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Pulled Apart by Horses Rips Up Austin at SXSW 2011
Another great night of English bands started out with the British Music Embassy Launch party at SXSW 2011. Opening with Dry the River (see photos from yesterday’s posting), the line up included singer/songwriter Jamie Woon and wrapped up with the very popular Bombay Bicycle Club. The SXSW 2011 showcase for London band Black Cherry at the Prague Night Club, and this [...]
Wales Rocks Austin at SXSW 2011
The British Music Embassy always sets up at Latitude 30, and they never, ever disappoint. Today’s showcase of bands from the little country of Wales is no exception to the rule, and the three bands I saw there this morning were AWESOME! And so was the free food and open bar… God I love the [...]
SXSW 2011 Tuesday Night Showcases
The Bat Bar was the place to be last night in Austin during the opening night of SXSW Music showcases. Starting with Admiral Fallow and Dry the River and wrapping up with Trampled by Turtles, all the bands playing the Bat Bar showcase Tuesday night were awesome. The Chevelles rocked BD Riley’s and John Westley Coleman [...]
SXSW 2011 – Out with Interactive, In with Music
Greetings from Austin, Texas where SXSW Interactive is wrapping up and SXSW Music is just beginning. Tonight is the first night of SXSW Music showcases, and I’ll be heading out with my camera and notebook soon to bring you back updates on what’s hot and new in the world of music. I arrived in Austin [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
