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...
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...
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...
"Shannon McNally is one of the more interesting singer songwriters to emerge in first decade of the 21st century." Stereophile
Shannon McNally in the crux of a prolific phase. In 2010 she released the highly accl...
EDEN BRENT: a little boogalography
A three-time Blues Music Award winner and current Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year nominee, Eden Brent’s piano playing and singing range from a melancholic whisper to a ful...
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...
Nova Heart presented by Maybe Mars (China): FREE SHOW!
Showcase
Electronic
512
9:00PM - 9:40PM
Presented by: Maybe Mars (China): FREE SHOW!
"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...
Rustic presented by Maybe Mars (China): FREE SHOW!
Showcase
Rock
512
10:00PM -10:40PM
Presented by: Maybe Mars (China): FREE SHOW!
Rustic was formed in provincial Hebei in February 2006 by three teenagers. That year they played frequently around Hebei province, mostly in dirty little clubs in remote towns, and yet they thrived. With Johnny Thunder...
Duck Fight Goose are a Shanghai-based supergroup, formed in 2009 out of the legendary Miniless collective. With their first EP, "FLOW", they created layers upon layers of sound, combining modern ambient post-rock with dr...
Snapline presented by Maybe Mars (China): FREE SHOW!
Showcase
Avant/Experimental
512
12:00AM -12:40AM
Presented by: Maybe Mars (China): FREE SHOW!
In the wonder years of 2006-2008, Snapline became, almost overnight it seemed, perhaps Beijing’s fastest rising band. At the very beginning, the band consisted of Li Qing on guitar and keyboards and Li Weisi on bass, ...
Carsick Cars presented by Maybe Mars (China): FREE SHOW!
Showcase
Rock
512
1:00AM - 1:50AM
Presented by: Maybe Mars (China): FREE SHOW!
Carsick Cars originally consisted of Shouwang on vocals, guitar, and loops, Li Qing on percussion, and Li Weisi on bass guitar. The band was formed in March, 2005, when Shouwang, a student at the Beijing Institute of Te...
”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...
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...
Hands & Teeth, a Toronto-based experimental pop group, demonstrate what can be created when friends unite through a love of complex harmonies and fine food.
What began as a series of casual dinner parties with colourf...
London Town-based alternative quartet HATCHAM SOCIAL are poised to return to the fray with their second album, titled ‘About Girls’, as well as a revamped line-up and a feistily refreshed pop attitude.
The first ...
The Hounds Below are comprised of lead vocalist Jason Stollsteimer (of the Von Bondies), guitarist Skye Thrasher, drummer Griffin Bastian and bassist Jesse Shepherd-Bates.......
With over 13 million albums sold, Nas is hip-hop royalty. His 1994 debut album, Illmatic, received widespread critical acclaim and is considered to be a classic by hip-hop heads and music lovers alike. Several albums fol...
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
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
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
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
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.......
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
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
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...
Bruno loves his wife Maxine, but his love and body are slowly undergoing a transformation. Something is beginning to stir inside him and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Because when you first delve into the dark ...
Director(s): Christoffer Boe
Narrative Feature
83 min
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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 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
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
"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
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
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...
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
Loveless, jobless, possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and offs the stupidest, cruelest, and most repellent members of society. ...
Director(s): Bobcat Goldthwait
Narrative Feature
100 min
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...
The Gracious Few presented by Windows Phone presents "Big App on Campus"
Showcase
Rock
Antone's
9:30PM -10:15PM
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...
Candlebox presented by Windows Phone presents "Big App on Campus"
Showcase
Rock
Antone's
11:30PM - 1:00AM
Presented by: Windows Phone presents "Big App on Campus"
Candlebox
Love Stories & Other Musings
Love Stories & Other Musings, the fifth studio album from Candlebox (released April 3 on AudioNest/Fontana/Universal), evidences a newfound level of maturity for the band, forme...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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-...
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...
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...
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
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
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 ...
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...
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...
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
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...
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.......
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
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...
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
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,...
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
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...
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...
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...
SXSW Showcasing musicians featured as runway models wearing the clothing and accessories of GAP, Dickies, and dozens of emerging brands from around the world.......
Cris Cab presented by Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin
Showcase
Pop
Austin Music Hall
7:15PM - 7:30PM
Presented by: Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin
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...
Rosi Golan presented by Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin
Showcase
Singer-Songwriter
Austin Music Hall
7:45PM - 8:00PM
Presented by: Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin
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...
Kimbra presented by Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin
Showcase
Pop
Austin Music Hall
8:15PM - 8:30PM
Presented by: Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin
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...
Ed Sheeran presented by Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin
Showcase
Singer-Songwriter
Austin Music Hall
9:15PM - 9:40PM
Presented by: Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin
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...
Dragonette presented by Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin
Showcase
Pop
Austin Music Hall
10:30PM -10:50PM
Presented by: Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin
For an underground pop band, Dragonette have made a lot of noise.
They have achieved Top 10 singles in in France and Canada, and a Top 10 album in Canada. They have topped club charts in the UK, France and Australia,...
Timbaland presented by Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Austin Music Hall
12:15AM -12:40AM
Presented by: Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin
Grammy award-winning record producer Timbaland will release his new album, Shock Value III, in 2012. “Pass At Me,” the first official single from the album, features Pitbull with productions by David Guetta and was ...
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 ...
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...
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...
We are a Colombian band that has been writing music for about 2 years and has been playing live shows for about 8 months.
We have a broad sound that can pass through a number of musical genres such as folk, punk or danc...
Panorama is a band from Medellín-Colombia that debuted with a self titled work published on october 2001, which moves between soundtrack and ambient music. The group now explores a dreampop shoegaze sound that leaves as...
Juan Cirerol is a multi-instrumentalist born in Mexicali, Baja California. He studied classic guitar since he was 13th in the UABC. He left the university in order to find his own personal sound. He already played in dif...
Sonido San Francisco is a mix of opposites, the sound of a small latin town invading the big city, the guacharaca and the güiro sharing frequencies with the synthesizer, the electricity of the bass following the precise...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
Deriving his rap name from what his mother and family members called him as a child, Tum Tum aka Zillaman has hip hop embedded in his soul. A fan of Texas rap during his youth, Tum Tum would find himself in legendary Da...
Western Tink & Beautiful Lou of MOBBIN NO SOBBIN (CENTRAL / CENTRILL , TEXAS). Mobbin No Sobbin - keep moving foward in life, dont cry about it. 2 artist from the state where every things bigger, who truley look at music...
A rapper from San Antonio, Texas pushing the limits of contemporary rap/hip hop music. The latest album YMID captures the raw spirit of kids that grew up on hip hop, heavy punk rock, fun and cartoons. whizKIDZ and Ghos...
"You know about [Fat Tony] houston's best kept secret.. tell him I told you." - Bun B
"While the history of the rap game is studded with commanding voices, big characters, and large bodies -- think Big Pun and Fat Joe...
Who are your top 10 female rappers? If you can even name 10 you’d put in a list of favorites, then you’ve got a great ear, and a great memory. Fact is, today’s Hip Hop ‘femcee’ movement is all but lost in a wor...
There was a time when hip hop was needed, was necessary, when it was utilized as the only form of expression, the only voice, for an all too under appreciated and almost unknown culture. As the strength of its voice grew...
“Our musical chemistry has always existed in the context of actually playing,” explains Sam Haar, one-half of the Brooklyn-based duo Blondes. “From pre-written material in our old post-punk band to recent tracks th...
Brooklyn by way of Chicago based DJ and producer, Brenmar, represents a strange musical paradox. Somehow defying the odds, he marries the artificial gloss of commercial R’n’B with the urban grittiness of underground ...
Ryan Merry, San Francisco based DJ and producer better known as Ghosts on Tape makes what he likes to call deep rave music for tripped out weirdos. While the many strains of house and techno make up the bulk of the Ghos...
Jacques Greene hails from Montreal, Canada. His focus is glistening house music with the perfect balance of reverence and idiosyncrasy, and an unashamed devotion to R'n'B. Releases on LuckyMe and NightSlugs have announce...
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 ...
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...
One of the leading names of Chile's new vibrant pop scene, Alex Anwandter has just released one of South America's most critically-acclaimed 2011 albums, "Rebeldes" (Rebels). 80's-influenced pop, current chilean house an...
Muchachito Bombo Infierno después de grandes giras sólo o con su númerosa banda en España y actuar en los principales festivales europeos, se presenta por primera vez en NY y en SXSW
Muchachito, compositor e int...
Vetusta Morla is a Spanish rock band formed in the late 90s, with the aim of going beyond the stereotypes of that genre. They work adding sounds and rhythms that come from outside the rock tradition, but keeping the core...
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 ...
At just 21 years of age, this British-born talent comes with a vision spreading across electronic music, so unique that respected dubstep figure Inspector Dubplate was compelled to sign Gemini's debut EP 'Blue' immediate...
Foreign Beggars are a critically acclaimed Rap, Grime and Dubstep group based in London, UK.
The group consists of MCs Orifice Vulgatron and Metropolis, producer Dag Nabbit and DJ Nonames. Foreign Beggars are renowned...
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...
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...
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...
Drew Peterson is an electronic musician who produces and performs live as DLX (Doctor Lazarus X). Aside from his individual work, he is also the guitarist, bassist, and electronic programmer for the live music group Very...
Combining years of experience with a fresh enthusiasm in a way that very few artists can, SPL aka Sam Pool turns audio expectations on their heads with his dynamic take on electronic music, producing a party sound inform...
NOAH D - PERSPECTIVE
San Francisco based Noah D (aka Noah Dickinson) is regarded as one of today’s top dubstep DJs and producers. His diverse sound can simply be described as heavy hypnotic bass music. With over 1...
Los Angeles based beat maker Flinch, is no stranger to the EDM world. A veteran producer who has progressed effortlessly from his beginnings in drum & bass and then electro, to current endeavors into more melodic synth-b...
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...
Veteran of the Houston jungle/drum and bass scene, BMC started deejaying in 1994. He quickly became one of Houston's most sought after drum and bass DJs. He has traveled throughout the United States playing venues of var...
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...
There are some records that manage to span multiple eras of time and various places, in essence creating a new sonic space. New Englanders Bronze Radio Return have done just that on their sophomore album, the gorgeous an...
There's nothing quite like a fresh start.
Tyrone Wells' fourth full-length album, Where We Meet, ushers in a new beginning for the critically acclaimed singer-songwriter. Not only is it his first full-length release s...
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. ‘...
Echo Park's NO began as a response to the limitations in the notions of being denied, and of heartache. In an effort to reclaim it, and reinterpret it as more than just an antithesis to possibility, they wanted to start ...
The Soldier Thread is an indie pop-rock quintet hailing from Austin, Texas. Having been only patched together since late 2007, the ensemble has already undergone quite an alteration in style. Todd Abels (guitar, keyboard...
After cutting his teeth recording a critically-acclaimed album with Chrissie Hynde and fronting UK band Grace, JP Jones has made his debut solo album. As Son of Jack, Cariad (Welsh for ‘love’ or ‘darling’) flouts...
Half Greek, half Latin, the words pulled together loosely mean “the beginning of something new.” At least that’s how lead singer Casey McPherson describes the name of the group he fronts. It’s also an apt descrip...
Tre9 presented by Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater
12:00PM -12:30PM
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...
Too Phliy presented by Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater
12:30PM -12:40PM
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...
Jerrell Johnson presented by Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater
12:40PM - 1:00PM
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...
Enlitement presented by Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater
1:05PM - 1:30PM
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...
Gifted Da Flamethrowa presented by Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater
1:40PM - 2:00PM
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...
J.Kwest presented by Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater
2:00PM - 2:20PM
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...
K-Drama presented by Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater
2:20PM - 2:40PM
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...
theBREAX presented by Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater
2:45PM - 3:15PM
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...
Viktory presented by Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater
3:15PM - 3:45PM
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...
Omega Sparx presented by Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater
3:45PM - 4:15PM
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...
SaulPaul presented by Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater
4:15PM - 4:45PM
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...
Dj Promote presented by Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Showcase
DJ
Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater
4:45PM - 5:00PM
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
J Roddy Walston and The Business refuse to play it safe. In this age when mobile phone apps have replaced recording studios and the term “badass” rarely describes modern music, J Roddy furthers the proud legacy of un...
William Elliott Whitmore
Field Songs
Anti- Records
A man armed only with a banjo and a bass drum can be a formidable force, especially if his name is William Elliott Whitmore. On the new Anti- Records album FIELD S...
Simply put, they don’t make musicians like Chuck Ragan anymore. For nearly two decades Ragan has traversed the country and the world—first with his celebrated punk act Hot Water Music and later as a solo troubadour...
Women & Work is a love letter from Lucero to its hometown, Memphis, Tennessee. “Having a band in Memphis puts you in a tradition,” says Lucero frontman Ben Nichols. “We started at punk rock shows, not necessarily p...
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...
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...
“Though the sound is bigger than a folk record, the dark lyrics are wrapped in familiar Americana. The instrumentation is meticulous—nothing sounds out-of-place, especially the aching pedal steel, which is used with ...
A Fine Frenzy was introduced to the world with the 2007 album ONE CELL IN THE SEA. The project established her as one of the most talented young singers and songwriters around; it received rave reviews, was widely expose...
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...
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...
Guards was formed in New York City when Richie James Follin returned from a European tour to a recording studio with nothing in it but a broken electric 12 string guitar and an omnichord. He wrote and recorded a few song...
In understanding GIVERS, it’s helpful to think of a constellation, a configuration of points of brightness that when placed in succession, led to the Lafayette, Louisiana-based quintet’s brilliant debut. The metaphor...
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...
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 ...
THE BELLE BRIGADE
Ethan Gruska — Vocals, guitar, piano
Barbara Gruska — Vocals, drums, guitar
Like many siblings, Barbara and Ethan Gruska had their ups and downs over their years growing up together in Los An...
Kids These Days comes from Chicago but their music comes from everywhere. With horns, a rapper, a blues-rock trio and a female singer, KTD blends a wide range of influences -- hip-hop, jazz, soul, blues, and classic rock...
The world at large got its first glimpse of Lissy Trullie by virtue of an arresting image taken by Ryan McGinley for his groundbreaking 2002 Whitney Museum exhibit, The Kids Are Alright. A young Lissy, balancing brashnes...
Colours, the debut album from Britain’s Graffiti6, is as vividly vibrant as both the project’s moniker and its album title suggest: an uncategorizable mélange of pop, psychedelia, R&B, and British Northern Soul that...
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 -- ...
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...
A junkyard band with a heart of dirt, smoke, and wires; The Curious Mystery involves slowburn psych and garage experimentalism. Since 2009 the mysterians have released two full length albums on K Records: Rotting Slowly,...
My Best Fiend
Warp Records
While the five members of My Best Fiend live in Brooklyn, the music they create resides somewhere else entirely: in a spacious, dreamlike world all its own, by turns unsettling and upliftin...
Kwes.
“Driving past a music instrument shop in my granddad’s car. Friday evenings at my grandparents with chip-shop food and toys to hand, watching Top Of The Pops…the two-tier Yamaha Electone organ at their ...
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...
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'...
OFF!
Keith Morris (vocals)
Dimitri Coats (guitar)
Steven McDonald (bass)
Mario Rubalcaba (drums)
Then: Summer of ’78. The LAPD overreacts—again. Black-and-whites line Santa Monica Boulevard. Cherry tops a...
The band was discovered at SXSW in 2007 by Talking Head and Modern Lover, Jerry Harrison. Harrison offered to produce the band's debut LP at his studio in Sausalito, CA and it was released in 2008 on Brando/Rocket Scien...
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...
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...
When MILES ZUNIGA set out to record his new solo record THESE GHOSTS HAVE BONES, he didn't set out to make an album like the multi-platinum band from whence he came, Fastball. It wasn't a group record but one to exorcise...
Jon Dee Graham, Freedy Johnston and Susan Cowsill, united as the Hobart Brothers & Lil’ Sis Hobart, will release their long-threatened debut album, At Least We Have Each Other, on Freedom Records in CD, LP and digital ...
Hailing from New Orleans, where Latin and Caribbean music have a long and glorious history of interaction with R&B, blues and jazz, the Iguanas was formed in 1989 by guitarist/accordionist Rod Hodges and Joe Cabral, who ...
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 ...
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...
Mexican roots outfit Jarana Beat fuses elements of Mexico’s African and Amerindian traditions with salsa, cumbia, and other contemporary music in its present-day take on folkloric music.
With contagious charm and g...
BAMBARABANDA is a unique group, one that synthesizes an authentic approach infused with a strong cultural identity, nourished by musical traditions of the Andean regions of Colombia and South America in a fusion of unive...
Ancestros music group was created in 2002 in Cali, Colombia. It was founded by its own director Esteban Copete. Who inspired by the music airs from the Colombian Pacific Coast, invited eight more musicians with the same ...
Canteca de Macao arised almost a decade ago because a combination of coincidences in Madrid. The connection with the audience was almost immediate in a city that, by that time, was under an interesting cultural phenomeno...
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...
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...
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...
Todd Reynolds, violinist, composer, educator and technologist is known as one of the founding fathers of the hybrid-musician movement and one of the most active and versatile proponents of what he calls ‘present music...
Haitian electronic music composer/percussionist/
turntablist, evokes the musical esoteric realms of the creative subconscious and self defined as “Afro-Electronica.” She incorporates her African Haitian musical trad...
Grant Cutler is a songwriter, producer and experimental electronic musician. Chris Campbell is a composer and runs innova recordings. Current projects include 2012, Grant Cutler & The Gorgeous Lords, STACband, Things Yo...
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...
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 ...
Adelaide’s iconic Lowrider are a testament to the fact that the most integral part of being a successful band is making good music. With no gimmicks, special effects or record label backing, this foursome managed to bu...
The Diplomats of Solid Sound are back with their 5th full-length, and if the last album was their senior effort, with "What Goes Around Comes Around" the band has officially graduated! Once again mixed and edited by Free...
Biography
T BIRD AND THE BREAKS
www.tbirdandthebreaks.com
T Bird and the Breaks are one of those gangs of people who could have easily banded together to steal hubcaps or hustle you out of your last dollar in a game...
From backwoods barbecues and community gatherings; Allen Stone emerges to share personal melodies, telling his tales of life after just 24 years. Getting his start singing at his father's church in small-town America; it...
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...
After fronting 90s emo stalwarts Mineral and the 00s artier rock abstractionists The Gloria Record, Chris Simpson has settled nicely into his own more autonomous work with Zookeeper. Sixties folk, rock, soul and jazz inf...
Braid was an influential emo/post-hardcore band from Illinois that formed in 1993. After forming, the band went through several line-up changes but eventually settled on: Bob Nanna on guitar/vocals, Todd Bell on bass, Ch...
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...
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...
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 ...
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......
For over 6 years now, The Higher State have crafted and honed their own unique musical signature: a combination of 60's-style garage psychedelia and folk punk, meshed with full-on vocal harmonies and incisive, thought-pr...
The Ugly Beats formed in January 2003. Before striking their first note, the band promptly wound the clock all the way back to 1966 and has left it there ever since. Armed with Paul Revere, Ventures and Easybeats recor...
Rock icon and cult favorite Paul Collins got his start with Peter Case and Jack Lee in 1974. Their band The Nerves toured with The Ramones and recorded a song called “Hanging On The Telephone.” The song would later b...
AUTHORITIES
The Authorities formed in Stockton, California, a nasty working class port city, on the San Joaquin River. The town was known for a couple of jazz guys – Gil Evans grew up there, and it’s where Dave Br...
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...
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...
Jon Blondell was born in Iowa, grew up in Harlingen and studied music at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. While studying there he quickly became a part of the local music scene both as a trombonist and a ba...
Bruce Saunders has 4 recordings as a leader: "Forget Everything" (with Jack DeJohnette), "Likely Story" (with Peter Erskine), "Fragment" and his most recent "8x5." He has appeared on many recordings as a sideman. He was ...
Austin-based jazz phenoms Ephraim Owens, Red Young, and Brannen Temple transform into the explosively eclectic trio, Black Red Black. Individually, these musicians are powerhouses– Owens won the title of “Best Horn...
"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"...
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....
Harouki Zombi is the brainchild of Nina Barnes (of Montreal, the
Apollinaire Rave Art Collective) and Orenda Fink (Azure Ray, O+S.) One part carefully curated dance party DJ set (including original material), one part s...
FEATHERS comes after a sequence of bands for lead singer Anastasia Dimou. (Her previous band Cruel Black Dove who released two EP's drew high praise from the likes of NME, The Fader and The New York Post.) Moving to Aus...
Jack Colleran doesn’t sleep, and it shows. The 18-year-old producer, who goes by the name MMOTHS, has embraced endless nights and bags beneath his eyes in exchange for something more; a uniquely ethereal sound that’s...
Twenty-four year-old Toronto singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Lights has been crafting her own unique synth-pop-rock since she was 14. On the strength of her 2008 self-titled EP, Lights won the 200...
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...
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,...
PJ Geissinger aka Starkey is blessed with musical arrangement skills that would leave most composers green faced with envy. This combined with his high production ethic makes him a formidable force not only in the underg...
"Eccentric, Contagious, Electrifying. These are some words you could use to describe American electronic artist Daedelus (Alfred Darlington). To experience Daedelus in all his unbridled splendor is only achievable over a...
Hudson Mohawke – Biography, May 2011
There are few young UK artists who can unite the affections of Chris Brown (http://youtu.be/7Vl9bjwHCMM), Flying Lotus, Just Blaze “I am listening to new @moanhawke and almost ...
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...
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...
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...
SXSW Comedy continues its tradition of spotlighting some of the most exciting emerging talent and seasoned favorites.
Martha Kelly
Mike MacRae
Brooke Van Poppelen
Matt Fulcheron
Brendon Wardell
Jerrod Carmichael......
A native of St. Louis, Mike MacRae began performing at the legendary (read: “closed”) Houston Laff Stop in 1999 and soon developed his trademark style of blending obscure impressions into straight stand-up. Mike’s...
Brooke Van Poppelen is a NYC based comic, writer and actress. She has appeared on vh1, TLC and The TV Guide Network. She is a contributing writer for "Guy Code" on MTV2 and is currently working on another show in develop...
Known to those in the know as “The Full Charge,” Matt Fulchiron hardly lives up to his nickname. Worn down by relationships, adult responsibilities, and limited resources, Fulchiron coasts through his life and his ac...
Brandon Wardell is a comedy wunderkind. Brandon Wardell has performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival and is performing at SXSW. Brandon Wardell is currently based out of Washington DC, where he is the crown jewel of t...
Jerrod Carmichael is an LA based standup and performer originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has been crafting his standup for over three years and this year was featured in Variety as being one of the top te...
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 ...
SXSW Comedy continues its tradition of spotlighting some of the most exciting emerging talent and seasoned favorites.
Chris Cubas
Louis Katz
Chip Pope
Andres du Bouchet
Dan St. Germain
Ben Kronberg
Kristine Levine
Howa...
Chip Pope is an accomplished comedian-actor-writer who also enjoys pancakes. He was one of the stars and writers for MTV's "Austin Stories," a television show that was acclaimed by the New York Times, USA Today, and TV G...
After making a name for himself for the better part of a decade on the alt-comedy scene in N.Y.C., Andres du Bouchet has been working in late night television since 2007, and is currently based in L.A. where he is a staf...
DAN ST. GERMAIN
Dan St. Germain has been seen on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Electric Company, MTV’s World of Jenks, MTV’s New Years Eve Bash, VH1′s Big Morning Buzz, Spike TV, and Hoppus on Music. He’s ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Coming from different parts of Jamaica, the members of Dubtonic Kru, individually have been exposed to a variety of musical genres.
The founding members of Dubtonic Kru are “Jubba” and “Stone”, a dynamic Drum &...
Following the Jamaican dub tradition of remixing reggae tracks into effects-laden instrumentals, Grimy Styles set out to employ this notion to all their beloved genres of music by applying the techniques of their dub pre...
Toguna‘s music is a vibrant fusion of folk rock, reggae and acoustic
soul, using instruments such as slide guitar and 12’ strings, rounded
off by a soulful vocal trio.
Led by the inspired singer/songwriter S...
It is said that society has lost its way. We have all but entirely lost hope in the possibility of revolutionary progress instigated by the young people of Jamaica. The pessimists have yet to consider the notorious innov...
Thulebasen consist of Nis, Niels and Felia, a trio from Vesterbro, downtown Copenhagen. Thulebasen have had a busy 2011 running the label ESCHO that spawned Iceage, making babies and playing within National Art Museums. ...
Sacramento’s Ganglians return after a relatively quiet two years since their dual album dropping in 2009. The aptly titled Still Living hits the streets August 23rd stateside via Lefse, and August 29th throughout Euro...
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...
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 ...
It all started with singer and guitarist Roy Duffy playing solo acoustic sets around Dublin in 2009. After some local support slots and a two week tour with Hands Up Who Wants To Die in Eastern Europe where Roy played ...
Having signed to Bella Union records, Belfast’s Cashier No.9 released their critically acclaimed debut album, “To The Death Of Fun”, in June 2011
Is there a Belfast sound? Van Morrison… Stiff Little Fingers...
Hands up. Who likes rock and roll?
And by rock and roll we mean proper rock and roll, born in the 50′s, dragged kicking and screaming through the late 20th century, a ragged flag passed from generation to generation...
Rory Friers: Guitar
Chris Wee: Drums
Jonathan Adger: Bass
Belfast, Ireland’s celebrated instrumental band And So I Watch You From Afar are about to get a lot closer up. Sargent House, partnered with Dublin label...
Statik Selektah presented by iHipHop & Babygrande & Madbury Club
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Haven
8:00PM - 9:00PM
Presented by: iHipHop & Babygrande & Madbury Club
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,...
Mod Sun presented by iHipHop & Babygrande & Madbury Club
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Haven
9:00PM - 9:20PM
Presented by: iHipHop & Babygrande & Madbury Club
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...
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...
T. Mills presented by iHipHop & Babygrande & Madbury Club
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Haven
10:00PM -10:20PM
Presented by: iHipHop & Babygrande & Madbury Club
Pop music is yet to see the creative likes of an artist like T. Mills. Unlike any other artist before him, he brings unbridled passion to his genre-bending confections and enrapturing performances - as well as a deep con...
Shocking, revolting, yet somehow eternally endearing, the Flatbush Zombies are a genuine mystery in a musical landscape where few still exist. Meechy Darko, and Juice, Brooklyn bred youth with a penchant for gold grills,...
Marz Lovejoy presented by iHipHop & Babygrande & Madbury Club
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Haven
10:50PM -11:10PM
Presented by: iHipHop & Babygrande & Madbury Club
Marz Lovejoy was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in Los Angeles and San Diego. She was influenced by music at an early age, as her father was a deejay and her mother was a writer. Marz first began writing in po...
Jet Life presented by iHipHop & Babygrande & Madbury Club
Showcase
Hip-Hop/Rap
Haven
11:20PM -12:20AM
Presented by: iHipHop & Babygrande & Madbury Club
Curren$y, Trademark and Young Roddy didn’t just climb the ladder of success – they soared above it. The Jet Life movement took off after the success of Curren$y’s seminal album, “Pilot Talk” on which Trademar...
Hailing from Brownsville, Brooklyn, Billy Danze and Lil Fame, collectively known as M.O.P., have solidified their reputation as iconic lyricists through their years of hard-hitting rhymes and unparalleled tenacity. Never...
GZA, aka The Genius, is the most cerebral MC in the Wu-Tang Clan, as well as perhaps the most acclaimed. His cool, precise flow and intricate, literate rhymes weren't as theatrical as Method Man or Ol' Dirty Bastard, the...
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...
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...
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.......
"A lethal dose of surfy, gritty garage psych-rock with just the right amount of fuzz to keep you coming back for multiple helpings." - STYROFOAM DRONE
"...pop music with a hangover. There are tempo changes, 60’s bas...
Cosmonauts are Fullerton California's premier psych punks. They have been making music for a short time, but have toured nationwide, and have a slew of tape, LP and 45 releases on Burger and Permanent Records. Imagine if...
Austin, TX-based angular punk/hardcore group formed in 2008, featuring members of Total Abuse, Best Fwends and Party Garbage . Debut full-length 'Negative World' released in October 2011 on 12XU.......
Black Pistol Fire is a Canadian Rock and Roll duo that split’s time between Toronto, Ontario and Austin, Texas. Their wild and energetic rock-and-roll sound has been described as a mix of classic southern rock and gara...
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...
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...
WWW.INSTITUTIONALPROSTITUTION.COM
Exciting avant-disco neo-crunk outfit, INSTITUTIONAL PROSTITUTION is formed by 2 DAY TIME WORKERS actresses without a Union, MELISSA GAGNE and SAD H. NAVA.
Winter 2011: Institutional...
GARY LUCAS, "one of the best and most original guitarists in America" (Rolling Stone) returns to SXSW to play his live solo guitar score accompanying Jose Mojica Marins a/k/a COFFIN JOE's 1967 Brazilian cult horror shock...
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...
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...
WHITE RING are a duo that dwell on the outskirts of pop music. Bryan Kurkimilis and Kendra Malia met on the internet in 2007 and started an email correspondence and exchanged ideas. Growing up in the age of the internet ...
Covered in Dust the debut LP from Louisiana's Kindest Lines, opens suitably with a beat that sounds a lot like an industrial rendition of The Ronettes' "Be My Baby." Brian Wilson cited that song by the legendary New York...
Lead by vocalist and songwriter Xavier Paradis (who has long garnered a cult underground following with his solo minimal synth project ARNAUD LAZLAUD, active in Canada since the late 90's), Automelodi was formed in 2006 ...
The debut full-length album by LIGHT ASYLUM has been a long time coming, but not without rabid anticipation. As their self-released In Tension EP circulated and resonated with new leagues of listeners worldwide, the repu...
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...
"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 ...
The Austin-based collective of musicians known as Hard Proof are the sole purveyors of African funk in the state of Texas. Locally produced and internationally-inspired, they have established a following as Austin's best...
The Stooges Brass Band has been a premier New Orleans Brass Band since 1996. While appealing to the emotions of traditional jazz, the brass band uses their hip-hop influence to create a new sound. Their innovative incorp...
L.A.'s Wavves follow up their 2010 skuzz-pop masterstroke King of the Beach with Life Sux, the debut release from singer Nathan Williams' Ghost Ramp label. If the band's previous records were all about one man's self-loa...
The 25-year old Wichita, Kansas native is a fresh face to the music industry, but has been working towards becoming a household name for nearly 5 years. Currently signed to Warner Bros. Records, since 2006, XV has releas...
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...
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...
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 ...
With auspicious sensual textured layers of melody and guitars, both Scott Von Ryper and chanteuse Miss Aimee Nash weave a densely rich tapestry of love, sex and death, mountains, oceans and astral travel.
They indica...
Electric Flower Group is a new band featuring Imaad Wasif's vocal and guitar exorcisms and Josh Garza's pummeling beats. They are two men that sound like an orchestra of the damned. Their songs have an immediate and tang...
FUTURE BLONDES generate storm and chant. INTERVIEW on SWAMP BATS blog by T. KERSCHEN of INDIAN JEWELRY.
What’s up:
L.L.L. HEAVENS
Where are you from:
BLVD. ZERO
Where are you now:
THE 99TH FLOOR.
How lo...
IMPOSSIBLISTS/CONTRARIANS
NO GENRE, NO HELP, NO RULES
SUFI HEADBANGERS.
A BENZENE LOTION RASH.
THE PERPETUAL WAR PARTY BAND…
In every practice space across the world truly awful bands are rehearsing their shit...
“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...
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...
RUN DMT (Play Me Records, Heavy Artillery, T&A)
Austin, TX duo RUN DMT's sound is a reflection of a torrid love affair with heavy basslines, thunderous beats, and haunting melodies. Forming in the summer of 2010, RUN DM...
!!! is a band that formed in Sacramento, California, in 1996. The band, who are commonly associated with the dance-punk movement/moment, are currently based in New York City, California and other places, too, sometimes....
“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...
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 ...
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...
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...
History
As a rap duo U-N-I put out three street albums and one mixtape Fried
Chicken & Watermelon (2007), Before There Was Love (2009), A Love
Supreme (2009) and A Love Supreme 2.0 (2010) becoming known throughout
...
Torae gained recognition by collaborating with DJ Premier and Marco Polo. He and Polo went on to receive critical acclaim for their collaborative LP entitled Double Barrel. In 2007, HipHopDX featured him in their DXNext ...
Growing up just a block away from The Notorious B.I.G., watching him go from local kid to rap superstar, “Skyzoo” couldn't help but dream big.
He started making mixtapes in 2002, and in 2005, through a mutual fri...
The Atlanta metropolitan area stretches on for at least 30 miles beyond the Georgia Dome and the World of Coke. Peachtree Street (conspicuously void of actual peach trees) stretches up through several counties, changing ...
In the world of Hip‐Hop, the word “wax” has multiple meanings – all of which pertain to the true roots of
the culture. “Wax” as a verb means to speak enthusiastically, as ma...
FREEWAY BIO:
Rappers have been rhyming about hustling, living in the ghetto and the perils of street life since the dawn of Hip Hop. But what distinguishes Freeway, is his unique approach to tackling these subje...
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 (...
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 ...
Lunice Fermin Pierre II has taken over the asylum because his sound is crazy, his vibe is inconceivable, and his appeal boundless.
In a little over a year, Lunice had managed to cap...
Dutch duo Mason make the kind of records that often defy being pigeon‐holed and given a label. Their productions have been destroying dance floors to tearing it up the World’s charts since 2006, laying the foundation...
ABBY are a four-piece band from Berlin, fusing electronic, alternative and classical styles with perfectly crafted pop songs.
January 2011 saw the release of their debut EP 'Welcome Home' and since then they have enjoy...
j.viewz, a multi-genre electronic project brought together under the direction of Brooklyn based producer and songwriter Jonathan Dagan, was named this week’s “NPR World Café: Next” artist. Host David Dye describe...
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 ...
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...
Also known as "The Writer." Born in Inglewood, raised in Watts, his entry into the music industry was working for Rodney Jerkins & Ricc Rude(Destiny Child's - Cater 2 You). Shortly after that he met artists fellow West C...
Born in Germany, raised in Compton, Problem entered the industry writing a verse for producer & friend Terrace Martin, on a song called "Be Thankful", featured on Snoop Dogg's compilation album "The Big Squeeze". The tra...
Do you and work hard,” says a laid back Skeme over lunch at a health food café in an affluent area of Los Angeles. “That’s the best advice I got from my big bro about the business and that’s what I do.” Spea...
Strong Arm Steady was formed in the shadows of the West Coast’s Death Row Records movement, which at one time, loomed large over much of the region’s talent. Many Los Angeles artists—themselves students and childre...
Self Scientific is DJ Khalil & Chace Infinite.
"Trials Of The Blackhearted" is the latest EP project from the critically acclaimed duo, Self Scientific. "Trials Of The Blackhearted" captures the societal angst and c...
Starting off the new year in good artistic fashion, Terrace Martin is in preparation to not only release some of his best work, but to also make more appearances on the show circuit. Over a 17-year span, this "young vete...
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 ...
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...
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...
At just 17, Andy Mineo was living a dream; he had money, local fame and the respect of his peers. But while attending college in NYC, he finally faced the music—neither was the key to life.
Andy, formerly known as "C...
William Lee Barefield III, better known as Trip Lee, was born and raised in Dallas, TX. As a young boy, Trip Lee had dreams of being a professional athlete or famous rapper, and he began to hone his lyrical skills at th...
An unlikely story stands behind the man known to many as ‘Lecrae’. From the south side of Houston, to a leader in the movement of urban reform, a rocky road provides a window into the grace he experienced through out...
It’s not a stretch to say the winding road that began in St. Petersburg, FL led Kevin “KB” Burgess straight to God.
Raised middle class, divorce left KB and his mother in a poor economic situation, “I went from ...
Within a short time span, Pro lost his grandfather, grandmother and godmother. As a result, he began to understand that life was fleeting; growing weary, he cried out to God and surrendered his life and talents.
The a...
An alias representative of the greatest book in all of literature, coincidentally homonymous with rapid-fire weaponry, carries lofty expectations and growing anticipation. Yet, this Midwest-born rapper’s aim is not to ...
Who is Json? Maybe you’ve heard him on one of Flame’s 4 albums. Maybe you’ve heard him on 13 letters or any of the other Reach Records projects. You may have picked up his debut album The Seasoning, but the questio...
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...
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...
Hailing from the San Fernando Valley, the band Haim consists of, "Three sisters" that have been playing music in the city of Los Angeles for the past two years. The sisters pride themselves on being able to switch from i...
NY-based band Slam Donahue has debuted two brand new tracks 'It's Scary' and 'No More Talking' off their forthcoming 'Big House Nice Dreams' Mixtape (out March 28) as they make their way down to SXSW. Led by singer/guita...
Who is Emil & Friends? In 2008, the Wikipedia page of actor Emile Hirsch informed us that his “band goes by the name of Emil and Friends and is currently touring the United States.” Ever a beacon of factual credibili...
Dutch Uncles presented by Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment
Showcase
Rock
Latitude 30
8:00PM - 8:40PM
Presented by: Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment
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 ...
Clock Opera presented by Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment
Showcase
Electronic
Latitude 30
9:00PM - 9:40PM
Presented by: Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment
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...
Django Django presented by Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment
Showcase
Pop
Latitude 30
10:00PM -10:40PM
Presented by: Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment
Django Django Biography 2011
It's not for anyone else to decide what other young men and women should get up to in the sanctity of their own bedrooms. That said, it's heartening to know that not everyone using the ter...
D/R/U/G/S
D/R/U/G/S are free. The project of one Callum Wright, D/R/U/G/S craft some of the most euphoric, radical new music around . Made with the freeform attitude of synth visionary Oneohtrix Point Never, the fuck-...
Slow Club presented by Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment
Showcase
Pop
Latitude 30
12:00AM -12:40AM
Presented by: Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment
SLOW CLUB
Paradise
Like all good clichés, there's more than a seed of truth to be found in the saying: “a band has a lifetime to make their first record”. So what happens when that band comprises of just two of ...
Toddla T presented by Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment
Showcase
DJ
Latitude 30
1:00AM - 1:40AM
Presented by: Huw Stephens/UK Trade & Investment
Toddla T
Biography 2011
Do U Know Toddla T?
In 2007 Toddla T (aka Tom Bell) was working in a shoe shop in his hometown of Sheffield, then just 19 and living at home with his parents, he DJ'ed at weekends and ...
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...
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The people who represent this band are Zac & Sam!!!
Zac is ...
Trying to pigeonhole the music of Austin's My Education is akin to trying to stuff a pigeon in a hole: the sound is calamitous, there's movement all around, the frenzied beating of wings against wall, and somewhere somet...
TORCHE, the four-pronged Floridian/Georgian riff colossus, are set to release their new full-length release, Harmonicraft, on April 24th, 2012 on new label, Volcom Entertainment.
Led by vocalist/guitarist Steve Brooks...
Genre:
grunge, punk, trashy, provocative
Female lead singer Gao Xiao-gao is getting pretty famous within Taiwan's and China's indie scenes for being outrageous on stage, including showing up for one gig wearing a nud...
"Mixing dark fuzzy stoner rock riffs with classic rock sensibilities and addictive song-writing hooks, EES occupy the gaping void somewhere between Queens Of The Stoneage, AC/DC and Black Sabbath." Kerrang
"You’d have...
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...
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...
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...
Few bands can be simultaneously timeless and relevant, but that’s exactly the hi-wire act Zeus has become as a new millennium hit factory set for a triumphant return with the release of sophomore full-length Busting Vi...
A baptist minister's son hailing from Appleton, WI. Cory Chisel's debut album "Death Won't Send A Letter" was released in late 2009 on RCA Records. The album was produced by Joe Chiccarelli and featured members of The Ra...
Jonny Corndawg is an infectious songwriter and burgeoning country star that worships the altar of Waylon Jennings, Billy Joe Shaver, and Michael Hurley. Born in Montana, raised in rural Virginia and now residing in Brook...
Diamond Rugs is a collaboration between John McCauley (Deer Tick), Robbie Crowell (Deer Tick), Ian Saint Pé (The Black Lips), Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Hardy Morris (Dead Confederate) and Bryan Dufresne (Six Finger Sate...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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musical instrument, object, or person.
Latin funk. Fusion. Jam band. Multicultural cocktail. The sound of Miami. Afro-Latin-Baby-Makin’-Descarga-Fu...
Nortec Collective: Hiperboreal
Nortec Collective: Hiperboreal is a music project that is part of the most important electronic music ensemble in Latin America, the Nortec Collective. Based in Tijuana, pg beas & vg picha...
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...
Straddling a bass heavy club sound that also encompasses leftfield rock music and global beats, Sinden is renowned for his genre-blending DJ sets, cracklin’ hot radio show, his banging remixes, a hugely successful proj...
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...
Dan Mangan presented by BeatRoute/WinnieCooper.net
Showcase
Singer-Songwriter
Maggie Mae's
9:00PM - 9:40PM
Presented by: BeatRoute/WinnieCooper.net
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...
In the five years since Said The Whale formed, the band's hook-heavy, pop-rock sound has propelled them to successes that include a nationally televised documentary, a JUNO Award victory, and a seemingly endless series o...
In the summer of 2009, a group of five Victoria-based friends set out to form a band that would incorporate everything they adored in a classic pop hook, but invoked with something more cathartic, brash and chaotic. That...
Robbie Slade and Peter Ricq, are Humans, an electronic music duo based in East Vancouver BC. Following the success of Avec Mes Mec (2010), Humans are set to release ‘Traps’ on February 28th on Hybridity Music.
The ...
Monolithium presented by BeatRoute/WinnieCooper.net
Showcase
Electronic
Maggie Mae's
1:00AM - 1:50AM
Presented by: BeatRoute/WinnieCooper.net
A child of hip-hop and a student of contemporary electronic music, Monolithium’s sound is the axiom where funk, techno and grime coalesce into concise, focused dancefloor pressure. His debut EP, Simon & G-Funk (via Err...
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...
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...
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 ...
There’s a rare confidence to Emily Jane White’s songwriting: it’s at once generous and tough-minded, reflective and unsentimental. Her work shares some elements with folk music, but the term does not do justice to ...
In 2009 Cameron Spies caught Lizzy Ellison becoming transfixed by the fluid movement of a bank teller's hands-- a involuntary hypnotic condition that Spies oddly enough shared. The Hands That Take You, the title of the d...
With their new album, Court the Storm, Portland OR's Y La Bamba return with a haunting second full-length of delicately crafted art folk. "The voice is most effective when it's indistinguishable from the emotion of the ...
Th e story of Agent Ribbons has not one–but many–beginnings, and fashioning some semblance of chronology from their cut-and-paste four-year history is an art project in and of itself. Originally hailing from the shan...
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...
'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...
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’...
WIM have emerged on the scene out of relative obscurity. There have been whispers about them for years following their wondrous live shows; and now their haunting tunes will bring them into the limelight. Now Modular is ...
GRACE WOODROOFE
Album: Always Want, January 24, Modular
With her uniquely warm, husky, and sometimes mournful voice, Grace Woodroofe is about to make a special mark on the music scene. At just twenty-two years of...
This is a beautiful story. Three vagabonds travel across the world with no direction home, record music whilst on the road, meet up in New York City, and form a band.
Drawing a symbiotic balance from the soundtracks o...
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...
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...
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,” ...
"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...
Labeled as “The Peoples Rapper”, Jon Connor is third generation musical talent with the triple threat abilities of writing, producing, and performing. Jon Connor’s innovative style of music using unique beats, mer...
Born and raised in Houston, Texas (Southside) and killing with some of the illest bars in the rap game. He’s better known as Killa Kyleon. Receiving his name Kyleon from Houston underground legend Big Pokey and being a...
Gangsta Boo was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. An anomaly within the generally misogynist late-'90s Dirty South rap scene, Gangsta Boo won substantial acclaim among audiences without sacrificing her pride. As the...
Hopsin has been described as the new face of West Coast hip hop, known for shocking lyrics that challenge both mainstream rap ideals and those that hype them. His debut album Gazing at the Moonlight was released in 2009 ...
Brother Ali's latest album, Us, is a progression that will establish him as one of Hip Hop’s most enduring figures. While maintaining his intimate approach to songwriting, Ali has broadened his focus to examine life th...
Mobb Deep Bio
The packed house at Times Square’s Best Buy Theater erupted through the rafters as Mobb Deep stormed the stage on May 12, 2011. The sold-out show was a homecoming celebration for Prodigy, the more outs...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
According to hip hop artist Skewby’s confidently titled 2009 mixtape, he’s been “Proving You Wrong Since 1988.” Reigning as a rapper/producer from Memphis, Tennessee, his first major move was to ignore the trend ...
4th Pyramid is an MC/Producer/Songwriter from Toronto, Canada. In December 2011, he launched the imprint, Silk Ivory, a boutique label that was quickly signed to Universal Music for distribution. Set for release in March...
Known for giddy, left-field lyricism and sonic innovation, Rockwell Knuckles is the most exciting hip-hop talent to come out of St. Louis in years. His rapping is technically impeccable, but his humor recalls the bumblin...
BLUNT FANG IS A YOUNG RAP ARTIST CELEBRITY FEMINIST ACTIVIST FASCION ICON DIRECTOR PRODUCER AND UP AND COMING INDUSTRY MOGUL FROM ATLANTA GA. HE IS MOSTLY PREOCCUPIED WITH DRAMATIC BIBLICAL SCALE IMAGERY, SOUTHERN COLLOQ...
Soul Khan is a Brooklyn-based emcee from the underground hip hop group Brown Bag Allstars. His first album in November 2010, Soul Like Khan, was downloaded over 50,000 times, charted on CMJ charts, and garnered a ground...
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,” ...
Originally born in Diego Martin, Trinidad, Tajiri Kamau moved to the Big Easy, New Orleans, in 1977 at age four. Initially wanting to DJ, he dove head first into Hip Hop in the mid-‘80s. His parents' tastes in politic...
Born in The Bronx. Had nothing. NYCHA alum. Worked my way up. Lost it all. Getting it back again.
I rap my ass off.
In the most post hip hop sense.......
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...
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...
“Growing up, I had nobody to mentor me. I had to learn things the hard way,” Lucky says to me as we drive in the rain to pick up his four-year-old son. Jermy Tassin, better known as Lucky Lou, is an aspiring rapper a...
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...
Heart beat of the south, right out of your butt into your fists. Wild youth embodied, savage abandon, convivial glamour. Lounge crunk nuclear pop put the bump in your rump!
Get that ass down there if it wants to shake.....
I'VE BEEN A BOUNCE RAPPER FOR 3 YEARS NOW, AND I PERFORMED AT SXSW LAST YEAR WITH BIG FREEDIA & KATEY RED AT VARIOUS SHOWS. I'VE WON RAP BATTLES AND RECEIVED AWARDS FOR BEST NEW ARTIST AND ARTIST OF THE YEAR. I LOVE TO E...
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......
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...
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...
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. ...
Blackbird Blackbird (formerly Bye Bye Blackbird) is the moniker/musical outlet of San Francisco, California wunderkind Mikey Maramag. His reverb-laden musical collages tend to lean towards anthemic, inspirational, and dr...
Producer, DJ and drummer for YACHT possesses his own incredibly engaging and vibrant live set of art-disco. His remix for YACHT's "Utopia" was hand-picked by DFA and can be heard in the clubs and on radio stations acro...
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 ...
France is a leader in feeding the world with top class house producers and DJs. Amongst all the top names France has to offer, Fred Falke's is of the highest regard. This legendary producer started off as a bass player i...
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...
"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 ...
Awarded as the best Spanish electronic music act in 2010, THE SUICIDE OF WESTERN CULTURE have been playing at Primavera Sound Festival, Arenal Sound (sharing stage w/Orbital), supporting Animal Collective, Cut Copy, etc....
A colloquial nightmare who has spent years honing his unique musical style on the back streets of Brixton, in the shebeens of Shinjuku, the shanty towns of Brooklyn and warehouse parties in Kingston, Jamaica, Aleister X ...
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...
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...
The Black Belles are from Nashville TN. They met in a School For Wayward Girls in 2010 and have been practicing black magick and musik ever since. They are signed exclusively to Third Man Records, their debut LP "The Bla...
Conceived and recorded as a sort of therapy to help cope with adjusting to post-college life, an ensuing break-up and geographic isolation Mikal Cronin steps momentarily away from the rhythm section of Orange County surf...
The Strange Boys are an Amercian musical group who have just released their third LP on Rough Trade Records after releasing two LPs on In The Red Records. They play many types of songs in different keys and colors, and s...
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. ...
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 ...
“I definitely wanted to make a pop album where every song was good, catchy and people can dance to it,” says Chris Glover aka Penguin Prison, who’s goal is to have people dancing all over the world, much like his f...
Let's be clear: the dance music revolution taking place isn't led by European 'superstar DJs' and Las Vegas-style VIP 'clubs'. The real sea change is happening at street level, spearheaded by next generation homegrown st...
Depending on whom you ask, Matthew Dear is a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop artist, a bandleader. He co-founded both Ghostly International and its dancefloor offshoot, Spectral Sound. He’s had 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...
Los Po-Boy-Citos are New Orleans best, and only, boogaloo band:
*2010 Gambit Weekly Best of the Big Easy WINNERS (Best Latin)
*2009 Gambit Weekly Best of the Big Easy WINNERS (Best Latin Band)
*2008 OffBeat Best of ...
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
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
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
DIVE is the nom-de-plume of Z. Cole Smith, musical provocateur and front-man of an atmospheric and autumnally-charged new Brooklyn four-piece.
Recently inked to the uber-reliable Captured Tracks imprint, DIVE created...
Soft Metals is a multi-disciplinary electronic duo from Portland, Oregon now residing in Los Angeles, California. Its members Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall were brought together through a common love of 1970s and 80s synt...
In the cold and dreary winter of 2009, alone in his bedroom and hidden from the darkness of the world outside Justin Paul Vallesteros had begun working on something that would change his life forever. What began as a cou...
Beach Fossils is a Brooklyn-based group, formed in early 2009 by Dustin Payseur. After signing to Captured Tracks and quickly pulling together a live band, they took off playing countless shows across the U.S. gathering ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
A Chicago band known for its muddy work boots, anarchic stage shows and fondness for committing musical “pure butchery” (the New York Times’ words, not ours) may seem an odd match for the stylish craft and classici...
Blessed with a commanding, blast-it-to-the-back-of-theroom voice, the 21-year-old Lydia Loveless was raised on a family farm in Coshocton, Ohio—a small weird town with nothing to do but make music. When she got older, ...
In his 1970 Playboy Interview, Ray Charles described soul as "people who do things from the heart." In performance and on record, it is undeniable that JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound are 100% soul. With a sound that calls ...
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 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...
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...
When Revolvr pulls the trigger, you feel it. Revolvr a.k.a. Touvan Sughiarto officially entered the electronic music world in 2011. Collaborating with Donald Glaude, he dropped an incendiary and infectious remix of Scoot...
A group shrouded in almost complete secrecy, The M Machine continue to reveal themselves across some of electronic music's biggest stages. After summer gigs at EDC, Electric Zoo, and Global Dance Festival and opening sl...
Reid Speed has been a dancefloor destroyer for over a decade and is recognized worldwide for her skillful ability to throw down all genres of bass music in transcendental manner. She is currently most known for helming t...
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.......
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.....
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...
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...
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...
All the listening and songwriting resulted in a unique alt.-Texas country/Texas pop sound laden with rock, soul and roots. At the heart of Moore’s songs are a groove and a melody. “Rather than being a singer-songwrit...
Sons of Bill is a five-piece rock band from Charlottesville, Virginia featuring brothers James, Sam and Abe Wilson, as well as Seth Green and Todd Wellons. In 2011, the band joined forces with fellow Virginian David Lowe...
In the year of 2011 five friends gathered out of mutual admiration to play music and get back to the basics of having fun dubbing themselves The South Austin Moonlighters. All stemming from successful Austin Texas bands...
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 ...
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...
With a gritty, down and dirty flow that puts him in easy company with East coast greats like Method Man and Redman, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire evokes the days of mid-'90s hip-hop. Based out of New York, eXquire has a style...
Working with his cousin Jason Madison,[3] Kennedy released his debut mixtape album 25th Hour in 2008, instantly producing a buzz throughout the south side of L.A. In particular, the song "Watermelon Sundae" was widely pl...
Willie D (born Willie James Dennis in Houston, Texas, U.S.) is an American rapper who gained fame as the lead member of the pioneering rap group from Houston, Geto Boys. Despite his reputation for being a hardcore artist...
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...
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...
Veteran Tampa Bay Area indie-scene singer-songwriters Susie Ulrey (Pohgoh, The Maccabees) and Michael Waksman (The Washdown, Zillionaire) have turned a longtime casual collaboration into a gorgeous collection of compelli...
Sleepy Vikings have braved an infernal Florida sun to write the songs about stalkers, dead kings, summer, presidents and teenage loitering that make up the debut, They Will Find You Here.
The album, filled with dream...
New Roman Times lays out New Wave/post-punk hooks 'On the Sleeve'. It’s got that dancebeat of Radio 4. It’s got the brooding of the Psychedelic Furs. It’s music for arming yourself against the world’s attacks on ...
Starting out as a garage band in South Texas, Dignan was formed by friends Andy Pena, and Devin Garcia who loved to play music, and loved the music they played. Dignan's sound has evolved into a powerful, dreamy, washy ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Loud rock n roll music with some heart made by 2 brothers with the help of 2 life long friends...
Having spent the last few years releasing a couple albums on TBD Records ("This Is A Desert EP" and "Somewhere on the ...
Life could have been much different for these four childhood friends if they had followed the paths that were strictly enforced on them. David Dennis (singer) was the son of missionary parents that traveled the world, li...
Odonis Odonis presented by Flowerbooking, Inc/FatCat Records
Showcase
Punk
Sony Club @ Red 7
8:45PM - 9:25PM
Presented by: Flowerbooking, Inc/FatCat Records
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...
The Velvet Teen is an international rock band from Santa Rosa, California. Since their debut solo performance in Reykjavík, Iceland just after the millennial New Year, the group has garnered support around the globe, c...
Beat Connection’s members – the duo of Jordan Koplowitz and Reed Juenger – met in summer 2008, in that first youthful flush of “hey wait, I don’t live with my parents anymore...” and began making some late-su...
El Ten Eleven presented by Flowerbooking, Inc/FatCat Records
Showcase
Rock
Sony Club @ Red 7
11:45PM -12:25AM
Presented by: Flowerbooking, Inc/FatCat Records
El Ten Eleven is a Los Angeles-based instrumental indie rock duo consisting of Kristian Dunn and Tim Fogarty. What separates El Ten Eleven from their musical peers is that they are only two musicians on stage creating po...
After a few years off, The Jealous Sound have returned true to form with a new album entitled 'A Gentle Reminder' to be released in February 2012. Their previous and debut album, 'Kill Them With Kindness', received rav...
Ceremony presented by Flowerbooking, Inc/FatCat Records
Showcase
Punk
Sony Club @ Red 7 Patio
8:00PM - 8:40PM
Presented by: Flowerbooking, Inc/FatCat Records
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...
Breton presented by Flowerbooking, Inc/FatCat Records
Showcase
Electronic
Sony Club @ Red 7 Patio
10:00PM -10:40PM
Presented by: Flowerbooking, Inc/FatCat Records
Breton is about audio and audio-visual autopsy; deconstructing and re-assembling popular culture.
Borne from the squat party scene and band mastermind Roman Rappak’s formative musical experiences of post-Communist ...
Following closely in the footsteps of The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit, We Were Promised Jetpacks are yet another hugely talented young Scottish band added to the FatCat roster. The 4-piece came to our attention wh...
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...
Molly Rankin presented by Iceland Airwaves/M for Montreal
Showcase
Pop
Spill
9:00PM - 9:40PM
Presented by: Iceland Airwaves/M for Montreal
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...
Each Other presented by Iceland Airwaves/M for Montreal
Showcase
Pop
Spill
10:00PM -10:40PM
Presented by: Iceland Airwaves/M for Montreal
The three of Each Other are Haligonians living in Montreal, Quebec. They've arrived together through a series of broken bands (Long Long Long, York Redoubt, Play Guitar) and at last have a common and resolute goal to le...
Retro Stefson presented by Iceland Airwaves/M for Montreal
Showcase
Pop
Spill
12:00AM -12:40AM
Presented by: Iceland Airwaves/M for Montreal
Through countless formative live performances and the crafting of a collection of superior pop songs, ultra-talented Icelandic octet Retro Stefson have mastered the art of moving a crowd to the brink of sheer ecstasy - a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
Brandon & Anne met at university in southern California. After graduation Brandon took to the road and the studio; he co-produced Greg Laswell's 2008 release "Three Flights From Alto Nido" and has recorded for and toured...
"If pop hooks were Monopoly money, this foursome would be buying hotels on Park Place by now."
-Time Out New York
Harper Blynn is classic pop reimagined. The band's instantly hummable music is remarkable not only f...
Cary Brothers is an indie singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who first gained national attention for his song "Blue Eyes" on the Grammy-winning "Garden State" Soundtrack. Brothers recently released his second album "Und...
When Mexican vocalist Ximena Sariñana (hi-MEN-a sa-rin-YAH-na) released her debut solo album, Mediocre, in 2008, Rolling Stone gave it four stars and praised it as “one of the strongest debuts from a female singer-son...
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....
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...
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...
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...
"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 Prince calls you a brilliant performer, you know it’s a high compliment. The Purple One was referring to Leah Siegel, the singer/songwriter/instrumentalist behind the Brooklyn group Firehorse, after witnessing a ...
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...
LA-based WHISPERTOWN is the latest iteration of the unique vision of Morgan Nagler (songwriter, lead vocals, guitar). What was once The Whispertown 2000 has morphed into a less structured version of itself, with Nagler...
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...
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...
Music is the story of her life, a family affair. The story of a Berber girl born in Morocco. Her father was in the army and her mother a housewife. She grew up to the sound of divas - raï and châabi, like Cheikha Rimit...
Pop music is a ‘here today, gone tomorrow’ world. A starburst of YouTube notoriety and then oblivion. Or at least it is for most.
But when your journey has been as long and extraordinary as Nneka’s – when you...
In Noid, a tiny hamlet situated to the south west of Bath, some of the most dangerous and ill sounding beats and riffs are being created by four wolf like personalities. The Heavy started out ripping and chopping beats f...
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...
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...
Grupo Fantasma has been praised as one of the most important independent acts in the Latin genre and has continually defied expectations to create one of the most unique musical voices to come out of the United States in...
For the uninitiated, Balkan Beat Box first burst out of New York City’s underground music scene in 2005, with a self-titled debut that introduced the world to their Mediterranean-inflected, globalized electronica sound...
They say the world is spinning around
I say the world is upside down
With a legacy stretching back nearly 50 years, the Honourable Jimmy Cliff is still standing as one of the prime movers and continuing shapers of mo...
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
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
"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
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
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...
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 RITE FLYERS
The Rite Flyers, from Austin Texas practice several styles all loosely orbiting the same power-pop nucleus: snappy electric rockers, plaintive acoustic odes and fuzz-clouded squalls. Songs that positi...
Born in 2010 at Austin's legendary Hole in the Wall Bar, the Carper Family has brought together three of Austin's most talented young country and bluegrass singers and pickers... Melissa Carper [vocals, bass], Beth Chris...
"Head for the Hills has created a sound that is all at once organic, precise, timeless, and brand-new,” as reported by the Missoula Independent. The acclaimed Colorado quartet has been receiving nation-wide recognition...
Hans Chew delivers powerful medicine, a resurrection of rock & roll as unique as it is traditional. It's Jerry Lee Lewis on a Nick Cave trip, Floyd Cramer as the Night Tripper; it's Leon Russell tickling James Booker in ...
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...
American Goldwing is Sub Pop’s third full-length release with Portland’s Blitzen Trapper and the band’s sixth full-length overall. Over the course of their career they’ve earned rave reviews (from Rolling Stone, ...
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...
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). ...
Known for rowdy shows and catchy rock songs, Turf War started in 2008 as a bedroom solo project for lead singer John Robinson and quickly turned into a full band with Brian McGrath filling in on drums and backup vocals, ...
Four gentlemen from Barcelona who met at the university, where they studied cinema, and came to the brilliant idea to form a band. We don't know if they would have been geniuses in the science of cinema, we do know that ...
The Jacuzzi Boys’ practice space is like most any other -- crammed with gear along with one of the guys’ record collections. But their band room happens to be located in a trailer tucked just inside Bill Baggs Cape F...
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...
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...
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...
LOST LANDER
As Geoffrey Chaucer was a forester/poet and Norman Jolly was a forester/cricketer, Lost Lander’s Matt Sheehy is a forester/songwriter. Sheehy’s day-to-day workplace is the mighty wooded expanse of the...
Listeners everywhere are having a very emotional response to Dark Dark Dark's music. Their sophomore album, titled Wild Go, is ambitious and layered, welcoming and familiar, and reminds us to seek out the wonder and mag...
Dear Reader,
I once came very close to dying (bug-bite, failed organs), and though my life was spared thanks to thanks to modern medicine and a kidney given to me by my father, nonetheless I live with a persisting sen...
The appeal of a modern, on the rise indie band like Jukebox the Ghost is simple: They write catchy songs. On top of that, they’re dynamic, skilled musicians. The band’s records are carefully structured, yet wildly di...
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
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
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...
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
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 ...
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...
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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...
I’m a wandering man, got no money in the bank, got no wife at home watching children”. Nothing could more accurately depict the adventurous, carefree spirit of singer-songwriter David Ramirez. Uneasy with being in on...
Please allow David Garza to reintroduce himself.
Get the head rockin’ with Shed Light, the best of this multi-instrumentalist’s 21st-century music. It’s sure to be in heavy rotation alongside his Deep Ellum-ins...
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...
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...
Yael Kraus - Bio
Yael Kraus is an Israeli singer-songwriter, based in NYC. She has been performing and recording since childhood.
Kraus opened for Suzanne Vega and performed with Faun Fables, Jewlia Eisenberg of Charmi...
Wiretree began as the solo recording project of singer-songwriter Kevin Peroni. After releasing the LP "Bouldin" in 2007, Peroni recruited other band members solidify the project. The group released their sophomore effor...
Jessie made the New York Times list of bands to catch at SXSW 2012 representing Denton, TX.
"Innocence and old soul. Fiery, then cool. Reluctant and, all at once, beguiling. Frye carries an intense passion and deliver...
After both moving from Los Angeles to Austin in search of a greater music community, old friends Scott Graham and Todd Sapio, who literally bumped into each other in the middle of Sixth St. during South By Southwest, beg...
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...
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 ...
Former clean cut, vest-wearing honchos from Alternative Tentacles, these Austin punk ramblers stab out an approach that is more like the Fleshies than their fellow citizens Complete Control, producing rambunctious hybrid...
According to Trouser Press, "the black watch are a psych/janglepop treasure worth seeking out by anyone with an interest in super catchy melodies, twin guitar attack, and highly poetic lyrics." Formed in Santa Barbara, ...
"With Buzzcocks-sounding intros and fuzzy pop bodies… they have a F*cking star with a capital F in lead singer Tonyo, who struts, preens, and confronts with the best of them."
– TINY MIX TAPES
"The album boasts r...
Hailing from the Z area of Planet Peelander (but now based in New York City by way of Japan), action comic punk band Peelander–Z has been vacationing on Earth long enough to make six albums and tour the land at a pract...
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...
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...
After a series of disfiguring rearrangements and amputations, Seth Smith and Nancy Urich ripped out the heart of their band and split for the country. After some time, they learned to forget about the city and to get by ...
Following a year of performances across Canada, UK, USA and Europe, with an appearance on David Letterman topping it all off, Nova Scotia rock scrappers Wintersleep met up with producers Tony Doogan (Belle & Sebastian) &...
“It’s an isolated city,” begins Ewan Currie, vocalist and guitarist for Saskatoon, SK-based rock and roll outfit The Sheepdogs about how their home base in the Canadian prairies shaped his band’s sound. “It rea...
With a carnival spectacle of a live show, Halifax's symphonic-pop poster boy Rich Aucoin is a musical mastermind. Sing your swelling heart out, dance among a cloak of confetti, just don't stop the sonic alchemy.
Part ...
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...
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...
Something Fierce is a three-piece punk/pop band from Houston, Texas whose music combines the sound and attitude of first-wave 1977 punk with an energy and outlook that's thoroughly contemporary, updating the attack of th...
"If you like your punk pizza-faced and partly retarded, Mean Jeans are surely your bag" .. "perfectly timeless and retarded sort of pop tunes that turn bong hits into lifestyle choices" -..Victime of Time
The 13 garag...
Hailing from Denton, Texas, Bad Sports are a band whose music is a powerful fusion of punk rock velocity and attitude, hard rock guitar raunch, and power pop hooks. Influenced by old-school punk bands like the Ramones an...
MIND SPIDERS Bio
Fort Worth/Denton based MIND SPIDERS was started by Marked Men co-singer/songwriter/guitarist Mark Ryan in 2010. Since then, the band has released a 7" and a self-titled album on Dirtnap records. Mi...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Nick Mullen is a comedian. Originally from DC, Nick developed his act in Austin, where he was a 2 time finalist in the Funniest Person in Austin contest as well as a 2010 Best of Fest performer at the Detroit Internation...
Cameron Esposito has been featured on NPR, Logo, & Sirius Satellite Radio and at the Bridgetown & Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festivals. Her solo show, SIDE MULLET NATION (Critics' Pick, Time Out NY & Chicago) debuted as a pro...
Chip Pope is an accomplished comedian-actor-writer who also enjoys pancakes. He was one of the stars and writers for MTV's "Austin Stories," a television show that was acclaimed by the New York Times, USA Today, and TV G...
RYAN STOUT is a well-crafted and seasoned comedian who has performed all over the world. A regular guest on CHELSEA LATELY, Ryan has also appeared on CONAN, Comedy Central's LIVE AT GOTHAM, and his own half-hour special...
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,...
DAN ST. GERMAIN
Dan St. Germain has been seen on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Electric Company, MTV’s World of Jenks, MTV’s New Years Eve Bash, VH1′s Big Morning Buzz, Spike TV, and Hoppus on Music. He’s ...
After getting his start in Omaha, NE, Cody Hustak relocated to Austin, TX in search of more stage time and opportunities. Since then, Cody's patient delivery of well crafted one-liners has made him an Austin favorite, le...
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 ...
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...
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...
Eliza Gilkyson is a politically minded, poetically gifted singer-songwriter, who has become one of the most respected musicians in folk and Americana music circles. The Grammy-nominated artist has appeared on NPR, Austin...
With the vocal fire of Patti Griffin and the lyrical rawness of Rickie Lee Jones,
Carrie Elkin's songs are, at once, intimate yet universal, naked yet richly adorned. Maverick magazine said it best exclaiming "I have ne...
Rising out of the prairies of the Midwest, The Pines are one of the most distinct and powerful indie-rock/Americana groups to hit the national scene in years. Emerging from the same Minneapolis music world that spawned s...
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...
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
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
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
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...
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...
Every note, every melody, and every song has a meaning and a memory for Maren Parusel. Winner of the Best Pop Album at the 2011 San Diego Music Awards…She was also added to regular rotation on the City's main alternati...
High praise is something TRANSFER has been gathering over the past year. Since first recording and self-releasing Future Selves in the US, the four piece has recently supported The Killers, White Lies, The Kaiser Chiefs ...
It would be hard to find a character in rock and roll who has played the part better than Tommy Stinson. From his beginnings as bassist of the legendary Replacements to his current tenure with Guns N’ Roses and Soul As...
"I guess releasing one outta-this-world album in 2010 wasn’t enough for these power pop superheroes because they’ve gone ahead and dropped yet another five-song masterpiece on us like a sack full o’ diamonds. Serio...
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...
John Evans has had a busy year: He landed two songs in Country Strong which starred Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw, one song "Christmas In Texas" in the final episode of Friday Night Lights, two co-writes on Hayes Carll'...
Mrs. Glass was born in Iowa in 1985. He hitchhiked to New Orleans as a teenager and moved to Austin after Hurricane Katrina.
Ian Fry is a native Californian. He has studied Vedic Science at the Maharishi University ...
Whiskey Business, based in Austin, Texas, is an 7 (sometimes more!) piece bluegrass disaster. Raised on a steady diet of punk and rock, rather than the requisite Flat & Scruggs, they push their instruments and bodies to ...
It really does take a village, or at least a northeast Austin neighborhood, to build a band. The ten (sometimes more)-piece folk-rock collective East Cameron Folkcore is proof. Pieced together out of a wide palette of ta...
GZA of Wu-Tang Clan feat. Grupo Fantasma & Brownout
