Tag: sxsw

The Austin Connection

Posted on March 6, 2014June 5, 2023 by Ewan Spence

While this is the fifteenth airline leg so far this year, the current episode of ‘Where’s Ewan This Week?’ has nothing to do with the Eurovision Song Contest (okay, almost nothing, Manga are in town and I might bump into the boys in a Turkish bar). I’m en route to Austin, Texas, for my ninth trip to South by Southwest. This is actually a strange feeling. The last few trips (Finland, Estonia, and especially Latvia) have felt like real adventures, to new locations (or in the case of Helsinki, seeing far more of the city and the surrounding suburbs than

The SXSW Music Sampler for 2014 is now available

Posted on March 5, 2014June 5, 2023 by Ewan Spence

Over on SXSW Baby!, the annual 80 track sampler of the SXSW Music Festival has just been posted. Covering a wide range of musical styles, sounds, genres, and performers all playing in Austin this week and next, it brings together YouTube videos, Soundcloud clips, and other media in one handy file for you to unzip and pop on your current ‘device with an MP3 player’. DOWNLOAD the SXSW Baby! “Best of SXSW 2014″ sampler Mega.co.nz link (314 Mb) I wanted to create some great moments when listening to the songs, to have the music flow into each other, to have

Looking back at SXSW Music on The Rock Show

Posted on March 25, 2013June 5, 2023 by Ewan Spence

[audio:http://archive.org/download/TpnRockFriday20130322232/tpn_rock_friday_20130322_232.mp3] MP3 File – Show Notes – RSS Feed Probably the first of a few weeks of ‘Rock Show podcasts’ powered by the bands and performers I found at this year’s SXSW Music. This week with Delta Rae, Clairy Browne and The Bangin’ Rackets, Little Green Cars, Chappo, and Ruby Jane.

It looks like Twitter has finally broken ‘Is Scoble In This Room’

Posted on March 23, 2013June 5, 2023 by Ewan Spence

Damm, now he can sneak up on you!

Travelling home via Arthur C. Clarke

Posted on March 17, 2013June 5, 2023 by Ewan Spence

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. So let me get this right. I walk through a door, sit down in a tube for a few hours, stand up and walk out the tube again. Do that three times, and I won’t be in Texas any more, but back home in Edinburgh? Magic.

Dear SXSW bands, where is all the merch?

Posted on March 15, 2013June 5, 2023 by Ewan Spence

Something I’ve noticed at SXSW Music this year is the lack of merchandise on sale after a showcase. With over 2000 official performances, the people in the crowd are already invested in you. They’ve given up close to an hour of their time to listen to you. If they are up on their feet. cheering and applauding at the end of the gig… you’ve made the sale! You’ve got them! All you need to do is close the transaction and you have a fan for life! Except in three nights of back to back showcases, only two artists I’ve seen