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For those of you who are unfamiliar, South by Southwest Music Festival occurs each March down in Austin, Texas.
This year the Music Festival is March 18-22, 2009, and tomorrow at midnight is the deadline for bands who want to apply to SXSW ‘09.
In addition to the 1500+ bands who play the festival...
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We realize that these shows aren’t even happening in 2008, but tickets are onsale already for both of the shows here:
http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4562
Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:00 pm
Thursday, March 19, 2009, 10:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Non-members: $25
Walker members: $21
Spend an...
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(Photo from MichielB)
If you weren’t there, you missed it. But luckily hundreds of geeks were there to document today’s SXSW meltdown.
Nathan Wright at Lava Row has a good recap of what happened during today’s SXSWi Keynote by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg:
Today during the Mark...
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Fantastic panels today. I’ll have notes on teen marketing, alternate reality games and Henry Jenkins soon. I had to get a quick post up about the social media metrics panel.
First, some quick background: I participated in a Traditional/New Media panel in Minneapolis a couple weeks ago, live-blogging...
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What an insane day at SXSW Interactive Day 1. I honestly could go home happy after just this one day.
I kicked off the morning hosting breakfast with Rick Calvert, CEO and Co-Founder of BlogWorld, Jim Turner, Chief Managing Partner of One By One Media and Nathan Wright, Founder of Lava Row. There was...
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I’m in Austin, TX this very minute for the 21st Annual South by Southwest Interactive, Film and Music Festival.
You can find me at the Metroblogging Meetup: Sunday, March 9th at 5 p.m. at Rio Rita.
Otherwise, follow me on Twitter and surprise me at a panel or party over the course of the conference
On...
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Leerone, whom we told you about just after the new year, got some love from Billboard Magazine’s “Now Here This,” section last month and now all eyes are on how fast people snatch up Imaginary Biographies following her tbd SXSW gigs.
LEERONE : “To Fill the Void” (mp3)
She has a lovely Karen Carpenter...
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It’s no secret I really dig the Raleigh/Durham music scene. The latest band to hit my radar are Megafaun, who are actually Durham transplants via Eau Claire. In fact, the three guys who make up the trio used to be in DeYarmond Edison with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver). Yes!
Incestuousness aside, the trio...
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Sweet baby jesus, this looks awesome. If you happen to be headed to the 2008 SXSW Festival, be sure to check it out. REFORMAT THE PLANET trailer from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo.
Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet is a feature length documentary which delves into the movement known as ChipTunes, a...