Another Rainy Saturday

SXSW is happening once again in Austin, TX in March. This year it runs from Tuesday, March 13 to Sunday, March 18. I’ve compiled a list of bands from Seattle making the pilgrimage to Texas this year. This list is certainly incomplete, though I want it to be as comprehensive as possible. If you represent or play [...]

Last year, I compiled a guide to bands from Seattle playing in Austin, TX for SXSW – and this year, I’m going to do it again. If you are a Seattle band (or a manager or publicist or friend of someone who is) and if you’re playing, please let me know; there are so many showcases and [...]

We’ve been running photos and reviews from SXSW all week, with excellent reviews from Shrie Spangler and photos from Dave Lichterman. You can see our complete coverage here. Here are Dave’s photos from Saturday, the final day of SXSW. There really are brilliant, featuring artists such as Bright Eyes, Toro y Moi, Kurt Vile, Foster [...]

  Being a brand spankin’ new transplant from Seattle to Austin, attendance to the SXSeattle Showcase at the Copa Bar was pretty much mandatory. Even though I ran the risk of seeing bands I’d seen a million times before, the showcase was a tasty little bit of the rainy music mecca that I just left. [...]

With last week’s SXSW event in Austin, countless (ok, somewhere around fifty) Seattle-based artists made their way to Texas to perform before crowds flocking to the festival. Superstar photographer Dave Lichterman was there with his SLR to capture his first SXSW experience. This photo set (probably the largest one we’ve ever run: 41 photos, if we [...]