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Animator Discusses Wes Anderson’s Journey to the Isle of Dogs

Somewhere in Japan, in the not-too-distant future, the canine flu has transformed Man’s Best Friend into an enemy. A corrupt mayor issues a decree that all dogs must be rounded up and exiled to Trash Island, an aptly named offshore dump. The mayor’s 12-year-old nephew, Atari Kobayashi, embarks on a…

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Isle of Dogs. Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures

A Look Back: Katie Couric

Katie Couric is an award-winning journalist, cancer advocate, documentary filmmaker, and New York Times best-selling author. Couric joined us at SXSW to record an episode of “The Katie Couric Podcast” and to discuss her upcoming series for National Geographic, America Inside Out with Katie Couric. The series premieres on April…

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Katie Couric. Photo by Joey L

New Project Captures Pulse of Africa’s Beating Heart

Around the time that John and Alan Lomax were recording and preserving folk music in the Americas, Englishman Hugh Tracey was recording and archiving much of that music’s very roots in Africa. Between the 1920s and the 1970s, Tracey recorded around 250 tribal groups. In 1954, he founded the International…

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Beating Heart

The Not-Quite Gaming Capital: Austin’s Role in Modern Gaming

In addition to vaunted music and technology scenes, Austin can also claim to be the cradle of modern video game design. While the city hosts dozens of smaller and independent companies working on games and gaming technology, not to mention extension offices of heavy hitters like Blizzard, BioWare and EA,…

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Heavy Trip Delivers Headbanging Laughs

According to a number of sources, Finland has the most metal bands per capita in the world, with erstwhile headbangers found across the Nordic country, in major cities and rural villages. It is a group of these small town metalheads and their dreams of glory that propel Heavy Trip (Hevi…

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Heavy Trip. Photo by Harri Räty

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…

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El Freaky. Photo by David Micolta.

No Worries: Nathaniel Rateliff’s Long Road to SXSW

When Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats take the SXSW Outdoor Stage presented by MGM Resorts, they ought to feel right at home. Two years ago — their first time headlining the venue — the Denver-based octet sold out Red Rocks, the picturesque outdoor amphitheater that has hosted milestone shows…

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Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats. Photo by Brantley Gutierrez

Asia’s Homegrown Hip-Hop

With a population of an estimated two billion people in the 16-34 age range, demographic numbers alone illustrate the Asian music market’s potential. At SXSW 2018, a number of hip-hop and R&B artists are out to demonstrate the region’s commercial promise. Hip-hop first took root in Japan. According to Ian…

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