2009 General schedules

Film

• 3/13: Registration, festival begins; opening party
• 3/14: Film conference registration and festival
• 3/14-3/17: Film panels, festival, trade show
• 3/17: Film awards and conference closing party
• 3/18-3/21: Film festival
• Official Web site

Interactive

• 3/13: Registration, panels begin
• 3/14: Opening parties, trade show opens, panels
• 3/15: Trade show, panels, Web awards
• 3/16: Panels, trade show
• 3/17: Panels, trade show, closing party
• Official Web site

Music

• 3/18: Registration, panels and festival begin, welcome dinner, Austin Music Awards
• 3/19-21: Panels, festival, trade show, Flatstock Poster Artist show
• 3/21-22: Austin Record Convention & Texas Guitar Show
• 3/22: Music festival, softball tournament and barbeque
• Official Web site

Posted: Mar. 26, 2:56 PM
ME-TV, Time Warner channel 15, will repeat some shows taped during SXSW. Rebroadcasts, in a continuous 6-hour block, start at 6pm on Friday, March 27th: Hour 1: M.Ward; BLK JKS Hour 2: The Features; Wild Yaks; First Communion Afterparty Hour…
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Posted: Mar. 26, 10:53 AM
End of an Ear just released their SXSW sales figures and not only did they have a recession-beating SXSW, the product they sold matches anecdotal tales of the continued fall of the CD and rise of vinyl among hardcore music…
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Posted: Mar. 25, 4:29 PM
While the buzz of big name acts like Kanye West, Jane’s Addiction and metal gods Metallica dominated the festival, hundreds of international bands made epic cross-continental treks to take the stage in Austin during SXSW 2009. International music had a…
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Posted: Mar. 24, 9:56 AM
The allnight party at the IONA Compound at 701 Tillery St., which didn’t end until 7 a.m. March 21, was such a blast that organizers are planning another blowout in June. Working title is the East Side Escape Fest. Could…
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Posted: Mar. 23, 12:39 PM
Hmmm. Just got off the phone with someone who reinforced what I’d been thinking. At times downtown during SXSW it seemed that the number of uncredentialed civilians to badgies and wristies was about 47- 1. The Levi’s/ Fader Fort gave…
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Posted: Mar. 30, 11:18 AM
At least for now. We report this because 20 minutes of raucous clips of the new Sacha Baron Cohen comedy screened during SXSW and our own Charles Ealy watched and blogged about it HERE. Sharon Waxman at The Wrap reports:…
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Posted: Mar. 20, 4:29 PM
I saw another exquisite film during SXSW, Ramin Bahrani’s human-scale pearl “Goodbye Solo” on Thursday at the Alamo South. I’m a vocal fan of Bahrani’s work — last year’s “Chop Shop” made my Top 10 list — and the new…
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Posted: Mar. 18, 9:20 PM
A guy stood up in the front row, peeled off his shirt and swung it above his head tonight at the Paramount. A movie was playing. On the giant screen was a thrashing metal concert. Iron Maiden was performing “Number…
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Posted: Mar. 18, 12:30 PM
Sometimes we think we’re in the loop. Sometimes we are laughably deluded. We missed this big special show during the festival, and we are sad. Karen Carpenter, played by Academy Award-winner Barbie…
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Posted: Mar. 18, 11:44 AM
As I was leaving the Hilton of Fourth Street around 10:30 a.m. after interviewing director Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker,” I ran into a group of young German hipsters, who wanted to know whether I knew my way around…
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