Saturday night at SXSW is supposed to be big. It’s your last chance to see a lot of bands that play their fourth and final shows at an afternoon showcase, be they new discoveries or old favorites. Looking at yesterday’s schedule, I realize that I could have plotted my show-going out hour by hour, […]

If you’ll remember from my brief and uncreative SXSW preview, I had goals for this SXSW. Getting Billy Bragg to say the words “pickled onion pizza,” meeting Murs and seeing a host of artists (the aforementioned angularly-dreaded MC among them). During day two, I made good on some of those goals (Bragg still eludes, though […]

You’ll have to forgive me, dear reader, for treating this SXSW blog a bit like a diary. I hope it gives you a sense of what things are like here in Austin. But really, I hope that it saves me some fretting over form and presentation. There’s a ton going on here, and it doesn’t […]