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Entertaining repartee delivered with scintillating irony was the form of the day as rock icon Lou Reed was interviewed by good friend and music producer Hal Willner. Willner introduced Reed as the man who is to rock and roll what Miles Davis is to jazz, as Lou has literally changed the face of rock and [...]

Our musical adventures today started a little after three pm at the SXSW British Music Embassy Party at Latidude 30 celebrating the sister cities relationship between Nashville and Belfast. I went there to see Beth Nielsen-Chapman, who is slated to play in Colorado this fall at Women Rock the Rialto, a fund-raiser for the Women’s [...]

This weekend at SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, I caught a couple of cool panel discussions and presentations about how to grow on-line communities and how to leverage the strength and creativity of crowds. I wanted to share these learnings here on the Savvant Music blogs because it’s so important in what we’re trying [...]

Wow, I was really excited about the opportunity to hear Mark Zuckerberg, 23-year old billionare CEO and founder of Facebook tell us how it was done, and share his vision of the future today at SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas. Unfortunately, I, along with a few thousand others, was disappointed due in large part to [...]

Wow! Time for SXSW already! Every March we go down to Austin eagerly hoping to find that fresh, exciting group that everyone else has overlooked, The problem is, they’re hard to find! At SXSW even industry “outsiders” such as we are likely to get “tips” on artists to see — after all, most of the [...]