DJ Sober does it again…

A funny thing happened on the way to the South by Southwest’s becoming the insanely corporate-sponsored event that it is today: With major corporation upon major corporation descending upon Austin for the five-day music festival each year (not to mention the interactive and film portions that start earlier in the…

Two weeks back at 35 Conferette (has it really been that long?), we finally went and caught a live set from Denton dream pop upstart Novaak, a band whose debut album, I Am, You Are, we’ve very much enjoyed. But you already knew that. Anyway, we’re happy to report, the…

So here we were, sitting around DC9 HQ, talking about music as we tend to do, and, specifically, about our highlights from SXSW weekend. And, somewhere between my loving ramblings about Odd Future, Noah W. Bailey mentioned that, in his quick Austin sojourn, he’d caught an acoustic set from iconic…

Regrettably, we didn’t make it out to Paste’s Thursday day party featuring North Texas’ own Sarah Jaffe and Seryn (fellow North Texans Eisley played the magazine’s Wednesday party), and, to hear Paste tell it, boy, did we miss out: The venerable and regrettably now online-only music rag claims Seryn’s performance…

After the jump, you can watch the just-released music video from Oak Cliff’s Own Lil Twist, for his Lil Wayne-featuring song called “Love Affair,” which is set to be part of the 18-year-old’s upcoming debut Don’t Get It Twisted full-length.But, first, a word on the young rapper. Namely: What the…

Gossip, gossip — if you’ve been following our daily power rankings of buzz at SXSW 2011 over the past few days, then you know that, yes, indeed, Kanye West has had it all week long at this year’s annual festival in Austin.And, after briefly losing the top slot in our…

Well, mercifully, the last night of SXSW 2011 is finally upon us. And, on this final day, in which luminaries such as Kanye West, Perez Hilton and Rachel Ray are finally letting their presence be known, we finally have a new act sitting atop our buzz power rankings.That’s right: Later…

Seems our incessant festival coverage over the past few weeks has indeed caught up with me; I’m sorry to say that I’m holed up in my hotel at the moment, fighting off some sort of bug that my beaten immune system is having trouble shaking.Nonetheless, I did catch a few…

Thursday at SXSW 2011 has come and gone — but Kanye remains solidly in his spot atop our buzz power rankings, as determined by chatter we’re hearing on the street. His lead is shrinking, though — Odd Future is hot on his tail, proving once again that this is an…

Oftentimes, the hype an act has built up heading into South by Southwest can be so overwhelming that it creates an insurmountable hurdle for an otherwise pleasing, if hardly life-changing, outfit (see: Vampire Weekend, circa 2008). And no doubt this was the theoretical case heading into this year’s festival for…

Our second night at SXSW was pretty crazy — although pretty much nothing we saw compared to the greatness/madness that was Hodgy Beats and Left Brains of MellowHype from the Odd Future crew’s show at the Brooklyn Vegan party yesterday afternoon.For what it’s worth, this crew isn’t just on-stage talk:…

It’s not every week that the best show also takes home the nod for best poster. But, make no mistake, that’s exactly what’s happened this time around…

South by Southwest is a static thing — both in theory and in practice. It’s a chance for bands to fans to see the established acts they’ve been wanting to see and for new, up-and-coming acts to try and make names for themselves. And that latter part very much tends…

Because nothing is more happening at SXSW than Twitter right now — or so we can only assume by all the people we’re seeing with eyes fixated on their cameras instead of their phones — we present to you reviews of the shows we caught last night, in standard, 140-character…