Les Shelleys, Das Racist, Kill It Kid, James Blake, The Joy Formidable and Graham Coxon have all been confirmed for next year’s SXSW festival.

RR #3 :: Texas Time
Rubbish Recommendations #3 :: As I write this, I’m somewhere over the Atlantic ocean. It’s either 1am or 6am depending whether I’m on Texas or UK time, and I’m on my way back from completing a long-time goal of mine, South by Southwest festival in Austin.

The SXSW Diaries // Redux!
Freelance Whales, Magic Kids, The Middle East, Das Racist – in the world of mp3 blogs and artists breaking in a matter of months, even these names sound old. So who WERE are the buzz bands of tomorrow.. Jen Long recaps on her SXSW adventure.

The SXSW Diaries // Day 4
SXSW is over. I am the hangover. Live videos from Gwar, Sleigh Bells, Dawes and an interview with the terribly good looking Savoir Adore.
The SXSW Diaries // Day 3
Thurston Moore, J Mascis and a punch in the face. Oh and not to mention meeting dark overlords Gwar in a convention center. All in a days work for our SXSW scribe Jen Long.

The SXSW Diaries // Day 2
Good Morning from Austin, Texas. This morning is awesome because it’s the first morning, ever, in my history of attending SXSW that I don’t have the slightest hint of hangover.

The SXSW Diaries // Day 1
Straight from the frontline, Jen Long starts her daily SXSW blog in style. With words, videos, photos and music from jj, Happy Birthday and The Smith Westerns.

Download 103 (!!) free songs courtesy of Canadian Blast and Kelp Records
Those good people at Canadian Blast have put together an 87 track playlist of Canadian artists playing at SXSW.
HEADLINES
- Best Coast announce UK headline tour, new album due in Spring
- Timber Timbre announced as support for Laura Marling tour
- Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons joins the E Street Band
- Barack Obama drops campaign mixtape
- Cate Le Bon announces UK tour
- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
- The Flaming Lips, Friends and Tom Vek amongst those confirmed for The Parklife Weekender 2012
- Hot Chip, Mount Kimbie, Metronomy and more to play Sónar 2012
- Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton and Gilles Peterson added to The Apple Cart line-up
- Sigur Rós, The xx, The Horrors and more added to Bestival line-up
Videos
Latest Reviews
- Field Music – Plumb
- Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
- Coolrunnings – Dracula Is Only The Beginning
- Tennis – Young And Old
- Maribel – Reveries
- Woodpigeon – For Paolo
- Amanda Mair – Amanda Mair
- Karen Dalton – 1966
- Gotye – Making Mirrors
- Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation
- James Levy and the Blood Red Rose – Pray To Be Free
- Thomas Truax – Monthly Journal
- Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks










