Whew, that’s another SXSW for the books! This year was my fourth year attending the festival and Justin’s third year doing so, and we’ve noticed quite a few changes happening on the grounds in Austin. Some changes were much more obvious than others and some were a bit more subtle than that… you’ll see. Read […]
Every year we go to SXSW, From the Intercom always puts together a (very) unofficial guide to SXSW to highlight some of what we’re planning to do during the week. As always, there are always so many things to do that it can get overwhelming. And in my opinion, the best way to tackle the […]
Scouring through the numerous names at SXSW, I’m often greeted by the usual suspects: US artists who are on the rise vis-a-vis the blogosphere, one-off shows from Asian musicians, and people who we’ve likely covered on the site in some way, shape, or form. But it wasn’t until I gave the artist list its umpteenth […]
Three no-nonsense bodies hurried about me, loading their equipment quickly into the back of an Uber and piling into the backseat with some friends. I sat up front with the driver, who initiated a conversation about the various B-list celebrities and cultural icons he had the chance of driving around all week thanks to SXSW […]
Back in college, I first wrote about Haru Nemuri’s Shunka Ryougen for a music column I led on behalf of my university website. Sitting across from the poetry rapper and her team nearly ten months later inside of a WeWork in downtown Austin, I struggled to articulate how important the project meant to me as […]