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alt-J (∆)’s name takes a little explaining. Pronounced “alt-J”, the delta sign is created when you hold down the alt key on your computer keyboard and punch ‘J’ on a Mac computer. The symbol has a deeper meaning for the …
Musicians often claim they are “giving themselves” to their listeners, but it’s rarely as true as on Ben Sollee’s fourth album, Half-Made Man, a revealing, deeply moving album that explores a man trying to figure himself…
Tuesday, March 12
8:00 PM
Presented by: Pitchfork
The creative voice of Night Beds, Winston Yellen, hails from Nashville by way of Colorado Springs. The 23 year-old songwriter boasts a new, great American voice with a specific brand of intimate thirst that few musicians…
9:00 PM
Zach Williams, the Lone Bellow’s lead singer and principal songwriter, can pinpoint just about exactly when the Brooklyn-based group serendipitously willed itself into being. It was around 9 a.m. one morning in 2010, at…
10:00 PM
Muscle Shoals, Alabama native Jason Isbell has been honing his much touted songwriting craft for several years now. He has released three studio albums and a live album all highlighting Isbell's Southern roots, effortles…
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BIOGRAPHY: HAIM Hailing from the San Fernando Valley, HAIM consists of, “Three sisters, and a mister” that has been shaking things up in the city of Los Angeles for the past four years. It is truly a family affair for …
Presented by: Campfire Trails
The Weeks are an indie rock band from Mississippi whose cathartic output of songs stems from the same root: their geography and disadvantaged youth. Beginning In March of 2006, The Weeks, ages ranging between 14 and 16 y…
10:15 PM
Presented by: Flaunt Magazine
VietNam make their long-awaited return with a new album, An American Dream, released on Mexican Summer this Feb of 2013. Micheal Gerner, the creative force behind VietNam, is back onstage for the first time in five year…
Presented by: Pitchfork (Badges and Wristbands Only)
There’s little doubt that Marnie Stern lives up to her reputation as “the lady who shreds,” but for Marnie, shredding is not enough. After putting out three critically-acclaimed albums, Marnie could have gotten away with…
10:30 PM
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L.A.'s Wavves follow up their 2010 skuzz-pop masterstroke King of the Beach with Life Sux, the debut release from singer Nathan Williams' Ghost Ramp label. If the band's previous records were all about one man's self-loa…
Presented by: iHeartRadio
In November 2009, the members of Adelaide, Australia’s Atlas Genius set about building a studio where they could write and record music for their newly formed band. For two years, brothers Keith, Steven, and Michael Jeff…
10:45 PM
Presented by: Cirque du Soleil presents #EVOKE13 (Badges and Wristbands Only)
The formation of Divine Fits can be traced back to Britt Daniel attending a Handsome Furs show in 2007, seeing Dan Boeckner milling around and looking like like the type of guy that would talk to strangers. Britt acted o…
11:00 PM
11:30 PM
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Japandroids is a two piece band from Vancouver, BC. This ‘band’ started in 2006 and consists of Brian King and David Prowse. Originally intending to be a trio, the boys decided to forego the logistical nightmare of havin…
12:00 AM
Presented by: Hill Country Live
Let’s not mince words here: It’s been a godawful long while since the last time Terry Allen released a collection of new songs. Maybe not record-breaking long — some of his peers in the Texas songwriter and Americana fie…
Presented by: City of Austin: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!
Since emerging as a favorite new live band out of Austin TX in the late 2000s, the Band of Heathens has toured relentlessly, building a devoted following and landing on some of the finest stages in music. Over three stud…
Presented by: The Nature Conservancy
Anti- Records is proud to announce the release of Kelly Hogan’s extraordinary new solo album I Like To Keep Myself In Pain. This Atlanta native is a beloved figure throughout the contemporary music landscape, and a multi…
12:30 AM
Presented by: (Badges and Wristbands Only)
The formation of Divine Fits can be traced back to Britt Daniel attending a Handsome Furs show in 2007, seeing Dan Boeckner milling around and looking like like the type of guy that would talk to strangers. Britt acted o…
1:00 AM
Presented by: The Nature Conservancy
Ryan Bingham is an Oscar-winning singer/songwriter, born in New Mexico but raised all across the Southwestern United States. Bingham set out on his own at a young age, shuffling from town to town and performing gigs at l…
Presented by: Little Brother Music
Elijah Ford is a California native turned Austin based musician who began his solo career after breaking from touring with Oscar & Grammy winner Ryan Bingham. Ford put out his first solo record Upon Waking in 2011 and hi…
Presented by: Campfire Trails
Yes, it’s true. Yes, it’s true. The Polyphonic Spree began July 15, 2000 as one man’s desire to hear a sound he dreamt about; before most bands over the last decade, that are often compared in sound and vision to th…
Presented by: The Syndicate's Conflict Of Interest (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Since their modest beginnings as four guys who drove around southern California with their gear in their cars, practicing wherever they could steal a space, Cold War Kids have always exhibited two qualities in their musi…
Nicki Bluhm wasn’t always Nicki Bluhm. It all began one New Year’s Eve party. Impressed with the talents of Nicki’s performance when asked to play an impromptu blues song, musician/producer Tim Bluhm (The Mother Hips…
Presented by: 2013 MTV/VH1/CMT Present: Live in Austin (Badges and Wristbands Only)
"I take walks a lot," says Jim James, "and as I walk, songs kind of build in my mind, and I start adding and subtracting things. So I had a full vision for a lot of the songs on this album before I even recorded one note…
1:15 AM
Presented by: Pitchfork (Badges and Wristbands Only)
If there is one person, who has been causing a stir on the international club circuit recently, it is Barcelona's John Talabot. Already his debut “My Old School“ (which is meant literally by the way) on Permanent Vacatio…
Wednesday, March 13
3:30 PM
Jim James has spent the better part of almost two decades as the lead singer and songwriter of My Morning Jacket. Through six studio albums, My Morning Jacket has grown into one of the most acclaimed rock and roll bands …
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Bill Flanagan, Jim James
5:00 PM
Presented by: KCRW
For his Nonesuch debut, Devendra Banhart chose the title Mala, literally the Serbian word for “small,” but used colloquially in Eastern Europe as a term of endearment—“like sweetie pie,” Banhart explains. It was a placeh…
7:30 PM
Presented by: Vans + Fat Possum: Badges only
Japandroids is a two piece band from Vancouver, BC. This ‘band’ started in 2006 and consists of Brian King and David Prowse. Originally intending to be a trio, the boys decided to forego the logistical nightmare of havin…
7:45 PM
Presented by: NPR Music (Badges and Wristbands Only)
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS PUSH THE SKY AWAY FEBRUARY 2013 "I don't know, this record just seems new, you know, but new in an old school kind of way" Nick Cave "Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of…
8:00 PM
PYYRAMIDS is the dark and mysterious union of two beautifully creative minds joined together from great distance. Improbably comprised of Tim Nordwind and Drea Smith – he from the indie rock band OK Go, she from the elec…
8:45 PM
Presented by: Spinner
Lord Huron is a musical and visual project created by Ben Schneider. Originally a solo project, collaborators now include Mark Barry (percussion, vocals), Miguel Briseno (bass, percussion) and Tom Renaud (guitar, vocals)…
9:00 PM
Presented by: 101X (Badges and Wristbands Only)
HANNI EL KHATIB – HEAD IN THE DIRT (INNOVATIVE LEISURE) When Hanni El Khatib started out, he was just a skater kid playing the world’s worst guitar and singing by himself. Inspired by a long line of determined do-it…
Presented by: (Badges and Wristbands Only)
space blues from Tampa, FL. what do you want from me?……
BILLY BRAGG It was thirty years ago today when the Saturday boy from Essex who would become Britain’s foremost political singer-songwriter released his first record, the mini-album Life’s a Riot With Spy Vs Spy. It co…
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, simply known as Kendrick Lamar, is an American rapper. He hails from Compton, California, currently signed to Top Dawg, Aftermath, and Interscope. Lamar is a member of hip hop supergroup Black H…
9:20 PM
Presented by: Enabler PR
With a sound that evokes the dreamlike natural wonders of their homeland, duo the Holydrug Couple are a part of the burgeoning psychedelic rock scene rising out of Chile. Based in Santiago, members Ives Sepúlveda and Man…
9:30 PM
Presented by: Aquarium Drunkard (Badges and Wristbands Only)
For The Orwells, Remember When will be an introduction of sorts—the 12-track rat-race shows the band’s repertoire of pranging riffs and sneering, snot-nosed vocals. The tracks are a walloping war-cry from a generation th…
Presented by: School Night/Cascine
Filip Nikolic and Jeffrey Paradise are good friends who are inspired by California, mezcal, dancing, good food, and friends. Filip is a Danish producer now living in LA who plays bass in Ima Robot; Jeffrey throws the inf…
Presented by: High Road Touring
Musicians often claim they are “giving themselves” to their listeners, but it’s rarely as true as on Ben Sollee’s fourth album, Half-Made Man, a revealing, deeply moving album that explores a man trying to figure himself…
9:45 PM
Presented by: Resident Advisor
Andy Stott made his debut for the Modern Love label in 2005 with the 'Replace EP' - a 4 track exposition of his uniquely slanted production style taking in Chi-Town and Motor City influences with an obtuse genetic code a…
10:00 PM
Presented by: Bloodshot Records
From the classic rock echoes that hang heavy like the reefer smoke in the rafters of Detroit’s Cobo Hall, to the soul reflected in the alleys and small faces of London’s Heavy Load scene to the exile off Main Street, few…
Presented by: (Badges and Wristbands Only)
“I don’t think it’s possible for me to write in a major key,” says Katie Stelmanis, co-founder and lead singer of Toronto trio Austra. “I don’t know why. It doesn’t seem to factor in my brain.” It’s not like the longt…
Presented by: Volumen/ACHE Producciones
Allah Las met while working at the biggest of all the L.A. Record stores, but they became a band in an even more rare and special space—a California basement, dug out somewhere between the mountains and the beach. They …
Presented by: 101X (Badges and Wristbands Only)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 22, 2013 THE BLACK ANGELS UNVEIL GROUNDBREAKING NEW ALBUM INDIGO MEADOW HERALDED BY PROVOCATIVE NEW TRACK “DON’T PLAY WITH GUNS” STREAMING NOW AT THEBLACKANGELS.COM NORTH AMER…
Presented by: Partisan/Young One Records
Hailing from Providence, Rhode Island, John McCauley started Deer Tick in the winter of 2004 as a drum and guitar duo. After touring around the United States extensively and a few DIY releases, Deer Tick released its fir…
10:10 PM
Presented by: The Warner Sound Captured by Nikon
Basically, we are all responsible for the preservation of our personal joy; but happiness is different. Joy is not circumstantial, happiness is. You can be depressed and still have joy. You can be suicidal and still have…
10:15 PM
Presented by: Life Or Death
L.A.'s Wavves follow up their 2010 skuzz-pop masterstroke King of the Beach with Life Sux, the debut release from singer Nathan Williams' Ghost Ramp label. If the band's previous records were all about one man's self-loa…
Presented by: Aquarium Drunkard (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Nearly three years on from his breakthrough album Here’s To Taking It Easy, Phosphorescent returns to the fray with his most stunning record yet: Muchacho . During the last album’s ‘cycle’, one could almost hear jaws hit…
10:20 PM
Presented by: Enabler PR
In less than a year, Amherst quartet California X have emerged from basements and punk practice spaces of Massachusetts as one of the tightest new garage punk bands in the Northeast, teetering between various pockets of …
10:30 PM
BERNHOFT “SOLIDARITY BREAKS" Often described as one of the most talented voices in the country, Bernhoft has built his career step by step. From small roles as a child on stage in the Norwegian Opera, via success with…
11:00 PM
Presented by: Frenchkiss Record and Label Group
This band is called Bad Cop, from Nashville, Tennessee, and at the center of it are the things that make all great rock bands the way they are: tight musicianship, remarkable songwriting, and above all, the ability to pu…
Presented by: Aquarium Drunkard (Badges and Wristbands Only)
In May 2011, Foxygen's Sam France and Jonathan Rado nervously handed off a CD-R of their homemade mini-opus Take the Kids Off Broadway to producer and visionary Richard Swift after his performance in a Lower East Side cl…
Presented by: Enabler PR (Badges and Wristbands Only)
"Föllakzoid was born in Santiago, Chile product of a trance experience between friends. Sort of a soul abduction in wich we’ve been living since 2008. About where we come from, we believe that there is some sort of gravi…
Presented by: Partisan/Young One Records
Diamond Rugs is a collaboration between John McCauley (Deer Tick), Robbie Crowell (Deer Tick), Ian Saint Pé (The Black Lips), Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Hardy Morris (Dead Confederate) and Bryan Dufresne (Six Finger Satel…
Presented by: KCRW (Badges and Wristbands Only)
In November 2009, the members of Adelaide, Australia’s Atlas Genius set about building a studio where they could write and record music for their newly formed band. For two years, brothers Keith, Steven, and Michael Jeff…
11:15 PM
Presented by: Life Or Death
As Unknown Mortal Orchestra, New Zealand by-way-of Portland songwriter and guitarist Ruban Nielson marries psychedelia with sharp soul touchstones. Timeless pop hooks are produced with a soft buzzsaw edge so that the eff…
11:45 PM
Presented by: Burger City/Oops Baby
Perfecting the blend of glitter and grime that earned Bare Wires a soft spot in the hearts of the bubblegum-popping, foot-stomping masses, Matthew Melton joins with bassist Chase Asmussen, guitarist Rob Good, and drummer…
12:00 AM
Presented by: Resident Advisor
If there is one person, who has been causing a stir on the international club circuit recently, it is Barcelona's John Talabot. Already his debut “My Old School“ (which is meant literally by the way) on Permanent Vacatio…
Presented by: (Badges and Wristbands Only)
‘Before we started work on this album, we'd found a new sense of clarity and confidence, not only as a band, but from a personal point of view. We've healed some of our demons, not all of them, but the outcome is that we…
Presented by: Oklahoma Night
Kid Face, the third full-length album from Samantha Crain (Ramseur Records, February 19, 2013), is a revelatory song cycle as expansive as the wide-open spaces of the 26-year-old artist’s native Oklahoma, and as intimate…
Presented by: The Windish Agency
‘Harley Streten has produced an LP that’s scarily close to perfect. Streten’s achieved something rare here: music with mass appeal, but with nothing derivative or by-numbers about it.’ 4.5 stars, Rolling Stone “Flume’s…
Singer, songwriter, and natural history enthusiast Jenny Owen Youngs grew up in the forests of northern New Jersey and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. After self-releasing her first album Batten the Hatches in 2005, You…
Presented by: DTS/ Slacker (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Since their modest beginnings as four guys who drove around southern California with their gear in their cars, practicing wherever they could steal a space, Cold War Kids have always exhibited two qualities in their musi…
Presented by: Québec City Festival d'été
There is a war now. The message has been sent through short wave in code. The Besnard Lakes twisting chronicle, or fever dream, of spies, double agents, novelists and aspiring rock gods has turned violent. Loyalty, disho…
Bad Ingredients, Biram’s fourth full-length for Bloodshot Records, is a decidedly different record for those who have been following SHB’s road-driven career. Recorded at Biram’s home studio in Austin, Texas and mastered…
Presented by: KCRW (Badges and Wristbands Only)
The product of a move from South Carolina to Berkeley, CA and the subsequent extended separation from loved ones, Toro Y Moi’s third full-length, Anything in Return, puts Chaz Bundick right in the middle of the producer/…
12:20 AM
Presented by: Spinner
A self-described “American rock ‘n’ roll band,” Dawes represent everything pure and true about that fundamental delineation, four talented friends making music together, united by a shared belief in the power of their so…
Presented by: Enabler PR
waxahatchee boondocks>>>west philadelphia>>>austin, texas sxsw 2013……
12:30 AM
Presented by: High Road Touring
North Mississippi Allstars formed in 1996; the product of a special time for modern Mississippi hill country blues. Brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson soaked up the music of their father, Memphis legend Jim Dickinson, an…
Presented by: Aquarium Drunkard (Badges and Wristbands Only)
"I take walks a lot," says Jim James, "and as I walk, songs kind of build in my mind, and I start adding and subtracting things. So I had a full vision for a lot of the songs on this album before I even recorded one note…
Presented by: The Windish Agency
CHVRCHES are Iain Cook, Martin Doherty and Lauren Mayberry - three distinct individuals bearing three distinct personalities on a consummate whole. Combining indie sensibilities and aesthetics with barbed pop hooks a…
Presented by: NPR Music (Badges and Wristbands Only)
alt-J (∆)’s name takes a little explaining. Pronounced “alt-J”, the delta sign is created when you hold down the alt key on your computer keyboard and punch ‘J’ on a Mac computer. The symbol has a deeper meaning for the …
1:00 AM
SHOOTER JENNINGS BIO "Shooter Jennings is the most dangerous, most deceptive artist in the overall country music world right now" -Trigger, SavingCountryMusic.com Make no mistake about it, Shooter Jennings has neve…
Defying monotony is the reason ROYAL BANGS exist. In recording their third album, Flux Outside, the band has proven their ability to challenge the tediousness that consumes the music industry today. With the new album …
Presented by: Partisan/Young One Records
Brimming with confidence and creativity, Arrow sees Heartless Bastards pushing their distinctive sound forward with their most eclectic, energetic collection thus far. The album – the Austin, Texas-based band’s first rel…
Presented by: freecreditscore.com: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!
The formation of Divine Fits can be traced back to Britt Daniel attending a Handsome Furs show in 2007, seeing Dan Boeckner milling around and looking like like the type of guy that would talk to strangers. Britt acted o…
Presented by: Bloodshot Records
Ladies and gentlemen, quite possibly the best live rock band on the planet. We've seen them a hundred and sixty seven times, and the Waco Brothers never fail to entertain with their train wreck approach to country. Subtl…
Presented by: Frenchkiss Record and Label Group
Los Angeles’ Local Natives will release their sophomore album, entitled Hummingbird, on Frenchkiss Records/Infectious Music on January 29th, 2013 (out in Europe January 28th). Much has happened between the band’s cri…
1:10 AM
Presented by: Anticon.
For mercurial L.A. music-maker Will Wiesenfeld, Baths has been a long time coming. The 21-year-old has spent the better part of his days living amidst "pleasant" and "unremarkable" in the suburbs of the San Fernando Vall…
1:20 AM
Presented by: Enabler PR
WHITE LUNG BIOGRAPHY White Lung is a punk band from Vancouver, B.C. compromised of Mish Way (vocals), Grady Mackintosh (bass), Kenneth William (guitar) and Anne-Marie Vassiliou (drums). They have released four 7-inche…
1:30 AM
Presented by: The Windish Agency
Filip Nikolic and Jeffrey Paradise are good friends who are inspired by California, mezcal, dancing, good food, and friends. Filip is a Danish producer now living in LA who plays bass in Ima Robot; Jeffrey throws the inf…
Thursday, March 14
TBA
Having scalded listeners’ ears with sonic lava on Budos I and stung them with venomous frequencies on Budos II, The Budos Band delivered on their promise to spread the epidemic of “Budos Fever” far and wide with the rele…
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings have come a long way since their humble beginnings nearly a decade ago. On April 6th, 2010, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings marked history with the release of their fourth album, I Learned The …
If you’re looking for a story that best summarizes the last year in the life of Charles Bradley, you'd be hard pressed to find a better one than the night he and his band showed up in Utopia, Texas to play an outdoor sho…
“Vibe is a quintessential element in what I’m going for,” says Menahan Street Band co-founder, multi-instrumentalist and producer Thomas Brenneck. “Vibe, mood and emotion.” Those three elements are all over The Crossi…
2:00 PM
BERNHOFT “SOLIDARITY BREAKS" Often described as one of the most talented voices in the country, Bernhoft has built his career step by step. From small roles as a child on stage in the Norwegian Opera, via success with…
What’s the secret behind the Muscle Shoals Sound, and what took place in the studios where world-famous artists such as Clarence Carter, The Rolling Stones, Cher and Paul Simon recorded hit records backed by the now lege…
Presenters
David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, Spooner Oldham, Holly George-Warren
6:00 PM
Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……
7:20 PM
Presented by: Pop Montreal
Braids, the Canadian experimental pop group who released Native Speaker in 2011, have reinvented themselves in the making of their second full length. Countless late-night drives have steered their attention towards new …
7:45 PM
Presented by: Levitation
James Acton (Utah, USA)– Drums, Autoharp, Vocals Henry Evans (Rhode Island, USA)– Bass, Baritone Guitar, Upright Bass, Vocals Kirpatrick Thomas (Delaware, USA)– Guitar and Vocals Michelle Vidal – Vocals, Mellosonic, K…
8:00 PM
Presented by: Americana Music Association/Pandora (Badges and Wristbands Only)
With his last two albums, 2006’s Grammy-nominated People Gonna Talk and 2008’s The Hard Way, James Hunter delivered a classic yet perpetually modern brand of rhythm and blues that captivated listeners across generations …
PYYRAMIDS is the dark and mysterious union of two beautifully creative minds joined together from great distance. Improbably comprised of Tim Nordwind and Drea Smith – he from the indie rock band OK Go, she from the elec…
Vintage Trouble formed in 2010 out of the ashes of a few other bands, and not by chance, Ty Taylor (vocal) and Nalle Colt (guitar) teamed up with drummer Richard Danielson and bassist Rick Barrio Dill. They entered The B…
8:30 PM
Presented by: Music Unlimited Presents
Joey Bada$$ is an 18-year old artist from Brooklyn, NY with a unique vision and perspective that seems to be going extinct in the modern musical landscape. A member of the burgeoning hip hop collective Pro Era, Joey and …
8:35 PM
Presented by: The Warner Sound Captured by Nikon (Badges and Wristbands Only)
When you think of Palm Beach, Florida, what comes to mind? Palm trees swaying gently in the balmy breeze? Scantily-clad bikini buxom babes rollerblading down an infinite slab of coral-colored concrete? How about anthemic…
8:40 PM
Presented by: Pitchfork
"Thanks for coming, man. Want some bum juice?" "What the fuck is in this shit?" "Tampico and Everclear. It's pretty gross." When they started in 2009, seeing FIDLAR meant showing up to a house party and eventually h…
8:50 PM
Presented by: Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans
The creative voice of Night Beds, Winston Yellen, hails from Nashville by way of Colorado Springs. The 23 year-old songwriter boasts a new, great American voice with a specific brand of intimate thirst that few musicians…
9:00 PM
Presented by: Dickies (Badges and Wristbands Only)
It is rare to find an artist who has both age and wisdom on his side. At just 24 years-old, Big K.R.I.T. possesses the musical intuition of an old soul. Hailing from Meridian, Mississippi, K.R.I.T. (born Justin Scott) gr…
TOY is a Korg Delta led five-piece formed in 2010. It consists of Tom Dougall (Vox/Guitars), Dominic O’Dair (Guitars), Maxim Barron (Bass/Vox), Alejandra Diez (Synthesizers/Modulation) and Charlie Salvidge (Drums/Vox). T…
Presented by: Thirty Tigers
Carrie Rodriguez At each stage of Carrie Rodriguez’s career—as a fiddler, singer, and songwriter—the Austin, Texas, native has learned the importance of letting go. That was certainly true when it came to recording he…
9:20 PM
Presented by: The Warner Sound Captured by Nikon (Badges and Wristbands Only)
In November 2009, the members of Adelaide, Australia’s Atlas Genius set about building a studio where they could write and record music for their newly formed band. For two years, brothers Keith, Steven, and Michael Jeff…
9:30 PM
Presented by: The Muscle Shoals Showcase presented by Cherokee Lair Productions and 6 Degrees of Muscle Shoals
Shonna Tucker and Eye Candy Shonna Tucker grew up in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, listening to the same salty-sweet mix of soul and country that made up the Arthur Alexander and James Carr singles recorded there decades be…
9:45 PM
Presented by: Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans
Montreal's Suuns possess a rare trait in rock music: restraint. They use it like an instrument, which makes their debut full-length Zeroes QC as unsettling as it is wonderfully exasperating. It's immediately apparent in …
Presented by: BET & ASCAP: Music Matters powered by Yahoo!
Joey Bada$$ is an 18-year old artist from Brooklyn, NY with a unique vision and perspective that seems to be going extinct in the modern musical landscape. A member of the burgeoning hip hop collective Pro Era, Joey and …
10:00 PM
Perfecting the blend of glitter and grime that earned Bare Wires a soft spot in the hearts of the bubblegum-popping, foot-stomping masses, Matthew Melton joins with bassist Chase Asmussen, guitarist Rob Good, and drummer…
Presented by: Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans
On the heels of three well-received singles comes Ride Your Heart, the bombastic debut album by LA band, Bleached, out April 2 via Dead Oceans. Sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin match their ability to blend a mix of fre…
Presented by: Levitation
"Föllakzoid was born in Santiago, Chile product of a trance experience between friends. Sort of a soul abduction in wich we’ve been living since 2008. About where we come from, we believe that there is some sort of gravi…
Presented by: Americana Music Association/Pandora (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Richard Thompson’s latest album, Electric, produced by Buddy Miller, comes in what is arguably his most creatively productive period in a career that stretches back some 45 years, back to his emergence as a teen guitaris…
10:05 PM
Presented by: The Warner Sound Captured by Nikon (Badges and Wristbands Only)
You are currently reading about Frightened Rabbit. They are a band who live in Glasgow and have done for some time. They record in bedrooms, cupboards and kitchens. Anyone can be in Frightened Rabbit. They have played so…
10:10 PM
Presented by: The Muscle Shoals Showcase presented by Cherokee Lair Productions and 6 Degrees of Muscle Shoals
"Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers And they've been known to pick a song or two Lord they get me off so much They pick me up when I'm feeling blue Now how about you?" The legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Se…
10:15 PM
Presented by: The Warner Sound Captured by Nikon (Badges and Wristbands Only)
‘Before we started work on this album, we'd found a new sense of clarity and confidence, not only as a band, but from a personal point of view. We've healed some of our demons, not all of them, but the outcome is that we…
10:30 PM
10:45 PM
Presented by: Levitation
With a sound that evokes the dreamlike natural wonders of their homeland, duo the Holydrug Couple are a part of the burgeoning psychedelic rock scene rising out of Chile. Based in Santiago, members Ives Sepúlveda and Man…
10:55 PM
Presented by: Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans
In May 2011, Foxygen's Sam France and Jonathan Rado nervously handed off a CD-R of their homemade mini-opus Take the Kids Off Broadway to producer and visionary Richard Swift after his performance in a Lower East Side cl…
11:00 PM
Presented by: Dickies (Badges and Wristbands Only)
The product of a move from South Carolina to Berkeley, CA and the subsequent extended separation from loved ones, Toro Y Moi’s third full-length, Anything in Return, puts Chaz Bundick right in the middle of the producer/…
Presented by: Thirty Tigers
Carrying Lightning “Let’s not give away what all the songs are about,” requests Amanda Shires via email — shortly after an hour-long interview discussing exactly that. “I think I prefer for the listener to decide for…
Hailing from the bohemian college town of Athens, Georgia, Futurebirds play laid-back country-rock with an atmospheric, psychedelic twist. The group began turning heads with the release of a self-titled EP, whose backwoo…
Allah Las met while working at the biggest of all the L.A. Record stores, but they became a band in an even more rare and special space—a California basement, dug out somewhere between the mountains and the beach. They …
Presented by: Americana Music Association/Pandora (Badges and Wristbands Only)
The title song of Old Yellow Moon may be the concluding track on the first official album-length collaboration between Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, but it actually represents a starting point for this long-anticipa…
Presented by: Merge
Fiercely contemporary yet rich with classic influences, Mount Moriah’s Miracle Temple sports bigger arrangements, louder guitars, bolder vocals, and more soulful rhythms than their acclaimed self-titled debut. Through th…
11:10 PM
Presented by: The Warner Sound Captured by Nikon (Badges and Wristbands Only)
alt-J (∆)’s name takes a little explaining. Pronounced “alt-J”, the delta sign is created when you hold down the alt key on your computer keyboard and punch ‘J’ on a Mac computer. The symbol has a deeper meaning for the …
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Presented by: Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans
There is a war now. The message has been sent through short wave in code. The Besnard Lakes twisting chronicle, or fever dream, of spies, double agents, novelists and aspiring rock gods has turned violent. Loyalty, disho…
11:50 PM
Presented by: Tompkins Square
Luther Dickinson was born in western Tennessee to parents Mary Dickinson and famed Memphis producer and musician Jim Dickinson. The family moved to the north Mississippi hill country in 1985, where Luther and his brothe…
11:55 PM
Presented by: Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans
Nearly three years on from his breakthrough album Here’s To Taking It Easy, Phosphorescent returns to the fray with his most stunning record yet: Muchacho . During the last album’s ‘cycle’, one could almost hear jaws hit…
12:00 AM
Presented by: Dickies (Badges and Wristbands Only)
The formation of Divine Fits can be traced back to Britt Daniel attending a Handsome Furs show in 2007, seeing Dan Boeckner milling around and looking like like the type of guy that would talk to strangers. Britt acted o…
Presented by: Red Light Management
Jonny Fritz (formerly Corndawg) is a country singer, not a singer-songwriter. Born in Montana and raised in rural Virginia, Jonny dropped out of school in 2001 and toured solo for many years on his motorcycle, going on t…
Bernie Worrell: How many artists can say they were in on the ground floor of an honest-to-Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame supergroup, all while inventing a completely original and uncanny sound and, in the ensuing years, buildi…
Since their modest beginnings as four guys who drove around southern California with their gear in their cars, practicing wherever they could steal a space, Cold War Kids have always exhibited two qualities in their musi…
Presented by: Dangerbird
Sea Wolf, September 2012 Alex Brown Church covers a lot of geography in his music. As Sea Wolf, his songs weave vivid imagery and lush orchestration into narratives illuminating the emotional diaspora of life, love, l…
Presented by: Americana Music Association/Pandora (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Josh Ritter is from Moscow, Idaho. His new album, THE BEAST IN ITS TRACKS, comes out on March 5th, 2013.……
Presented by: Thirty Tigers
Muscle Shoals, Alabama native Jason Isbell has been honing his much touted songwriting craft for several years now. He has released three studio albums and a live album all highlighting Isbell's Southern roots, effortles…
Presented by: DTS/ Slacker
!!! - THR!!!ER “I suppose it's never enough / you get what you want, then you want what was / but I’d rather worry about my existential crisis / laying on a beach where the sun sets the nicest” – “Get That” !!! wi…
HANNI EL KHATIB – HEAD IN THE DIRT (INNOVATIVE LEISURE) When Hanni El Khatib started out, he was just a skater kid playing the world’s worst guitar and singing by himself. Inspired by a long line of determined do-it…
Presented by: Flowerbooking, Inc
For mercurial L.A. music-maker Will Wiesenfeld, Baths has been a long time coming. The 21-year-old has spent the better part of his days living amidst "pleasant" and "unremarkable" in the suburbs of the San Fernando Vall…
12:30 AM
Yes, it’s true. Yes, it’s true. The Polyphonic Spree began July 15, 2000 as one man’s desire to hear a sound he dreamt about; before most bands over the last decade, that are often compared in sound and vision to th…
12:35 AM
Presented by: Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans
It was a century ago when I first saw Akron/Family perform, in the tiny back room of a bar in Brooklyn that held perhaps 20 people. Akron sat in chairs on a small stage festooned with red velvet and small theater light b…
12:45 AM
Presented by: Levitation
TOY is a Korg Delta led five-piece formed in 2010. It consists of Tom Dougall (Vox/Guitars), Dominic O’Dair (Guitars), Maxim Barron (Bass/Vox), Alejandra Diez (Synthesizers/Modulation) and Charlie Salvidge (Drums/Vox). T…
1:00 AM
Presented by: Kill Rock Stars
There’s little doubt that Marnie Stern lives up to her reputation as “the lady who shreds,” but for Marnie, shredding is not enough. After putting out three critically-acclaimed albums, Marnie could have gotten away with…
Presented by: Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans
As Unknown Mortal Orchestra, New Zealand by-way-of Portland songwriter and guitarist Ruban Nielson marries psychedelia with sharp soul touchstones. Timeless pop hooks are produced with a soft buzzsaw edge so that the eff…
Presented by: Rockfeedback/Transgressive & AIM
‘Harley Streten has produced an LP that’s scarily close to perfect. Streten’s achieved something rare here: music with mass appeal, but with nothing derivative or by-numbers about it.’ 4.5 stars, Rolling Stone “Flume’s…
Presented by: Dangerbird
Man... Bios kinda suck. I've been doing these things for so long now, that I feel like just when I have written the mother of all things informative and maybe funny, I go and record a new record. Why does shit always…
Arabia Mountain, the sixth studio album and fourth Vice Records release by the Black Lips, finds the hell-raising Atlanta quartet digging deep into the roots of their exposed-nerve sound and simultaneously exploring surp…
Presented by: WOMEX
The completely unique Brooklyn bhangra band Red Baraat are making a sound no one else in the world is. A fusion of North Indian bhangra with hard driving New Orleans' brass, go-go, jazz, and hip-hop, Red Baraat has been …
T Bird and the Breaks are one of those gangs of people who could have easily banded together to steal hubcaps or hustle you out of your last dollar in a game of street craps. Lucky for all involved, they chose to make mu…
Presented by: Kanine/ FatCat
When you think of Palm Beach, Florida, what comes to mind? Palm trees swaying gently in the balmy breeze? Scantily-clad bikini buxom babes rollerblading down an infinite slab of coral-colored concrete? How about anthemic…
Presented by: Pop Montreal
Montreal's Suuns possess a rare trait in rock music: restraint. They use it like an instrument, which makes their debut full-length Zeroes QC as unsettling as it is wonderfully exasperating. It's immediately apparent in …
Los Angeles’ Local Natives will release their sophomore album, entitled Hummingbird, on Frenchkiss Records/Infectious Music on January 29th, 2013 (out in Europe January 28th). Much has happened between the band’s cri…
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Presented by: Peter Rosenberg Presents: The New York Renaissance
Joey Bada$$ is an 18-year old artist from Brooklyn, NY with a unique vision and perspective that seems to be going extinct in the modern musical landscape. A member of the burgeoning hip hop collective Pro Era, Joey and …
Friday, March 15
12:00 PM
The formation of Divine Fits can be traced back to Britt Daniel attending a Handsome Furs show in 2007, seeing Dan Boeckner milling around and looking like like the type of guy that would talk to strangers. Britt acted o…
12:45 PM
The title song of Old Yellow Moon may be the concluding track on the first official album-length collaboration between Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, but it actually represents a starting point for this long-anticipa…
1:10 PM
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If you’re looking for a story that best summarizes the last year in the life of Charles Bradley, you'd be hard pressed to find a better one than the night he and his band showed up in Utopia, Texas to play an outdoor sho…
3:00 PM
Dickies and FILTER Magazine have teamed up again to showcase a stellar line up of indie talent at Lustre Pearl on Austin’s historic Rainey St. Showcases will take place March 14th - 16th. SXSW Badges welcome. Please arri…
Sometimes the Brits are just on the cutting edge with everything from music to footwear! FILTER magazine is teaming up with legendary boot brand Dr. Martens to rock out at Bar 96 for two whole days! Share your style with…
4:00 PM
A self-described “American rock ‘n’ roll band,” Dawes represent everything pure and true about that fundamental delineation, four talented friends making music together, united by a shared belief in the power of their so…
5:00 PM
6:00 PM
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The formation of Divine Fits can be traced back to Britt Daniel attending a Handsome Furs show in 2007, seeing Dan Boeckner milling around and looking like like the type of guy that would talk to strangers. Britt acted o…
7:00 PM
Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……
Presented by: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!
"I take walks a lot," says Jim James, "and as I walk, songs kind of build in my mind, and I start adding and subtracting things. So I had a full vision for a lot of the songs on this album before I even recorded one note…
Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……
7:30 PM
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Presented by: Panache
VietNam make their long-awaited return with a new album, An American Dream, released on Mexican Summer this Feb of 2013. Micheal Gerner, the creative force behind VietNam, is back onstage for the first time in five year…
8:00 PM
BERNHOFT “SOLIDARITY BREAKS" Often described as one of the most talented voices in the country, Bernhoft has built his career step by step. From small roles as a child on stage in the Norwegian Opera, via success with…
8:15 PM
Jonny Fritz (formerly Corndawg) is a country singer, not a singer-songwriter. Born in Montana and raised in rural Virginia, Jonny dropped out of school in 2001 and toured solo for many years on his motorcycle, going on t…
8:25 PM
Bad Ingredients, Biram’s fourth full-length for Bloodshot Records, is a decidedly different record for those who have been following SHB’s road-driven career. Recorded at Biram’s home studio in Austin, Texas and mastered…
9:00 PM
Presented by: Pandora (Badges and Wristbands Only)
HANNI EL KHATIB – HEAD IN THE DIRT (INNOVATIVE LEISURE) When Hanni El Khatib started out, he was just a skater kid playing the world’s worst guitar and singing by himself. Inspired by a long line of determined do-it…
Presented by: Panache
There’s little doubt that Marnie Stern lives up to her reputation as “the lady who shreds,” but for Marnie, shredding is not enough. After putting out three critically-acclaimed albums, Marnie could have gotten away with…
Presented by: Istanbulive V
BLAUDZUN - HEAVY FLOWERS Critics consider him one of the best kept secrets in European indie pop. But that won't be for too long. Holland based singersongwriter Blaudzun will make his debut in the US. Set for release …
Presented by: ASCAP
Zach Williams, the Lone Bellow’s lead singer and principal songwriter, can pinpoint just about exactly when the Brooklyn-based group serendipitously willed itself into being. It was around 9 a.m. one morning in 2010, at…
Full of soulful urgency and longing, of lost sailors, cruel pirates and creeping inevitabilities, the new solo album by Jon Langford travels o’er the seas and malls, from the pubs of Wales to the swamps of the settled li…
Presented by: The Billions Corporation
Joe Lewis is stuffed into a van with his six bandmates and one stranger, as they hurtle across Texas to a gig in Marfa. Most of the guys are sleeping now, content in the knowledge they’ve just made the record of their li…
9:15 PM
Cory Chisel is an old believer. You can hear it in his music – there’s a wisdom beyond his years in that voice. You can see it in his story – the son of a preacher, sheltered from pop music, raised on hymns and Johnny Ca…
9:25 PM
Presented by: Our Heart Aches For Syria
For The Orwells, Remember When will be an introduction of sorts—the 12-track rat-race shows the band’s repertoire of pranging riffs and sneering, snot-nosed vocals. The tracks are a walloping war-cry from a generation th…
9:30 PM
Presented by: Dr. Martens
Nearly three years on from his breakthrough album Here’s To Taking It Easy, Phosphorescent returns to the fray with his most stunning record yet: Muchacho . During the last album’s ‘cycle’, one could almost hear jaws hit…
9:35 PM
Presented by: Panache
On the heels of three well-received singles comes Ride Your Heart, the bombastic debut album by LA band, Bleached, out April 2 via Dead Oceans. Sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin match their ability to blend a mix of fre…
9:45 PM
Presented by: The Grammy Museum - Musical Milestones: 50 Years of The Beatles
JENNY O- AUTOMECHANIC Automechanic is the appropriately titled debut full-length by Los Angeles artist Jenny O. A great distance from her Long Island, New York beginnings on the now critically praised EP "Home," Jen…
9:55 PM
Presented by: Our Heart Aches For Syria
WHITE LUNG BIOGRAPHY White Lung is a punk band from Vancouver, B.C. compromised of Mish Way (vocals), Grady Mackintosh (bass), Kenneth William (guitar) and Anne-Marie Vassiliou (drums). They have released four 7-inche…
10:00 PM
Presented by: Dickies (Badges and Wristbands Only)
DIIV is the nom-de-plume of Z. Cole Smith, musical provocateur and front-man of an atmospheric and autumnally-charged new Brooklyn four-piece. Inked to the uber-reliable Captured Tracks imprint, DIIV created instant v…
Presented by: The Grammy Museum - Musical Milestones: 50 Years of The Beatles
PYYRAMIDS is the dark and mysterious union of two beautifully creative minds joined together from great distance. Improbably comprised of Tim Nordwind and Drea Smith – he from the indie rock band OK Go, she from the elec…
Presented by: Crush Mangement
Man... Bios kinda suck. I've been doing these things for so long now, that I feel like just when I have written the mother of all things informative and maybe funny, I go and record a new record. Why does shit always…
Presented by: Readymade Records presents ABKCO Records Recording Artist
Eric Burdon has one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in rock and roll. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 1994, and hailed by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 Greatest Voices of All Time, Burdo…
Presented by: New West Records (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Over thirty-five years after the release of his debut album, John Hiatt remains one of America’s most respected and influential singer-songwriters. According to Relix Magazine “… John Hiatt’s star has never shined more b…
Presented by: Tumblr House presented by Gap
"Thanks for coming, man. Want some bum juice?" "What the fuck is in this shit?" "Tampico and Everclear. It's pretty gross." When they started in 2009, seeing FIDLAR meant showing up to a house party and eventually h…
Widowspeak is an American band comprised of Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas, known for its dreamy, western-tinged take on rock and roll. The outfit formed in 2010 and released two singles in 2011 (Harsh Realm, Gun …
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A self-described “American rock ‘n’ roll band,” Dawes represent everything pure and true about that fundamental delineation, four talented friends making music together, united by a shared belief in the power of their so…
10:30 PM
Presented by: Our Heart Aches For Syria
Ladies and gentlemen… From the band that’s been both accurately and inaccurately labeled just about everything this side of Top 40 comes a true-to-form rock-n-roll record. Scratch that, true-to-form is not Deer Tick’s…
Presented by: Dr. Martens
There are always a few naturally resourceful people who refuse to be intimidated or excluded from making their own wild racket in public. As METZ, Alex Edkins, Hayden Menzies and Chris Slorach play like one brutally heav…
10:35 PM
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Cherub is a sexy electro-pop duo that is the dance love-child of 80’s funk and pop-music from the future. The members of Cherub, Jordan Kelley and Jason Huber, share a love for honest original music and vibrant live per…
Vintage Trouble formed in 2010 out of the ashes of a few other bands, and not by chance, Ty Taylor (vocal) and Nalle Colt (guitar) teamed up with drummer Richard Danielson and bassist Rick Barrio Dill. They entered The B…
Presented by: The Billions Corporation
Lord Huron is a musical and visual project created by Ben Schneider. Originally a solo project, collaborators now include Mark Barry (percussion, vocals), Miguel Briseno (bass, percussion) and Tom Renaud (guitar, vocals)…
Presented by: New West Records (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Richard Thompson’s latest album, Electric, produced by Buddy Miller, comes in what is arguably his most creatively productive period in a career that stretches back some 45 years, back to his emergence as a teen guitaris…
Presented by: FryeDay
Rhye is the product of two synced paths crossing at the right time and place. The two artists who comprise Rhye had been fond of each other's work for some time, and it was when one member was working on a remix for the …
Presented by: Dickies (Badges and Wristbands Only)
‘Before we started work on this album, we'd found a new sense of clarity and confidence, not only as a band, but from a personal point of view. We've healed some of our demons, not all of them, but the outcome is that we…
Presented by: Green Label Sound
Joey Bada$$ is an 18-year old artist from Brooklyn, NY with a unique vision and perspective that seems to be going extinct in the modern musical landscape. A member of the burgeoning hip hop collective Pro Era, Joey and …
Presented by: Readymade Records
Cory Chisel is an old believer. You can hear it in his music – there’s a wisdom beyond his years in that voice. You can see it in his story – the son of a preacher, sheltered from pop music, raised on hymns and Johnny Ca…
11:15 PM
11:30 PM
Presented by: Dr. Martens
A more charismatic, enigmatic nomad of a furioso frontman/artist/guitar legend could not be imagined. You can’t make this shit up. Grinning gold teeth behind blonde shades, in black, skeletal denim, with a studded “KI…
11:45 PM
Presented by: globalFEST
The completely unique Brooklyn bhangra band Red Baraat are making a sound no one else in the world is. A fusion of North Indian bhangra with hard driving New Orleans' brass, go-go, jazz, and hip-hop, Red Baraat has been …
11:50 PM
12:00 AM
Four slovenly American males grunting and flexing to the sound of their own undoing.…
Presented by: Readymade Records
As much as the story behind Brendan Benson’s fifth solo album is the story of making a record, it is also a story of finding a family — of love, marriage, the birth of a son, and of another kind of family too: one made u…
Presented by: Paradigm/Coda
Trevor Powers, whose stage name is Youth Lagoon, began writing his debut albumThe Year of Hibernation in 2010. Based around the idea of psychological dysphoria, Powers tried to document the trailsof his mind through son…
Presented by: New Frontier Touring
Buffalo Killers are an American rock band comprising brothers Zachary and Andrew Gabbard with Joseph Sebaali. Quickly signed to Alive Records after sending a burnt CD with just their telephone number and name on it, thei…
Presented by: New West Records (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Between the opening title track and the reflective closing of “Remember Me,” The Low Highway is very much Steve Earle’s road record, and one that has seen many miles. Earle states in the album liner notes, “I’ve been on …
12:15 AM
CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING is the current group led by Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore. He is the songwriter and plays over-amped hyper electric guitar and sings with raw-glam-destructo vocals. The band is a four piece feat…
12:20 AM
Presented by: Our Heart Aches For Syria
OMAR SOULEYMAN is a Syrian musical legend. Since 1994, he and his musicians have emerged as a staple of folk-pop throughout Syria, but until now they have remained little known outside of the country. To date, he has is…
12:30 AM
Presented by: Dr. Martens
L.A.'s Wavves follow up their 2010 skuzz-pop masterstroke King of the Beach with Life Sux, the debut release from singer Nathan Williams' Ghost Ramp label. If the band's previous records were all about one man's self-loa…
This band is called Bad Cop, from Nashville, Tennessee, and at the center of it are the things that make all great rock bands the way they are: tight musicianship, remarkable songwriting, and above all, the ability to pu…
12:40 AM
Presented by: Mass Appeal Presents: ICE CREAM
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, simply known as Kendrick Lamar, is an American rapper. He hails from Compton, California, currently signed to Top Dawg, Aftermath, and Interscope. Lamar is a member of hip hop supergroup Black H…
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DIIV is the nom-de-plume of Z. Cole Smith, musical provocateur and front-man of an atmospheric and autumnally-charged new Brooklyn four-piece. Inked to the uber-reliable Captured Tracks imprint, DIIV created instant v…
Presented by: M for Montreal / Arbutus
Braids, the Canadian experimental pop group who released Native Speaker in 2011, have reinvented themselves in the making of their second full length. Countless late-night drives have steered their attention towards new …
Presented by: Carpark/Paw Tracks
The product of a move from South Carolina to Berkeley, CA and the subsequent extended separation from loved ones, Toro Y Moi’s third full-length, Anything in Return, puts Chaz Bundick right in the middle of the producer/…
Presented by: New West Records (Badges and Wristbands Only)
THE DEVIL MAKES THREE With a slightly punky perspective on vintage American blues, The Devil Makes Three is a breath of fresh musical air. Laced with elements of ragtime, country, folk and rockabilly, the critically pra…
1:20 AM
Presented by: Our Heart Aches For Syria
Arabia Mountain, the sixth studio album and fourth Vice Records release by the Black Lips, finds the hell-raising Atlanta quartet digging deep into the roots of their exposed-nerve sound and simultaneously exploring surp…
Saturday, March 16
1:30 PM
Presented by: Monterey International's Tribute to Levon Helm: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!
Nicki Bluhm wasn’t always Nicki Bluhm. It all began one New Year’s Eve party. Impressed with the talents of Nicki’s performance when asked to play an impromptu blues song, musician/producer Tim Bluhm (The Mother Hips…
3:30 PM
Presented by: Monterey International's Tribute to Levon Helm: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!
With his last two albums, 2006’s Grammy-nominated People Gonna Talk and 2008’s The Hard Way, James Hunter delivered a classic yet perpetually modern brand of rhythm and blues that captivated listeners across generations …
6:40 PM
Presented by: Monterey International's Tribute to Levon Helm: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!
Robert Randolph and the Family Band is an American funk and soul band led by pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph.…
8:00 PM
Presented by: Thirty Tigers
Kid Face, the third full-length album from Samantha Crain (Ramseur Records, February 19, 2013), is a revelatory song cycle as expansive as the wide-open spaces of the 26-year-old artist’s native Oklahoma, and as intimate…
Presented by: (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Four slovenly American males grunting and flexing to the sound of their own undoing.……
Presented by: Monterey International's Tribute to Levon Helm: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!
Presented by: Psychedelic Light & Sound Festival
"Föllakzoid was born in Santiago, Chile product of a trance experience between friends. Sort of a soul abduction in wich we’ve been living since 2008. About where we come from, we believe that there is some sort of gravi…
8:45 PM
Presented by: (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Arabia Mountain, the sixth studio album and fourth Vice Records release by the Black Lips, finds the hell-raising Atlanta quartet digging deep into the roots of their exposed-nerve sound and simultaneously exploring surp…
9:00 PM
Presented by: Psychedelic Light & Sound Festival
With a sound that evokes the dreamlike natural wonders of their homeland, duo the Holydrug Couple are a part of the burgeoning psychedelic rock scene rising out of Chile. Based in Santiago, members Ives Sepúlveda and Man…
Presented by: Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
Last September, five Austin bands and more than a thousand friends and fans gathered at the Moody Theatre, home of the Austin City Limits television series, to pay tribute to Brent Grulke, the music director of South By …
Presented by: Chaos In Tejas
space blues from Tampa, FL. what do you want from me?……
9:05 PM
Presented by: Requiemme Mgmt Music
The Tijuana Panthers got their name from the little black ceramic panther that was a present from their neighbor Max Baker—yes, the Max Baker who they named their first album after, and who deserves a bio all his own—and…
9:15 PM
Presented by: Nat Geo
The completely unique Brooklyn bhangra band Red Baraat are making a sound no one else in the world is. A fusion of North Indian bhangra with hard driving New Orleans' brass, go-go, jazz, and hip-hop, Red Baraat has been …
9:45 PM
Presented by: Chaos In Tejas
Four slovenly American males grunting and flexing to the sound of their own undoing.……
10:00 PM
Presented by: NME & The BPI
TOY is a Korg Delta led five-piece formed in 2010. It consists of Tom Dougall (Vox/Guitars), Dominic O’Dair (Guitars), Maxim Barron (Bass/Vox), Alejandra Diez (Synthesizers/Modulation) and Charlie Salvidge (Drums/Vox). T…
Presented by: Psychedelic Light & Sound Festival
James Acton (Utah, USA)– Drums, Autoharp, Vocals Henry Evans (Rhode Island, USA)– Bass, Baritone Guitar, Upright Bass, Vocals Kirpatrick Thomas (Delaware, USA)– Guitar and Vocals Michelle Vidal – Vocals, Mellosonic, K…
Zach Williams, the Lone Bellow’s lead singer and principal songwriter, can pinpoint just about exactly when the Brooklyn-based group serendipitously willed itself into being. It was around 9 a.m. one morning in 2010, at…
10:15 PM
Presented by: Burgermania
"Thanks for coming, man. Want some bum juice?" "What the fuck is in this shit?" "Tampico and Everclear. It's pretty gross." When they started in 2009, seeing FIDLAR meant showing up to a house party and eventually h…
10:30 PM
Singer, songwriter, and natural history enthusiast Jenny Owen Youngs grew up in the forests of northern New Jersey and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. After self-releasing her first album Batten the Hatches in 2005, You…
Presented by: Burgermania
Perfecting the blend of glitter and grime that earned Bare Wires a soft spot in the hearts of the bubblegum-popping, foot-stomping masses, Matthew Melton joins with bassist Chase Asmussen, guitarist Rob Good, and drummer…
10:50 PM
Presented by: (Badges and Wristbands Only)
BIOGRAPHY: HAIM Hailing from the San Fernando Valley, HAIM consists of, “Three sisters, and a mister” that has been shaking things up in the city of Los Angeles for the past four years. It is truly a family affair for …
11:00 PM
Presented by: (Badges and Wristbands Only)
For his Nonesuch debut, Devendra Banhart chose the title Mala, literally the Serbian word for “small,” but used colloquially in Eastern Europe as a term of endearment—“like sweetie pie,” Banhart explains. It was a placeh…
Presented by: Thirty Tigers
JENNY O- AUTOMECHANIC Automechanic is the appropriately titled debut full-length by Los Angeles artist Jenny O. A great distance from her Long Island, New York beginnings on the now critically praised EP "Home," Jen…
Presented by: Sounds Australia / Electronic Music Conference
‘Harley Streten has produced an LP that’s scarily close to perfect. Streten’s achieved something rare here: music with mass appeal, but with nothing derivative or by-numbers about it.’ 4.5 stars, Rolling Stone “Flume’s…
11:20 PM
Widowspeak is an American band comprised of Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas, known for its dreamy, western-tinged take on rock and roll. The outfit formed in 2010 and released two singles in 2011 (Harsh Realm, Gun …
11:30 PM
Presented by: Austin Psych Fest powered by Yahoo!
Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone, two true stalwarts of classy English pop, have reunited after three decades under the moniker of their former outfit, The Zombies. Their reunion has been enthusiastically embraced by the …
11:45 PM
Presented by: Burgermania
A more charismatic, enigmatic nomad of a furioso frontman/artist/guitar legend could not be imagined. You can’t make this shit up. Grinning gold teeth behind blonde shades, in black, skeletal denim, with a studded “KI…
12:00 AM
Presented by: Thirty Tigers
The Weeks are an indie rock band from Mississippi whose cathartic output of songs stems from the same root: their geography and disadvantaged youth. Beginning In March of 2006, The Weeks, ages ranging between 14 and 16 y…
Presented by: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!
T Bird and the Breaks are one of those gangs of people who could have easily banded together to steal hubcaps or hustle you out of your last dollar in a game of street craps. Lucky for all involved, they chose to make mu…
Presented by: Psychedelic Light & Sound Festival
Royal Baths began in San Francisco in the winter of 2009 when Jeremy Cox and Jigmae Baer (formerly of Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall) began writing music together. Among various inspirations was the duo's shared interest in …
12:10 AM
DIIV is the nom-de-plume of Z. Cole Smith, musical provocateur and front-man of an atmospheric and autumnally-charged new Brooklyn four-piece. Inked to the uber-reliable Captured Tracks imprint, DIIV created instant v…
12:15 AM
12:30 AM
Presented by: (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, simply known as Kendrick Lamar, is an American rapper. He hails from Compton, California, currently signed to Top Dawg, Aftermath, and Interscope. Lamar is a member of hip hop supergroup Black H…
12:45 AM
1:00 AM
Presented by: Moog/Switched On
“I don’t think it’s possible for me to write in a major key,” says Katie Stelmanis, co-founder and lead singer of Toronto trio Austra. “I don’t know why. It doesn’t seem to factor in my brain.” It’s not like the longt…
Presented by: NME & The BPI
For The Orwells, Remember When will be an introduction of sorts—the 12-track rat-race shows the band’s repertoire of pranging riffs and sneering, snot-nosed vocals. The tracks are a walloping war-cry from a generation th…
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!!! - THR!!!ER “I suppose it's never enough / you get what you want, then you want what was / but I’d rather worry about my existential crisis / laying on a beach where the sun sets the nicest” – “Get That” !!! wi…
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Big Freedia (pronounced “FREE-da”), known as the Queen of Bounce, is at the forefront of the Bounce rap movement (a subgenre of hip-hop born out of New Orleans and known for its call and response style and lightening spe…
"Bonnie Bishop is so talented, and very special. She’s an amazing presence. I think she’s going to be a big star." (Bonnie Raitt) Nashville, TN - Be Squared Records proudly announces the national debut release of sing…
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Declared by the New York Times as “one of America’s most underrated rappers” Hip Hop artist Z-RO was born Joseph Wayne McVey in Houston, Texas. Orphaned at an early age, young Joseph was shuttled from relative to relativ…
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In the early 90’s, when gangsta’ rap consumed the airwaves, and the majority of West Coast rappers strapped on their Locs, Chuck Taylor’s & Ben Davis’, The Pharcyde decidedly maintained a willfully weird vision. Opting t…
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It is rare to find an artist who has both age and wisdom on his side. At just 24 years-old, Big K.R.I.T. possesses the musical intuition of an old soul. Hailing from Meridian, Mississippi, K.R.I.T. (born Justin Scott) gr…
