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Pictures: Day 2 in Austin
Day 2 in Austin for me was March 18, 2009, which was the first official day of SXSW. After much determination that I wouldn’t make my daily plans around bands I already like, I went to see Drink Up...
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Pictures: Day 3 in Austin
Day 3 in Austin was March 19, 2009. We headed to Red House Pizzeria to meet with England’s Fanfarlo and shoot a Secret Garden video nearby. Back at the venue, Slow Club had started to play. Then we...
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Pictures: Day 4 in Austin
Day 4 in Austin was March 20, 2009. We rolled into downtown by Mohawk, which was one of the places where the much talked-about Hot Freaks party was happening. There was a huge line outside. We got...
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Pictures: Day 5 in Austin
Day 5 in Austin was March 21, 2009. The morning began with a ride to the northern part of the eastern town, where five members of Balmorhea, an instrumental six-piece from Austin, were waiting to play...
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Pictures: Day 6 in Austin
Day 6 was March 22, 2009. When we were about to eat breakfast, we ran into Brooklyn’s own Sharon Van Etten in the eastern part of town. She was playing a show only four blocks away, so we decided to...
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Video: The Tallest Man on Earth plays in Austin. Part 1
The Tallest Man on Earth is just a band name, and it belongs to Sweden’s Kristian Matsson, who has adopted a heritage of American folk music as exemplified by Bob Dylan and his peers, the result of...
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Videos: Slow Club in Austin
England’s Slow Club are the boy-girl duo of Charles Watson and Rebecca Taylor, whose playful singing in their live sets were accompanied by a guitar and parts of a drum set. They played quite a few...
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Video: The Tallest Man on Earth plays in Austin. Part 2
Here’s part two of The Tallest Man on Earth’s set at Club 1808 in Austin, Texas, when the town was bustling with SXSW festivities. You can also watch Part 1 of this video, in case you missed it....
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Video: Suckers at SXSW; release party coming up
When Suckers arrived in Austin to play their first SXSW show, they’d just come from New Orleans and were wearing Mardi Gras beads around their necks. That show was at Club 1808 (in “Crack Central”),...
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An emblem of my SXSW experience: The Mae Shi at Club 1808
The very first time we headed to Club 1808 was on the official Day 1 of SXSW (our Day 2). We’d done our exploration during the day and decided to unwind at the free Moshi Moshi Records party, where...
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