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...
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...
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 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 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 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Take a break, and let us do the driving.
Sli...
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 ...
Canon is proud to be a part of the 2012 SXSW Film Festival and inspire all filmmakers to imagine more. That was the story behind Project Imagin8ion, the first photo contest to inspire a Hollywood film. After receiving 96...
For four days, all three conferences converge at the SXSW Trade Show. This is the center of commerce at SXSW. Attendees can network and discover the technology and new developments that will propel their business.
For t...
For four days, all three conferences converge at the SXSW Trade Show. This is the center of commerce at SXSW. Attendees can network and discover the technology and new developments that will propel their business.
For t...
For four days, all three conferences converge at the SXSW Trade Show. This is the center of commerce at SXSW. Attendees can network and discover the technology and new developments that will propel their business.
For t...
Spike Lee's Original Kings of Comedy struck box-office gold in 2000. The Blue Collar Comedy Tour filled theaters for six years. And the Comedians of Comedy documentary – which debuted at SXSW in 2005 – turned Zach Ga...
Intermediate
Presenters
Eugene Mirman, Gary Gulman, Henry Owings, Jack Vaughn, Kristine Levine, Julie Seabaugh
How can you finance your album, tour, and other musical endeavors? As it has been done in public television and radio, through crowdfunding, the power of many small contributions can become significant. Artists are more ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Ariel Hyatt, Billy Zero, Eleanor Whitney, Kevin Breuner, Brian Meece
Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most win...
Director(s): Katie Dellamaggiore
Documentary Feature
101 min
What would it be like to listen to music all day and get paid for it? Believe it or not, this job exists. As the digital music revolution ensues, the "musicologist" has emerged as an influential member of the o...
Beginner
Presenters
Chris Steffen, Chuck Eddy, Joseph Keyes, Michael Addicott, Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Lots of music/tech startups venture to SXSW but very few get funded. What can you do to increase your odds, and how can you avoid the pitfalls which might prevent that from happening?......
Advanced
Presenters
Brian Zisk, Hany Nada, Larry Marcus, Patrick Mahoney, Peter Delevett
Girl Walk // All Day is a feature-length dance music video and tale of urban exploration that follow three dancers across New York City. They turn the city's sidewalks, parks, and stadiums into an evolving stage as a sto...
Director(s): Jacob Krupnick
Narrative Feature
75 min
Director Eva Stotz visited interesting people all over the world, whom she found through online host networks, emerging for a limited time in their everyday life. The film introduces a music-loving Tuareg in Mali, a wild...
A number of big media companies are breaking down the old walls and providing new platforms for emerging talent, exposing them to a wider audience, and making them a profit. Explore the different channels available to th...
Beginner
Presenters
Daniel Battison, Ian Rogers, Jose Cuello, Nikolas Gray, Glenn Peoples
With the explosion of smartphones and tablets, the undeniable next big wave is mobile. What is surprising (or not so surprising to veteran industry watchers) is that the music business is lagging behind retail, hospitali...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Graham, Gray Gannaway, Shane Tobin, Tricia Rice, Ted Verani
Developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media, the company responsible for "An Inconvenient Truth", "Food, Inc.", and "Waiting for Superman", "Last Call at the Oasis&q...
Director(s): Jessica Yu
Documentary Feature
100 min
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
11:00AM -12:00PM
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...
Beginner
Presenters
Leah Selvidge, Michael Starr, Nancy Fly, Shaun Barrett, Simon Henderson, Stuart Sullivan, Tom Windish, Valerie Denn
Ever wonder HOW that perfect song ends up in that perfect moment? How do the decisions get made and what can artists do to get ahead of the pack? Learn about the process of selecting songs for visual media from every per...
Presenters
Chris Budd, Joe Maggini, Joel C High, Niki Sherrod, Rebecca Rienks
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
11:00AM -12:00PM
Hear a variety of 15-minute "Shorties" presentations on the basics of surviving and succeeding as a band. To cap it off, a presentation of the Seattle Band Map, a visualization of the connections between the hu...
Beginner
Presenters
Horace Trubridge, Keith Whiteman, Nancy Prager, Trevor Gale
Seventy highschool students agreed to be locked down for 24 hours to write, shoot, and edit a short film. Come see the product of this madness screened at Vimeo Theater for The Austin School of Film's annual Youth M.A.F....
Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of "art as a subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi ("I Am a Sex Addict") goes overboard. Told that he can do whateve...
Director(s): Caveh Zahedi
Documentary Feature
108 min
At the tender age of 70 she started recording and releasing her own music straight from the living room. 7 years later she had 59 albums to her name with more than 600 songs – an eccentric myriad of catchy compositions...
Luca and Gustav have to decide: should they stay in Italy, or leave it, like so many of their friends have done already? Looking for reasons not to do the same, the two Italians jump into their old Fiat 500 and go on a e...
Director(s): Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi
Documentary Feature
75 min
"The Last Fall" is a coming of age sports drama about the difficulties an NFL journeyman faces when trying to transition to life after his playing days are over.......
Director(s): Matthew A. Cherry
Narrative Feature
98 min
Lost and Sound is a moving creative documentary, made by a partially deaf filmmaker. It weaves its way through a startling world of sound and silence, via the ears and brains of three extraordinary people as they try to ...
Director(s): Lindsey Dryden
Documentary Feature
76 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...
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.....
ASTRO
Renown Chilean band that stands out for its artistic quality and by creating a bold, energetic and highly interpretative live show.
Astro, formed by: Octavio Cavieres, Nicolás Arancibia, Daniel Varas and Andrés...
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...
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...
Music and technology converge with music streaming. From social media integration to online video music supervision, online music is much more than background. Broadcasters, podcasters, programmers, music supervisors, de...
Music and technology converge with music streaming. From social media integration to online video music supervision, online music is much more than background. Broadcasters, podcasters, programmers, music supervisors, de...
Music and technology converge with music streaming. From social media integration to online video music supervision, online music is much more than background. Broadcasters, podcasters, programmers, music supervisors, de...
E.S.P., Love Inks’ first album, was conceived and recoded with strict, direct motives. No frills, tears through extravagant side roads, solos, certainly no jamming, and no extra instrumentation. That being said, the al...
E.S.P., Love Inks’ first album, was conceived and recoded with strict, direct motives. No frills, tears through extravagant side roads, solos, certainly no jamming, and no extra instrumentation. That being said, the al...
E.S.P., Love Inks’ first album, was conceived and recoded with strict, direct motives. No frills, tears through extravagant side roads, solos, certainly no jamming, and no extra instrumentation. That being said, the al...
PROVIDENCIA is a band from Medellin city wich emerged in 2001, working hard within the independent music scene in Colombia, making its lyrics, taking the reality of their environment. Taking as base language the Jamaican...
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 ...
The Voice according to Austin : Meet cast members of NBC’s THE VOICE. Tje Austin, Lex Land and Jonathas Ojeda will appear at the Austin Airstream trailer.......
Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, "Wildness" is a portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar that has been home to Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical-real...
Who's the only man to ever write songs for Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, John Travolta, and Kermit the Frog? That would be Paul Williams. A six-time Academy Award nominee (and one-time winner), Paul sits down with dir...
Demo Listening Sessions offer a unique opportunity for selected musicians to get direct feedback from music professionals, those who listen to demos as part of their job.......
This first session in the three part event takes a deeper dive into the economics of the music industry, including performance rights and understanding the various rights for master recordings and songwriting. We will al...
Beginner
Presenters
Jon Vanhala, Maurice Russell, Ted Cohen, Bill Wilson
Your band is ready for primetime, and you’re looking to play major festivals and venues. However, you know each of these is its own beast. Learn the best practices for making a love connection with the top festival and...
Intermediate
Presenters
Daniel Seligman, David Silbaugh, Jon Mcildowie, Nate Arling, Valerie Gurka, Panos Panay
In the pre-digital era, there were radio stations and music stores. In the digital age, all the traditional media channels and purchasing behaviors have changed. Music lovers want a mix of curated radio, streaming servic...
Presenters
Aron Levitz, Carl Rohling, Eric London, Peter Downton, Vickie Nauman
Many independent musicians are unaware of the plethora of arts-business services, programs, and resources that exist to directly support their artistic efforts. There are fundraising programs that offer a way to raise do...
When you're running your own show, you don't want to miss a thing. Being your own online manager comes with its own set of freedoms and challenges. If you're an artist, you want to make sure everyone knows about the musi...
Beginner
Presenters
Marni Wandner, Melissa Aubert, Todd Hensley, Elizabeth Leahy
Discover music you'll love at the Pandora Discovery Den (Wed-Fri). Featured artists will cross genres from Rock to Hip Hop. Afternoon shows followed by DJ-hosted Casino Happy Hour from 5-7 with daily drink specials and p...
Public broadcasters have long played a vital role in media, providing citizens with independent information through universal entertainment. Publicly-funded organizations like CBC and NPR have championed new music, suppo...
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Martin Atkins, author of 'Tour:Smart' and 'Welcome to the Music Business: You're Fucked,' is both extremely funny and very smart. If you or someone you know is a touring musician, Martin will arm you with strategy and ta...
Music-Related Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in Round One A to high profiled industry expert judges.
Finalists: Swarm.fm, 45Sound, VenLabs.Rexly
For more information about the SX...
Presenters
Amy Ray, Brad King, Jed Carlson, Larry Marcus, Sean Moriarty
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...
24 years old. Chilean-northamerican. Singer, songwriter, composer, pianist, producer and writer. Independent musician, artist and entrepreneur. Founder of Fran Ltda, her own company from which she develops her projects ...
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...
Whatever happened to the Sugarhill Gang? I WANT MY NAME BACK highlights the rise and fall of former original members of the Sugarhill Gang, Master Gee and Wonder Mike . As original writers and rappers, Master Gee and W...
Dustin Wong's second LP Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads, is a departure from Dustin's previous methods but more closely a distillation of his live show into recorded form. The pieces are so intricate and detailed ...
Dustin Wong's second LP Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads, is a departure from Dustin's previous methods but more closely a distillation of his live show into recorded form. The pieces are so intricate and detailed ...
Dustin Wong's second LP Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads, is a departure from Dustin's previous methods but more closely a distillation of his live show into recorded form. The pieces are so intricate and detailed ...
Hoof it over to La Zona Rosa for The Warner Sound Captured By Nikon on Wednesday 3/14 and Thursday 3/15. We kick off each afternoon at 1:00 pm with intimate performances by fun., Kimbra, Crystal Fighters, LP, Geographer ...
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
Lawyers are not your enemy. They can protect your art through intellectual property law, ensure your future through contract law, and help you navigate immigration and customs laws. Come meet the entertainment attorneys ...
Lawyers are not your enemy. They can protect your art through intellectual property law, ensure your future through contract law, and help you navigate immigration and customs laws. Come meet the entertainment attorneys ...
Lawyers are not your enemy. They can protect your art through intellectual property law, ensure your future through contract law, and help you navigate immigration and customs laws. Come meet the entertainment attorneys ...
What would be the shortest route between Entre Ríos in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametri...
Director(s): Victor Kossakovsky
Documentary Feature
104 min
After a year of heartbreak and loneliness, Erin and Cal have forgotten enough of each other's flaws to get back together. They take what they hope will be a romantic camping trip in Sequoia National Park. Alone in the ma...
Director(s): Adele Romanski
Narrative Feature
80 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
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...
Many look at music publishing income as a source of survival in an industry ravaged by declining sales across the board, and for many songwriters, artists and musicians, music publishing income represents the only hope o...
Advanced
Presenters
Jessica Weiner, John Ashline, RICO Brooks, Travis McFetridge, Andrew Krents
A Texas college student flees the hypocrisy of his religious upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at 'the most godless campus in America.' Based on the New York Times bestseller by Donald Miller.......
Director(s): Steve Taylor
Narrative Feature
106 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...
Ticketmaster has said it will introduce dynamic pricing, allowing clients to raise or lower ticket prices based on demand, something more than 30 professional sports teams are already doing. But what does dynamic pricing...
This second session in the three part event takes a look at the “dos and don’ts” in licensing vast libraries of major content. Learn the third rails and how to manage navigating around the barriers to entry. This p...
The revolutionary promise of digital music became reality with the rise of Napster. The file sharing network pioneered a functional and comprehensive catalog of music with its enthusiastic users. Developed by then-teenag...
Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow (Clive Owen) after Farrow’s beloved 13-year-ol...
Director(s): Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Narrative Feature
93 min
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
2:00PM - 3:00PM
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
Alexandra Dunne, Alicia J. Rose, Bart Day, Brett Williams, Marissa Lopez, Shawn Nolan, Trey Many
Monsieur Periné, more than a musical group, it’s a creative project that was born out of the artistic and rhythmic exploration undertaken by Catalina Garcia, Santiago Prieto, Nicolas Junca and Camilo Parra in 2007. To...
SXSW is known for screening some of the best music documentaries out
there, no surprise given the SXSW Music sidebar, and Austin's thriving
musical scene. At this Indiewire panel Amir Bar-Lev ("Re:Generation
Music P...
SXSW is known for screening some of the best music documentaries out
there, no surprise given the SXSW Music sidebar, and Austin's thriving
musical scene. At this Indiewire panel Amir Bar-Lev ("Re:Generation
Music P...
SXSW is known for screening some of the best music documentaries out
there, no surprise given the SXSW Music sidebar, and Austin's thriving
musical scene. At this Indiewire panel Amir Bar-Lev ("Re:Generation
Music P...
Max leaves his lakeside town to live with his father on the fringe of suburban Arizona. Both fever dream and quiet trip, "PAVILION" creates a deep and ethereal world, showing us an innocent way of life coming ...
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...
Learn the strategies for using free content to promote and maximize alternative revenue streams - the positives, negatives, pitfalls, and the hard work it takes to be successful, even when you're giving it away.......
Intermediate
Presenters
Hank Shocklee, Julie Samuels, Karen Sandler, Paul Geller, Michael Petricone
On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. Shut Up And Play The Hits documents this once in a life time performance and paints an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates ...
Director(s): Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern
Documentary Feature
110 min
Social tips and tricks to build and maximize your audience from music industry professionals that have made The Roxy Theatre the biggest venue on Facebook, revitalized the famous Sunset Strip and created social marketing...
Intermediate
Presenters
Gretchen Fox, Nathan Levinson, Nic Adler, Kyra Reed
Music-related technology start-up companies pitch their products and/or services in Round One B to high profiled industry expert judges.
Finalists: Onesheet.com, ConcertCrowd, Audio Vroom, Ovelin
For more information a...
Presenters
Amy Ray, Brad King, Jed Carlson, Larry Marcus, Sean Moriarty
Upon becoming the father to triplets, filmmaker Avi Zev Weider explores the nature of technology. Woven together with expert interviews and portraits of people who have intimate relationships with technology, "Welco...
Director(s): Avi Zev Weider
Documentary Feature
86 min
It is too easy to convince venture capitalists that all a music startup requires is capital to license music from the major labels, and then offer to get to profitability by including advertising in the stream. This lack...
Presenters
Anthony Batt, David Ewald, Jesse Von Doom, Rick Moody, Roy Christopher, Dave Allen
BIOGRAPHY
Teeth & Tongue is the musical project of New Zealand born, Melbourne based musician Jess Cornelius. Armed with an old 505 drum machine, keyboards and electric guitar, Cornelius weaves her songs through pared...
Bonfire Nights' make swirling moody psych-pop: a clash of surf and synth, shoe-gaze with purple haze, Virginia Plain meets Jesus & Mary Chain.
With mantra like drones, shaking bones and sweet candy overtones, Bonf...
The John Steel Singers are one of the most well-known alternative acts in Australia. With five members traversing across instruments like explorers, the Brisbane natives bring another dimension to the experimental pop ae...
Directors Martha Stephens ("Pilgrim Song"), Amy Siemetz ("Sun Don’t
Shine") and Meagan Griffiths ("Eden") will all be on hand to discuss
their films, and making it as a female director in ...
Directors Martha Stephens ("Pilgrim Song"), Amy Siemetz ("Sun Don’t
Shine") and Meagan Griffiths ("Eden") will all be on hand to discuss
their films, and making it as a female director in ...
Directors Martha Stephens ("Pilgrim Song"), Amy Siemetz ("Sun Don’t
Shine") and Meagan Griffiths ("Eden") will all be on hand to discuss
their films, and making it as a female director in ...
Voltaire Twins are a Perth-based indie dance quartet consisting of lead vocalists/synthesiser players Jaymes and Tegan, with drummer Matt and bass synthesiser player Jack.
The band’s latest single Animalia was launc...
A long over-due documentary film that tells the story of one of America's most important and influential Rock & Roll trailblazers - the original diva and guitar virtuoso who inspired such acclaimed artists as Chuck Berry...
When Robert's girlfriend dies in a car accident, he turns his grief against his younger sister Jo. Jo dives into a new hobby - ice hockey - where she gathers the strength to bring her brother back to the land of the livi...
Heimkommen (Coming Home)
Director: Micah Magee
When Robert's girlfriend dies, he turns his grief against his younger sister Jo. Jo plays ice hockey with the boys, hoping to gather strength to bring her brother back to th...
The future for artist revenue streams is in old standards and emerging media. New ways to earn from publishing and new platforms for licensing mean new avenues to thrive as an artist and to creatively integrate music int...
The future for artist revenue streams is in old standards and emerging media. New ways to earn from publishing and new platforms for licensing mean new avenues to thrive as an artist and to creatively integrate music int...
The future for artist revenue streams is in old standards and emerging media. New ways to earn from publishing and new platforms for licensing mean new avenues to thrive as an artist and to creatively integrate music int...
Improviser, composer, arranger, producer, musical conceptualist, comedy writer, vocal stylist, filmmaker, sketchpad artist, drama example, self-taught instrumentalist and bon vivant, R. Stevie Moore was born 1952 in Nash...
Improviser, composer, arranger, producer, musical conceptualist, comedy writer, vocal stylist, filmmaker, sketchpad artist, drama example, self-taught instrumentalist and bon vivant, R. Stevie Moore was born 1952 in Nash...
Improviser, composer, arranger, producer, musical conceptualist, comedy writer, vocal stylist, filmmaker, sketchpad artist, drama example, self-taught instrumentalist and bon vivant, R. Stevie Moore was born 1952 in Nash...
Bill finds himself in a hospital struggling with memory problems, in this third and final chapter to Don Hertzfeldt's "Everything will be OK" trilogy.......
Rocky and Lulu live in opposite sides of the planet: they bump into each other in ChatRoulette and decide to stay in touch. They get closer, but we find out more about them that they will never tell each other. It's a lo...
Director(s): Alexis Dos Santos
Narrative Short
24 min
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Learn the ins and outs of complex synth and keyboard setups with tips, techniques, gear walkthroughs and tone/sound design from synth master and electronic artist Seth Haley, a.k.a. Com Truise.......
Licensing a song to an ad, film or TV show could be one of the most lucrative opportunities an artist will experience in their career. The fees can be substantial, and there is always that elusive promise of promotion th...
Advanced
Presenters
Chad Jensen, Leah Streetman, Sharon Nortman, Eric Shaw
Local scenes have always spontaneously sprung up. But is there a formula to creating a relevant scene? The best scenes usually involve hands-on owners that care about the music (and marginal profits) and a group of music...
Beginner
Presenters
Ashley Knotts, Chris White, James Moody, Michael Slaboch, Nick Bodor
This third session in the three part event will discuss industry XML standards for content delivery, royalty reporting, metadata, best practices, and troubleshooting.
Digitalmusic.org's Music Startup Academy is designed...
Since the social media burst in 2004, Hip Hop Industry tastemakers and artists have embraced these platforms as an essential tool to connect with fans and to extend their brand. These early adaptors learned to engage fa...
Intermediate
Presenters
Devi Dev, Elliott Wilson, Justin Siegel, Karen Civil, Nicholas Adler, Ryan Ford
In the online age, video is more important than ever. As a result, production, marketing, and monetization of content, as well as the impact of social media on reaching new audiences, has all taken on new prominence.......
Presenters
Brandon Martinez, Matthew Mills, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Tom Biery, Andrew Hampp
Technology is fundamentally impacting live entertainment. In a landscape of increasingly fragmented music preferences, the ease of discovering artists/shows has increased, but the passion for attending a live performance...
Advanced
Presenters
Ashley Capps, Doc McGhee, Jared Siegel, Tony Grotticelli, Jordan Glazier
Making consistent money as a hip hop musician today still isn't easy. Experienced and respected hip hop artists and business owners will explore non-conventional (and sometimes not so sexy) ways for working artists in th...
Presenters
Brother Ali, Dessa Wander, Eric Larson, Jason Cook, Skyzoo , Kevin Beacham
In the seventies, Paul Williams wrote hits like “We’ve Only Just Begun” "Evergreen" and “Rainbow Connection." He starred in Battle for the Planet of the Apes and on Johnny Carson’s couch and then...
Director(s): Stephen Kessler
Documentary Feature
84 min
Facebook is launching a massive music integration, casting a spotlight on streaming music subscription service partners MOG, Rdio, Spotify & others. Leveraging a free model as a viral strategy and/or a trailing tool ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Billy Chasen, David Hyman, Ime Archibong, Rachna Bhasin, Eliot Van Buskirk
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.......
The story of the Alabama Shakes begins in a high school psychology class in Athens, Alabama. Brittany Howard, who had started playing guitar a few years earlier, approached Zac Cockrell and asked if he wanted to try maki...
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
King Kelly is an aspiring internet star who performs webcam stripteases. When Kelly's car - filled with illegal narcotics that she must deliver - is stolen by her bitter ex-boyfriend on the 4th of July, Kelly and her bes...
Watch five DJs battle it out real time to win the title of BigShot DJ of SXSW!
liveturntable.fm brings to the stage an evolution of social music listening and engagement with an in-real-life DJ Battle powered through tu...
"Sleepwalk With Me" is a comedy written by, directed by and starring comedian Mike Birbiglia, based on a true story he told in his one-man off-Broadway show and his first book. The film follows the journey of a...
Director(s): Mike Birbiglia
Narrative Feature
80 min
The Chris Gethard Show is billed as "the most bizarre and often saddest talk show in New York City." It ran for over two years to sold out houses at the UCB Theater in New York, and now broadcasts live every We...
The Chris Gethard Show is billed as "the most bizarre and often saddest talk show in New York City." It ran for over two years to sold out houses at the UCB Theater in New York, and now broadcasts live every We...
The Chris Gethard Show is billed as "the most bizarre and often saddest talk show in New York City." It ran for over two years to sold out houses at the UCB Theater in New York, and now broadcasts live every We...
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.......
Zach, a wealthy, alcoholic divorcee and father, is torn between his past love and present infatuation. His obsession for Rebecca, who he affectionately calls Crazy Eyes, seems to be driving him to the brink of madness an...
Director(s): Adam Sherman
Narrative Feature
95 min
"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
The definitive life story of Bob Marley - musician, revolutionary, legend - from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incre...
Director(s): Kevin Macdonald
Documentary Feature
152 min
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
Network with fellow female music professionals who have the drive and the ideas to create substantial art. Support and competition are not mutually exclusive. If only the strong survive, a strong network can help you thr...
Network with fellow female music professionals who have the drive and the ideas to create substantial art. Support and competition are not mutually exclusive. If only the strong survive, a strong network can help you thr...
Network with fellow female music professionals who have the drive and the ideas to create substantial art. Support and competition are not mutually exclusive. If only the strong survive, a strong network can help you thr...
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...
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
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
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which led to work designing some of the most iconic ima...
Director(s): Neil Berkeley
Documentary Feature
88 min
Now that cloud music is here to stay and we can choose from a plethora of new services, listen to a bazillion songs, any time from any device - what’s the catch? If you read the fine print, most services offer sweet de...
Intermediate
Presenters
Daren Tsui, Jackson Gates, Jolie O'Dell, Kevin Wortis, Mike McGuire
June 2011 marked the first time mobile users spent more time in apps than websites. The mobile ecosystem is quickly changing and is allowing fans to be active consumers wherever they are. From the studio, to the talent, ...
Beginner
Presenters
Aaron Ray, Ian Hogarth, Michael Paull, Michael Schneider
Developing your band from dive bars to a national act seems overwhelming — but building up your hometown base is the foundation of your entire career. Until you are generating a big buzz in your hometown, you aren't ye...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jackie Indrisano, Michael Bishop, susan scotti, Michael Creamer
Burlap and opals. Moonshine and macrobiotics. Shaken and soothed. How Suzanne Santo (vocals/banjo/violin) and Ben Jaffe (vocals/guitar) managed to reconcile not just polemics, but seemingly opposed realities for their se...
The IFC Crossroads House is back in Austin with a new location at Vice Bar (302 E. 6th Street). Join us for music, comedy, free food and drinks, giveaways and more! Check out ifc.com/sxsw for more details.......
It's become clear how powerful brand partnerships can be in the music business, but how do you make that work for your business when branding isn't your main focus? Many smart companies from booking to media to labels an...
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Hear four of Austin's marquee and most successful musicians discuss how they've managed to break out beyond the Austin scene, continue to make records, license their music, and grow their music - all without having to ge...
Presenters
Adrian Quesada, Alex Maas, Graham Reynolds, Jim Eno
Historically, a professional songwriter's most reliable customer had been the major label recording artist. Whether they landed an album track, a b-side or a coveted single, songwriters based in New York, Los Angeles and...
Intermediate
Presenters
Erik Eger, Evan Lipschutz, Gabe McDonough, Season Kent, Justin Kalifowitz
The Cowboys, the Grassy Knoll, J.R. Ewing, the Stanky Leg... Dallas, Texas, is known for lots of things. Progressive, forward-thinking hip-hop has, until now, not been one of them. That’s all starting to change, thanks...
The Cowboys, the Grassy Knoll, J.R. Ewing, the Stanky Leg... Dallas, Texas, is known for lots of things. Progressive, forward-thinking hip-hop has, until now, not been one of them. That’s all starting to change, thanks...
The Cowboys, the Grassy Knoll, J.R. Ewing, the Stanky Leg... Dallas, Texas, is known for lots of things. Progressive, forward-thinking hip-hop has, until now, not been one of them. That’s all starting to change, thanks...
In this demonstration by Pandora founder Tim Westergren and veteran Pandora music analyst Steve Hogan, witness a live track analysis as a song is added into the Music Genome Project. The Music Genome Project powers each ...
Music-Related technology start-up companies pitch their products and/or services in the final round to high profiled industry expert judges.
Finalists: TBA**
*The three finalists participating in this category will be ...
Presenters
Brad King, Hany Nada, Ian Rogers, Kristin Hersh, Sean Moriarty
"WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists" takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film explores e...
Director(s): Brian Knappenberger
Documentary Feature
89 min
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
Sometimes, preconceived notions can be good; the comfort of expectations met is often a welcomed feeling. For the more adventurous among us, though, the best part of defined expectations and preconceived notions is havin...
Sometimes, preconceived notions can be good; the comfort of expectations met is often a welcomed feeling. For the more adventurous among us, though, the best part of defined expectations and preconceived notions is havin...
Sometimes, preconceived notions can be good; the comfort of expectations met is often a welcomed feeling. For the more adventurous among us, though, the best part of defined expectations and preconceived notions is havin...
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...
In the small town of Carthage, TX, assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede was one of the most beloved and appreciated residents, so it came as no surprise when he befriended the town’s richest and meanest widow, Marjo...
Director(s): Richard Linklater
Narrative Feature
104 min
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...
"Seeking Asian Female" is an eccentric modern love story about Steven and Sandy – an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds...
Director(s): Debbie Lum
Documentary Feature
80 min
"Amor Cronico" follows the flamboyant Grammy nominated Cuban-born and New York based singer CuCu Diamantes on her tour around Cuba. The film interweaves footage of live musical performances with a fictional lov...
Director(s): Jorge Perugorria
Narrative Feature
80 min
Musician, sign-painter, puppeteer, and actor David Liebe Hart has been a cult personality since 1988, when he first began producing The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Program on public access cable. After a stint...
Schiller said there is a watcher at the gate of the mind, and it is the watcher that prevents creativity, because creativity and insanity are almost the same thing.
The ventriloquist’s doll can kill off the watcher of ...
Director(s): Nina Conti
Documentary Feature
59 min
Fronted by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Travis Ward, Hillfolk Noir’s peculiar take on traditional acoustic mountain music is filtered through a half-century of folk, country and rock ‘n’ roll and fe...
Mars Red Sky stoke the fire of a voodoo mass with their 70’s old school riffs and their psychedelic groove.
Julien Pras, well known for the pop magnificence of his studio session with Calc, was secretly dreaming of Bl...
Quiet Company
Quiet Company is from Austin , Texas — a city rich in musical diversity, enormous talent and
towering musical history—but the quintet brings their own unique brand of indie power pop that
sets them a...
Canailles started off in Parc Lafontaine during summer 2009. At first six musicians from really different backgrounds would meet up there to improvise their own versions of bluegrass, country and blues standards. Their l...
MonstrO will take you on a trip.
Their self-titled debut album for Vagrant Records twists and turns through a psychedelic hard rock haze that's as hypnotic as it is heavy. That heady combination is embodied on "Stallo...
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...
Next up from the Norwegian folklore is ”Thale”, revolving the mythical hulder, a tailed, female forest creature. “Thale” is the story of a certain hulder, found by two crimes scene cleaners in a concealed cellar....
Director(s): Aleksander L. Nordaas
Narrative Feature
77 min
Change is good. Sometimes, you just need a little shake-up to get things to how they always ought to have been. With Heat Sin Water Skin, BettySoo adds some welcome edge and grit to the heartbreaker ballads and bell-pure...
Drawing comparisons from Townes Van Zandt to Tim Buckley to Otis Redding... Adam Faucett is most known for his powerful, almost operatic voice and intricate finger-picking.
The Arkansas native's sound has been descri...
Whether it’s in a big-budget action film, video game, advertising campaign, or handmade flipbook, animation is everywhere. In Drawing Inspiration, Vimeo taps its creative community to present a program focusing on all ...
CFCF, aka Michael Silver, has managed to build a world all his own since his debut LP ‘Continent’, an impressive collage of vintage electronic textures evoking grandiose landscapes worthy of a Michael Mann film. ‘T...
Children Of The Night (Better known under the acronym COTN) is a Queens based trio comprised of group members Nasty Nigel, Remy Banks and Lansky Jones. After tearing up some of the biggest venues New York City has to off...
"Girls Against Boys" is a character-driven, psychological thriller about two girls on a killing spree in New York. With edgy and ironic humor and a darkly meditative tone that is far more European or Asian than...
Director(s): Austin Chick
Narrative Feature
87 min
In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared from his home in San Antonio,Texas. Three and a half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in Spain with a shocking story of kidnap and torture. His family are overjo...
Director(s): Bart Layton
Documentary Feature
95 min
The great Townes Van Zandt once said there are two kinds of music: "The blues and zip-a-dee-doo-dah."
According to this, Mirel Wagner's self-titled debut falls solidly into the blues category. "Songwriting can hardly...
The U.S. premier of the Multi-National tribute concert to the Greek Jewish vocalist Roza Eskenazi, the Queen of Rebetiko- the Greek Blues.
The 'My Sweet Canary' concert ensemble was established during the years 2009 a...
Prom Date grew up scattered across Louisiana’s swampy wilderness. After meeting through various friend-rock bands and electro-musical meltdowns, the quintet came together in Baton Rouge in 2010 to make some coherent no...
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
ZOROASTER’s heady mix of mammoth metal and psychotropic shoegaze has seen the trio hailed as "one of the U.S.'s most promising metal bands" and it has receiving shining praise for its explosive power, intriguing mystic...
jeremy malvin grew up in pittsburgh then moved to ann arbor to study percussion. now he just chills and makes beats in ann arbor when he isn't playing drums for stepdad.......
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
What can we say about The Front Bottoms? We know we love them: a punk band that uses acoustic guitar, indie-rock dance grooves, Springsteen-y keyboard lines (this they might deny). It’s hook-filled… it’s anthemic...
btwn twitter and facebook Everyday is war against consumeristic suicide and soul sucking "entertrainment" . how i quit crack is contemptorary visual and sonic art// CREATING A MOVING BREAThING SINGING IMAGE, , but not a ...
In the late summer 1979, Joe "King" Carrasco formed a stripped-down four-piece combo to replace his Chicano big band, El Molino. Dubbed the Crowns, organist/accordionist Kris Cummings, bassist Brad Kizer, and drummer Mig...
In June 2011, The New Yorker called the band WORKOUT “a hyperactive rock monster” and compared their music to a love child of David Bowie and Roky Erickson. But all name checking and flattery aside, this isn’t quit...
ANDREW W.K. - The King of Partying
Andrew W.K.’s true will is to party. And when it's time to party, he will always party hard. His mission is creating energized joy, physical euphoria, loving fun, endless enthusia...
I'VE BEEN A BOUNCE RAPPER, EVER SINCE MAGNOLIA SHORTY WAS MURDERED, LIVING AND FINISHING WHERE SHE LEFT OFF. ALSO WAS A GHOST WRITER FOR MAGNOLIA SHORTY......
DJ/promoter Alex English is a mainstay on the New York club scene. The co-creator of Girls & Boys at Webster Hall, English (who hails from Houston, by the way) has booked everyone from Skrillex to A-Trak to Steve Aoki to...
French-Mexican Andrea Balency was born in Paris in 1989 and after a thorough and classical education; she started composing music at the age of 17. Since then, her life experiences from both Argentina and Mexico - where ...
Andy Suzuki & The Method are a band on the rise. What started as a half-Japanese/half-Jewish teenager with a smooth hint of R&B in his voice singing along to John Mayer, has evolved into a musical force. The band's combi...
Despite a childhood steeped in music, Brian Allen Simon only began to appreciate his dad’s records after he developed an obsession with hip hop in his teens and went to college to study music. After an intense love aff...
Antonio Lulic is a rock-folk singer-songwriter from England’s fashionably impoverished North East. His deep and gravel-throated vocals combine with a powerful yet intimate lyrical style to deliver torrents of rootsy, p...
The Backburner Crew is a Canadian hip-hop collective of producers, DJs, and rappers. This phalanx of flavah includes the likes of Fresh Kils, Wordburglar, Timbuktu, More Or Les, DJ Uncle Fester, Ghettosocks, Chokeules, J...
Blondfire, an LA based Brazilian/American, brother/sister duo featuring Erica Driscoll and her brother Bruce. Erica's soft, haunting vocals drive a sound that is undeniably catchy and irresistable. They're the first unsi...
Devonté Hynes has produced a lot of music. Some for himself:Test Icicles, Lightspeed Champion and some for others: Basement Jaxx, Florence & The Machine, Theophilus London, Solange Knowles, Cassie, Diana Vickers. Somewh...
Caged Animals is the bedroom psych-pop project of New Yorker, Vincent Cacchione. After being hit by a truck, while working as a weed-delivery man in Manhattan, Cacchione traded his mangled-car in for his first laptop, a...
Carletta Sue Kay are equal parts Marianne Faithful, Joanna Newsom and Emmylou Harris, coupled with the song writing styles of Stephin Merritt and Cole Porter. The music gravitates toward the sadder side of life, lamenti...
Ceschi (pronounced Chess-key) Ramos has been in a lot of bands.
There’s the experimental post-psych-rock-hop-jazz-fusion outfit Anonymous Inc. started in the mid 1990s with his brother David, the genre-defying latin...
The 22-year-old Cities Aviv — aka Gavin Mays — might be the most original and is certainly one of the most significant musicians to emerge on the Memphis music scene in the past year.
The Memphis native and Overto...
Confidence isn’t always born of experience, as seen by the forceful debut by Los Angeles band Cold Showers. Combining influences of late 1970s post-punk with a sonic exploration closer to something from Neu!, it is the...
On the fringes of the southwesternmost corner of culture and smart in these United States, Cuckoo Chaos is the Richard Nixon of disco dancing. Cuckoo Chaos is the Henry Ford of Dada. Cuckoo Chaos is the John The Baptist ...
d'Eon is a producer and singer from Montreal, Canada, making R&B with non-analog keyboards and synthesizers and unknown amounts of veiled religious subject matter. The music implies anxiety and dread through unresolved c...
DJ Grip, DJ Since, Young Spinna & DNSFAM official SXSW performers.
DJ Grip & Dollaz N Since BIO.
Born and raised in the Houston,TX DJ Grip grew up around music ever since he was a child. Being exposed to genres of mu...
Rising out of Nashville’s thriving independent music scene, the Farewell Drifters are an alt-folk band known for their 60’s era-inspired harmonies and adventurous musical energy. They have crafted a seamless blend of...
It's easy to get frustrated with 'labels' so excuse me as I throw some around trying to describe my new favorite band. What about just calling it fucking Rock ‘n’ Roll? Punk? Drunk? I mean, it's not about drinking - ...
From compulsive creator Brent Sluder, comes Field Dress. Played on vintage keyboards manipulated through pedals and samplers, often beyond recognition, and punctuated by mysterious vocals and hypnotic drum kit loops, F-D...
Taiwan's top punk band! One of the music festivals' most frequently invited bands!
Fire Extinguisher is a pop punk band from Kaohsiung. They sing with a lot of energy, enthusiasm, and dreams! The band's motto is neve...
Biography: Francis Mbappe < http://www.francismbappe.com/home.html >
A native of Cameroon, Francis Mbappe is an unstoppable natural musician who is releasing his third album under his name, after having graced the s...
Gemini Club, consisting of Dan Brunelle, Tom Gavin and Gordon Bramli, is a three-piece indie-electronic dance band hailing from Chicago, Illinois. Their unique live shows have been tearing up the scene for the last two ...
Get Cryphy is made up of Plain Ole Bill (DJ for P.O.S and Brother Ali), Jimmy2Times (Resident Rhymesayers Radio DJ), Last Word (DJ for MaLLy and M.anifest), and Fundo (DJ for Prof). Beginning in 2005 as a duo, Plain Ole ...
Prabir, Treesa, Matt, and Gregg are Richmond, VA's Goldrush. This band is a fun balance of orchestral based classical music being injected into some high octane pop and rock and roll. The influences of this band range ...
Presented by: The Agency Group/French Bureau Export
Oh My GUSH!
If you think Rock bands usually have just one frontman then think again! Gush are unexpected. They have four multi -instrumental frontmen. Four individual lead singers. Four creative energies: Yan, Xavier,...
Hello Caller is a five-piece indie folk rock band from Austin, Texas whose sound is constantly exploring the boundary between what is and isn’t meant to be pop music. Their unique blend of folk, 60’s pop, and indie r...
When it comes to ripping young metal bands, few—perhaps none—rip harder than HOLY GRAIL. Formed in Southern California in 2008 when vocalist James Paul Luna and drummer Tyler Meahl escaped from Pasadena metal squadro...
Javelin is a band/production duo consisting of cousins George Langford and Tom Van Buskirk.
They started working together in 2004, Providence, RI, and have long since moved operations to Brooklyn, NY.
In 2009 Javel...
Three years ago John Fullbright burst upon the Southwest music scene with a stellar live album recorded at the famous Blue Door in Oklahoma City. From his home in Okemah, Oklahoma, also the home of Woody Guthrie, John ho...
Some people prefer pop music that behaves like math: once a few familiar variables have been determined—female vocals or male? Acoustic guitar or electric? — the end result should be easy to predict, and always sound...
Le Fleur formed in 2005 out of friendship and a shared love for making music. A year later, Le Fleur recorded their first album "Truce" which was self released as a six song EP. Then in late 2009, Le Fleur released the...
Presented by: Cucu Diamantes & Andres Levin/Music Has No Enemies
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...
Michael Guy Bowman is a musician who contributes to soundtrack to Homestuck, part of the on-going multimedia web comic MS Paint Adventures. He joined the project in 2009 when Homestuck was conceived by Andrew Hussie to i...
If you see Miracles of Modern Science loading their classical instruments into a New York rock club and mistake them for another band’s string section, they don’t mind. It makes for a bigger surprise when you hear wh...
The Pinky Piglets started life in 1998 as ‘Minami Band’… and enjoyed instant success, being in demand for Japanese festivals and playing at local clubs. In 1999 they went on to win the ‘golden award’ at the You...
RADAID is a fusion music group originally from Guadalajara, Mexico. With over ten years of experience, the band has been characterized by merging music and instruments from different parts of the worldlike India, China, ...
Since quitting her job as a full-time audio engineer, self-described "post-brontosaurus indie folk/crunk" sinner/songwriter Rebecca Loebe has played an average of 150 shows per year in almost 40 states of the US and in E...
Roll the Tanks may be the most ambitious band in LA. In a scene with bands on every corner, the Tanks guys set out to get the world to notice their Replacements-y, Kinks influenced rock and roll sound by building a studi...
The Sister Ruby Band is the psych-rock project of 22 year old Los Angeles based Johnny Ruby. After last year’s self-recorded EP “A Shot In The Dark”, The Sister Ruby Band is set to release their full-length debut a...
Sharp and sensible, new musical duo Soft Swells nails the canny pop sensibility of today’s indie landscape on their forthcoming self-titled ‘Soft Swells’ LP making full use of an arsenal of sounds, including stutte...
Once upon no time, countless light-years from Earth, the cosmos revealed the moment had come to take action. Sonnymoon, a mystical, nurturing, peaceful planet, found itself on a collision course with Earth, whose inhabit...
Trends and styles may change in music, but there are just some things that are timeless…like songwriting from the heart with ear-catching melodies and rich harmony vocals. The team of David Beck (a stage name as his re...
In lieu of cold statistics, nationwide bamboozlement and the usual mind numbing malaise, Sean Yseult (White Zombie), vocalist Von Hesseling, guitarist Donna She Wolf (Cycle Sluts From Hell), guitarist Dave Catching (Eag...
With a voice that straddles seamlessly the worlds of close fragility and far reaching intensity, there is nary a person on the planet that doesn’t fall immediately entranced when they hear it. The Canadian/Swedish band...
Wallpaper. is, in many ways, Ricky Reed. The indulgent and ever-stylish frontman is more than just a sweet pair of shades and a gold-plated microphone. He’s a bona fide viral hustler, a disco ball-busting showman and a...
James Nee burst onto the scene developing a fanatic fanbase. Hailing from Virginia Beach, he wrote these touching songs after a breakup with mother nature......
Wheelchair Sports Camp, the Denver based pseudo hip-hop band is a combination of beats, drums, a saxophone, and DJ. The band unknowingly started in the summer of 1997 when Kalyn moved back from Burbank, CA to her Denver ...
Nate Nelson, a native of Athens, Georgia, has been making music since he was fifteen. He has released and toured with two previous records (Random Acts in 2004 and Knobs Have Turned in 2007). He has contributed to countl...
Wonder Villains are Eimear Coyle, Cheylene Murphy, Ryan McGroarty and Kieran Coyle. They live in Derry, N.Ireland. Fresh out of high school (The girls got their A-Levels results in the Summer) the band have embarked upon...
Wonfu was officially formed on the eve of
Christmas 1998. Since then, the band has
been consistently playing various large-size
music festivals, including Spring Scream,
Formoz Festival and Hohaiyan Rock
Festival, a...
Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers are a folk-rock-soul sextet of pan-Scottish provenance. Singer and guitarist Ali Downer assumed the moniker 'Woodenbox' , in a nod to influences such as King Creosote and ‘Bonnie’ P...
The duo of brothers, Andy and James Ralph, bashes, crashes, strums and shouts their way through songs that are scummy cement floor odes to real life, sung through aquarium glass to the prettiest girls they’ll never mee...
Four years ago Wymond Miles, guitar player and songwriter in San Francisco’s The Fresh & Onlys, began writing solo material thematically based on the concepts of eschatology, anthroposophy, and Hermetic symbolism. Draw...
You Can't Win, Charlie Brown is a Portuguese band formed in early 2009 by Afonso Cabral, Salvador Meneses and Luís Costa, but quickly turned into a 4-piece with the addition of David Santos (a.k.a. Noiserv) to the band'...
The Young Evils are Troy Nelson (guitar/vocals) and Mackenzie Mercer (vocals) with: Cody Hurd (guitar), Michael Lee (bass) and Faustine Hudson (drums). The Seattle-based band self released their debut album, “Enchanted...
Habibi is the brainchild of Rahill Jamalifard and Lenny Lynch. Together, the two Detroit natives started the all-girl, Brooklyn-based project in the spring of 2011. Growing up with the harmonious sounds of Motown and the...
“Foot stomping, heart racing, exciting music...” As this fan attests, there’s something about dueling fiddles, vigorous guitar playing, and an air-tight rhythm section that compels your body to move. Tastefully pai...
The colloquialism “caddywhompus” is defined by such adjectives as “uneven,” “crooked” and “out of whack”—a list which could, in some instances, allude to the mind-bending sounds of the experimental nois...
3 independent hip-hop groups (Southern Made Click, Fiyah Boy Ent. & Throwed House Click) came together to form their own label DIE SLO ENT. We're focused on promoting innovation & creativity in hip hop -- not just in Aus...
MTV Made’s Award winning indie star Maya Azucena has a progressive yet accessible style, transcending genres and trends. Like Lauryn Hill, The Roots, Corinne Bailey Rae, or Cee-lo Green, she embodies a singular and fin...
G. Green is and has been the musical project of a one Mr. Andrew Henderson. He released a 7" in 2009 as a solo weirdfolk project under the G. Green moniker. He drafted a band at the end of 2009 and the lineup has gone ...
L.P. is an incredible artist and songwriter from New York City now living in L.A. Recently signed to Warner Brother Records, she has created a strong buzz in the LA music scene playing sold-out residencies at the Soho Ho...
Sixteen Deluxe are a psychedelic noise-pop band from Austin, Texas, best known for their energetic, deafening live performances and lysergic studio creations. Formed in April 1994, they began playing live shows in June o...
Since they formed in 2009, Westfield, New Jersey’s the Static Jacks (lead vocalist Ian Devaney, guitarists Henry Kaye and Michael Sue-Poi, and drummer Nick Brennan) have earnestly burned their own path through indie ro...
Presented by: The Agency Group/French Bureau Export
When Frederic Riviere says something along the lines of “the sun and the sea are really important to me,” it’s easy to think, ‘Oh great, another chillwave artist who enjoys long walks on the beach and sitting on ...
In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families live in palafitas, shacks built on stilts over the ocean bay. When the government threatens to reclaim the bay in the name of ecological restoration, hundreds of fam...
Director(s): Annie Eastman
Documentary Feature
75 min
Calling Bleubird an MC doesn’t feel complete. Storytellers draw from varied impulses, and Bleubird’s vision is oddly utopian. He takes mere observations, gift-wraps them and re-presents them as spectacles. It’s the...
Hosted by Nick Turner and featuring Todd Barry, Brendon Walsh, Kristine Levine and DC Pierson; presented by event producers Brown Paper Tickets and comedy site The Spit Take.......
Huntsville, Alabama's G-Side are ushering in a new era of Southern rap. Two of the hardest-grinding MCs in the business, ST 2 Lettaz and Yung Clova witnessed immense struggle firsthand and have worked ceaselessly to carv...
This fall, Nick Turner made his television debut, performing stand up on "Late night with Jimmy Fallon." In January, he was nominated for "Emerging Comedian" and "Best Host" at the ECNY Awards. Nick also performed at ...
With over 400 shows under our belts, We've traveled to Europe, Hawaii, and everywhere in between during these last three years, capturing hearts and accolades along the way. It began with our first album, "We Are The O'...
It is 1996. You are in a rusted-out Corolla with a crossfader apoxied to the dashboard. Killsadie, De La Soul, and Lifter Puller are maxing out the speakers. The window does not go down, no AC. He is singing, and smiling...
Josh Graham
(Battle Of Mice, Blood And Time, Neurosis): guitar, vocals, synthesizers, banjo, piano
Domenic Seita
(ex Tombs): bass, backing vocals, percussion
BJ Graves
(US Christmas, Generation of Vipers): drums
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I was actually inspired by my honeymoon. My new bride and I had very little money to spend on a post-wedding trip and I had coincidentally been asked by some friends in the band Bad Books to do a short tour in the Northe...
Dat Boi T, Born & Raised In Houston, Texas In The Neighborhood Of Second Ward. The 27 Year Old Hispanic Rap Artist is affiliated with the Legendary Screwed Up Click Founded By The Late Great DJ Screw (RIP). He is known a...
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 ...
Toronto based producer extraordinaire Fresh Kils, and Halifax Hip Hop megatron, Uncle Fester, are The Extremities. The duo have distilled their highly anticipated sophomore LP into a tight, well crafted ten song album sh...
Starting Six
Biography
When East Bay California friends Bread, Nic Nac, Riggz, Fess, Goose and Big Steve decided to make a video for their “Thirsty” song back in 2009, they were doing it simply for fun. Recording...
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...
Edie Sedgwick formed in 1999 when El Guapo bassist Justin Moyer and ex-Panoply Academy Glee Club drummer Ryan Hicks wrote a number of songs about celebrities. After releasing one eponymous record on Mud Memory Records an...
Last Year's Men is a garage rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We've released a full length record on Churchkey Records entitled, "Sunny Down Snuff" as well as a split with the Reigning Sound on Vice/Scion A/V....
Lazerbeak is a thug. Do not be deceived by the nice-guy introductions backstage. Beak is responsible for some of the hardest lavabangers in hip hop, period. Catchy, rib-crushing, filthy.
In his basement workshop, Beak...
MIRROR MIRROR, the New York based duo of David Riley and Ryan Lucero, bring their avant-pop explorations to RVNG Intl. with the release of their second full length album, Interiors.
Recorded in two parts, Interiors fe...
Neil Blumofe is the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin, a growing congregation of 640+ families. Rabbi Blumofe also creates, produces and performs in a live music series for KUT radio entitled the Art o...
The neighborhood molester couldn’t be bothered to abduct her children because they’re too fat. Her sex life is an exotic journey akin to “going around the world in 80 men.” And you really don’t want to know wha...
What’s a nice boy like Jeff Klein doing on the Lower East Side, doling out bruised rock anthems instead of taking up a nice, steady dental practice? Instead of being corrupted by cigarettes and whiskey, and transformi...
"Robert DeLong seems like one of those kids beamed here from a future world where all threads of music have been stitched together into some kind of vibrant cloth. His hybrid of electronica samples from pop, folk, house,...
Terrible Twos formed in 2004 in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Quickly moving to the city and helping form a new wave of damaged punk with their contemporaries Human Eye, Tyvek, Frustrations and the like. They relea...
For 2:54, everything comes from somewhere deep inside; that shared sisterly bond between Hannah and Colette Thurlow that manifests in their matching, messy hand gestures, the mirroring tattoos down their right arms, and ...
A riot in a petting zoo, awkwardly captivating and viciously enticing - that is the mesmerizing musical experience of Acollective.
With a seemingly infinite arsenal of genres and musical instruments, this energetic Te...
Presented by: Cucu Diamantes & Andres Levin/Music Has No Enemies
Alex Cuba is a rebel. "When it comes to creativity, I need to go to places I've never been before," he says. With the wanderlust of a world traveler, the Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter explores new sonic spaces on Ruid...
Imagine Kanye West being born and raised in Meridian, Mississippi. Now imagine him being produced by Organized Noize. That imagery would create music almost identical to the Crooked Letter state’s next hip-hop heavywei...
Black Flamingo began as the musical love child of multi-instrumentalists/vocalists Kimi and Ammo. After a chance encounter at a Halloween house party in San Francisco’s Mission District — where they bonded on all thi...
The Boom Bang, a garage/surf/punk band hails from Norman, Oklahoma. With several releases under their belt and the summer of 2011 touring the country, they are back again to perform at SXSW! Their most recent release was...
Boy Friend is best buds Christa Palazzolo and Sarah Brown. With a creative partnership that combines different stylistic preferences and attitude with a passion for dark fantasy, narratives and love-sick lyrics, their so...
Brett Netson is a name that should be familiar to anyone who grew up during and survived the alternative nation explosion of the '90s. The Boise, Idaho native has, since 1993, played guitar with the long-running rock dyn...
“Carolyn Wonderland is the real deal! She’s an amazing guitar player. And damn, can she
sing.” – Los Angeles Times
On ‘Peace Meal’ (9.27, Bismeaux Records), “blues guitar goddess” (NY Post) Carolyn
W...
“Back in the old days,” muses resilient troubadour Chris Smither, “writing new songs and making new albums were just chores. My priority was, and still is, performing live. I guess I still write the songs and make ...
Clare and the Reasons call Brooklyn home, but after touring around the world extensively for their first 2 albums, they needed a new setting, one that would make them see and hear differently. In 2011, for 8 months, they...
Computer Magic is the solo project of 21-year-old blogger/DJ Danielle Johnson (she goes by Danz). She moved from Rock Hill in upstate New York (population: 1,056) to New York City in 2008 to attend Hunter College. Danz s...
The acoustic-electric sibling duo Dva was founded in the spring of 2006 in small town near to Hradec Kralove. Now they operate in Pardubice and Hradec Králové. They characterize themselves as Pop of non-existent radios...
Sonically expressive, dark and moody, catchy and up-beat are words to describe this Danish Nu Gaze/Noise-pop foursome.
Since 2006, hailing from Copenhagen, The Foreign Resort has intricately balanced an international ...
Like the historical strike-it-rich locations that give them their name, so too have Australian outfit Gold Fields quickly proven themselves to be an exciting prospect of musical wealth. Their frantic dance-pop and anthem...
The thing about traveling is that you always end up back where you started. Ashes to ashes and all that big-picture stuff.
For Hey Marseilles, travel is as much a state of mind as location of body. This is a seven-pi...
Singaporean singer-songwriter Inch Chua is moving to Los Angeles. The SXSW 2010 invitee set to begin work on the follow-up to her acclaimed “Wallflower” record. Chua has opened for Katy Perry and Vampire Weekend in h...
To explain why he isn't afraid of naming his second album “ 13 ,” Spanish rocker Javier García brings up something Stevie Wonder used to say, “When you believe in things that you don't understand and you suffer, t...
Since its beginnings, Jerusalem has performed highly approachable country-fried psych that goes over well in a variety of venues; still, rather than surrounding itself by similarly styled outfits, the band has consiste...
Progressive, Avant-garde, Alternative, but always Rock.
Formed in early April 2010, LAGITAGIDA, is planning a global expansion.
LAGITAGIDA is a super-powered attack instrumental rock band.
This strange band name "LAGI...
Led Er Est are an analog electronic trio from Brooklyn and now based part in Austin. Born out of the Wierd Records scene on the lower east side of Manhattan, the band began recording together in 2007. They have released ...
Lightouts
Critical Praise for Lightouts:
"'The Eloise Suite' is a three-minute 120 Minutes jammer owing to some Berlin-era Bowie chime-rock—and it now comes with a music video that can be best described as 'Kubri...
Mansions on the Moon is the latest collaboration of the Los Angeles based trio, Lane Shaw, Ben Hazlegrove and Ted Wendler. Mansions on the Moon signature sound is a combination of harmonic, ethereal vocal arrangements a...
Marcus Foster could have had it easy. He could have dropped names; doors could have flung open. Had he pursued the frequently garish route of your usual Next Big Thing contender, he'd have got it quite easily, T4 special...
Max Gomez got his start as a working musician at age 15, singing both original music and country and blues classics in bars around his hometown of Taos, NM. He studied blues artists like Robert Johnson and Big Bill Broo...
Michael Logen comes from the small Victorian town of Lewisburg, PA but moved to Nashville right after high school and has stayed since.
Currently working on a studio project with Grammy Award Winning Producer, Jacquir...
Micky and the Motorcars, with their own band of Americana rock, bring an optimism and integrity a band only acquires when its been performing so long the only thing left to tell is the truth.
Eight years and five albums...
In music there are those special artists that seem to transcend genre and defy categorization. From time to time one hears a voice that can stop you dead in your tracks and shake your very foundation to the core. Mike ...
Mike Lawrence is a comedian born and raised in South Florida. He began doing comedy as a way to escape the dullness of his job at the McDonald's Drive-Thru, and quickly fell in love with it. He moved to New York in 2007,...
MilkDrive, the Austin alt-folk-progressive acoustic string band, released its debut studio album in April 2011, ROAD FROM HOME, produced in Nashville by Bil VornDick (Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, Bob Dylan, Ralph Stanley)....
"...YEAH, WELL, NOW THEY SOUND LIKE BOB DYLAN, THE STONES, STOOGES, NEIL YOUNG, WAYLON JENNINGS... WELL, EVEN WILLIE. I GUESS THEY’VE BEEN AT IT FOR A COUPLE YEARS NOW. BACK IN SUMMER OF 09, BACK WHEN I MET EM, WEZ AND...
NEW CASSETTES is a five-piece band from Northampton, England who delivers a fresh blast of modern rock that is artful, edgy and infectious. Evoking a fascinating blend of classic indie rock, pop and new wave, yet thoroug...
Ever since moving operations from his parent’s basement in Tacoma, Washington to Brooklyn, 20 year old Brad Oberhofer has been carefully honing his own brand of bedroom pop, which is as affecting and genuine as it is n...
The musical partnership that started between Alex Crawford and Paul Baker, AKA The Others, a number of years ago has proved to be an endlessly creative and fruitful one that has continued to herald exciting results both ...
Based in Denver, CO, Egedy resides in the notorious rave-punk-house Rhinoceropolis. Thanks in large part to Pictureplane's legendary shows at Rhino, his raging club night, "Real is a Feeling", and his constant stream of...
RACES exists as a result of artistic rebirth and personal rediscovery, but it all starts at a point in Wade Ryff’s life where motivation was at its most scarce. Disillusioned with music, beset with the bitter ending o...
RUTHIE FOSTER “LET IT BURN”
Those who have followed Ruthie Foster’s eclectic musical history know that she can burn down any stage with her combustible blend of soul, blues, rock, folk and gospel. And when Gramm...
Live music in the purest and most powerful sense of the word. A melting pot of songs with special Nairobi spice, that never fails to bring fans to their feet. Sauti Sol are a magnetic, magical experience to behold.
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With her vibrant voice and honest songwriting, Schuyler Fisk (SKY-ler) draws legions of fans to her music, both onstage and online, where she enjoys an active grassroots following. Her anticipated debut album THE G...
Sharon Van Etten came to Brooklyn via Jersey via Tennessee via Jersey. Along the way, she sang in choirs, rejected her school’s music program, worked at an all-ages venue, trained as a sommelier, and got a full time jo...
Shimmering Stars is a three-piece dream pop act from Vancouver, BC, Canada. The music embodies an attempt at drawing out and illuminating the subtle darkness inherent in the seemingly wholesome, innocent music of the 195...
Silver Swans take their name from the group of super-villains in the Wonder Woman comic book series. The evil Swans have the ability to create a powerful “swan song” of sound waves using their voices that is capable ...
The Skies Revolt is a quirky blend of indie music, catchy electronics, and aggressive blasts of sounds. This along with an energetic live show that has earned them a strong, growing following, and positive reviews.
T...
Three former UT football defensive standouts (who allowed a league low of 899 rushing yards and 1396 yards in the air) form the three headed monster that is Spray Paint. They have been filling auditoriums all over the wo...
Sumsun is Judson Rogers, a dance producer based out of West Palm Beach, Florida. He released his debut album 'Samo Milagro' on Leaving Records in 2010. Sumsun has a 12" upcoming on Halo Cyan Records in 2012.......
superhumanoids makes dreamy pop that shouts summery '60s harmonies, garage rock's raw tonality, slick new-wave electronics, and the adventurous dissonance of '90s indie rock. LA-based, the foursome is equally focused on ...
On Visits, Tammar pulls off a pretty incredible trick with each and every one of its post-punk anthems, probably something of which the band doesn’t take much note. They mine the classic sounds of paranoia, malaise and...
Artist Information
Biography
Tango in the Attic were formed in 2008 at Edinburgh university by five friends that have grown up together.
The band take influence from best pop, avant-garde and east coast garage music...
New album: Goddess Galactic is the 18th idie release by Texas native and Austin Hip Hop Ambassador Tee-Double.
On September 30,2010 The Austin City Council and Mayor Lee Leffingwell proclaimed "Tee-Double Day" in Tee-...
What’s the first thing you think of when someone mentions Thee Oh Sees? Probably their riot-sparking live show, right? Visions of a guitar-chewing, melody-maiming John Dwyer careening across your cranium, rounded out b...
Tiago Iorc (pronounced ee-ork / born November 28, 1985) is a Brazilian musician, singer-songwriter and recording artist. As a child, Tiago lived in England and in the United States — which later determined his choice o...
Torreblanca
Biography
TORREBLANCA is a Mexican rock/pop/alternative independent band created in late 2007. They are a feisty young group of 5 musicians -very different from each other- however (yet), they comply in an ...
With her warm, guileless vocals and earnest, evocative songwriting, Tristen has emerged as a truly individual talent, bridging genres and emotions to create a distinctive sound all her own. The Nashville-based songstres...
Presented by: The Agency Group/French Bureau Export
The Two Self Titled Debut on iTunes since 01.24.2012.
"Jarre's guitar is as smooth as any familiar rock 'n' roll riff, Starck's raspy voice gives their music its magnetism"
The New York Times
"So intimate it fee...
UZOY (pronounced uzi) is a Nigerian-American female rapper and producer from the southeast side of Houston, TX. She began writing music in high school as a hobby and soon began to record her first songs.
Her passion f...
Vintage Trouble
Live-wired, straight-shootin, dirty-mouth'd,
pelvis-pushing juke music
Vintage Trouble, based in Los Angeles, is the brainchild of Ty Taylor (vocal) and Nalle Colt (guitar). Co...
Will Sexton, whose writing credits range from work with Waylon Jennings and Stephen Stills to Joe Ely and Bill Carter, is shaped by the unique diversity of the Austin music scene. Fate and his own sheer talent placed hi...
Willy Mason was just 19 when his first album was released, a record that propelled him to critical acclaim and showed a young man with a tremendous, broad-oaked voice, a great songwriting talent, and a peculiar wisdom be...
Ultimate self-starters The Xcerts released their critically acclaimed debut album ʻIn The Cold Wind We Smile’ in 2009. In 2010 the band were invited to New York by super producer Mike Sapone for album number ‘Scatte...
A gorgeous, messy cluster of melody and jangle, Young Orchids' songs are instantly accessible, yet somehow left-of-center. Drawing inspiration from the timeless sounds of early rock n' roll and doo-wop, combined with the...
Originally from Philadelphia, PA, Brendon Walsh established himself in comedy in Austin, TX. In 2004 he won the “Funniest Person In Austin” contest and that same year also appeared on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” ...
Dark Time Sunshine is comprised of Onry Ozzborn of Grayskul (Rhymesayers) and producer Zavala. Onry and Zavala first met and collaborated while working on mutual friend and rap artist Sleep's 'Hesitation Wounds' in 2009 ...
Dessa’s first full-length record, A Badly Broken Code, introduced her to a national audience as a rapper, a singer, and a potent, imaginative lyricist. It earned a binder of superlative reviews from sources like NPR, T...
Natives are a psychadelic punk group based out of Louisville, KY. Made up of former members of prominent Louisville bands Enkindel/The Enkindels, Invaders and Ten to Midnight, Natives just released their debut EP, Loose ...
Twin Peaks is a collaboration between Halifax MC, Ghettosocks, and Toronto MC, Muneshine – Two of Hip Hop's most handsome devils, Ghettosocks & Muneshine, have conjoined to form the inimitable rap duo known as Twin Pea...
Everyone can now make music. The increasing access to music related technology and the liquid flow of music and information is a blessing to aspiring musicians, but a curse to those who have to sift through the terrible ...
After the tragic death of a newly arrived Ex-pat, ESL kindergarten teachers Simon and Darin, steal the corpse in order to perform the final rites for the fallen stranger. Their quest for the perfect burial spot becomes a...
Director(s): Mark Jarrett
Narrative Feature
115 min
Henrik is in deep trouble. His girlfriend has split, drug and alcohol abuse have gotten the upper hand, and he's deeply in debt. When everything is most dire and his woes seem wholly insurmountable, a door to new life is...
Director(s): Christian Sønderby Jepsen
Documentary Feature
86 min
Where dirty blues and beats collide: Meet ZZ Ward, a singer/songwriter whose artistry spins on a luminous axis of voice and soul. Raised in Roseburg, Oregon, ZZ learned from her father who wrote songs and played harmonic...
Expect no gimmicks from San Francisco-bred emcee, DaVinci. Though his upbringing in the historic Fillmore District is a far cry from its jazz heyday, he represents a new generation of post-Reaganomic crack-era rap, whose...
Spring 2010 saw the demise of Port O'Brien, and founding member/front man Van Pierszalowski needed a break from the hectic, wonderful mess that is touring. He stumbled into respite in Oslo, Norway, and spent some time aw...
CJ HILTON COLD SUMMER
The son of a gospel vocalist, Baltimore, Maryland native CJ Hilton comes by his talent naturally. Growing up, the 21-year-old singer honed his enormous talent singing in church. Skipping the tradit...
“I don’t sound like anybody; I sound like HoodStar Chantz”
Hailing out of Fifth Ward area in Houston,Tx HoodStar Chantz is an artist determined not only to be the next best thing out of Texas but in music peri...
After trying everything to get his wife Audrey (Olivia Munn) pregnant, Tommy Macklin (Paul Schneider) realizes to his horror that he may be “shooting blanks.” Terrified that his marriage may fall apart, Tommy recruit...
Director(s): Jay Chandrasekhar
Narrative Feature
93 min
“Degenerate Art” tells the story of glass pipe-making from the origins of the “color-changing” pipe, to the radical emerging art movement it has become today. Despite federal laws, pipe-makers have created a whol...
Director(s): M. Slinger
Documentary Feature
74 min
Presented by: The Agency Group/French Bureau Export
Housse De Racket are the French duo Pierre Leroux and Victor Le Masne. Starting out as in-demand session musicians with Air and Phoenix the boys were simultaneously making their first steps as Housse De Racket. Recent si...
From Harlem by way of Jersey, Things started taking off musically for Kyle Rapps when he dropped "Love, Love" featuring KRS-One and Homeboy Sandman. He followed that acclaimed XXL and 2Dopeboyz posted single with his...
Nola Fam {formally known as Nola Boyz} all born and raised in New Orleans, L.A (Downtown) Q and Mani the first two original members who started the group in 2007 first met in high school (Fredrick A. Douglass). Both memb...
