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SXSW Teases Its '09 Lineup

SXSW may be months away, but it's never too soon to start name-dropping the hot shots who'll be flooding town come March. And the first drop's a doozy – Todd ...
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INTERACTIVE

March 7-11

Web Awards Winners

MUSIC

March 12-16

Music Showcase Schedule

Music Panels Schedule

SXSW Music Tradeshow

FILM

March 7-15

PDF Download: Film Grid

SXSW 2008 Film Screenings

SXSW Film Panels Schedule


The Rest of the Fest

Friday, May. 2

Exit Music for a Film Fest Producer

Sending off South by Southwest's Matt Dentler


Friday, Mar. 21

Page Two: How Your South-by High Can Last Through the Rest of the Year

A veteran festival-goer weighs in

Food-o-File

Famous foodies at SXSW, juicy farmers' market news, and more

Beside the Point

Council cools its jets in post-SXSW haze


Saturday Daily Issue

The Gay Place


Friday Daily Issue

After a Fashion

The Austin Music Awards is an all in the family affair

The Gay Place


Thursday Daily Issue

After a Fashion

Gossip

The Gay Place


Friday, Mar. 14

Page Two: South by Simplicity

The plain truth behind the Festival's origins

Function Drinks

During these March festivities, look out for free samples of Function's Urban Detox, unless you enjoy hangovers


Friday, Mar. 7

Food-o-File

Threadgill's new Old No. 1 almost done, keep Las Manitas on you food to-do list, and take advantage of Austin's Downtown wine bars


Friday, Feb. 29

Page Two: Dream of Life

SXSW celebrates the best of what I am and what I believe

After a Fashion

Stephen has a DIFFArent weekend in Dallas and wants to give Katie Holmes a glass of water


Friday, Feb. 22

After a Fashion

Last week was all about film, and this week, music. Is Stephen excited about a certain upcoming festival or what?

Chronicle Music Coverage



Friday, Mar. 21

Off the Record

A walk on the wild side of SXSW 2008





Saturday Daily Issue

Day Party Crawl

Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels

SXSW Pixels
Waterloo Records

Girls Can Tell

Gadding about

Ice Cream Man Presents!

Saturday's Flavor: Port O'Brien

MOJO Recommends
Duffy, SXSW 08's Amy Winehouse?

My SXSW

Music fest diary

Spotlight: Ume

Ume's not trying to be Sonic Youth

Spotlight: Mingering Mike

Mingering Mike, where musical fact and fiction collide

Spotlight: Darondo

Darondo: not a pimp, not a myth

Spotlight: Dana Falconberry

Dana Falconberry, Southern by scholarship and soul, not birth

Spotlight: Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel

Derek's still-standing Domino and his new vocal counterpart

Spotlight: Sea Wolf

Alex Brown Church takes after Jack London

Off the Record

SXSW music news and carryings on


Live Shots

Kimya Dawson

Super Deluxe Comedy Death Ray

Mika Miko

Lykke Li

Santogold

The Little Ones

Nouveau Riche

Shelby Lynne

Zona Tango

Sub Pop Showcase

Fuck Buttons

Mexican Combo Platter




Friday Daily Issue

SXSW Music Keynote Address

Day Party Crawl

Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels

SXSW Pixels

Girls Can Tell

Gadding about

Ice Cream Man Presents!
Friday's Flavor: Crystal Antlers

MOJO Recommends
Suicide II

My SXSW

Music fest diary

Spotlight: Clipse/Re-Up Gang

Clipse Re-Ups a new collaboration

Spotlight: Nouveau Riche

Nouveau Riches of interstellar pop on a positive tip

Spotlight: Blitzen Trapper

Blitzen Trapper: the hip-hop of indie rock?

Spotlight: White Denim

Year-old White Denim's Gories-inspired greatest hits

Spotlight: Magic Christian

SF supergroup Magic Christian rises from the ashes of groovy

Spotlight: Devotchka

Who needs globalization with Devotchka around?

Off the Record

SXSW music news and carryings on


Live Shots

The Heavy

Dokkebi Q

The Whigs

Bodies of Water

The Cowsills

Eli 'Paperboy' Reed

Boys in a Band

Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip

Body of War




Thursday Daily Issue

2007-08 Austin Music Awards

Austin Music Hall, Wednesday, March 12

Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels

SXSW Pixels

Girls Can Tell

Gadding about

Ice Cream Man Presents!

Thursday's flavor: the Choir Practice

MOJO Recommends
Dickensian sea-shanty-styled troubadour Johnny Flynn

My SXSW

Music fest diary

Spotlight: Jay Reatard

Jay Reatard, gone in 60 seconds

Spotlight: Carbon/Silicon

The Clash comes full circle

Spotlight: The Explorers Club

Brian Wilson approved: the Explorers Club

Spotlight: James McMurtry

A-political Dick Cheney blues

Spotlight: Amplified Heat

Austin's power trio is ready to rumble

Off the Record

SXSW music news and carryings on


Live Shots

Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears

Daryl Hall

Bear in Heaven

DJ Rapid Ric

Malcolm Holcombe

Jeffrey Lewis & the Jitters

Faceless Werewolves

Afro Punk/Matrix Show-case

Reich, Rags, and Road Movie

Ceci Bastida


Friday, Mar. 14

Still a Good Day

Ice Cube's coexisting Gs: gangsta rap and G-rated

SXSW Music Fest Preview Guide
Recommended showcases; picks and sleeper sets

Off the Record

It's the end of the world as we know it: South by Southwest 22 officially begins


SXSW Platters

Phosphorescent
Pride

The Whigs
Mission Control

White Hinterland
Phylactery Factory

The Black & White Years

Deadbeat Poets
Notes From the Underground

Throw Me the Statue
Moonbeams

Evangelicals
The Evening Descends

Metallurgy
Death Is This Communion, No Salvation, Board Up the House, Zombie Aesthetics

Liam Finn
I'll Be Lightning

Kaki King
Dreaming of Revenge

Retribution Gospel Choir

Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago

Carbon/Silicon
The Last Post

Devotchka
A Mad and Faithful

The Raveonettes
Lust Lust Lust

The Sadies
New Seasons

Citay
Little Kingdom

BoDeans
Still

No Age
Weirdo Rippers

Holy Fuck
LP

Black Mountain
In the Future

Buttercup
The Heads Sits Upside Down on Top of the Head

Times New Viking
Rip It Off

The Vines
The Best of the Vines

Vampire Weekend

Kelley Stoltz
Circular Sounds

Lymbyc Systym
Love Your Abuser Remixed

Say Hi
The Wishes and the Glitch

The Ruby Suns
Sea Lion

The Helio Sequence
Keep Your Eyes Ahead

Shelby Lynne
Just a Little Lovin'

Grand Archives
The Grand Archives

Hayes Carll
Trouble in Mind

Christian Scott
Anthem

North Mississippi Allstars
Harnando

Lyrics Born
Everywhere at Once

South
You Are Here

Nada Surf
Lucky

Destroyer
Trouble in Dreams

Castanets
In the Vines

Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel
Lovers

The Redwalls

Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands
Cody's Dream

Jason Collett
Here's to Being Here

No Kids
Come Into My House

Carolyn Wonderland
Miss Understood

Pride Tiger
The Lucky Ones

South Austin Jug Band
Strange Invitation

Justin Townes Earle
The Good Life

This Will Destroy You

British Sea Power
Do You Like Rock Music?

The Weird Weeds
I Miss This

Los Campesinos!
Hold on Now, Youngster ...

Caroline Herring
Lantana

Waco Brothers
Waco Brothers: Live and Kicking at Schuba's Tavern, Chicago


Friday, Mar. 7

If You Have Ghosts

The 2007-08 AMA's ghosts – past, present, and future

Wednesday SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Handicapping the first night of SXSW 08

Off the Record

The countdown to South by Southwest continues, while the Black Angels turn on and Ghostland Observatory marches onward and upward


SXSW Platters

The Judy's
Washarama, Moo

We Were the States
Believe the Thieves

Malcolm Holcombe
Gamblin' House

Jeffrey Lewis
12 Crass Songs

Lightspeed Champion
Falling Off the Lavender Bridge

Tiger! Tiger!
The Kind of Goodnight

Faceless Werewolves
Pardon Me, Are Those Your Claws in My Back?

Sons & Daughters
This Gift

Roky Erickson & the Explosives
Halloween: Live 1979-1981

Elf Power
In a Cave

Shootin' Pains
Pray Like Crazy

The Kills
Midnight Boom

Balmorhea
Rivers Arms

Saul Williams
The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust

Dan Dyer

Lemonheads
It's a Shame About Ray Collector's Edition


Friday, Feb. 29

SXSW Picks 2 Click 2008
Seven local showcasers ready for their close-ups

Off the Record

The sound of music at the 2008 SXSW Film Conference, Barack Obama boogies back to Texas with Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel, and Bubble Recording sports a diamond



Friday, Feb. 22

Page Two: On Topic

Wading into the SXSW vitriol, despite repeated warnings

SXSW 2008 International Bands

Off the Record

The British and Transmission Entertainment invade SXSW, Speeding Motorcycle rides into Zach Scott Theatre, and Spot opens Trailer Space



Friday, Feb. 15

Page Two: SXSW 101

An index of commonly misplaced ire

Off the Record

Armed Forces Entertainment's metal of honor, the Judy's reunite for the Austin Music Awards, Bobby Whitlock and CoCo Carmel's Double Fantasy



Friday, Feb. 8

Off the Record

SXSW unveils the full band list. What more could you ask for?



Friday, Jan. 18

Off the Record

Alejandro Escovedo scores his own life and Man From Plains, Backspin Records relocates, and UT's Center for American History archives Tary Owens' legacy



Friday, Jan. 11

Off the Record

Greg Ginn and SST Records start fresh in Taylor, Possessed by Paul James stars as The Folk Singer, and KOOP Radio catches fire (again)


Chronicle Film Coverage



Saturday Daily Issue

SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews

Thanks for the Memories


Friday Daily Issue

SXSW Filmmaker Hospitalized

SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews


Thursday Daily Issue

SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews


Friday, Mar. 14

War Stories

Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro collaborate to document one wounded soldier's transformation into 'anti-warrior'

SXSW 08 Film Awards
The rundown

SXSW 08 Film Reviews

SXSW 08 Film Conference
Snapshots from the SXSW 08 Film Conference


Friday, Mar. 7

Page Two: Love and Creation

An approach to the SXSW Film Festival

Something to Talk About

Previewing SXSW Film 08

Big Hair, Big Stars, and a Mechanical Bull

Previewing the 2008 Texas Film Hall of Fame

All-Around Gal

Mumblecore baby Greta Gerwig acts, writes, directs, enunciates properly

Nathan and David and 'Goliath'

After years of making shorts, the Zellner Brothers go big

Outsider Art

Music on the margins

Ministering to the Dead

A death row chaplain has a change of heart in At the Death House Door

Private Parts in Public Places

Bob Byington lifts the lid on Registered Sex Offender

Boom and Bust in a Single-Stoplight Town

Crawford and the commander in chief

Greenlight Awards Premiere at SXSW

Celebrating digital TV

No Telling What's What or Who's Who

Confronting, and confounding, the color line in The Order of Myths

Making More Than Ends Meet

Chasing the middle class dream in Intimidad

Birds of America

Austin transplant Alex Karpovsky blends fact and fiction in his funny, heady tracking of the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker

It's a Dog's Life

The Toe Tactic's existential angst and animated canines

Truth or Vérité?

Celia Maysles looks her father's legacy head-on in Wild Blue Yonder

Black Like Me ... and Me ... and Me

Elvis Mitchell discusses why there's no one African-American experience

Frisco Bay Blues

It's a thin line between love and hate for San Francisco in Barry Jenkins' 'Medicine for Melancholy'

The Streets of Philadelphia

Divorce pains framed against the backdrop of 'The New Year Parade'

The Coast of Utopia

Two frustrated actors write a script, make it geographically specific, enlist A-list talent, and make the damn thing themselves. Why does 'Humboldt County' sound familiar?

Film News

Austin Film: The SXSW CliffsNotes version


Friday, Feb. 8

Film News

Richard Linklater casts a boy wonder for an Isle of Man shoot in March


Friday, Feb. 1

Film News

We're No. 1! We're No. 1!

Chronicle Interactive Coverage

Friday, Mar. 21

Army Chaplain at Guantánamo to Speak

First permanent Muslim chaplain accessible to detainees to speak at UT


Friday, Feb. 29

Leaping Into SXSW Interactive

An aperitif to kick things off

In Your Facebook

Do social networking sites strengthen communities or the class divide?

The Manipulation of Tay Zonday

Viral marketing, part-savvy, part-skeevy

Talk Show Host

Heather Gold is not here to push your product

The Wiis on the Bus

How the Wii Remote and simulated games are changing the way we learn

See Jane Game

Keynote speaker Jane McGonigal wants to change the world

One Size Does Not Fit All

The international community reacts and adapts to a Westernized Web

World, Interrupted

Saving the world, one Web warrior at a time

Simplexity Rising

Web usability reveals itself to be a game of hide-and-seek

Stop Writing ...

and Start Storytelling

Eugene the Destroyer

His comedy kills, and now he's hosting the SXSW Web Awards


Friday, Feb. 22

Players Guide

News, rumors, and outright lies from the gaming realm