SXSW ends as buzz grows for bands who impressed

Not long after the last guitar is strummed, the final beer is downed and East 6th Street clears out, the discussion of which acts made a mark at South By Southwest begins.

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Acts twitter at SXSW, in interviews and on stage

It wasn't just the legions of concertgoers wandering the streets who were twittering at South By Southwest. Many of the acts were posting tweets throughout the music conference and festival, sometimes even on stage or during interviews.

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South By Kanye West? Rapper plays final SXSW night

For a night, it was South By Kanye West.

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Rachael Ray hosts SXSW party, Hold Steady headline

Cheering stage left at her party at South By Southwest, Rachael Ray whooped for her husband's band, the Cringe.

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Peter Bjorn & John overcome train wreck SXSW show

At South By Southwest, disastrous shows can happen easily. This year, the Swedish pop trio Peter Bjorn and John was one of the unfortunate bands led to SXSW slaughter.

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Metallica invades SXSW as `young band from Norway'

Invading South By Southwest, Metallica attempted to pose as one of the hundreds of smaller bands there just hoping to get a record deal.

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Big Boi, readying a solo album, drops into SXSW

Big Boi is bouncing on the sidewalk. He is pumped.

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Optimism abounds at SXSW despite economy

For the nearly 2,000 acts performing at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, this week, the odds of success would seem insurmountable.

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Gossip Blogger Shows Music Power at SXSW

Last year, when gossip blogger Perez Hilton came to South by Southwest, he was just a spectator.

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Star Cooks Up More Than Food at SXSW

Of all the sponsored events at the South by Southwest music festival, Rachael Ray's artist showcase may have been the most puzzling.

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Hip-Hop Grows at South by Southwest

South by Southwest has always been known as a music festival that flourishes with indie-rock bands, singer-songwriter types, classic blues players, metal acts and even some country artists. But hip-hop? Not so much.

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N.E.R.D Debut New Music in Austin, Texas

N.E.R.D.'s new single "Everybody Nose," which depicts a club-hopper's drug use, could be the theme song for out-of-control party girls on the celebrity circuit. But frontman Pharrell Williams says the song is not chastising people for their questionable habits.

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Musicians Descend on Austin for SXSW

The 20th annual South by Southwest music festival, which begins Wednesday in Austin, Texas, features a few veterans who exemplify the fest's independent streak.

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There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bull@!$%# and pull stunts to generate mindless traffic.

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Star@!$%#er at SXSW. Fantastic!

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In anticipation of the South by Southwest music festival, which begins today in Austin, Texas, more than a thousand acts—almost twice as many as last year—offered an mp3 to showcase their sound. Once again, PAUL FORD listened to them all. No, really. Six words per track.

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Austin's SXSW Music Conference has been dubbed "Hipster Spring Break" or "Hipsters! Gone! Wild!" Except, as Dan Melchior pointed out, no one wants to watch a video of hipsters gone wild.

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Great interview with nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot.

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LOU REED is urging all music fans to demand better quality sound from downloads because he fears modern technology is "taking us backwards".

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Humboldt County - SXSW Premiere

To be honest, up until an hour before I saw this movie, I had assumed we were going to see a documentary about pot growers - and was not looking forward to it.

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AUSTIN, Texas--For some time I've been hearing about the documentary, Second Skin, which looks at players of massively multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft.

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The goal of most advertisers is, frankly, to bypass your rational brain and reach down into the murky depths of your limbic system to control your desires.

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Exposed: SXSW fiasco was all a hoax

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Then She Found Me - SXSW Premiere

It is funny, that you can have a movie with an Oscar winner and so many well known actors and come out thinking that you just watched such a small movie.

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The Winner: FlockdUp, the social network for the BlackBerry-and-PowerPoint set. Merlin Mann won the (fake) $1 million funding check because his presentation had the best animations, used the most buzzwords and made the least amount of sense.

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One of South by Southwest 2008's first film premieres opened to a packed and uproarious house of pot aficionados and comedy lovers alike.

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Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay - World Premiere

Obviously, based on the line spilling around the block and the number of seats being held in reserve this movie is popular here at SXSW. The stars of the movie are here and the crowd is bustling with excitment.

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The Tulia drug sting happened nearly nine years ago, but the reverberations from events in that small Texas town continue to ripple through the nation's psyche, both politically and increasingly, culturally.

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The SXSW extravaganza in Austin has been an application king maker for the last two years at least; Google's Dodgeball blew up there in 2006 and Twitter went from elite-chic to massively popular there in 2007.

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The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the biggest and most popular in the United States. For the fourth year in a row, SXSW has released a DRM-less collection of songs that - thanks to Greg Hewgill - can now be downloaded for free via BitTorrent.

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SXSW has released the full list of bands for 2008, boasting a more international contingent, and spreading itself across a record 79 stages, with 1,600 acts. That's one hell of a weekend.

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Campaigning punk band Heavy Load`s rockumentary shows their struggle against the world, themselves and discrimination

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Twitter came together in two weeks of development, said its creator, Jack Dorsey of Obvious. Its premise is simple: In 140 characters or fewer, users tell Twitter what they're doing.

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Motion Defined: Suffering Man's Charity - Premiere

This was an… extreme film to say the least. Graphic in its use of language and violence and extreme in its performances, this film was quite an experience.

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Motion Defined: Diggers - Premiere

This is an enjoyable film. Lean, tight, not a lot of fluff. It has a direction and stays with it till the end.

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The ultimate Twitter analysis - using Twitter!

An analysis of the Twitter phenomenon captures the whole experience by recording its observations entirely as Twitter updates!

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The Times reports from the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. Jon Pareles is the chief pop critic of The Times and Jeff Leeds, a staff reporter based in Los Angeles, writes about the business and culture of music for the Times.

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David Byrne, former lead singer of the Talking Heads and pretty much the coolest geek on the face of the planet, spoke out against DRM and big record labels this week at South by Southwest.

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