It’s Been a Busy Few Weeks in Austin!
Its been a busy few weeks for me. Fantastic Fest, SXSW Eco, ACL and Scare For a Cure all happen at nearly the same time.
Category: sxsw
Why I Spend So Much Time Going to Shows, Listening to Music
Thousands of people from all over the world gather in Austin, Texas each March for the South By Southwest Music Conference and Festival. They come back for Austin Psych Fest in the late spring,...
One of my favorite random shots of SXSW: Amanda Palmer at The Punk Singer
Just after the madness of SXSW, I was a passenger in a car accident in Florida. I was bruised, a car or two were totaled, and life still hasn’t gotten back to normal. But...
SINCE YOU DIDN’T ASK: SXSW FLIGHT DELAYS – M4W
Austin Airport m4w Monday, March 18th 2013-03-23, 12:54PM CDT You had dark hair, brown eyes, a cute smile and a tattoo on your left arm. While our collective flights got delayed, we talked for...
HOW CHVRCHES GOT ON STAGE SO FAST AT THE SPIN PARTY…TOLD BY THEIR NORTH AMERICAN TOUR MANAGER!
One of the great treats of SXSW is the sheer cheek-by-jowl-ness of it. One moment you can be standing in the ladies’ room during the SPIN at Stubb’s party, complimenting someone on her fab...
My Fave Moments at South By Southwest 2013
The annual South By Southwest festival is a lot like the Indian parable of three blind men describing an elephant: one man, feeling the tail, describes the elephant as, “Thin, like a rope.”...
Music forges family ties that bind
When I saw that the English electronic band Depeche Mode (known for their hit song “People are People”) was going to be to doing their first-ever showcase at the South By Southwest Music Conference...
SXSW OVERLOAD: WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN… [FIELD REPORT]
It’s Grumpy Cat’s world, we just live in it. (Photo: Anna Hanks) We Promise That We Aren’t Making This Stuff Up: A Field Report on SXSW Interactive and Film from an Embedded...
SINCE YOU DIDN’T ASK: WEARING A BEAR SUIT AT WHOLE FOODS BAR – W4M
Craigslist Wearing a bear suit at Whole Foods Bar – w4m – 27 (Whole Foods Lamar) Were you wearing a bear costume at the Whole Foods Bar a few weeks ago?...
The Time Wayne Coyne and I Called Latvia, Woke Up My Friend, and Gave the Latvian Tabloids Some Copy!
When I heard the Flaming Lips were playing a SXSW show at Auditorium Shores, I couldn’t help think about the last time that the Flaming Lips played a large show in Austin.
Back in 2010, I was working on a column about people with disabilities at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. I ran across Wayne Coyne, the lead singer of the Flaming Lips in the festival’s media area. He was waiting for an interview with MTV, I was trying to stay in the shade so I didn’t melt.
