Since we last wrote about the upcoming mega concert SXSW 2011, about 100 fabulous artists have been added to the loooong bill. We have no choice but to give you another top 10 list of international bands. Now you've got 20 of the hottest hip hop, electro, pop, and fusion bands around the globe,

With Spring around the corner, you probably lack the attention span to read long, coherent blog posts. So keep updated with our quick daily round-up of all the news that's fit to blog! From Justin Bieber's latest ramblings to Ricky Martin's latest dilemma... SXSE -- New Festival To Take Place in

Todd P is one of the few household names in the Brooklyn indie scene who isn't a musician. So what's he famous for? Probably the best thing one can be famous for: Throwing parties. He honed this reputation by hosting concurrent alt gigs at Austin's South by Southwest Festival (which we wrote about

The MtyMx Festival had the potential to be a disaster. One-third of the 75-or-so bands scheduled to hop down to Monterrey for the biggest indie fest the Americanized Mexican city had ever seen cancelled -- citing causes as diverse as tour buses that never materialized and a State Department travel

The distance between growing up in Singapore and making it as a songwriter isn't just figurative. First, you've got to get noticed, endure lugging amps onto cafe stages, endure catcalls, endure broken bottles, and then -- maybe then -- you've got an audience big enough to mean that people abroad

SXSW, you were fun and wonderful. You also failed to provide the A-level swag! I know all the good stuff jeans were at the Levi's Fader Fort, and that was pretty much it. Who's working marketing for all the various groups that gave stuff away, Bag of Swag? Who? This is slightly embarrassing, even

Our SXSW correspondent, Molly Wardlaw crammed 20 shows into 4 days. Actually, she wrote that many reviews. We're not even counting the bands she tried to see but didn't get in, got in too late to review fully, saw but didn't care to write about, or saw because she was blindly following a cute...

If you're going to be at South by Southwest this year... a) You lucky f**k. b) Wear shorts, it'll be warm. c) Thursday afternoon, go see Daedelus, Baths, Mexicans With Guns, Shlohmo, and more at Barcelona! A lot of Iggy's favorite producers will be at SXSW this year, and a surprising number of them

With artists from Kampala, Zimbabwe to Choco, Colombia (and that's only in the first two hours of performances), Texas' South by Southwest Festival is the United States' -- and maybe the world's -- most openly international, inviting a whopping 1800 bands down for a long weekend of music. But it

The preliminary list of bands attending the annual SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas is out! And we're already getting excited. It's a lot early for SXSW to be announcing who will be playing -- this is the earliest that organizers have ever released the list. But it is the festival's 25th

Our SXSW correspondent, Molly Wardlaw crammed 20 shows into 4 days. Actually, she wrote than many reviews. We're not even counting the bands she tried to see but didn't get in, got in too late to review fully, saw but didn't care to write about, or saw because she was blindly following a...

Summer's fast approaching, and you know what that means! You and your friends standing on a muddy field, wearing cheap sunglasses, sipping sodas, happy as clams at a music fest! Indie organizers everywhere are finally getting down to announcing their line-ups. So while the Winter Olympics rage on,

The SXSW music (and film, and interactive media) conference is one of the biggest festival/party/social behemoths in the world. It's also one of the most international. So what better place and time to try to raise money for earthquake relief in Japan? Bloggers Leigh Durst, Deb Ng, and Rob Woo saw

Right now, (from March 12-21 actually) Austin, the easy-going liberal enclave  in the heart of God'n'guns Texas, is the place to be for music fanatics. It's the 23rd annual South by South West (abbreviated SXSW) festival of music, film, panels, and more....but let's be honest, it's mostly about

Of the Velvet Underground, Brian Eno famously said, "Only five thousand people ever bought a Velvet Underground album, but every single one of them started a band." The same is true for the music of Alex Chilton -- which never brought the visionary songwriter the big bucks, but which has proven to

You hear about big bands doing secret shows -- Vampire Weekend at the low-ceilinged Mercury Lounge last month, for instance. And there's something totally hilarious about these huge arena-rock tour bands playing little indie clubs. But this is ridiculous. Spin reported earlier today that Muse --