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The Crystal Method. Photo Credit: Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Casio
The Music Gear Expo is packed with exciting new events this year including signings, product demos and more!
Thursday will kick things off with ROLI's launch of the Seaboard GRAND keyboard with a demo session by Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater at 1:00pm. Following that, Macklemore will make an appearance at the Gear Expo Lounge, which is sponsored by Jam for iPhone.
Jim James, Photo by Neil Krug
The SXSW Music Conference is pleased to announce Jim James as a featured interviewee for the 2013 event.
Jim James has spent the better part of almost two decades as the lead singer and songwriter of My Morning Jacket. Through six studio albums, My Morning Jacket has grown into one of the most acclaimed rock and roll bands in the world. Alongside the band's recording and touring, James has maintained a steady, bordering on voracious, flow of work. In 2009, he released the Tribute To EP, with his versions of six George Harrison songs. He has also lent his voice to albums by the likes of The Decemberists, The Roots, America, Booker T. Jones, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. He recorded and toured with the Monsters of Folk—which teamed him up with Conor Oberst, M. Ward, and Mike Mogis—and participated in the Woody Guthrie tribute album New Multitudes alongside Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, and Anders Parker.
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2013 Showcasing Band Cafe Tacvba. Photo by Rafa Paz.
SXSW Music is proud to announce this year’s Thursday Auditorium Shores show, presented by NPR Music, featuring some of Latin America’s genre-defining artists. Cafe Tacvba makes their SXSW debut on Thursday, March 14th at Auditorium Shores, sharing the stage with Molotov and Bajofondo.
Molotov, best known for their politically charged lyricism, is continually refining their art and crafting new ways to communicate their message. Four Latin-Grammys, five studio albums and one documentary, Gimme The Power, into their career, we still find the group powering through various festival and events around the world.
2013 Showcasing Band, We Are The Grand
SXSW Music and Sounds From Chile will showcase a batch of fresh up-and-comers and established acts from the South American country this year at the Friends bar.
The night’s line-up includes We Are The Grand. WATG holds strong to a very contemporary style of fast-paced indie rock with skilled execution. From catchy guitar riffs to English-sung lyrics, this rock quartet takes inspiration from their North American neighbors and flips it right-side up.
Fossil Collective, a two-piece from Leeds, consists of multi instrumentalists David Fendick and Jonny Hooker. Their first recordings saw them taking inspiration from classic albums by Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac and Simon and Garfunkel and suggested comparisons with more contemporary artists such as Fleet Foxes, Midlake and Bon Iver. But in truth their exquisitely structured songs and glorious, rich harmonies owe as much, if not more, to a solid English song tradition, and their material holds that distinct English quality that many North American artists hanker after.
Trends in music are cyclical. Every few years something comes along that borrows just enough from the past to make the new exciting again. Scorpion Child produce a sound that hearkens back to when guitar rock ruled the airwaves and made going to a concert the ultimate main event. The five-piece hail from Austin, Texas where they’ve spent the last few years perfecting both their songwriting and stage presence. The outfit features Chris Cowart and David Finner layering high-energy twin-guitars over the band’s pounding rhythms discharged by Shaun Avants (bass) and Shawn Alvear (drums).
New! 2014 dates!
Interactive: March 7–11
Film: March 7–15
Music: March 11–16
