Posted: Jun. 28, 4:15 PM
South By Southwest organizers and participating clubs have long said that they can do two or three months worth of business at the bar during SXSW. Liquor sales figures kept by the state comptroller’s office bear this out. In May,…
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Posted: Jan. 08, 11:34 AM
Hat tip to our friends over at the Austinist for noticing that the South by Southwest Music Festival has stealthily added quite a few bands to its already announced list of showcasing artists. SXSW launched a new event schedule tool…
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Posted: Jan. 06, 9:58 AM
We’ll skip the (very tempting) opportunity to “cleverly” re-word lyrics to “I Want You To Want Me” and “Dream Police” and skip straight to the point: Cheap Trick will be headlining the BMI stage at Auditorium Shores on Lady Bird…
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Posted: Dec. 08, 3:52 PM
Whether it’s a streamlined application process or simply a desire to beat the stealth-announcement-by-way-of-MySpace epidemic of years past, the South By Southwest Music Festival isn’t wasting any time announcing showcasing artists for 2010. The festival released another round of more…
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Posted: Dec. 03, 2:39 PM
Amidst the haze of bands and beer that is the South by Southwest Music Festival, the panels often get overlooked. Maybe that’s why the festival took the unique approach of crowdsourcing its 2010 panels, allowing the community to vote on…
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Posted: Mar. 21, 2:43 PM
Photo by Jay Janner / AMERICAN-STATESMAN Since Tuesday, when I indulged in one last late night of South by Southwest Interactive partying, I’ve been struggling to figure out whether this year’s festival was a smashing success or a baffling bust….
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Posted: Mar. 16, 4:11 PM
Well, it was a valiant effort, at least. South by Southwest Interactive is over, but the new SXSWi Technology Summit is still going. At a presentation by IBM today, the company showed off the “Watson” natural language processing technology that…
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Posted: Mar. 15, 8:16 PM
On the closing night of South by Southwest Interactive, the 14th Annual Interactive Awards bestowed honors on familiar names including Groupon, Conan O’ Brien, a web project from music group The Arcade Fire and Old Spice’s “Smell Like a Man,…
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Posted: Mar. 15, 7:20 PM
South by Southwest Interactive is concluding, with a growth in attendance that mirrors last year’s significant jump. The festival said on Tuesday, the last day of the festival, that paid attendance for Interactive is officially 19,364, up from last year’s…
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Posted: Mar. 15, 4:29 PM
Time/Date: 3:30 p.m., Tuesday (hashtag: #merch$) Panelists: Mona Patel, Livestrong; Mikhail Ledvich, ixtens.com (formerly of BustedTees.com); Justin Sewell, Despair, Inc.; Burnie Burns, Rooster Teeth Productions; Joel Bush, Amplifier. The gist: Whether you’re a gigantic non-profit, a web video production outfit…
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