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Advice from a Legend – Smokey Robinson at SXSW
One of the highlights of SXSW 2010 in Austin, Texas last month, was the keynote interview of the incredible Smokey Robinson. Here are a few key points from Smokey’s talk. I wish I could bring you tha man himself, because he is truly amazing!
Smokey just put out his own independent record. And it was a [...]
SXSW 09 – Quincy Jones & Incredible Protégé Alfredo Rodriguez
We spent ALL DAY last Thursday with the amazing Quincy Jones.
He probably doesn’t know it, because there were always 200-2000 other people there as well , but WE knew it and it was AWESOME. It was like spending the day in the presence of giants and their ghosts and their shadows as Mr. Jones [...]
Day one done at SXSW ‘09
It’s always the bands you find by accident that turn out to be the best, as you’ll find by reading further about new music recommendations from NPR vs what we found by stumbling down 6th Street…
CFO Bob Carnahan and I arrived here in Austin last Friday to catch SXSW interactive, so even though yesterday was [...]
The Answer – Interview with Cormac Neeson
Shortly after SXSW 2008, Anny Randel spoke to Cormac Neeson, the front man of The Answer, over the phone just outside their practice room back in Ireland. Here are a few excerpts from the interview! (I tried to leave in the traces of his really beautiful Irish accent, but to hear it for real you’ll [...]
The Answer – Incredible rock and roll
I managed to catch an acoustic set by the up and coming rock band The Answer, an awesome group from Northern Ireland, earlier in the week, and I was really impressed, so Friday night (or early Saturday morning) found us back at Latitude 30 to check out how this group sounds live. The answer is [...]
Lou Reed’s SXSW Keynote Interview
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 [...]
Belfast and Nashville Rock Austin at SXSW
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 [...]
SXSW panels: Growing an online community
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 [...]
