Canon is proud to be a part of the 2012 SXSW Film Festival by hosting a nine-day lounge at the Driskill Hotel for all to enjoy. The lounge is designed to celebrate Project Imagin8ion, the first photo contest to inspire a...
AT&T is back and faster than ever with 4G LTE speeds. Stop by to charge your devices and test-drive the Samsung Galaxy Note, an all-in-one experience that simplifies your connectivity needs at SXSW.
Austin Conventio...
Phone batteries fade. Laptop batteries wane. Your internal batteries need recharging, too. Come plug in at the NW corner of the Convention Center. Meet up with friends, record an interview, or just hang.
Austin Conventi...
Dell delivers innovative technology and services that give you the power to do more this SXSW. Stop by to unwind, discover the latest from Dell and tell them how they can help you do more.
Austin Convention Center: 1st ...
Complimentary rides around town! Yeah, we thought that'd get your attention. See a Chevy. Catch A Chevy. At the Convention Center or anywhere downtown 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Take a break, and let us do the driving.
Sli...
Complimentary rides around town! Yeah, we thought that'd get your attention. See a Chevy. Catch A Chevy. At the Convention Center or anywhere downtown 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Take a break, and let us do the driving.
Sli...
Co-presented by the American Poster Institute (API) and SXSW, Flatstock 33 will display the works of more than 100 artists from across North America and the globe. The exhibition is free and open-to-the-public running Ma...
Pull up a front row seat with Tiger and Cy, two die-hard fans of 'America's Team', as they scramble to preserve their place in "America's Parking Lot". When the Dallas Cowboys move to the first stadium built fo...
Director(s): Jonny Mars
Documentary Feature
73 min
With the explosion of smartphone and tablet ownership, the addressable market for connecting with fans is projected to exceed computers by the end of 2013. Given the richness of the smartphone ecosystem, this presents th...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alex Kisch, Anthony Volodkin, Eric Garland, Matthew Adell, William Mills
In a world where music is being licensed to promote, enhance, advertise and image almost everything, the deals and protocols are as varied as the uses themselves. Identify uses and review common terms and deal expectatio...
Steve Stoute, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Translation, is joined in a special conversation with Dan Charnas, experienced journalist, author of The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, and cur...
Forty years ago, the burgeoning singer-songwriter scene in Austin spearheaded a generational shift in country music, as a motley mix of folkies and hippies swept old hillbilly string and swing music into a post-Dylan wor...
Presenters
Michael Murphey, Ray Benson, Ray Wylie Hubbard, John Spong
After 10 years at Cedar Street, Filter Magazine’s party is one of the must-see staples of SXSW. Doors open at 11:00 am each day, March 15-17, so come to enjoy the free BBQ and top indie acts. Please arrive early for en...
Can artists trust their PR agency to spend their time (and money) wisely? How do you know if your representation is doing all it can? What can artists and labels expect from their PR rep? Contrary to popular wisdom, ther...
Advanced
Presenters
Alexandra Greenberg, Heather West, Howard Wuelfing, Ken Weinstein, Suzanne Cadgene
In the future, the basis for our decision making has evolved. Ethan chooses to live his life not like the others. Will his intuition risk destroying all guaranteed happiness?......
A mysterious man drops off a cardboard box. The next morning, a little girl finds a teddy bear contained within the box. Eventually, the teddy bear transforms the little girl into a troubled teenager who exacts revenge u...
Director(s): Jasmine DePucci
Texas High School
4 min
The animated documentary feature “Crulic – The Path to Beyond” tells the life’s story of Crulic, the 33 year old Romanian who died in a Polish prison during a hunger strike. The acclaimed Romanian actor, Vlad Iva...
Director(s): Anca Damian
Documentary Feature
73 min
A bubble of ink comes out of a marker on a whiteboard and pops. The popped bubble starts to change and forms a small man. The man realizes that he is all by himself and becomes lonely. He decides to make himself a friend...
Director(s): Christian Larrave, Alex McKenna
Texas High School
A depressed working class man escapes the constraints of his utopic society, through the help of a simple object. Throughout the film his depressing everyday routine is shown through his expressions and attitude. Due to ...
A human goes throughout his day. He encounters a wolf, hunting and killing it. A bear from the woods breaks into the human's house. After the human discovers the bear, they have a ping-pong battle to the death.......
Director(s): Alexander Villanueva
Texas High School
2 min
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters follows the acclaimed photographer’s decade-long quest to create a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life. His photographs are lik...
Director(s): Ben Shapiro
Documentary Feature
77 min
Hard Rock Hotels’ "The Sound of Your Stay" Music Lounge will be one of the hottest venues featuring performances by some of SXSW’s top acts. “The Sound of Your Stay” program is designed to provide hote...
15 Year Old Josh Lumsden's single 'Guilty' Music Video. Watch as prisoners attempt to escape the mental asylum while Josh Lumsden sings catchy lyrics.......
Julian Edmonson is a point guard who graduated from Fossil Ridge High School. The film shines a spotlight on this student before he went off to college and highlights the steps he took to get where he is today.......
Jason has a Korean foreign exchange student staying in his home. He does not speak Korean and she does not speak English. In the end, they learn to communicate through drawings.......
An artist paints known masterpieces, but is unsatisfied with them all. She grows increasingly irate at her work, before calming down and returning back to basics.......
A social revolution has come to Pasadena Memorial High. Mark McNeil's fight for the presidency, against all odds, will attempt to bring unprecedented social reform of thinking that could last a lifetime.......
Director(s): Jonathan Griffin, Josiah Sandhu
Texas High School
4 min
The sound of the wind and cracks of thunder are heard as a teen rushes throughout his house gathering supplies. His brother lays on the couch listening to music. They enter into a closet to wait out a tornado. While insi...
Director(s): Pierce Harvell
Texas High School
3 min
The Apparition
Director: Jonathan Munoz
Paranormal Elimination 101.
The Bench
Directors: Kalen Doyle, Hirsh Elhence
There's a note for that.
The Bench
Director: Christian Benavides
One son's letter to his father.
Boom...
An unidentified protagonist approaches a dreary office building. Inside the building sits a high-up business man signing papers. He finishes up. The hero infiltrates the building seamlessly. It is clear that he has had i...
Director(s): Cole Martin, Josh Willis
Texas High School
5 min
Dell delivers innovative technology and services that give you the power to do more this SXSW. Come by to check out the latest products from Dell, create your own t-shirt and enter for the chance to win a Fixie bike.......
Returning for its third year as the exhibition for musicians and enthusiasts, The Music Gear Expo is a cornucopia of guitars, keyboards, amps, effects pedals, drums, mics, DJ equipment, mixing software, music education a...
Following a daring debut in 2011, Style X returns to the family of SXSW events for its second year. Featuring talented up-and-coming designers, this pop up retail event showcases the latest trends at the intersection of ...
A place for music enthusiasts, film makers and young professionals to engage in activities that showcase the latest 4G LTE devices and applications in a clever, yet meaningful way.
Located on San Jacinto at 6th Street.....
McNally Smith College of Music presents Alternative Press' 7th annual all-ages SXSW party. Special guests The Used, The Early November, Breathe Carolina, Forever The Sickest Kids and Cancer Bats will join up-and-comers ...
Explore the future of media, music, and technology with RootMusic, Gobbler, Heard, SUPERGOODMUSIC, and Devolver Digital. Charge your phone, swag up at the Artist Pit Stop (free BandPage upgrade, Gobbler subscription, and...
Gary Lucas' live original solo guitar soundtrack accompanying the legendary 1967 Brazilian cult horror film classic directed by and starring Jose Mojica Marins aka Coffin Joe.......
Director(s): Jose Mojica Marins
Narrative Feature
107 min
The Music Gear Expo Lounge presented by Klipsch is a great place to unwind away from the Gear Expo main floor. Comfortable furnishings provide a spot to relax and wi-fi makes sure you are still connected. Meet other gear...
For their second year in a row, SXSW will host the Green Zone, a sustainable oasis located right amongst the bustle of downtown Austin at 7th and Red River St. Sponsored by Whole Foods Market for 2012, the transformed pa...
March 14th through the 18th Thrasher magazine and Converse present the annual Texas Death Match at the SXSW music fest. Serious mayhem awaits as the only bands that matter soundclash with some mini-ramp rippin’ at the ...
Presented by: Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Young and focused, Bobby “Tre9” Herring started Much Luvv Records, a Christian record label, in 1998. Since its inception, Much Luvv Records has released over 17 albums and changed the lives of thousands.
In Octo...
Once upon an time in an unearthly paradise called Pepperland, Blue Meanies threaten to destroy all that is good. Enter John, Paul, George and Ringo to save the day! Armed with humour, songs, and yellow submarine, the Fa...
Director(s): George Dunning, Animation Directors: Robert Balser and Jack Stokes
Narrative Feature
89 min
Indifferent even to the prospects of inheriting his father's estate, Swanson (Tim Heidecker) whiles away his days with a group of aging Brooklyn hipsters, engaging in acts of recreational cruelty and pacified boredom. De...
Director(s): Rick Alverson
Narrative Feature
92 min
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Pioneer of the very concept of a "mash-up", DJ Z-Trip has graciously agreed to share his secrets with us, in his first ever Mash-up How-to Clinic. Spend an hour and learn the basic concepts of creating the mash...
As traditional music consumer consumption habits evaporate into the cloud, a new legal and language lexicon casts a mighty shadow over the music business. Will subscriptions and other alternatives present promise or prob...
Presenters
David Given, David Lessoff, Jonathan Blaufarb, Paul Bezilla
Alternatives to traditional merchandising solutions can be more affordable and effective, and advances in digital printing and on-demand manufacturing allow brands to create merch without capital outlay or inventory risk...
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Furano, Catherine Enny, Michael Silverstein, Sean O'Connell, Joyce Williams
Musicians are adopting Facebook as a core component of their online marketing strategy. But which of Facebook's social channels should artists focus on? Facebook Pages, the news feed, or social games? Several companies s...
Intermediate
Presenters
Albin Serviant, J Sider, Meredith Chin, Mike More, Josh Constine
Meet some of the top independent licensing companies that connect you with the music supervisors and the studios to place your music in all platforms of TV, film, commercials, gaming and branding.......
Presenters
Carianne Marshall, Lyle Hysen, Marisa Baldi, Michele Wernick, Steven Scharf
Cloud-based streaming music providers have changed the way digital music is being consumed, and indie record labels are cashing in. Label executives are negotiating aggressively to make sure they profit from the shift to...
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. Sign-up begins half an hour before the mentor session. Sessions are scheduled in ten-minute increments. You can onl...
Presenters
Alex Maiolo, brian beck, Clay Pasternack, James Evans, Mark Scribner CPA
New Orleans musicians have helped facilitate the city's recovery in numerous ways beyond merely restoring its culture in the wake of the 2005 flood. In New Atlantis: Musicians Fight for the Survival of New Orleans, moder...
Presenters
Alison Fensterstock, Bill Davis, Chris Magee, Davis Rogan, Don B, Don Bartholomew Jr, John Swenson
House concerts are typically thought of as a staple of the folk music scene, not as a concert setting for indie or rock artists like Husker Du’s Grant Hart, Graham Parker or American Music Club’s Mark Eitzel. Yet mor...
Now that we have the technology to stream music, personalize our radio stations, download bit torrents, and create mashups and remixes straight from our laptops, it’s ironic that the mixtape, a concept 30 years old in ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alan Wilkis, Annie Lin, Kate Imbach, John Verrochi
Presented by: Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
While the violent, drug infested streets of our nation’s capital may have enslaved many of D.C.’s youth, God’s grace and mercy would ensure the survival of one of his servants; so he might go forth with the order a...
Presented by: Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
At 22 years of age, Jerrell Johnson has God-given wisdom that surpasses that of many of his peers. He has a way with people and with music that could only be credited to God. Jerrell Johnson began writing music at an ear...
A conversation about the current and future state of sneaker culture, streetwear and much more.
Participants: Joah Spearman- Style X (and moderator), Marcus Troy- The Marcus Troy Experience, Matt Halfhill- NiceKicks.com...
The FADER Fort happens yearly in Austin, showcasing celebrated innovators and emerging talents. The FADER has a 12-year history of predicting what’s next in music in culture, and over four days in March that prescience...
Filter Magazine’s Culture Collide is a four-day international festival welcoming artists from 24 countries and counting, bringing their unique perspectives on music and culture to Los Angeles for a musical melting pot ...
The Hype Machine is the world's music blog hub. Hype Hotel, presented by Feed The Beat, brings Hype Machine to life in Austin, making it the spot to hear the new music everyone is talking about. Featuring lineups curated...
On a rainy Nashville Thursday last October, Justin Townes Earle leapt onstage at the famed Ryman Auditorium to accept the 2011 Americana Music Award for Song of the Year. The triumphant evening capped a turbulent twelve...
S.O.Terik is a collective of like-minded individuals who came together to uplift and inspire the world through art, music, fashion and entertainment. Living by the motto, Peace is a Verb, S.O.Terik in conjunction with Fi...
Presented by: Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Timothy Igidi (Enlitement) was born in New Orleans but raised near Atlanta, GA. Despite living in an environment that followed culture, he grew up knowing and experiencing the grace of God. Timothy was introduced to th...
While moving 40 kids, all by himself, across six New York City blocks, a stressed man accidentally loses a bouquet of a hundred balloons. A lone black balloon in the bunch learns that humans are complicated creatures wit...
Director(s): Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Narrative Short
21 min
Inspired by real events and featuring non-actors, A Chjàna (The Plain) follows Ayiva, an African migrant worker who seeks to reunite with his best friend in the wake of the most significant race riot in Italian history....
Director(s): Jonas Carpignano
Narrative Short
20 min
"Dreams of a Life" is an imaginative and multilayered quest to go beyond the newspaper reports and solve the mystery of who thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent was and why she lay undiscovered for three years a...
Director(s): Carol Morley
Documentary Feature
91 min
A modern Miami adaptation of the 1962 French short film 'La Jetee', the film recounts Luke's (Uncle Luke, legendary rapper from the hip-hop group 2 Live Crew) rise to fame as he changes the face of hip-hop and fights for...
Director(s): Jillian Mayer, Lucas Leyva
Narrative Short
12 min
Thomas has moved to a remote countryside cabin in search of solitude. He fills his days with mundane chores to deaden his feelings, but as he reflects, a question arises: Will he ever be able to disappear completely... e...
The Black Balloon
Director: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
In New York City, a lone black balloon, once part of a huge 100-balloon bouquet, learns that humans are complicated creatures with extreme highs and lows. Part Sci-Fi...
Told from the point of view of a dying shark, 'Reinaldo Arenas' metaphorically captures the current state of the aging Cuban-American exile community, many of whom have still not come to terms with the Communist Revoluti...
REMAINS is a film about a man's memories of his wife. We see snapshots of these memories; we are a fingertip running through hair, a foot plunging into the ocean, a swaying tree branch. The film is comprised of sound des...
Director(s): Jeremiah Zagar, Nathan Caswell
Narrative Short
8 min
From Led Zeppelin to The Rolling Stones, Elvis to Madonna, Bob Dylan to Bob Marley, John Lennon to Johnny Rotten, Bob Gruen has captured half a century of music through the eye of a lens. In this landmark documentary, G...
Director(s): Don Letts
Documentary Feature
104 min
Through a visceral, visually striking sequence of events, Sea Meadow reinvents the thriller genre using dance, choreographed gesture and pop mashups to investigate the themes of identity, mortality and memory. A young wo...
Through the Freak’s musings, this film chronicles the last days of the iconic and abrasive Coney Island attraction Shoot the Freak. Remaining in masked anonymity, the nihilistic teen indulges in drug-induced daydreams...
Director(s): Bradford Willingham
Narrative Short
6 min
Presented by: Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
One that is called "Gifted" is a person that possesses great natural ability. Gifted was born on the West bank of New Orleans, La and has been writing and performing music for over 20 years. His one belief is to entertai...
Alison Fensterstock signs her books ‘The Definition of Bounce: Between Ups and Downs in New Orleans’ and ‘New Orleans: The Underground Guide’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Best known for his work with Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter is one of the foremost studio-bred guitarists to emerge from the Seventies. Although his trademark beret and handlebar mustac...
Born from the garrisons of Jamaica, reggae music has given a voice to disaffected peoples of all cultures and all backgrounds around the world. Reggae, brought over by the influx of Jamaican citizens emigrating to the UK...
Presenters
Karl Neilson, Lady Leshurr, Mikey Dread, Robbo Ranx, Mykaell Riley
Termination of copyright transfers under the Copyright Act, the PROTECT IP Act, the Performance Rights Act, and other serious legislation that will rock the music business are topics that will be tackled by lawyers and l...
Presenters
Jay Rosenthal, Ken Abdo, Tim Matson, Daryl Friedman
Before social networks were invented, the traditional route to the Top 40 was built upon the decisions made by ‘gatekeepers’ in the industry. Now, because social media elevates the sharing of entertainment, the oppor...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alex White, Dan Mackta, Lindsay Brandt, Sheryl Witlen, Gray Blue
Dickies and Filter Magazine have teamed up again to bring you a stellar line-up of indie talent at Lustre Pearl on Rainey St. Performances will take place March 15th through the 17th. SXSW Badges welcome. Please arrive e...
Troy Billings is seventeen, overweight, and suicidal. Just as he's about to jump in front of a bus, he's saved by Marcus, a charming high school dropout/street musician. The two begin an uneasy friendship when Marcus en...
Director(s): Matthew Lillard
Narrative Feature
94 min
Not everyone is convinced that the physical medium is dead - some are challenging the prevailing opinion, and pushing creative boundaries to make tangible music interesting and alluring to music consumers. From tweaks to...
Neal Kassanoff is a writer of breadth and depth who has created a cannon of children's songs that reflect his love of song craft. These songs never stop with the good fun and the infectious hooks that adults usually enjo...
Presented by: Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
For nearly a decade, the ministry of Julian “J.Kwest” DeShazier has been an exploration in the relationship between music and faith. As artist, this Chicago native has used his unique rhythm to tell stories of deep m...
Fall.
“Let’s make a new record,” they say. “How do we do this? Let’s do it differently—let’s write a whole pile of songs and develop them big time before we go into the studio to record—let’s not do th...
When producers gather, they have specific questions for their colleagues. Some are technical, some are creative. Mostly, they're just looking for a great story.......
Presenters
Dave Way, George Drakoulias, Malcolm Burn, Tim Palmer
The PureVolume House returns with the most eclectic after-hours lineup in Austin (again). In a brand-new, custom-built event space, the House will play host to performances from the top independent voices online: Stereog...
Hailing from Bogota, Colombia, Bomba Estereo throw dance parties for worldwide audiences with their self-described 'psychedelic cumbia' sound. The band will discuss their updated take on traditional Columbian music, thei...
Presenters
Enrique Egurrola, John Norris, Julian Salazar, Liliana Saumet, Liliana Margarita Saumet Ávila, Simon Mejia
Young America always finds itself returning to the ways of generations past, most particularly adherents of "roots music." The bards of the new generation are definitely adherin' and redefinin', but is there an...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jay Sweet, Jesse Elliott, Kim Buie, Peter Blackstock, Jesse Lauter
How did MP3 blogging become such an integral part of the music community, despite its shady legality? The blogosphere has found a makeshift balance between the web's massive communal archive; the on-demand, curated exper...
Advanced
Presenters
Anthony Volodkin, Christopher Bavitz, David Greenwald, Leslie Madill, Todd Goldstein, Jason Sigal
A conversation about why technology has been so damn good for fashion in the past decade and what else we can expect.
Participants: Jessica Amason- Refinery29 (and moderator), Michelle Sadlier- Karla Otto International,...
Presented by: Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Imagine a rap artist who in his music balances comedy, weightiness & relevance in order to impact crowds with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Meet the artist, K-Drama, a 27-year-old writer & producer who acts out the King on...
Presented by: Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
People want more from Hip-Hop. People want responsibility, integrity, and hope. theBREAX give the people what they really want more of. They make music that is true to the roots of Hip-Hop and true to the hopes and dream...
From the producers of "Step Into Liquid", comes "Waiting For Lightning", the story of Danny Way, a young boy from a broken home in Vista, CA, whose passion for skateboarding would one day bring him an...
Director(s): Jacob Rosenberg
Documentary Feature
87 min
Presented by: Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Viktory, a businessman, family man and Ordained Minister,
born to a 16 year old mother on Chicago’s hardened south
side. From the sudden murder of his best friend, to the loss of
his 3rd child, Viktory’s faith has...
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Legendary vocalist for The Cult, Ian Astbury, will deliver an hour-long clinic-style presentation on the the voice as an instrument. This once-in-a-lifetime discussion will range from tips, techniques, warm-ups, how to k...
If a song is heard around the world, who collects what from where, and who gets paid? Publishers and advisors will discuss the collection of songwriter revenues that may or may not be getting paid to the writers.......
Presenters
Dan Coleman, David Hirshland, Julian Bentley, Bob Donnelly
A conversation about how critical design quality is to standing out in a flooded fashion market.
Participants: Mike Maher- Taylor Stitch (moderator), Seth Weisser- What Goes Around Comes Around, James Jean- JFK Jean, Ky...
Anyone can create a business and develop a music service. The technology is available and the royalty rates and content laws are relatively straightforward. But how can entrepreneurs cut through the noise and actually cr...
Artists, venues, managers and labels all have the same question: How do I reach NEW fans and how can I get heard on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or Google? Hear how to do it, what it costs, and how to get the most out of ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Barrett Richards, Matthew Adell, Stephen Satterthwaite, Tonya Cooke, Nathan Hoy
Small Apartments' Franklin Franklin is a fully realized and sympathetic protagonist in the vein of Ignatius Reilly (A Confederacy of Dunces), a simple man who yearns for “a land of pastoral serenity” devoid of the ir...
Director(s): Jonas Åkerlund
Narrative Feature
94 min
In the first half of 2011, vinyl record sales rose by 41%, and they continue to climb. So how do you translate that info into a unique, creative product and more sales? From mastering to design, get marketing tips on how...
Intermediate
Presenters
Carrie Colliton, Jay Millar, Jennifer Freund, Pete Lyman, Lewis Pesacov
Grant Hart will cover his experiences and theories of and about composing songs and fitting them together to tell a more complex story. Examples will be given and questions from the audience will be addressed. A 'mock op...
In this playful stopmotion animated musicvideo monsters move to the beats & melody of the music. The characters come into existance after a failure in a laboratory, from which they manage to escape and find their way...
A live action music video challenging viewers to play a game of Spot The Differences between two split screens while paying attention to the performance of emerging New West rapper Casey Veggies.......
"Empyrean" is a music video developed by Ganesh Rao and Jonny Greenwald at the Dept. of Visualization at Texas A&M University under the guidance of Professor Karen Hillier. The objective was to create a vis...
A girl enters a room and seduces her guitar. Around her neck she wears the religious 'Evil Eye' symbol. The evil eye is an icon that is superstitiously believed by many cultures to be able to cause injury or bad luck for...
A mesmerizing music video that combines mural art, body painting, stop motion animation and live action cinematography to create a unique visual metaphor expressing the song's story of heartbreak. The video was awarded t...
This live music video was shot in unvarnished everyday space. Hawaaii sings at a laundry in a small town.The music flows through the washing and welcomes you with open arms.......
A young runaway yeti embarks on an adventure into the human world and along the way, makes an unexpected friend in Jon Hamm. Herman Dune's music video for "Tell Me Something I Don't know," is directed by Toben ...
The video begins by concentrating on the singer and explicit the polyphonic mechanism through which the base of the song is constructed. When the lyrics start, the video turns to a natural scene, more lyrical and organic...
The official music video for Kina Grannis' song "In Your Arms" is a three and a half minute piece of stop motion insanity using 288,000 jelly beans to create worlds that Kina travels through and interacts with....
Boxcar Fair follows a wandering explorer who stumbles upon a magical fair in the middle of a desert. Artist Tom Haney creates an array of intricate puppets to help illustrate the story. The entirety of Boxcar Fair was sh...
Director(s): Brock Scott, Tom Haney
Music Video
3 min
Presented by: Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Omega Sparx is an electrifying national recording artist hailing from the Tar Heel State, and for over a decade he has represented the kingdom of GOD, both on and off the stage, with a dynamic music ministry and sterling...
In this music video for Porter Robinson's Spitfire, we emulated a videogame style paintball match shot in one-take with the Phantom Flex @ 1,000 fps. Dont forget to have a looksy at the chat box ;)
PS: The dog wasn't h...
Playing The Villain” video is horror inspired surprise in which three 'villainous' looking youths, out for some trouble, get unexpectedly assaulted by subwoofers when they attempt to steal a BMW from an estate! The vid...
Parix is depicted teenage procrastination. Whatever direction you move it hurts. And you ask yourself: Why am I here fucking up my life so crucially? Why can’t I do what’s best for me? Your mind is floating, but you...
Director(s): Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen
Music Video
03 min
A barrage of fanciful dance vignettes—from booty-bouncing YouTube stars and disco-ball ballerinas to musical comedian Reggie Watts and a sexy nun Rockette - the video allows Of Montreal's side project, Yip Deceiver to ...
Director(s): Brandon LaGanke, John Carlucci
Music Video
4 min
This Music Video for French electro sensation Yuksek, entitled, “Always On The Run,” follows a vicious posse, completely off the grid, taken right out of a Mad Max-inspired fashion editorial as they leave a path of a...
AARON BURR, PART 2 is a contemporary re-imagining of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. The film explores the idea of history as a contested narrative.......
The Registrants Lounge presented by MOFILM, located on the corner of 4th and Neches right in front of the Austin Convention Center, is the meeting place for SXSW registrants to network and grab a drink.......
The Registrants Lounge presented by MOFILM, located on the corner of 4th and Neches right in front of the Austin Convention Center, is the meeting place for SXSW registrants to network and grab a drink.......
3 bands, 6 cities, 1 train, and thousands of miles of track…BIG EASY EXPRESS captures a musical journey. Harkening back to the days of jubilant railroad revivals, three bands set out in April 2011 to tour America by vi...
Director(s): Emmett Malloy
Documentary Feature
76 min
ROOTS
Bomba Estereo was created from the influence of late 90’s Colombian bands such as Sidestepper and Bloque de Búsqueda, which explored the fusion of folklore and tropical Colombian rhythms with contemporary sou...
Ellen and James are the only couple living in a ghost estate, an eerie silent maze of uniform houses populated only by spectral shrieking foxes. Ellen starts to photograph the foxes that raid the couple’s rubbish bin a...
Director(s): Lorcan Finnegan
Narrative Short
15 min
Simultaneously an exploration of nature and psyche, 'In The Pines' documents a young woman's hunt for extraterrestrial meaning. Following a mysteriously purposeful hike through the Olympic Mountains, this film roots itse...
Director(s): Zeek Earl, Chris Caldwell
Narrative Short
9 min
An honest look at honesty and the effects of such when sexual identity, masculinity, jealousy, insecurity and trust all play out against one another amongst two individuals in the confines of a bedroom. Oh, and there's p...
Director(s): Robert G. Putka
Narrative Short
10 min
A Short Film About Ice Fishing
Director: Jason Shahinfar
In rural South Dakota two friends go out for the most explosive day of ice fishing either will ever experience.
Aaron Burr, Part 2
Director: Dana O'Keefe
History ...
Liam (Liam Cunningham) and Michael (Michael Fassbender) are professional safe crackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe from its contents. The catch is a light activated alarm system impelling the men t...
Inspired by Billy Wilder's "People On Sunday" & Richard Linklater's "SLACKER", Playtime ("Spielzeit") is a seamless journey through the lives of German youth on a Sunday afternoon. Jan (...
Two friends devote a winter afternoon in South Dakota to ice fishing, cold beers, friendly chatter, man’s best friend, guns, dynamite…all on a frozen lake.......
Director(s): Jason Shahinfar
Narrative Short
8 min
Birthed as a dusty trading route at the turn of last century, Sunset Strip became the world's center of gravity for music, glamour, fashion, sex, and decadence. This curvy, mile-and-a-half strip of road falls just outsid...
Director(s): Hans Fjellestad
Documentary Feature
94 min
Two friends play 'Would You Rather.' When their choices magically start to come true, they find themselves in a variety of awkward and funny situations.......
Director(s): Brian McGinn, Rod Blackhurst
Narrative Short
7 min
Presented by: Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Part rapper/part singer songwriter, SaulPaul is an artist who entertains while blending his voice, his guitar and his loop pedal to create a live show that's nothing less than an EXPERIENCE.
SaulPaul uses a digital lo...
Produced by Oxford Film and Television, Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies is Bafta winner Patrick Forbes' seventy-six-minute documentary of the Wikileaks affair as told by the people involved: personal, moving and frequently h...
Director(s): Patrick Forbes
Documentary Feature
81 min
Presented by: Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Somewhere in West Texas, one humble man with a set of turntables is on a mission. He’s Dj Promote and he’s ready to make the party come alive. With every beat and every mix, he is making more than a song… he’s cr...
A conversation about Full House…no, but it is about how important family connections can help you in the style game.
Participants: Joah Spearman- Style X (and moderator), David & Ari Goldberg- StyleCaster, Elisa G...
Andy is one of the world’s finest solo acoustic guitarists and his cross-over success to more than 200 million Youtube viewers underscores his emergence as one of the most important and popular artists to surface in ye...
"Dollhouse" explores a night in the life of a group of street teens from Dublin's inner city who break into a house in an upper class suburb. The break-in quickly moves into a night of frenzy, driven by a serie...
Director(s): Kirsten Sheridan
Narrative Feature
95 min
Annie is a rebellious ten-year-old girl. She lives on the outskirts of town with her father Marvin, who, when not herding goats, mostly sleeps the day away. Virtually devoid of parental guidance, Annie is left to fend fo...
Director(s): David Zellner
Narrative Feature
83 min
MANEJA BETO
ESCANTE CALLING
AUSTIN, TX- The “Indie En Espanol” group Maneja Beto needs to be included in the international discourse of good music, so rather than bore you with hype and why you should finally pay...
Re:Generation Music Project is a documentary film about original music collaborations that examine and re-imagine the history of different musical genres through the eyes of five of the most influential electronic produc...
Director(s): Amir Bar Lev
Documentary Feature
82 min
The Safe Harbor Room is a place for people in recovery to meet during SXSW. The sessions are informal and supportive. SXSW is a challenging atmosphere for those who choose sobriety. All are welcome to come to the Safe Ha...
CHARANGA CAKEWALK
"Michael Ramos - Cakewalk's master musician - leans toward electrified cumbias... he dabbles with a variety of Latin rhythms, bending, zapping, and shape-shifting to create a blazingly distinctive so...
Shiny Toy Guns is an alternative/electronic band which formed in 2002 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The band consists of Carah Faye Charnow (vocals), Chad Petree (vocals, guitar), Jeremy Dawson (synth, bass)...
History of Artist
Surrendering all Praises, Glory, and Honor to God almighty! Through His Son, and my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ for allowing me, Wesley Bray, to be used as an instrument of Praise. I have been wor...
In the gig poster community, artists such as Daniel Danger and Jay Ryan prove that creating this artwork is a way of life, more than just a career. These artists are at the forefront of an expansion of the gig poster gen...
Director(s): Scout Shannon
Documentary Feature
98 min
SXSW Showcasing musicians featured as runway models wearing the clothing and accessories of GAP, Dickies, and dozens of emerging brands from around the world.......
When a police officer tells you to do something, you do it. Right?
On a busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that a pretty young em...
Kulap is an actress, writer and co-host of the podcast WHO CHARTED?. TV credits include: "The Office", "The Sarah Silverman Program", "Childrens Hospital" & "Reno 911". Movie credits include: "I Love You Man" & "Peep W...
Michael Martin Murphey’s musical journey has taken many unpredictable paths over the past four decades. Topping the pop and country charts as well as becoming the world’s number one, best-selling singer / songwriter...
The Bright Light Social Hour is an American rock band from Austin, Texas. Born out of a university art-rock collective, The Bright Light Social Hour has evolved into an unabashedly wide-screen rock group, melding fists-...
Carlton Pride Biography
As son of iconic country music legend, Charley Pride, Carlton began life in the music industry. Eventually becoming a recording & sound engineer for his father and various other artists, Carlto...
Celebrating 25 years of making music together, WV’s premiere gospel-soul band The Carpenter Ants will bring their unique blend of country and gospel soul to SXSW for the first time.
The March 17 showcase [not sure o...
"Charles Bradley: Soul of America" captures the extraordinary late in life rise of 62 year old aspiring soul singer Charles Bradley, whose debut album, "No Time For Dreaming," took him from a hard lif...
Director(s): Poull Brien
Documentary Feature
74 min
The mysterious Chet Faker shot to fame when his cover of 'No Diggity' went viral, reaching Number 1 on indie music aggregator, Hype Machine.
His fame grew rapidly and he was soon invited to perform on the UK's heralde...
Deleted Scenes will release Young People’s Church of the Air on Sockets Records on CD (Sept. 6) and LP (Sept. 20). This second album builds on the “thoughtful existentialism and strange, drowsy downers“ of their 20...
Jennifer O’Connor’s fifth album, I Want What You Want, almost didn’t get made.
After parting ways with Matador Records in the spring of 2009 after two albums (“Over The Mountain, Across The Valley, and Back t...
After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, h...
Master Blaster Sound System is at the nexus of Cumbia Crunk, Roots Norteño and Deep Club jams. South Texas Cumbia OG's Dj Dus, Brian Ramos and Cecy Treviño are at the creative center of this brutal collaboration. With ...
Starting as a happy accident of singer-songwriter Rosanne Machado releasing her homemade songs on the Internet, “Rosie and Me” has grown over the years into a successful five-piece act from Curitiba, Southern Brazil....
We are primarily a psychedelic pop group, composed of guitarist/vocalist Jason Gardner (sacramento), Drummer/vocalist Nick Motrenec, guitarist/vocalist Kyle Carpenter (Memphis), and bassist Jesse Paulk Damiani (sacrament...
When I was nine years old, I innocently begged my parents for a guitar. As I grew older and realized that I loved to write music and sing, my dream quickly became apparent. I took every record I could find around my hous...
Do you remember the moment in Jerry Macguire when he's driving down the highway singing "Free Fallin'"? I'm like Jerry, heroic and pathetic, one foot in manic, elated joy and the other in total, dismal depression.
Bod...
BUDDY - (indie, alt rock, wimpy-core). www.iamyourbuddy.com Buddy's music has been featured on TV shows like Grey's Anatomy, The Big C, Smallvile, One Tree Hill, Ghost Whisperer, and feature films . Perez Hilton fea...
One Man. One band. Deadstring Brothers fans get a new look at the soulful sounds of Kurtis Brothers as he heads in a slightly different direction.
Straight off three successful Bloodshot Records album releases with th...
Hello all, I’m Erin McLaughlin and I am thrilled to be returning to SXSW this year for round two of all the action, the glory and of course, the music. If you didn’t meet me last year, we need to catch you up. I am a...
ESCORT is definitely not your typical band. Escort is big. Literally. The seventeen-member “disco orchestra”, founded by producers Eugene Cho and Dan Balis, and fronted by lead singer Adeline Michèle, features an in...
Releasing their debut highly recognized EP in 2010, The Kingston Springs have performed at Starry Nights Music Festival with Cage the Elephant, rocking the BMI stage at Lollapalooza 2011, and touring across the country f...
Austin TX psychedelic garage rockers THE SAINT JAMES SOCIETY play electric rock music that brilliantly connects the dots between the late ‘60s British blues-based bands and the brooding atmospheres of early ‘80s post...
Sometimes inspiration is found in unexpected places. Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks -- and in the men and women who pick up our trash. She joins city sanitation workers on their daily ...
Director(s): Andrew Garrison
Documentary Feature
65 min
The music of Brooklyn singer/songwriter Rosi Golan has a knack for great hooks and contemplative lyrics as well as "makes us believe even more in the clanging of our gears and the quickening of those strange little hear...
Rusty Lazer is a DJ from New Orleans, Louisiana that specializes in the street music of his adopted home town.
Though known primarily as the live DJ and creative partner of gender-bending Sissy Bounce Rapper Big Freed...
Coma in Algiers: five young men, a small room, a bottle of Brennivín.
the band formed in early 2006. released full-length in 2007 entitled This Is Your Justice. released full-length in 2009 entitled Your Heart Your B...
3 Dudes & a Mullet's beginning goes back about 5 years, when Fish (lead vocals, guitar and ukulele), Miots (bass, violin percussion, clavichord, oboe), Poni (everything Miots doesn’t want to play) and Bueno (drums and ...
The lovechild of a studio experiment that was never meant to make it out into the wild, Los Angeles’ American Royalty constructs an unlikely yet glowingly functional blend of dark garage rock and poignant electronica. ...
The name APE MACHINE is a nod to the days of reel-to-reel magnetic tape audio recording; a fitting moniker for the heavy-hitting quartet as the band plays through vintage tube amplifiers and lays down its songs using exc...
'The Art talk the rock'n'roll talk as well as they walk it' – INPRESS
"They played a set that was dynamic and enigmatic, with just the right amount of moody rockstar" – FASTER LOUDER
“….Here Comes The War...
Straight out of the San Francisco Bay Area Bang Data is born in early 2008, bringing you a mix of slick and melodic guitar, gritty synth & bass, over banging electro-acoustic rhythms; making this the perfect canvas for D...
Rugged, raspy, and roaring with charisma, Halifax’s Ben Caplan is to folklore what smoke is to bourbon. Perfectly coupled. Ben’s songwriting is as bold in range as it is in ferocity. Fuelled by a striking melodram...
Partners in music, business, and life, bassist/composer/producer Joël Dilley and songwriter/vocalist/pianist Bett Butler have performed together for over two decades in configurations from jazz trios to small orchestras...
"Austin's Bodytronix (Eric Archer and Erich Ragsdale) have been hard at work for awhile without anyone outside of their fair city really knowing what these dudes were up to. Well, if their live mix "Night of the Arawans"...
Boldy James is a native of Detroit, MI. His first garnered national attetion with a guest appearance of The Cool Kids record "Tires". Boldy was later featured on the Fat Raps Remix, which was featured on Big Sean's "Fina...
SHE won Budweiser’s Superfest Contest to open for Jill Scott, Anthony Hamilton, and take home 30k (www.tesshenley.com). HE wrote and recorded an album in less than 100 hours with Grammy-award winning engineers(www.cars...
Ceremony are a punk band from Rohnert Park, California, just outside of San Francisco. Their three albums on the Deathwish and Bridge 9 labels are widely seen as the most compelling, unusual and progressive hardcore of t...
Chains of Love started when Guitarist Felix Fung, the engineer and owner of Vancouver’s Little Red Sound, hatched a plan to start a girl group with Nathalia Pizarro. Nathalia was known as one of the best singers and al...
Combining elements of dub and R&B with a nocturnal aesthetic, Copenhagen-based producer CHLLNGR (aka Steven Jess Borth II) is one of the freshest sounds to emerge so far this year. After a slew of well-received remixes (...
CREED BRATTON
“Bounce Back” is more than just the title of my new CD, it’s what’s happened with my life and my career. Sandwiched between my early success as a founding member of seminal 60s band The Grass R...
Born out of the ashes of the UK post-punk scene, The Cult evolved to become one of the most influential and controversial rock bands of the late 20th century, selling millions of albums, headlining arenas and stadiums ar...
Named to the Chicago Tribune's 50 Most Significant Songwriters in the Last 50 Years, Austin, TX-based singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt has been rapidly ascending from underground cult hero to being widely recognized as an...
A Kentucky native now based in Brooklyn, singer-songwriter Dawn Landes released her third album "Sweetheart Rodeo" in 2010 on Cooking Vinyl Records. Uncut Magazine called her "one of the finest voices in modern Americana...
The experimental, electronic, no wave, hip-hop duo Deadly Cradle Death is formed by He Fan (also member of Carsick Cars and Birdstriking) and Liu Xinyu (from Chui Wan). The pair met in a experimental guitar show back in...
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...
What began as a group of friends with common interests in music evolved naturally into the current configuration that is Don Chani. The lead singer, Mark Shaddock, spent time in Jamaica as a teenager absorbing the music ...
Dutch Uncles are one of the bands at the fore-front of Manchester's (UK) vibrant new music scene that whilst remaining respectful, tries to swerve the city's 'lad-rock' stereotype. Pulling unlikely influences from Steve ...
ake Rabinbach and Shannon Esper are best friends, ex-lovers, who live two blocks away from each other in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and sing together in the Echo Friendly. They have released one single "Same Mistakes" with Can...
Elephant Stone is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Rishi Dhir, a founding member of Montreal pop/psyche veterans the High Dials, and sitar player for basically every outlaw psyche band out there (Black Angels, the...
Hi, I am an artist from Brooklyn and have released 2 records on Verve Records, the latest being "The Other Side Of Zero." I guess my band sounds somewhere between Joan As Police Woman and Sara Bareilles. I am in the proc...
Foot Patrol's improbable ascendance to the top of the heap of weirdness that defines much of Austin, TX has their rabid fan base rooting for their favorite underdog. Not many bands can truly say that they are one of a k...
Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, Fort Knox has also lived on Long Island, NY and currently resides in Atlanta, GA. He is the pure unadulterated essence of positive energy and thus channels it wherever he goes. H...
Holcombe Waller is a composer, singer, and performing artist based in Portland, Oregon. He is a 2011 USA Berrester Fellow in Music as well as a 2008 Mapfund grantee, among other awards, and is known for his folk-inflect...
HUBBLE
Since the inception of his new solo guitar project Hubble, Ben Greenberg of Zs and Pygmy Shrews has sought to
exploit the guitar for its ulterior qualities, simultaneously displaying a true love for the instrum...
The popularity of bass-heavy dance music is spreading like wildfire across the world, with many producers crafting their own styles of dubstep, grime and garage. In the humble city of Pittsburgh, PA DJ/producer Kastle ha...
If the Pixies and the Black Lips got drunk at a party and then had a relationship that spawned a musical child it just might sound like The Lovely Bad Things. Anchored in heavy bass, thick drum lines and post punk guitar...
Melissa Ferrick is a music icon with a voice that’s instantly familiar & comfortable. Her impressive career longevity as a predominantly independent artist is virtually unheard of and speaks to her talent and the world...
Belgian singer-songwriter Milow (born Jonathan Vandenbroeck) is one of Europe's most extraordinary contemporary DIY artists. This dynamic young man has played over 400 shows in twenty different countries over the last fo...
Nervebreakers are a late seventies / early eighties Texas punk band considered by many to be the first of their kind in the southwest. Like many others of this genre, they started out as a high school garage band doing s...
New Generation was organized in December of 2008 by four biological brothers of which whom began in music and ministry at a very young age, never having had lessons or gone to music school, but learned by experience in t...
Oh No Oh My is a four piece indie-rock band based out of Austin, Texas. Members include Daniel Hoxmeier, Joel Calvin, Greg Barkley and Tim Regan; all of whom are multi-instrumentalists.
An active band since 2005, the...
Mountain Home, the sixth studio record from Austin, Texas-based songwriter Owen Temple, is a collection of songs and stories about eccentric characters set in small towns and on the fringes of big cities. Mountain Home m...
Palenke Soultribe is a live electronic music trio fusing electronic sounds with Afro-Colombian rhythms and melodies. Originally formed in Colombia, but now based in Los Angeles, Palenke Soultribe (a.k.a. PST) have claime...
Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands are a five piece band from Dublin, Ireland. Their critically acclaimed album 'You Look Cold' was released on Osaka Recordings in 2009. A remix album followed in 2010 called 'You Loo...
The Pauses' (who prefer that their possessive noun-ing be spelled Pauseses) overall sound is one anchored in complexion and combination, a world where guitars are BFFs with synthesizers, horns, bells, and ukuleles. Tier...
With a unique blend of acoustic folk, jazz, pop, classical, bluegrass, humor and the avant-garde, New Haven, CT duo Prester John has a sound that
is entirely their own. Formed in 2008 by underground guitar-hero Shawn Pe...
Rademacher is an indie rock band from Fresno, California. The group performs adventurous pop songs that feature wiry guitar lines, roaring synthesizers and a California feel good vibe. They've shared the stage with gro...
Regents contains members who hail from some of the most influential hardcore bands of the 90’s including Maximillian Colby, Sleepytime Trio, Frodus, Men’s Recovery Project, Battery, and Combat Wounded Veteran.
R...
RITUALZ is a one man project hailing from Mexico City with a reputation for its unique approach to electronic music, producing moody experimental music influenced by a wide spectrum of styles going from deep droney and l...
Roge represents the new generation of artists of the Brazilian Popular Music and his sound is the face of Brazil. He moves from bossa nova to samba and reggae, with the property of who composes for himself, proposing to ...
If you're not familiar with the back-story of Savoir Adore, what began as a 48-hour challenge between two best friends blossomed into one of Brooklyn's most exciting and unique young bands.
With an experimental approa...
Who are the Scruffs?
Legendary band, The Scruffs, originally hailed from Memphis, Tennessee and became Southern pioneers of the “power pop” musical movement. Founded by lead songwriter, singer and guitarist Steph...
Secret Walls is the World’s premier live art battle, first hosted in Shoreditch London in 2006. Secret Walls offers young and aspiring artists a creative platform - allowing them a chance to showcase their work on a gl...
SONIC AVENUES are just four Montreal kids who started riffing punk tunes in 2006, but since getting swept up in the booming punk epicentre of neighbouring Ottawa, they've been catapulted into the ranks of the best pop-pu...
Standells Biography
“Best known for their hit ‘Dirty Water’, The Standells released a string of snotty, aggressive garage singles in the mid to late 1960s which are now rightly regarded as proto-punk classics. ‘...
It was a dark night, like many before it in Memphis, Tennessee. Joshua Andrew Cosby walked home from rehearsal with his guitar, case-less, slung over his back. A local homeless man flagged him down, not for money but for...
DJ on Eminem's Shade 45, JAMN 94.5 (Boston), In Video Games - Grand Theft Auto IV & Midnight Club, Tour DJ for Q-Tip, Nas & many more...Producer for Eminem, Jadakiss, Bun B, Nas, Styles P, Saigon, Freeway, Freddie Gibbs,...
Stickygreen Productions was started in 2003 by Dj Buddha and Dj Flea, two Missouri City natives. Stickygreen has since become a culture due to the music and Tshirts leading the charge. In 2008 Stickygreen acquired SouthW...
Superstartdjs, Austins best kept secret. DJ Spinner T. and Crop Diggie are not new to the game hip or music for that matter but are ready to bring a new perspective to the world of hip hop and music alike. Both are forme...
Austin native Suzanna Choffel gave the songs on her new album, STEADY EYE SHAKY BOW, time to mature and build character, like fine wine, before she stepped into the studio to record. The result is 10 elegant tracks that ...
”Thee Attacks are a mod-looking four-piece from Aalborg in north Denmark. Soulful vocals complement a '65-era Townshend guitarist, who whacks out Have Love, Will Travel-style riff after riff. So good - and with no cove...
Turbina, A Sound Revival
With bittersweet melodies making their way through chaotic soundscapes, Turbina, a band from Mexico City, emerges and reinvents itself through the album named
“Leti’ Hum Eek’ – Inda...
“Everything is not meant to be understood,” says Flynt Flossy co-CEO of the musical phenomenon Turquoise Jeep. Like many other visionary artists, founders Flynt Flossy and Whatchyamacallit felt industry boundaries we...
Combining an array of influences and a diverse musical background, Two Fresh’s sound is difficult to describe but impossible to ignore. Built on a foundation of instrumental hip hop, their music seamlessly incorporates...
Formed in the summer of '10, Kathryn McCaughey and Mikey Heppner began spontainiously writing and recording songs in their bedroom. The result was an album's worth of catchy tunes mixed with a few heavy riffs and groovy...
Although the Magnolia Housing Projects have long been demolished, a light post still stands at the corner where youth like Vockah Redu (Javocca Davis) gathered to rap and create beats. The light post marks one of the bir...
Wood & Wire is one of the most promising new bands on Austin's bluegrass and acoustic scene. Mixing in elements of Americana and swing, its healthy dose of original music and traditional bluegrass tunes keep audiences ri...
Jackson, MS based, Wooden Finger began as a collaboration between Matthew Magee and Allison Jenkins. Their diverse musical backgrounds resulted in 2006 debut LP All This Time...Still We're Lost, which was a haunting bl...
BIO:
Brainfeeder's latest artist RYAT (pronounced "riot") is the brainchild of Christina Ryat, a producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and sound manipulator who uses live electronics, instruments, pedals,...
The brain-child of Danish composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Mikkel Hess, this seven-piece powerhouse balances the spontaneity of a Brooklyn warehouse rave with the complex scope of an orchestra drawing compa...
Full bio can be found via the EPK hyperlink.
Maybe you know her independent hit singles Cameo Lover and Settle Down, which won her 1st place in the Pop Category of International Song writing Competition;
or you’re...
Award winning Hip-Hop artist of the year in the SaCurrent, OBX(Originated By [X]perience) has been hitting the TX Indie scene since 2011. Hailing from San Antonio Tx, OBX(oh-becks) released his Rage Ep early last year, ...
Stout Cortez is Justin Hunter Scott's electro diversion from everything that sucks. Over time the project has shifted from electro-pop with hints of house and r&b to something darker and deeper. But don't be confused -- ...
The LaRues is not a throwback band. Instead, it pays homage to the influences of the Queens, Kings and Godfather of Soul, while making soul music that is fresh, original and undeniably hip-shakin'.
In 2010, Austin, TX...
Maggie Björklund isn’t a household name. Despite the surname unfamiliarity (she’s Danish), the singer/pedal steel guitarist’s debut solo album Coming Home is drawn very much from a familiar source, wedding Maggie...
Presented by: Windows Phone presents "Big App on Campus"
he Canvas Waiting has garnered a host of loyal fans since their formation in
2005. With their first release, In Search of Beginnings, the passion and talent of
singer Nathan Medina was undeniable and captivated audienc...
Texas garage rock legends The Krayolas -- genuine, Mexified, San Antonio rock 'n' roll stars -- return to South By Southwest Music + Media Conference with a new EP that captures all the fun and no borders range that made...
Lumerians is a San Francisco Bay Area based quintet. The group is notable for performances characterized by what the SF Weekly described as "transcendent live video projections." The band's sound was influenced by groups...
Hi. My name is Nick Jaina.
Why do people write bios about themselves in the third person? Generally it’s so that the press can copy and paste paragraphs into a story and not have to write anything original. It feel...
The wildly popular live show turned Comedy Central favorite returns to SXSW. The hugely entertaining concept is simple: Benson brings his favorite comedians onstage to perform then interrupts them with stream-of-consciou...
Straight out of Dallas, Texas, the experimental beat scientist known as Brandon "Brain Gang" Blue started his musical voyage in 2004. Trying to follow in the footsteps of his influences: Timbaland, Missy Elliot, & The Ne...
New album "Oozy" out on Nat Geo Music - April 2011
If ever a band could boast having a complex genealogical tree, that band is Brownout. The eight-piece, Latin funk ensemble based in Austin, Texas, is both offspring a...
Chilldren are a lot more than just one clever and catchy-as-hell hook, though — their self-aware “dickcore” hip-hop is some of the freshest and most original right now. The multi-gender, multi-racial trio has tappe...
Called "...one of the funniest and most cogent people you're ever going to witness" by the Austin Chronicle, Chris Cubas is a favorite of the Austin comedy scene. Hailing from upstate NY, Chris has made a splash Austin ...
“How many of ya’ll are familiar with the League of Extraordinary G’z?” was the question posed by Bavu Blakes, indie rap veteran and reigning godfather of the Austin Texas Hip Hop scene, as he stood on a dimly lit...
Meiko (pronounced MEE-ko), is an American singer/songwriter, born and raised in Roberta, GA and currently residing in Los Angeles, CA. She independently released a self-titled album in 2007, and her sophomore effort, tit...
Slowdance began as a band of friends who wanted to create the music they wanted to hear. Starting in 2009 with Thomas Quigley playing bass guitar, Luke Fox playing keyboards, Kyle McKeveny on guitar, and Quay Quinn-Sette...
Once upon an time in an unearthly paradise called Pepperland, Blue Meanies threaten to destroy all that is good. Enter John, Paul, George and Ringo to save the day! Armed with humour, songs, and yellow submarine, the Fa...
Director(s): George Dunning, Animation Directors: Robert Balser and Jack Stokes
Narrative Feature
89 min
Rocky Rivera is a Hip-Hop journalist by day, MC by night, who found international acclaim by winning a Contributing Editor position on MTV's docu-series "I'm From Rolling Stone" in 2007. After lacking inspiration in the ...
After being named a “New Face of Comedy” at the Just for Laughs Montreal Festival, Beth Stelling relocated to Los Angeles. So all that stuff she did in Chicago means nothing. But if you want to know about it…
As...
nosaprise real name Nosa Edebor grew up on everything from Wu Tang and Fat Pat to Fela Kuti (his great uncle) and Minor Threat. Picking up the guitar at the age of 12 nosaprise started playing in some Houston punk and ha...
Surreall is the life to the world of female MCs that has nearly become extinct. Her creative writing and unique style deliver a dynamic sound that can be heard before the 5'1 lyricist can be seen. Now that the diamond in...
Currently based in Atlanta, Detroit-native Boog Brown is not only an emcee, poet, and publisher, but she describes herself as a “lover, fighter and artist.” With tracks like “The Essence,” “Dope Girl Magic,” ...
Record label:
Smog / Shift / Rubik / Simplify / Onset / Foreign Familiar / Gradient Audio / Peer Pressure / Sub Pressure / Gamma / Betamorph / Filthy Digital / Carbon Logic
Kelly Dean is a Los Angeles-based electroni...
Based out of Toronto, Canada, Odonis Odonis came into being in 2010, taking its name from a mate of bandleader, Dean Tzenos, who was unforgettably called Adonis Adonis. Molded at a young age by the sounds of the indie, n...
With boundless musical imagination, The Ripe has sprung forth from it's roots in power-pop, folk, garage, and psychedelia while still being nurtured by contemporary sounds and influences. Born in 2007, the Austin, Texas ...
Above All Entertainment was formed by CEO Clinton (Checkmate) Davis Jr. in 2002. He determined to follow thru with his father's dream. That dream was making music, and forming a dominant record label. His whole life chan...
TEENS throws down loud, obnoxious-yet-melodic, 60s-tinged, garage/surf rock. Our music and live shows are wild, carefree, sloshy, hazy, sweaty, simple, fun – everything our adult lives aren’t.......
DC Pierson is one-fifth of the sketch comedy group DERRICK and co-wrote and co-stars in their film MYSTERY TEAM. He is the author of the novel THE BOY WHO COULDN'T SLEEP AND NEVER HAD TO. He co-hosts a weekly stand-up ...
The capital city of Columbia, SC is beautiful. There are tree lined streets, historical buildings and the neighborhoods are bustling with state politicians and ambitious college students. Singer Nikkiya knows it all too ...
The Tampa Bay area's Alexander & The Grapes are a revelation. Young minds and hearts meld with influences worn boldly on their collective sleeves. We won't say indie or alt-country. We won't declare them breezy singer/so...
Alonso Arreola is a Mexican bass player, music writer, teacher and composer. One of the most creative and interesting players in Latin America, has five albums by his own, plus many other projects with recognized artists...
NEW ALBUM "LITTLE HEART" AVAILABLE MARCH 27 ON RED HOUSE RECORDS!!!!
Raised on a beef and wheat farm in North Dakota by folk musicians, Andra Suchy began touring and performing at festivals at a young age. Classical...
Andy is one of the world’s finest solo acoustic guitarists and his cross-over success to more than 200 million Youtube viewers underscores his emergence as one of the most important and popular artists to surface in ye...
Balaclavas are from Houston, Texas where everything is eternally blistered, chemically altered, and forlorn. They are a band in the realest sense- they come on like a gang, play with one mind, hunt in one pack, party and...
Only important Belgian albums are rewarded with a foreign release. Balthazar's "Applause" is a twofold milestone. It's the first debut since dEUS' "Worst Case Scenario" (1994) to be proclaimed best Belgian album of the y...
Listening to the new songs from the San Diego based quartet The Beautiful View makes you think "sounds like this should be on the radio", which isn’t a bad thing in this case. There's a familiarity that the band brings...
Bestial Mouths began in 2009 in Los Angeles, CA. Drawing from a large base of influences including early Industrial, Synthpunk and the British Gothic and American Deathrock music of the late 70’s and early 80’s, foun...
CHAPPO plays an electric blend of psychedelic pop that carries a natural warmth and carefree youthful reminiscence. Their nostalgic sounds tend to transport you to a parallel universe, much like the theme from many of th...
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...
Once a mere fresh faced folk singer from Vancouver, Canada, Dan Mangan now stands at the world’s doorstep. The evolution of Mangan’s music is instinctively in line with its breadth and sincerity. As his art has devel...
Dear people interested in the life events of the Danny Malone:
While in a self-induced drug coma, a skinless tiger came to me. He told me to go back to my world, to find a man named Danny Malone. He said Danny had somet...
This is what Chuck Klosterman says about Delicate Steve. He missed the note on hyperbole.
THE CRITICS UNILATREALLY CONCUR:
DELICATE STEVE IS A BAND WHO CREATES MUSIC
Newton, N.J. – Every 30 or 40 or 500 yea...
Most commonly known as three-fifths of the influential indie-synth outfit, The Faint, Clark Baechle, Todd Fink, and Jacob Thiele have begun their journey into the future of sound with their new project Depressed Buttons....
San Francisco’s ambassadors of gypsy rock, Diego’s Umbrella captures California’s cultural multiplicity with enthusiasm, humor, decadence and a bit of fury.
These urban, gringo, gypsy mariachis have performed ...
Almost out of nowhere, Los Angeles' Dillon Francis has broken from the throng of young electronic music dj/producers. With a stream of world-class remixes and releases, Dillon has caught the attention of some of the top ...
Behind every successful rapper is a humble DJ. “The DJ is not meant to be in the forefront. You have to be cool with playing your role and laying the foundation for the artist to do what he has to do.” That’s how ...
emma louise is one of those people who were born to play music. She was the one who avoided maths and science classes to teach herself guitar and write songs in the high school music room. It paid off. At age 16, Emma’...
Erin Ivey is Austin's Urban Folk darling. Her latest album, Broken Gold, is a groundbreaking, fan-funded collaboration with R&B/dub trio The Finest Kind.
Broken Gold was named the #1 album of 2011 by KUT's Kevin Co...
Forming in the ancient lands of Roanoke Virginia, Eternal Summers began as a 2 piece minimal pop project that incorporated post punk and pop elements. Fronted by Nicole Yun (guitar) and backed by Daniel Cundiff (drums). ...
The Evaporators Bio
Comprised of Nardwuar the Human Serviette, John Collins, Stephen Hamm and Shawn Mrazek, Vancouver, BC's The Evaporators love pounding out pure “Teenage Zit Rawk Angst” flavoured tunes. If you'...
Folk Family Revival, comprised of the Lankford brothers – Mason, Barrett and Lincoln – and Caleb Pace, has been described as Americana, folk and country, but their unique sound has influences spanning rock and bluegr...
The phrase “Long Live All of Us” is the title of Glossary’s seventh full-length album, but it’s also meant as an all-inclusive homage to humanity. Frontman Joey Kneiser says, in light of all the bad things happen...
New Wild Everywhere is the follow-up to Great Lake Swimmers’ critically acclaimed, Polaris Music Prize shortlisted and Juno nominated 2009 album Lost Channels. Their fifth album in just under a decade, this new collect...
Greylag’s sound hinges on the pair’s meditative, hymn-like vocal harmonies, complimented by folksy, bluesy runs on the acoustic guitar. Along with the help of local musicians who regularly join them on tour, the duo ...
Harriet is a Los Angeles-based band fronted by former Dawes member Alex Casnoff. The quartet's self-released debut EP Tell The Right Story was released on January 31, 2012 and is available for free download at www.Harri...
Jesse Thomas is a redheaded firecracker from Kentucky, whose whiskey soaked soul drips into every song that she sings. She released her first full-length album, War Dancer, on Valentines Day.
In late 2008, with no mon...
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes is the owner/proprietor of one of the oldest juke joints in Mississippi, the Blue Front Cafe in Bentonia, MS. He plays in what has been called the "Bentonia School" of the blues, which is characteriz...
On a rainy Nashville Thursday last October, Justin Townes Earle leapt onstage at the famed Ryman Auditorium to accept the 2011 Americana Music Award for Song of the Year. The triumphant evening capped a turbulent twelve...
Texas has a new leading lady and her name is Karma Jonze. Known for not following the norm and creating her own unique brand of southern hip hop flows and lyrics, Karma is setting a new standard as she takes the south b...
Ki:Theory (a.k.a. Joel Burleson) is a recording artist and producer who specializes in genres of electronic and indie/alternative rock. He and his band have toured nationwide US, Canada, Japan and Korea including dates ...
Lisa O’Neill is rapidly emerging as one of the truest contemporary Irish folk voices – unashamedly true to her roots and with a voice so distinctive you might only fail to recognize it if Stevie Nicks ever relocated ...
Maria Volonte
Argentine Latin Grammy nominee Maria Volonte is a singer, guitarist and composer celebrated for the intense passion and beauty of her songs as well as for her charisma and sensuality on stage. After conq...
Long time Texas style reggae tribute veterans, these guys have been performing in various configurations of Hill Country reggae bands in since the '70s. Look for a clean rock solid bass and drum section along with i...
The Milk Carton Kids, a harmonizing, minimalist duo, use two guitars and two voices to create a new combination of back-porch Americana and classic folk. Relying on compelling narrative, the seamless interplay between th...
MOD SUN’s mission statement is very clear, choose to be happy. He refers to his genre of music as “Hippy Hop” and describes his sound as an audible smile. “Movement on dreams stand under none, even my name stands...
Molly Rankin is the girl next door. But she’s smoking in the basement, writing gruff pop songs with irresistible hooks.
At 22, the youngest member of one of Canada’s most famous musical families, a songwriter with...
On its second album Delirium Tremendous (July 26th, Chicken Ranch Records) perhaps as Jim Morrison fronting a Rohypnol-addled Pogues? Or maybe as Tom Waits fronting The Doors. Obviously, this would be a good time for a ...
"Highly anticipated" – Telonius, co-owner of Gomma Records
"Dark, sexy and beautiful - Music Karl Lagerfeld would be proud of" - Alex Chow, Creative Director, Vogue China
“In a scene where a lot of rockstars t...
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...
The River City Christianettes have been established for over 12 years and have traveled many years on the road together. This group of young ladies enjoy praising God while witnessing souls being touched by the word of G...
With Shuga it’s all in that name: saccharine and brutalized. They are essentially sweet; a simple, stripped-down, loved-up rock n roll combo, but like their spelling, they’re also fucked up. A rowdy London three-piec...
In 2001 Sol formed the band called Los Cocineros, which she recorded 7 albums. She is a composer and multi-instrumentalist (trumpet, guitar, Venezuelan cuatro, ukulele, percussion, and vocals). In 2008 she became a mem...
Meet The Stanfields, a maelstrom of rock ‘n’ roll, Celtic and bluegrass. Hailing from the gritty post-industrial towns of Nova Scotia, Canada, The Stanfields play every show like it’s their collective last night on...
The Steve Adamyk Band are a bunch of obnoxious, rowdy, "kids" from Ottawa, Ontario. While the name would automatically draw comparison to a blues, jazz or rock band given the layout, make no mistake; the Steve Adamyk Ban...
¡Suénalo! (sweh-nah-low) verb
1. To sound, slap, or play upon a
musical instrument, object, or person.
Latin funk. Fusion. Jam band. Multicultural cocktail. The sound of Miami. Afro-Latin-Baby-Makin’-Descarga-Fu...
Sugar & The Hi Lows know that popular music isn’t a mirror, that melodies and lyrics aren’t tethered to the cultural landscapes of their day. Breathing a new sound into music with an old soul, this rootsy, vintage du...
Sxip has played exploding circus organ for the pyro-technic clowns of the Daredevil Opera Company at the Sydney Opera House and the Kennedy Center, industrial flutes for acrobats on mechanical jumping boots at The New Vi...
Tim Fite is an artist and true original. His music defies easy categorization. Esquire Magazine called him, “one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most subversive renaissance men.” The Brooklyn based Fite has released Ain’t...
Twilite is a Polish band formed in 2006. Best description of their music would be singer-songwriter, but there's two of them, sometimes three, sometimes four. The core of the band is always the same: two acoustic guitars...
The supreme ruler of all our causes,
The knowledgeable gods of bands across the country
and around thousands and thousands of people
around the whole USA
The people who represent this band are Zac & Sam!!!
Zac is ...
Tom Holroyd also known as Comic Strips is an Electro House producer hailing from Pittsburgh, PA. Debuting at the young age of 18, now at the age of 19, is currently making a mark on the dance music community. Known for...
"I'm on a mission from God," Taye Cannon deadpanned before breaking into laughter. "Well, maybe not exactly, but it kinda felt that way at first, and it still does sometimes."
Ok, so the Blues Brothers reference is a ...
West London duo 16Bit are two of the most respected electronic producers working today. Not many producers can count among their fans; Bjork, Plan B & Professor Green. All of whom have enlisted 16bit’s productions for ...
Ed Sheeran is blessed – he seems to know exactly where he is going, and exactly how to get there. Where countless others fail to make an impression amid today’s information overload, Ed’s music and talent cut strai...
BET'S 106 & park FREESTYLE friday champion G$Baby continues her success. from austin texas against all odds and more she continues to excel and set the bar. with affiliations with above all ent. she has dominated shows, ...
A story of friendship and life in the disappearing wilderness of the West, "LOW & CLEAR" follows two formerly close friends who re-unite for one last fly fishing trip to British Columbia. Over the course of...
Director(s): Kahlil Hudson, Tyler Hughen
Documentary Feature
80 min
Born Travis Stewart on March 4th 1982, Machinedrum has produced and composed a commanding series of releases under various aliases since his first independent project in 1999. Covering an astonishing variety of styles wi...
Martha Kelly is a stand-up comic living in Austin, Tx. She has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and Comedy Central's Premium Blend. Her dog was recently diagnosed with la...
Matt Munisteri has spent the last 10 years singing his original songs, while working a pretty dreamy day job as a virtuosic and in-demand guitarist with a wide-ranging roster of notable artists across the jazz and Americ...
What's in a name? Oakland, CA's Mwahaha answers that question with a smirk, but the sounds that emanate from their forthcoming debut album are no joke. Psychedelic ebb & flows, electronic undercurrents, and elated pop f...
Orthy makes the kind of music you can’t help but fall in love with. A native of Austin, the singer and multi-instrumentalist continues a rich lineage of adventurous music that has long emanated from the Texan capital. ...
Born in Canada and raised in both the Bahamas and L.A., Shane Eli is a producer, rapper, songwriter, music instructor and modern day renaissance man. After graduating college on a football scholarship, Eli decided to dev...
At the corner of street life and honest living stands Thi’sl: an ex-hustler turned urban missionary. A look into his past reveals the authenticity of his gritty, in your face lyrics and God’s grace, which spared his...
ABOUT COTTON MATHER
Legendary indie rock outfit Cotton Mather was founded by Robert Harrison of Austin, Texas in the early 1990s. What started as an experimental collaboration with cellist Nat Shelton had by 1993 evol...
Foxtails Brigade present an ornate kind of chamber pop, intricate violin and cello arrangements are anchored by Laura Weinbach’s intricately played classical guitar and pitch perfect vocals. But underneath the simple ...
"Each track on IG’s latest, Paddywhack, isolates the atomic essence of the pop song, replicating that perfect moment ad infinitum until the warm tides of melody, of rippling organ, of submerged synth bass, of falsetto ...
In the evolving world of music, diversity is the key to success. When JON MCXRO came together, their mission was clear: put all of their talents to the forefront and merge them into one unique sound.
JON MCXRO is an a...
With their steady ebb and flow of warm, effects-laden sounds, northern California’s Whirr (Formerly Whirl) give the sounds of 90s shoegaze a widescreen update for the post-millennial era. The young sextet’s walls of ...
Honest, sometimes a little dark, and riddled with self-deprecating humor – traits that led themselves well to his songs. Songs that, like Cory, are original and unpredictable, prompting one music critic to note that ...
The Airplane Boys bring a unique energy and excitement back to the stage. This Toronto-based duo is on the verge of something big. Their band is a fresh sound on the scene, a trail-blazing cutting-edge movement for the...
Bad Brains are one of the most important and influential American bands still working today. They melded punk and reggae into an innovative style that has yet to be copied. Their impact and influence can be heard in grou...
Director(s): Mandy Stein, Benjamen Logan
Documentary Feature
105 min
Nominated for Outstanding Debut at this year's BAFTAs, "Black Pond" tells the story of an ordinary family who are accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Two-time BAFTA winner Chris Langha...
Director(s): Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe
Narrative Feature
82 min
Originally from Aurora, CO, Dan Soder started doing stand up at 21 while attending the University of Arizona. After two years of playing clubs and casinos all over the southwest, Dan decided he'd had enough of extreme he...
Presented by: Windows Phone presents "Big App on Campus"
“It was a wonderful moment,” says The Gracious Few’s chief protagonist, guitarist, and co songwriter Chad Taylor of a particular late winters 2010 day in Sausalito California. “As I loosened the grip on my guitar...
"Wesley Schultz, 9, who wants to be an artist, said, 'I spend a lot of time on my drawings and it turns out good 'cause I've been practicing a lot.'" -The New York Times, 3/15/92
Twenty years ago, Wesley Schultz saw t...
“When I was a teenager,” Madi Diaz recalls, “my dad and I would hang out in the living room and learn songs by bands like the Eagles and Alice in Chains. We’d pick parts to harmonize and sing our way through them...
Pawn (born David Sandstrom) is both a member and producing artist of Los Angeles-based dubstep collective SMOG. Currently residing in San Francisco, (the only SMOG artist living outside the City of Angels), his dynamic C...
Killer punk-rock/garage-psych quartet from Toronto, Canada
"With props from King Khan and melodies nicked straight from Cramps HQ... what they do... they do with dirt-rock aplomb." -NME......
Chicha LIbre is a Brooklyn collective made up of French, American, Venezuelan and Mexican musicians who play a mixture of Latin rhythms, surf and psychedelia.
Chicha is originally the name of a corn-based liquor favo...
High Society is a fusion of Southern Cali-bred visionary/rapper Amisho; singer/ producer J.R. from St. Louis; Akron-born rapper/producer Swoope; and rapper/ singer/writer Suzy from Oklahoma.
Emerging solo artists them...
Rapsody is the new force in hip hop, and she's blazing the trail for a new generation of emcees, showcasing effortless lyrical mastery in an age of celebrating the culture of a hip hop renaissance. "Hip hop in its essenc...
"I'm demanding the best, and I overachieve, so if I fall I will land on success." -- Young Scolla
The popular activity of labeling an artist and throwing his style into a singular genre need not be done when talking a...
