It’s the happiest day of the year: the official Austin City Limits Festival 2016 lineup announcement! I called Radiohead, like, 2 days ago, people. I have my finger on [...]
It’s SXSW Music time. There’s too much to see, too many bands, too little time, too many people, not enough drinks, too much good music to pass up. Let’s [...]
Anyone who knows me knows SXSW isn’t my jam (am I the only music journalist who really doesn’t get excited about big festivals?). It’s mostly because it [...]
I went to the Austin City Limits Festival this year, despite the fact that I am not at all a festival person. But it was my first chance to go to ACL so I wasn’t going to [...]
I like music, but not music festivals. THERE I SAID IT; IT’S TRUE. I turned 30 and all of a sudden I was like, “I no longer desire to stand around in the rain all day [...]
A couple of days ago I wrote about the love/hate relationship musicians and Austinites have with SXSW, touching on the fact that while the conference has become more [...]
Austin is known for its music festivals and the top one is still no doubt South by Southwest. For those cave-dwellers among us, SXSW is a huge music/film/interactive festival [...]
I both love and hate music festivals. Like everyone. This should sum it up. And when you’re working at a music festival, it’s a mixed bag. On one hand, you [...]
Spring festival is FINALLY over and if I never hear another firecracker for the rest of my life I reckon that’ll be about right. Or at least until next year. JUE Music [...]
One of the reasons Shanghai music is growing and (maybe someday?) thriving is because of some home-grown music festivals like BooshkaBaash. This is multi-event, [...]