Coachella 2010: 75,000 Fans, 128 Bands, Live Streaming Concerts

This weekend marked the 11th annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival,the first festival of its kind to be live streamed for a web audience. The Coachella live stream was available through Facebook and...

Jessica Shepherd Texas Music Award Nominee: You're Country Now CD

Jessica Shepherd is a Texan and international artist nominated for the Texas Music Awards in the Best Female Vocalist Category. Shepherd is 1 of the top 5 for Best Female Vocalists from over 43,000 nominations in...

SXSW Austin Draws 100,000: 2000 Bands, $100 Million, Debut Films

At this year’s 24th SXSW festival almost 100,000 people came out in droves to witness 2000 musical acts from 40 countries and all of that made for buzz and bucks. Audiences came out for the newest and most...

Polaris Prize Winning F**ked Up at SXSW, Matador

Canadians will be well represented this week at SXSW as hardcore sextet, F**ked Up will not only represent their hometown of Toronto, but also the most buzz-worthy label in the indie music scene, Matador Records....

THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS

Not so long ago in a galaxy we all live in, George Lucas introduced the world to Star Wars. It was May 25, 1977 to be exact. Prior to its release, everyone except for Lucas thought they were making a dumb kids...

Norway's Serena-Maneesh New Abyss in B Minor: Play SXSW, NA Tour

Norway's Serena-Manesh will release their anticipated 2nd LP (and first on 4AD) entitled, Serena-Manesh 2: Abyss in B Minor, followed by a few dates at SXSW and a North American tour. Serena-Maneesh Recording of...

Harlem Releases Hippies Album April 6th: SXSW Dates and NA Tour

Harlem started out in Tucson, Arizona and relocated to Austin, Texas garnering buzz for their live shows and their self-released Free Drugs. They'll follow that with a new album called Hippies, in stories April...

Burma: Bogyoke Aung San’s Spirit is in our Hearts, Mind and Souls

Today is the birthday of our nation’s independence hero, father of Aung San Suu Kyi, Bogyoke Aung San's birthday. Bogyoke Aung San was born on February 13, 1915. He was assassinated by pro-colonialists only one year before we gained independence from...

BriTunes - Brian Williams Interviews Deer Tick for Web Music Show

Wow. Who knew NBC Nightly News anchor, Brian Williams, was so hip? On Monday, the American newscaster launched a new web-only video interview series focusing on independent music and musicians called "BriTunes." ...

Easter Web Searches: What We're Looking For

I love checking out search trends on holidays- it shows the secret lives of people getting ready for celebrations. When I think of Easter (for example), I picture kids in their itchy Sunday best, hidden...

SXSW 2009: Night One

The cool, wet <not>Vancouver</not> Austin atmosphere hit our group as we were herded from the airport to a waiting Super Shuttle. It felt as if we’d never left the Wet Coast. The driver rattled off...

RIP: A Remix Manifesto - An Opensource Documentary

Canadian film maker Brett Gaylor recently debuted his documentary, RIP: A Remix Manifesto in Austin, TX at SXSW. The documentary serves as a social commentary on copyright and the emergence of "remix culture."...

SXSW 2009 Interactive: Web Nerds Are Cooler Than You

The thing about web nerds is that they love having the opportunity to prove to the world that they are infinitely 'cooler' than you might think. But, no, it's not enough for them to lounge around the hallways of the...

SXSW 2009: 'Free for All' with Chris Anderson and Guy Kawasaki

Chris Anderson, he of Wired fame and current purveyor of 'free', sat down to be interviewed by Alltop founder and self-marketing professional guru and Silicon Valley VC Guy Kawasaki on Tuesday to discuss the future...

SXSW Interactive 2009 coming to a close

Austin, Texas - The annual South by Southwest Interactive Festival end tomorrow. The five day event opened on Friday, March 13 and closes tomorrow on St. Patrick's Day. The event was chock full of guest speakers,...

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