Presented by: RZA's Soul Temple Records

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Bernie Worrell: How many artists can say they were in on the ground floor of an honest-to-Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame supergroup, all while inventing a completely original and uncanny sound and, in the ensuing years, buildi…

Presented by: World Music

Meet Brownout - the hardest working band in show business today. For those who haven’t yet heard, Brownout has gone from the alter-ego of Austin, Texas’ Grammy award winning Latin ensemble Grupo Fantasma to a full-blown …

Presented by: Austin Music Awards Show

Meet Brownout - the hardest working band in show business today. For those who haven’t yet heard, Brownout has gone from the alter-ego of Austin, Texas’ Grammy award winning Latin ensemble Grupo Fantasma to a full-blown …

Having scalded listeners’ ears with sonic lava on Budos I and stung them with venomous frequencies on Budos II, The Budos Band delivered on their promise to spread the epidemic of “Budos Fever” far and wide with the rele…

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Since the release of their first 7-inch single, "Bullfrog Boogaloo," in 2001, the Diplomats of Solid Sound have been mining America's vast deposits of soul music to create a sound all their own -- a spare-but-spicy groov…

Presented by: Nat Geo

Ester Rada * The new soul of the Middle East Ester Rada’s cross-cultural sound is a deep reflection of the Israeli born Ethiopian’s heritage. Growing up in a highly religious Jewish family- and growing up in more th…

Ester Rada * The new soul of the Middle East Ester Rada’s cross-cultural sound is a deep reflection of the Israeli born Ethiopian’s heritage. Growing up in a highly religious Jewish family- and growing up in more th…

Presented by: Heard x SongBooth: Music Tech Mashup

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The son of Cuban refugees who met in Texas, Ward's sixteen years of experience in the Austin music scene, including his previous band Sigmund Fraud, are obvious in the band's high energy, dance-floor filling shows. The m…

Presented by: The Madison House Revue

Nearly a decade evolved from their debut at 2003's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Dumpstaphunk offers fans an unforgettable live experience steeped in the "Big Easy" tradition of a good time. The all-star collecti…

Presented by: SPIN

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As a native Austinite, Max Frost has been honing his craft as a guitar player, bass player, drummer, singer, and songwriter in the local scene since he was 13. He began recording his songs late in high school and is curr…

Presented by: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!

As a native Austinite, Max Frost has been honing his craft as a guitar player, bass player, drummer, singer, and songwriter in the local scene since he was 13. He began recording his songs late in high school and is curr…

Presented by: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!

Psychedelic Soul, sometimes called black Rock, is a sub-genre of Soul music, which mixes the characteristics of Soul with Psychedelic Rock. It came to prominence in the late 1960s and continued into the 1970s, playing a …

Austin, TX-based ROXY ROCA gets it done with a powerful, soulful sound inspired by the great soul and funk pioneers of the 60s. They call it Dynamite Texas Soul. It'll make you want to get up out your chair. ROXY ROCA is…

Presented by: DTS/ Slacker

"There's a place for us scattered and uprooted peoples," says Sinkane mainman Ahmed Gallab, "a place we can all know as home, with elements of all our homes." That place, as it turns out, is Mars. On one level, Mars …

Presented by: The Madison House Revue

The Soul Rebels formed when Lumar LeBlanc and Derrick Moss, originally members of New Orleans’ iconic Dejean’s Young Olympia Brass Band, decided they wanted to play the new, exciting music they were hearing on the radio …

Presented by: Surefire Agency: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!

Producer, turntable innovator and synth-wizard Teeko has teamed up with fellow San Francisco modern funk sorcerer B. Bravo to form an electrifying party rocking duo. Combining their love of West Coast funk, analog synth…

T Bird and the Breaks are one of those gangs of people who could have easily banded together to steal hubcaps or hustle you out of your last dollar in a game of street craps. Lucky for all involved, they chose to make mu…

Presented by: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!

T Bird and the Breaks are one of those gangs of people who could have easily banded together to steal hubcaps or hustle you out of your last dollar in a game of street craps. Lucky for all involved, they chose to make mu…