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SXSW Withdrawals? SXSWfm Is Here For You

Created by Rory on March 19, 2013
SXSW FM

Do you miss SXSW already? Don't worry, SXSWfm will be here all year featuring great music by SXSW 2013 Showcasing Artists. Check out the SXSWfm blog for our daily musical snapshot. Stay tuned as we continue to add music from SXSW Showcasing Artists of the past 27 years and roll out new content related to Music, Film, Interactive, and more!

We'll be back with another musical snapshot soon. For now, get some rest and reacquaint yourselves with your favorite SXSW 2013 Showcasing Artists on SXSWfm!

What's Happening! March 17 - Final Countdown Edition

Created by L Park on March 17, 2013
Happening Music Film Interactive Comedy

A Tribe Called Quest A Tribe called Quest crushing it before Prince last night.
photo by John Sciuli/Wire Image

Welcome to the final What's Happening for SXSW 2013! This year's festival was a one-way ticket to Bananatown, no? If you're a local or still in town we hope you'll join us tonight for a final evening of good times at The Jr.

What's Happening! March 16 Film, Comedy and Music PM Edition

Created by L Park on March 16, 2013
Happening Music Film Comedy

Flaming Lips Last night's Flaming Lips show at Auditorium Shores... more or less.

Welcome to the nearly final edition of What's Happening! I'll have one for whoever's left in this town tomorrow afternoon. Thanks so much for coming to ye olde SXSW and we hope you've had a perfectly nice time in our little town.

Brent Grulke - A Tribute, A Prize and some Bands on the Block

Created by L Park on March 16, 2013
Happening Music Film Interactive

On Thursday morning of this year's SXSW Music and Media Conference we paid tribute to our friend and colleague, Creative Director Brent Grulke, who passed away last August. It was a lovely celebration, thanks in part to Alan Berg and our pals at Arts + Labor, who produced this video that aired before Dave Grohl's keynote.

SXSW Film Poster Awards - Gallery Now Online!

Created by jim on March 16, 2013
Film

Designed by Akiko
Stehrenberger for
Gravillis Inc

Thanks to the magic of Flickr, we can now bring you a beautiful online gallery of all eligible posters in the SXSW Award for Excellence in Poster Design.

Take a closer look at winning poster for Kiss of the Damned (pictured here), as well as images across all the categories, including shorts, Texas High School and all the main categories.

Click here to view the full gallery

See Lissie at the Austin Music Hall Tonight!

Created by melissa on March 16, 2013
Music

Lissie

Come see Lissie tonight at The Austin Music Hall as part of Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin! Lissie, currently living in Ojai, California, caught everyone’s attention with her 2009 EP “Why You Runnin” and again with her 2010 album “Catching a Tiger.” Paste Magazine called the Rock Island, Illinois-born Lissie the “Best New Solo Artist of 2010” and the BBC said “Give the girl a second and she’ll steal your heart.” Lissie is finishing recording her second album and will release it in 2013. You can watch her video of "Pursuit of Happiness" below:

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