Complete event listing for
24 Beats Per Second
Saturday, March 9
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41445.jpg F41445](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41445.jpg)
Chris Strachwitz is a detective of deep American music, music that’s the antithesis of the corporate “mouse music” dominating pop culture. Since 1960, he has been the guiding force behind legendary Arhoolie Records, brin…
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
Sunday, March 10
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42554.jpg F42554](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42554.jpg)
Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outsp…
Monday, March 11
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40911.jpg F40911](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40911.jpg)
For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, “brotherhood” is literal: they’re all sons of anti-establishment jazz legend, Phil Cohran. Cohran and their mothers raised them together on Chicago’s South side on …
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42554.jpg F42554](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42554.jpg)
Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outsp…
Tuesday, March 12
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40881.jpg F40881](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40881.jpg)
Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America's most creative and defiant music. The music of Muscle Shoals changed the world and sold millions of copie…
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39536.jpg F39536](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39536.jpg)
"Twenty Feet from Stardom" follows several diverse and gifted backup singers living in the shadows of superstardom. These singers belong to the first family of American voice and represent a range of styles throughout la…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41445.jpg F41445](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41445.jpg)
Chris Strachwitz is a detective of deep American music, music that’s the antithesis of the corporate “mouse music” dominating pop culture. Since 1960, he has been the guiding force behind legendary Arhoolie Records, brin…
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42554.jpg F42554](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42554.jpg)
Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outsp…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40911.jpg F40911](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40911.jpg)
For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, “brotherhood” is literal: they’re all sons of anti-establishment jazz legend, Phil Cohran. Cohran and their mothers raised them together on Chicago’s South side on …
Wednesday, March 13
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40881.jpg F40881](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40881.jpg)
Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America's most creative and defiant music. The music of Muscle Shoals changed the world and sold millions of copie…
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42925.jpg F42925](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42925.jpg)
"Finding the Funk" is a road trip in search of the past, present and future of Funk music. Starting with Funk's roots in Jazz and the James Brown bands of the '60s we travel to the Bay Area to celebrate Sly & the Family …
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40415.jpg F40415](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40415.jpg)
"Born In Chicago" is a soulful documentary film that chronicles a uniquely musical passing of the torch. It’s the story of first generation blues performers who had made their way to Chicago from the Mississippi Delta a…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F38646.jpg F38646](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F38646.jpg)
Telling harsh truths about the modern music business, "Artifact" gives intimate access to singer/actor Jared Leto and his band Thirty Seconds to Mars as they battle their label in a brutal lawsuit and record their album …
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42487.jpg F42487](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42487.jpg)
55 years ago Pete Seeger didn't name names at the McCarthy hearings and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Out on appeal, blacklisted, watched by the FBI, he buys an old camera. With his wife Toshi, they start filming …
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41445.jpg F41445](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41445.jpg)
Chris Strachwitz is a detective of deep American music, music that’s the antithesis of the corporate “mouse music” dominating pop culture. Since 1960, he has been the guiding force behind legendary Arhoolie Records, brin…
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41084.jpg F41084](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41084.jpg)
Too happy-go-lucky for the earnest fans of roots music, too plaid and pragmatic for the hippies, too old and hairy for the mainstream, too young to be called legends. Sound like friends of yours? For nearly two decades, …
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42554.jpg F42554](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42554.jpg)
Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outsp…
Thursday, March 14
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41445.jpg F41445](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41445.jpg)
Chris Strachwitz is a detective of deep American music, music that’s the antithesis of the corporate “mouse music” dominating pop culture. Since 1960, he has been the guiding force behind legendary Arhoolie Records, brin…
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39750.jpg F39750](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39750.jpg)
Decadent rock star, ’70s survivor, gypsy songbird, white-winged dove—the inimitable Stevie Nicks has entranced millions of fans worldwide with her poetic lyrics, sultry singing and featherand-lace style. In 2010 Nicks em…
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41250.jpg F41250](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41250.jpg)
"Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker" explores the life, times and music of piano legend James Booker, who Dr. John described as "the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever prod…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42949.jpg F42949](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42949.jpg)
A rockumentary about the Mexican band Molotov and the political, social and financial context where the band was born and developed.……
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41084.jpg F41084](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41084.jpg)
Too happy-go-lucky for the earnest fans of roots music, too plaid and pragmatic for the hippies, too old and hairy for the mainstream, too young to be called legends. Sound like friends of yours? For nearly two decades, …
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F38646.jpg F38646](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F38646.jpg)
Telling harsh truths about the modern music business, "Artifact" gives intimate access to singer/actor Jared Leto and his band Thirty Seconds to Mars as they battle their label in a brutal lawsuit and record their album …
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42526.jpg F42526](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42526.jpg)
Californian hip-hop duo Silibil n' Brains were going to be massive. No one knew the pair were really Scottish, with fake US accents and made up identities. When their promising Scottish rap act was branded “the rapping P…
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42889.jpg F42889](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42889.jpg)
"Reincarnated" follows Snoop Dogg on a spiritual journey as he immerses himself in Rastafari, explores musical and religious histories deeply rooted in Jamaica, and reemerges from his experience as "Snoop Lion". Recordin…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40911.jpg F40911](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40911.jpg)
For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, “brotherhood” is literal: they’re all sons of anti-establishment jazz legend, Phil Cohran. Cohran and their mothers raised them together on Chicago’s South side on …
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42925.jpg F42925](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42925.jpg)
"Finding the Funk" is a road trip in search of the past, present and future of Funk music. Starting with Funk's roots in Jazz and the James Brown bands of the '60s we travel to the Bay Area to celebrate Sly & the Family …
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42933.jpg F42933](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42933.jpg)
Formed in 1971 by three African-American brothers in Detroit, Michigan, Death is now widely acknowledged as being one of the first punk bands. After years of silence, Death’s moment finally arrived following unexpected d…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40415.jpg F40415](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40415.jpg)
"Born In Chicago" is a soulful documentary film that chronicles a uniquely musical passing of the torch. It’s the story of first generation blues performers who had made their way to Chicago from the Mississippi Delta a…
Friday, March 15
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42643.jpg F42643](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42643.jpg)
"Broadway" follows Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong from a punk rock concert at Madison Square Garden to the opening of his musical American Idiot on Broadway - only ten blocks away, but worlds apart. From behind the cur…
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42483.jpg F42483](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42483.jpg)
"¡Cuatro!" is a unique, raw and unprecedented look inside the world of the multi platinum rock band Green Day. From the band’s home studio in Oakland CA, to various intimate live performances in New York City, Austin TX,…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42925.jpg F42925](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42925.jpg)
"Finding the Funk" is a road trip in search of the past, present and future of Funk music. Starting with Funk's roots in Jazz and the James Brown bands of the '60s we travel to the Bay Area to celebrate Sly & the Family …
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40415.jpg F40415](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40415.jpg)
"Born In Chicago" is a soulful documentary film that chronicles a uniquely musical passing of the torch. It’s the story of first generation blues performers who had made their way to Chicago from the Mississippi Delta a…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41250.jpg F41250](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41250.jpg)
"Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker" explores the life, times and music of piano legend James Booker, who Dr. John described as "the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever prod…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39536.jpg F39536](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39536.jpg)
"Twenty Feet from Stardom" follows several diverse and gifted backup singers living in the shadows of superstardom. These singers belong to the first family of American voice and represent a range of styles throughout la…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42526.jpg F42526](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42526.jpg)
Californian hip-hop duo Silibil n' Brains were going to be massive. No one knew the pair were really Scottish, with fake US accents and made up identities. When their promising Scottish rap act was branded “the rapping P…
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
Saturday, March 16
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42933.jpg F42933](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42933.jpg)
Formed in 1971 by three African-American brothers in Detroit, Michigan, Death is now widely acknowledged as being one of the first punk bands. After years of silence, Death’s moment finally arrived following unexpected d…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40911.jpg F40911](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40911.jpg)
For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, “brotherhood” is literal: they’re all sons of anti-establishment jazz legend, Phil Cohran. Cohran and their mothers raised them together on Chicago’s South side on …
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F38646.jpg F38646](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F38646.jpg)
Telling harsh truths about the modern music business, "Artifact" gives intimate access to singer/actor Jared Leto and his band Thirty Seconds to Mars as they battle their label in a brutal lawsuit and record their album …
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42487.jpg F42487](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42487.jpg)
55 years ago Pete Seeger didn't name names at the McCarthy hearings and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Out on appeal, blacklisted, watched by the FBI, he buys an old camera. With his wife Toshi, they start filming …
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41084.jpg F41084](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41084.jpg)
Too happy-go-lucky for the earnest fans of roots music, too plaid and pragmatic for the hippies, too old and hairy for the mainstream, too young to be called legends. Sound like friends of yours? For nearly two decades, …
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)