Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...experimental ensembles, K-pop collectives – it’s all here for your Festival scheduling...."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Matters" found a patron in Robert Plant on the Zeppelin crier's Austin-kissed 2010 album Band of Joy...."

Sept. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

(Your Name Here) Roasting on an Open Fire...

"...You musicians out there know: I feel your pain. I live in the same type of rotting..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Music Column

14 R&B Acts to Soothe Your SXSW Soul

"...10pm; Fri. 15, 3ten ACL Live, 11pm The Stones Throw label lineup gets a little more gonzo every year...."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

TCB

Cops storm the Mercury, the Red Eyed Fly spars with the city, Kissinger get shit-faced in Detroit, and local musicians get all lovey-dovey.

"...who was at the show, says, "Some knuckleheads started throwing shit at the stage," prompting the two officers to..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Wednesday SleepersAll showcase times subject to change. Please check official SXSW..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature

Texas Platters

The Rev. Horton Heat

"...Bunyan: early Link Wray homages ("Big Sky," "Marijuana," "In Your Wildest Dreams"); breakneck rockabilly drag races with trusty stand-up..."

May 28, 1999 Music Review

SXSW Thursday Showcases

Turnstile Presents, 2k14 SeoulSonic, Metal Injection, Womex, Sounds From Colombia, BBC Introducing, Ground Control Touring, M for Montreal, Western Vinyl

"...St. David's sanctuary with quietude, but the title, "We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives," stakes its impressionability. Perfume Genius,..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Keeping Life Queer in 2020

A Guide to Gifting Queerly for the coming decade

"...sniffing out those pink dollars. Our goal is to keep it in the family...."

Dec. 5, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Playback: Major Frost

Who's Max Frost and how did the Austin native sign to Atlantic Records?

"...Jane. The 20-year-old vocalist/multi-instrumentalist/hip-hop producer has the versatility to throw down with the blunted rap underground or the sensible..."

June 28, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Dram Shop Girl

Native daughter Carson McHone comes a courtin'

"...17 would attach to. It was unique, and her voice was unique. It had an Irish tinge to it."..."

July 31, 2015 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

It’s a Celebration

Deezie Brown and Jake Lloyd throw a gala

"...Geto Gala. The former, a rapper/singer/producer specializing in diving deep into Texas-centric themes (revisit "Slabs, Screw, and Stories From..."

Feb. 19, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Vinyl Ashes

A gray vinyl 7-inch with your exit songs?

"..."Now the question – what song would it be?" Your cremated remains pressed into vinyl? As homegrown local tenor..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sxsw

"...Picks & Sleepers..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...And that's not counting the attendant acts the conference sweeps in every year. If you have time for day..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

SXSW Record Reviews

"...way with the man whose eyes bore deathlessly into your skull and let him guide you as you travel..."

March 20, 1998 Music Review

100 Local SXSW Music Acts

A-Z list of 100 Austin acts showcasing at the Fest

"...polished pop veneer, the album spins readymade for The Voice, where the local caught his first big break. – Thomas..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...Ironwood Hall George Lewis Jr., born in the Dominican Republic, raised in Florida, and now Brooklyn-based, rode the chillwave..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

SXSW Friday Picks and Sleepers

"...the Beatles' Apple Records. Aide de camp to Led Zeppelin, Marc Bolan, Stiff Records, and Johnny Thunders' onetime manager,..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

SXSW Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Last night of SX handicapping

"...delighted audiences nationwide; people don't expect such a colossal voice from the pint-sized Texas-born Korean charmer. Her Gurf Morlix-produced..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Wednesday Sleepers

"...8pm, Barcelona Following in the footsteps of seminal DJs Shadow and Krush, Houston's DJ Sun..."

March 7, 2008 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Friday Sleepers..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...this festival's strongest and most ambitious hip-hop effort yet. Keeping in mind there's so many acts and hip-hop's reputation..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Reissues

"...Mercy Baby." When he was canned by Ward and replaced with Wilson, McPhatter signed with Atlantic. The Forgotten Angel..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Texas Platters

"...not a lot of surprises among its 14 tracks except how incandescent Joplin is in her nascent stardom. As..."

July 31, 1998 Music Review

Austin's Hip-Hop Pioneers, in Their Own Words

The Austin History Center-archived rappers and industry innovators share stories

"...Center. His curiosity aligned with the center's plans to keep this year's globally feted 50th anniversary of hip-hop rolling...."

Sept. 15, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers

"...Gone are the days of Brownout being the musical stepchild of Grupo Fantasma. Austin's ninepiece Latin funk orchestra remains..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...follow-up would not be as gripping. It's sad to report, then, that with Middlesence, Rigby seems to have hit..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Music Review

Sticking it to the Fat, Lazy Americans

International Acts at SXSW

"...titled Yeah! Yeah! Die! Die!: Death Metal Symphony in Deep C. It's just what the name implies - a..."

March 13, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...Saturday SleepersAll showcase times subject to change. Please check official SXSW..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

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