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Planning to attend SXSW 2014? Then set a calendar reminder for Thursday, August 1, the day when registration for next year's event officially opens.

Next year's events are sure to be a mix of innovative speakers, groundbreaking films, and all the bands you'll be talking about all summer and beyond.

Registering for SXSW in early August offers two very important advantages -- the biggest discount on registration fees and the best choice of Austin hotel rooms.

New Found Glory Art Show Flyer

Our friends at Balcones Recycling worked hard this year to make SXSW a cleaner event than ever before. With the help of trained janitorial crews they diverted tens of thousands of pounds of waste from the landfill by collecting recycling and compost at three major SXSW locations. Auditorium Shores (65% diversion), South Bites Food Court (87% diversion), and Brush Square Park (48% diversion) all showed impressive results especially for our first year working with Balcones. We are confident that next year will be even better!

A visionary whose innovations paved the way for the Internet as we know it today, Sir Tim Berners-Lee now serves as Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). At the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival, he anchored a standout featured speaker lineup that showcased some of the most creative minds in the new media industry.

"And the cat would be Beatle Steve!" said Robyn Hitchcock. Photo by Mindy Best

This year we were lucky to present "50 Years of the Beatles" in collaboration with the Grammy Museum.

Hop in your time machine and have a gander at artists Robyn Hitchcock, Rodney Crowell and Ron Sexsmith as they head back to February 1964 along with Bill Flanagan and moderator Bob Santelli to discuss the Fab Four's storming of both America and Britain's shores.