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2019 World Music Showcases From Africa, Brazil, Colombia, and more

The 2019 SXSW Music Festival is just days away, and we’ve announced Showcasing Artists from 64 countries around the world. These acts will take the stage at bars, clubs, concert halls, dives, and parks all over downtown Austin to show the SXSW community the music of their respective homelands. Whether…

BY Hayden Bagot
Grupo Rebolu - Photo by Diana Bejarano

Get To Know: 4 Showcasing Artists From Colombia

Colombia has been home to a thriving music scene for decades. More recently, Colombian music has gained a larger US audience with the recent pop-crossover success of reggaeton and latin trap hits like "Despacito." There is so much more to discover when it comes to Colombian music, and many of…

BY Hayden Bagot
J.Patron - Photo by George Duchanes

Wyclef Jean Looks to Youth For Talent and Inspiration

In the 22 years following the release of the Fugees’ chart-topping, groundbreaking album The Score, Wyclef Jean has certainly kept himself busy. As a solo artist, Wyclef has put out seven albums, including his latest, Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee, released in September 2017. Beyond the…

BY SXSWorld

The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, November 30

Apply SXSW's Daily Chord filter on your music news intake - subscribe to our newsletter to survey the headlines of the day, and click through for the stories. This week we continued to look at the music business dispute with YouTube over proposed EU legislation Article 13, noted the rise…

BY Andy Flynn
SXSW 2019 Daily Chord

The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, July 27

Among the links to music news stories provided by the Daily Chord this week; an unheard Bowie find, an SEC settlement for the Fyre festival heads, development threatens to level Seattle's Showbox, and the Mercury Prize nominees came out. Check out all of the new stories each weekday, and make…

BY Andy Flynn
SXSW 2019 Daily Chord

SXSW 2018 by the Numbers

SXSW 2018 by the Numbers ‭Statistical insights into this year's eventSXSW 2018 by the Numbers EVENT STATISTICS SXSWeek® spanned 10 days and nights. From March 9–18, 2018, approximately 432,500 people participated in the SXSW Conference & Festivals. OVERVIEW The SXSW Conference programming — consisting of 24 diverse tracks, the Cities…

BY SXSWorld

Latin Urban Style Embraces Different Locales and Genres

The Grammy Awards may have first awarded its Best Latin Urban Album in 2008, but Latino urban music had been in the making long before then. Now, the genres that make up Latin urban are bursting it at the seams. Since the 1980s, during the heightened popularity of rap and…

BY SXSWorld
El Freaky. Photo by David Micolta.

2018 World Music Showcases From Peru, Puerto Rico, Africa, & More

Musicians from all over the world will bring their music to Austin’s clubs, dives, concert halls, and parks next week for 2018 SXSW Music Festival. At last year’s festival, artists from 63 countries were represented, and this year will be similarly inclusive. Whether you are interested in African high-life, reggae,…

BY Hayden Bagot
2018 Showcasing Artist La Misa Negra
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