The people of Austin are nice enough to welcome thousands (and thousands) of vagabond music fans into their city for a few days each year, so we decided to pay their stomping ground homage with a…   Read Story »

As previously mentioned, Peter Morén brought a blissful, mellow close to the opening day of our Volume party. Tunes from his prematurely enjoyed Last Tycoon sounded great live, especially with the…   Read Story »

Popular Brooklynites and Pete pals Nada Surf buzzed our day party on Thursday with a three-man acoustical jam. We showed you images earlier ... now we bring you the sounds. Here's Let Go's "Happy…   Read Story »

Miles from their beloved Baltimore, Wye Oak's Andy Stack and Jenn Waster gamely jumped into an air-conditioned Yaris outside a Merge Showcase and played us an intimate, stripped-down and strummed "I…   Read Story »

The original plan on Friday was to see Zooey and Matt Ward (the she and him of She & Him) at Merge's 12AM showcase at the Parish, because she's got a good voice and he's cute. And vice versa. But…   Read Story »

This South By, Man Man were good good (last time we make that joke). We caught the face-painted Philly boys twice this week -- both outdoors -- once at Cedar Street Courtyard as part of the Anti-…   Read Story »

Bands can't survive on nachos and Fuze alone, so we sent our friend Shea Hess to procure delicious local cuisine for some of our fave new artists playing SXSW. Stereogum Artist To Watch El Guincho…   Read Story »

It's in the blogger code to toss out superlatives with reckless abandon, but really -- we weren't lying when called Islands set at Cedar St. the best of this fest. (OK, maybe Fuck Buttons @ Volume…   Read Story »

Interested in filling a rock club to the rafters? Simple: Just have Nada Surf and Destroyer play back to back sometime. People were stuffed asses to elbows at Volume night club for the first day of…   Read Story »

Age old question, we know. Stereogum scammed an invite to last night's party at the 301 in Austin, featuring an awkward mélange of musicians (MGMT, Moby, and the sexy Frenchies of Justice),…   Read Story »