Chronicle SXSW Coverage: 2009
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The Rest of the Fest


April 3

Page Two: Love and Badges
BY LOUIS BLACK
The last 'Page Two' on SXSW 09 (probably)


March 27

Page Two: SXSW 09: An Intelligence-Impaired Introduction
BY LOUIS BLACK
In which six wise men give up on the elephant and go down themselves

After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Stephen saunters, sashays, and gets sassy at SXSW

Gay Place
BY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER
Gay Place is giving away tickets and looking for Pride interns.


March 21

Gay Place
BY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER
Where the queers at on Saturday? SXSW!


March 20

Gay Place
BY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER
Where the queers at on Friday? SXSW!


March 19

Gay Place
BY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER
Where the queers at? SXSW!


March 18

Todd Barry: Todd Barry Rock City
BY STEVE BIRMINGHAM
The veteran stand-up comic isn't a rock star, but he played one on TV

Page Two: Hymn to My Own
BY LOUIS BLACK
The untalented, the ungifted, the slow, and the lost

Gay Place
BY KATE X MESSER AND ASH BELL
The Gay Place is queer for SXSW!

Local Hangover Cures
BY MICK VANN
Defeating the porcelain god and that pounding brain

Biscuit Breakfasts in Austin
BY MM PACK
The best places to grab a biscuit breakfast in Austin

City Counseling: If It's Too Loud, You're Too Old
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Stop, hey, what's that sound?


March 13

Page Two: The Incredibles
BY LOUIS BLACK
SXSW Film lines 'em up


March 6

Page Two: Wild & Free
BY LOUIS BLACK
Surveying the SXSW landscape

Gay Place
BY KATE X MESSER AND ASH BELL
South by is sooooooo gay ...


Feb. 27
Arts Reviews
  • IF+D
    IF+D is a good gallery with a deep vision of the role of art and laughter in your home

Feb. 20

Page Two: Tiny Tornadoes
BY LOUIS BLACK
SXSW time allows us to go soaring off fearlessly into our imaginations

Music


March 27

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Nothing's shocking: reveling in the aftermath and glow of South by Southwest 09

Live Shots

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Surprise, guess what Bay Area metal behemoth played Stubb's after all?

Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels

Day Party Crawl

'Mojo' Recommends
Blur guitarist returns to SXSW for some BBQ.

Ice Cream Man Presents!
BY MATT ALLEN
R&B raunch, an ice cream flavor you never knew existed.

Spotlight: The Cannabinoids Featuring Erykah Badu
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Erykah Badu takes you higher

Spotlight: Rachel Goodrich
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Tinker Toys in the attic

Spotlight: The Wooden Birds
BY DARCIE STEVENS
American Analog Set's Andrew Kenny takes solo flight

Spotlight: Amplified Heat
BY DANIEL MEE
Classic. Power. Trio.

Spotlight: Kat Edmonson
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Kat Edmonson redefines jazz and pop

Spotlight: Dead Prez
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Still revolutionary and gangster




March 20
Live Shots

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Playing in Traffic with Los Lonely Boys, Daniel Johnston, Roky Erickson's Ice Cream Social, and Dan Auerbach

Ballroom Dancing
SXSW Panels

Day Party Crawl

'Mojo' Recommends
Mojo showcasers prog the rock

Ice Cream Man Presents!
BY MATT ALLEN
Ice Cream Man slings the Love Language

My SXSW
What it took for one metal band to make it from Tehran to SXSW

Ponderosa Stomp
BY GREG BEETS
Where the past comes alive

Margaret Cho
BY KATE X MESSER
What wouldn't the Renaissance woman do?

The Arc Angels
BY JIM CALIGIURI
The official reunion has begun




March 19

2008-09 Austin Music Awards Show
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Austin Music Hall, Wednesday, March 18

Ballroom Dancing
SXSW Panels

Day Party Crawl

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
SXSW music news and carryings-on

Live Shots

'Mojo' Recommends
The best British music at SXSW as selected by 'Mojo' editor-in-chief Phil Alexander

Ice Cream Man Presents!
BY MATT ALLEN
Thursday's Flavor: Still Flyin'

My SXSW
BY SUZANNA CHOFFEL

Spotlight: Dirty Projectors
BY DARCIE STEVENS
The psychotic musical plays on

Spotlight: Foot Patrol
BY GREG BEETS
Fetish funk and rubber soles

Spotlight: Erin McCarley
BY JIM CALIGIURI
SXSW 08 success story returns for her encore

Spotlight: BeauSoleil
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Cajun licks with Michael Doucet

Spotlight: Ben Harper & Relentless7
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Unloading both sides of the gun

Spotlight: The Bar-Kays
BY GREG BEETS
Hot buttered soul that aims to please


March 18

2008-09 Austin Music Awards

Quintessence
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Quincy Jones has lived a career that would make his hero, Duke Ellington, proud

Uncontrollable Urge
BY MARGARET MOSER
Devo's 21st century 'de-evolution' hopefully won't get anyone arrested

Wednesday Music Preview Guide

Thursday Music Preview Guide

Friday Music Preview Guide

Saturday Music Preview Guide

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
The Future Is Unwritten: 360 Degrees of South by Southwest

SXSW Records
SXSW Records: Metallurgy
  • Metallurgy
    Betrayer, Static Tensions, Winter Hours, Absu, Please, Please, Sorry, Thank You, Black Cascade, Live at Roadburn
SXSW Records
SXSW Records: deEP End
  • deEP End
    Mind Raft, Violens, Reviver, Danger Is
SXSW Records
SXSW Records: Sheet Music
  • Sheet Music
    Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
SXSW Records

March 13

Never Say Goodbye
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Past and present mash up at the 2008-09 Austin Music Awards

  • BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
    Free drugs and living-room rock
  • BY DARCIE STEVENS
    Power trio creates a voltaic Sunshower
  • BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
    ATX hip-hop with a positive tip and call to action
  • BY THOMAS FAWCETT
    Latin funk beamed down from the Grupo Fantasma mother ship
  • BY DOUG FREEMAN
    Thickfreakness from the family band
  • BY AUSTIN POWELL
    Neoclassical instrumentalists venture into the wild
  • BY JIM CALIGIURI
    Chameleon singer-songwriter's aim is true

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Blaze's blues strike a chord with the SXSW Film 09 and dropping out for the Black Angels' Psych Fest 2


March 6

Ballroom Dancing
Not all the music industry linchpins coming to South by Southwest 2009 are musicians

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Exploring international affairs at SXSW 09 with Canada House and Dart Music, plus the triumphant return of the Reality Sandwich to the Hole in the Wall


Feb. 27

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Mining the vaults of Austin City Limits, navigating the SXSW grid, and hanging with Jenny Wolfe After School


Feb. 20

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Paying tribute to the Texas Tornado, working out at the Music Gym, and Trail of Dead's Justice for all


Feb. 13

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Marcia Ball turns 60 in style, Bill Baird finds himself in song, and more confirmations for the Austin Music Awards and
SXSW 09


Jan. 16

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
It has begun: Breaking down the full South by Southwest band list and learning the secret handshake at the Austin Moose Lodge No. 1735

Film


March 27

Film News
BY JOE O'CONNELL
New projects from Robert Rodriguez and Tim McCanlies; plus Danny DeVito plus Limoncello, together forever


March 21

SXSW Film
Reviews and interviews


March 20

SXSW Film
Reviews and interviews


March 19

SXSW Film
Reviews and Interviews


March 18

SXSW 09 Film Awards
And the winners are ...

Help Me Help You
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Career advice and self-help evangelism at SXSW

SXSW 09 Film Reviews


March 13

Off the Record
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Blaze's blues strike a chord with the SXSW Film 09 and dropping out for the Black Angels' Psych Fest 2

Good Company
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Welcome to Austin and SXSW Film 09

Film News
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Welcome to the great state of South by Southwest

Every Step They Take
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Kathryn Bigelow dramatizes the dangerous business of bomb detonation in The Hurt Locker

The 11th Hour
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Tim McCanlies eyes the finish line

The Bee's Knees
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Andrew Bujalski's uncommon process

Magnificent Obsession
BY MARC SAVLOV
Charting the unlikely ascension of Troll 2 from crappiest movie ever made to cult darling

The Watchmen
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Three documentaries shine a light on playing to the audience

Boys Who Like Boys
Two takes on the bromance in Humpday and I Love You, Man

Found Film
BY LOUIS BLACK
The rehatching of Tobe Hooper's 1969 debut, Eggshells

Animated Ladies
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Signe Baumane and Sarah Jane Lapp illustrate their points

Rock and a Hard Place
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Exploring the elusiveness of fame and the ethics of the mash-up in 24 Beats per Second

It Came From Down Under
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Aussie films swarm SXSW 09

Shot on Location
BY ROBERT FAIRES
For All Mankind filmmaker Al Reinert goes walking on the moon one more time

In a World Where ...
BY MARC SAVLOV
Plumbing the depths of Joe Dante's Trailers From Hell

The Cutting Edge
BY SPENCER PARSONS
Trailer maker Mark Woollen talks shop


Feb. 27

Page Two: Grand Schemes and Enthralling Documents
BY LOUIS BLACK
Film, conspiracy theories, and conspiracy theories on film coalesce as SXSW looms


Feb. 13

Film News
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Is the Texas film scene resuscitating itself?


Jan. 16

Film News
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Local docmaker Heather Courtney heads to Afghanistan, and the 2009 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

Interactive


March 18

SXSW Interactive Bytes


March 6

How to Speak Geek
BY MIKE KANIN
SXSW Interactive has landed. Can you talk the talk?

Generation Overshare
BY MARC SAVLOV
What happens when the line blurs between our online and offline lives?

Stats Man
BY WELLS DUNBAR
FiveThirtyEight.com's Nate Silver on the state of the nation

Don't Be Hatin'
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
How the Internet helps us all to get along ... or not

Web Prez
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Crafting campaign, inside and out

Gloves Off
BY SOFIA RESNICK
The perils of being a female blogger

We Were Promised Jet Packs (and a Whole Lot More)
BY JOSH DUTY
When will technology catch up to the movies?

Don't Fret the Technique
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
'Guitar Hero' goes mobile

Jimmy Leets World
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Graffiti Research Lab's James Powderly takes technology to the street

Crossing Over
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Bloggers parlay their online success into print