gray Smith and drummer Mike Kelly; the SAVOY experience can be described as a high energy dance party and laser spectacular that has been referre...
If you believe that music is humankind’s universal gift to itself and that it has been passed on over thousands of years from generation to generation in all of its various mind expanding shapes and that it is holy and...
Bass Drum of Death is a band from Mississippi. John plays guitar and sings and Colin plays the drums. Together they make blown-out, blazing songs. John was Fat Possum’s worst employee 3 years ago. He wrote and recorded...
After a two and a half year break, the San Francisco guitar-drum duo TWO GALLANTS began touring again which took them across North America, through Europe and even to East Asia for their first ever shows in South Korea a...
SLOW CLUB
Paradise
Like all good clichés, there's more than a seed of truth to be found in the saying: “a band has a lifetime to make their first record”. So what happens when that band comprises of just two of ...
Sensual, provocatively percussive pop comes naturally to Friends. But you may be surprised by “I’m His Girl” – the second single from the Brooklyn newcomers – and just how cool and pop it is. As rapturous as B...
Willy Mason was just 19 when his first album was released, a record that propelled him to critical acclaim and showed a young man with a tremendous, broad-oaked voice, a great songwriting talent, and a peculiar wisdom be...
Producer, musician, DJ and composer Quantic and singer/songwriter Alice Russell are two of the UK’s best loved independent artists. Through their respective solo projects and various acclaimed collaborations over the l...
Clock Opera, I remember thinking, have this wonderful tendency to sound like their music combines real memories and made up memories, strong memories and shredded memories, and some sense of the mental and physical reali...
Melbourne born, London based, The Temper Trap return to the live front in wake of their self titled sophomore album, due for worldwide release this June. The bands 2009 breakout release "Conditions" has now scanned over ...
DIVE is the nom-de-plume of Z. Cole Smith, musical provocateur and front-man of an atmospheric and autumnally-charged new Brooklyn four-piece.
Recently inked to the uber-reliable Captured Tracks imprint, DIVE created...
Soft Metals is a multi-disciplinary electronic duo from Portland, Oregon now residing in Los Angeles, California. Its members Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall were brought together through a common love of 1970s and 80s synt...
In the cold and dreary winter of 2009, alone in his bedroom and hidden from the darkness of the world outside Justin Paul Vallesteros had begun working on something that would change his life forever. What began as a cou...
Beach Fossils is a Brooklyn-based group, formed in early 2009 by Dustin Payseur. After signing to Captured Tracks and quickly pulling together a live band, they took off playing countless shows across the U.S. gathering ...
