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Video: SXSW 2013: Shout Out Louds on Creating 'Light' in the Studio
March 16, 2013 10:45 AM ET
Light was the theme of Shout Out Louds' newest record, Optica, singer-guitarist Adam Olenius and bassist Ted Malmros explained at the Rolling Stone Rock Room in sunny Austin, Texas. "We wanted the songs to be bright and colorful," says Olenius. "Light is almost a delicacy in Sweden, because during winter it's only three to four hours of sunlight. We had to create light in the studio." Malmros also theorized about why Sweden has produced such a vibrant Engl... | More »
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Depeche Mode Debut New Songs in Austin
March 16, 2013 10:34 AM ET| Adam Gold
Brazos Hall isn't big enough for Dave Gahan, who took to the Austin club's stage at SXSW last night and commanded a self-pinching 900-capacity crowd – including Billy Corgan, Usher and Matt Sorum – like he was playing the Rose Bowl. Aside from the band's Letterman preview stream last week, it was Depeche Mode's first proper gig since 2010. If the synth-pop pioneers were rusty, they didn't show it. Throughout the criminally-brief 45-minute, 10-song se... | More »
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Photos: SXSW 2013: Inside the Rolling Stone Rock Room
March 16, 2013 10:20 AM ET
Jake Bugg, Lord Huron, Surfer Blood, and more hit Rolling Stone's Rock Room | More »
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Video: SXSW 2013: Fitz and the Tantrums on the Perils and Upsides of Touring
March 16, 2013 10:15 AM ET
Michael Fitzpatrick and James King of the indie-soul rockers Fitz and the Tantrums sat down in the Rolling Stone Rock Room to talk about the exhaustion of touring, but also about the band bonding that comes with it. "The first thing we did after three years of touring was sleep for about six days straight," Fitzpatrick confesses. "And on the seventh day, he planted a succulent garden," King quips. The band's lengthy tour — after which they wrote More Than Just a Dream, which... | More »
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Video: SXSW 2013: Charles Bradley on His Grandmother's Wisdom
March 16, 2013 9:45 AM ET
At the Rolling Stone Rock Room Friday, soul singer Charles Bradley told an endearing tale about how his grandmother's wisdom informed his songwriting worldview. When a young Bradley asked his grandmother, "Grandma, why is there so much pressure and hatred in this world?" she responded by holding up a piece of charcoal and saying that it would one day be a diamond. "'Anytime you go through all these changes,' she said, 'remember your heart, and you can be a precio... | More »
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Green Day Blast Back at SXSW With a Supercharged Billie Joe Armstrong
March 16, 2013 9:25 AM ET| David Fricke
In his recent Rolling Stone interview about addiction, meltdown and hard-won recovery, Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong recalled a show in Austin, Texas in the late Nineties when he decided to stop worrying about his punk credibility and finally act like a rock & roll star onstage: to give his band and songs the showmanship they deserved in concert. It took liquid courage, he admitted – a step with distant, ultimately disastrous consequences. On March 15th, a new... | More »
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SXSW 2013: Charles Bradley, Eric Burdon Bring Blues and Noise to Rolling Stone Rock Room
March 15, 2013 8:40 PM ET| Adam Gold
"Do you feel like going to church?" Charles Bradley asked a packed crowd of SXSW day partiers in Austin. Preaching the gospel of soul and message of unity, Charles Bradley transformed Friday afternoon's Rolling Stone Rock Room into a tabernacle. Boasting the best moves at SXSW and donning an indigo jumpsuit encrusted with the glittering skull of a sphinx, the 64-year-old former James Brown impersonator twirled to the beat of his greasy R&B backing Menahan Street Band like ... | More »
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Photos: SXSW 2013: Charles Bradley Behind the Scenes
March 15, 2013 1:55 PM ET
Follow soul's late bloomer as he promotes his second album | More »
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Snoop Lion and Major Lazer Host Raucous Bash in Austin
March 15, 2013 12:50 PM ET| Jon Blistein
When Major Lazer came out tossing vuvuzelas, you knew they meant business. Dull plastic toots bounced off the warehouse walls as hypeman Walshy Fire, DJ Jillionaire and Diplo himself emerged, the latter two clad in suit and tie. Over the next hour, the group spun a tight, twisted set at Viceland's SXSW headquarters, with Diplo even tumbling out into the crowd, Wayne Coyne-as-Bubble Boy style. It was a fitting, raving open for the night's main event: a live performance from Snoop Dog... | More »
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Dave Grohl's SXSW Keynote Speech: The Complete Text
March 15, 2013 12:45 PM ET| Rolling Stone
Dave Grohl delivered his keynote speech on Thursday at SXSW, urging musicians to find "your voice" and recounting how he made his own rock dreams a reality, practicing in his room "until there was literally sweat dripping down the Rush posters on my wall." Below is the full text of his speech, which was livestreamed on NPR. Thank you SXSW very much for allowing me the incredible opportunity of being this year's keynote speaker. Having been raised by a former DC political speechwriter an... | More »
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