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Video: SXSW 2010 Day Four Twitter Marathon: 23 Reports, From Scissor Sisters to Free Energy
March 21, 2010 11:32 AM ET
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Muse Pack Arena-Size Anthems Into Surprise SXSW Show
March 20, 2010 11:40 AM ET| Steve Appleford
Muse are a band that like things on a massive scale, igniting big sounds on the biggest stages, with the kind of big visual effects known only to the likes of Pink Floyd and Daft Punk. That's the Muse comfort zone, but the British trio's special appearance Friday on a much smaller stage at a MySpace Music-presented South By Southwest show traded grand gestures for relative intimacy, without deflating the band's soaring post-punk prog sound. There were still laser-beams and son... | More »
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Hole Cover the Rolling Stones, And Courtney Love Isn't Satisfied at SXSW
March 20, 2010 11:07 AM ET| Michael Hoinski
"Make a hole!" yelled one of the bouncers at Dirty Dog, where Courtney Love was about to continue her return to music with a reconstituted version of her band Hole on the third night of the SXSW Music Festival. It was creeping up on 1:15 am. The crowd was packed so tightly together stage left of the dive bar that an emergency situation seemed imminent. Just then the bouncer bulldozered an opening through a space out of thin air to accommodate Woody Harrelson, dressed in a light tan suit and m... | More »
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SXSW 2010 Day Three Twitter Marathon: 24 Reports, From Liars to Local Natives
March 20, 2010 10:56 AM ET| Rolling Stone
The big story on SXSW's third day was the surprise Muse performance at Stubb's, which was announced during the broadcast of the Fox show Human Target earlier in the week (yes, really) — though Rolling Stone's own showcase featuring Band of Skulls, Jimmie Dale and Colin Gilmore, Court Yard Hounds, John Doe, Rye Rye and Nneka was a pretty hot ticket, too. Christopher R. Weingarten of @1000TimesYes continued his Twitter odyssey yesterday, tweeting about 24 bands in 14 hours... | More »
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Video: SXSW 2010 Day Three Twitter Marathon: 24 Reports, From Liars to Local Natives
March 20, 2010 10:56 AM ET
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Broken Social Scene, Band of Horses, Drive-By Truckers Bring Big Guitar Rock to SXSW
March 19, 2010 11:01 AM ET| Michael Hoinski
Night two of the SXSW Music Festival featured a trio of big guitar bands with new lineups, playing new — in some cases not even completed — albums. The pressure was on to strike a balance between satiating fans with classics and testing new material without trying their patience. More SXSW day two guitar rock: full report on Stone Temple Pilots' set. The Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers — now without its third singer-songwriter, Jason Isbell — proved the wor... | More »
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Stone Temple Pilots Debut Songs, Rock With Robby Krieger at SXSW
March 19, 2010 10:34 AM ET| Steve Appleford
Stone Temple Pilots are not a band many could have expected to survive two full decades. Even acts without the internal wounds of serious addiction and ongoing conflict rarely make it this long, but when STP emerged onstage at the Austin Music Hall for a special performance at South By Southwest on Thursday, they delivered like journeyman rock stars with their shit together — tight and focused, and unburdened with the bitterness or bad memories from the recent past. Singer Scott Weilan... | More »
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SXSW 2010 Day Two Twitter Marathon: 26 Reports, From GZA to the xx
March 19, 2010 10:03 AM ET| Rolling Stone
On day two of SXSW, you could see the mechanisms of the hype machine in full effect. The current crop of buzz bands (the xx, Surfer Blood, Bear In Heaven) packed their rooms wall-to-wall. However, bands who had their moment but still release excellent albums (Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Vivian Girls) had more modest crowds. Maybe it's the economy of cool, maybe it's that bands were expected to play 10 day shows in four days and thus spread audiences thin. But however you watche... | More »
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Video: SXSW 2010 Day Two Twitter Marathon: 26 Reports, From GZA to the xx
March 19, 2010 10:03 AM ET
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Spoon, Broken Bells Grab the Spotlight as SXSW 2010 Launches
March 18, 2010 10:15 AM ET| Michael Hoinski
Broken Bells made a lot of noise the first day of the SXSW Music Festival with their "pop-up" show at a parking garage on Red River Street in downtown Austin. It took place at 1:00 pm and was packed to capacity. That trend continued at their Wednesday night NPR showcase at Stubb's. Catch up on 27 more reports — and see video — from SXSW's Day One in our Twitter marathon roundup. Despite what you've been told, Broken Bells are not a duo consisting of James Merce... | More »
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