SXSW 2012 is over. Head to the SXSW 2014 Schedule!
Mix, mingle, enjoy a beverage, and wind down after the Tech Career Expo.
Time to get your geek on again! We're bringing gdgt live back to town and you're invited. Come hang out with us. You'll be able to meet with folks from some of your favorite tech brands and play with their newest gear.
Sponsors include BlackBerry, Belkin, G-Technology, Gogo, Logitech, NETGEAR, Nokia, Olympus, Roku, Seagate, Sling Media, Speck, SugarSync, T-Mobile, and lots more, including a bunch of great startups.
Speaking of startups, we’re giving one lucky startup a free table to show their stuff. Details on how to enter the contest can be found on the gdgt live website.
The event is FREE, all-ages, and open to the public (SXSW badges are not necessary for entry). We'll have some great giveaways for the first few hundred people through the door, drink tickets for folks over 21, and chances to win some amazing gear from our sponsors.
Doors open at 7:00pm and you can RSVP here.
When: Monday, March 12 from 7:00pm - 10:00pm.
Where: The Austin Music Hall, 208 Nueces St.
Who: Over 30 of the hottest brands in tech. See who will be there!
How: This event is free, all-ages, and open to the public. Invite your friends and RSVP now!
This event was recommended by The Austin Chronicle in the article "State of Love and Trust: Belief in the 2011-12 Austin Music Awards," by Raoul Hernandez. You can read the full feature here.
Quiet Company
Quiet Company is from Austin , Texas — a city rich in musical diversity, enormous talent and
towering musical history—but the quintet brings their own unique brand of indie power pop that
sets them apart. What started as a solo project of prolific frontman Taylor Muse eventually grew
to a full band with the addition of Tommy Blank (Guitar), Matt Parmenter (Bass), Jeff Weathers
(Drums) and Cody Ackors (Trombone). Quiet Company has forged a familiar yet unique
celebratory pop-rock sound layered with introspective lyrics that explore love, death and incisive
observations about human nature.
2010 was a breakout year of sorts for the five-piece group upon the release of “Songs for
Staying In”, which features singles that landed regular rotations on almost every rock and
pop radio station in Austin, and TV placements on MTV’s The Real World: New Orleans,
E! Channel’s Keeping Up with the Kardashians. The hard-earned buzz earned them a live
taping in Austin City Limits Studio 6a, as well as acting roles (as themselves) on ABC’s former
documentary drama My Generation.
The band’s latest endeavor, “We Are All Where We Belong”—mixed by legendary engineer
Tim Palmer (Pearl Jam, U2, The Cure)—chronicles the many different emotions that a person
goes through in a break up: sadness, resentment, self-doubt, but ultimately hope and the
indescribable joy and freedom that comes from the realization of making the right decision.
“It is easily the most personal thing I’ve ever written,” Muse said. “It is, essentially, a break up
record, only the romance that’s ending was between myself and religion.”
Musically, the album maintains the band’s richly arranged, consistently catchy pop hooks and
encompassing vocal harmonies but explores new territory with full orchestral arrangements and
new sonic textures. Lyrically, the album is a departure from the former “Songs For Staying In”
but the juxtaposition of heavier lyrical content and their trademarked upbeat sound makes for an
engaging, above-the-cut musical experience.
Quiet Company recently teamed up with Grooveshark and Rocket Science to release the new
album. Leveraging the strengths of both companies to spearhead a truly progressive music
marketing endeavor, the relationship provides a realistic strategy to provide a road map that
artists can use to achieve success in a rapidly changing industry.
Since the band’s inception in 2005, Quiet Company has traveled the country far and wide,
logging more than 400 shows since 2007 including performing in front of 10,000 people at
KGSR’s annual Blues On The Green in Zilker park, several sold out shows at House of Blues
and have had the opportunity to share the stage with bands such as Toadies, Rooney, Evan
Dando and Bob Schneider among others.
From the band’s inception through their rapid growth, the goal has never changed: To write
intelligent, epic pop music that shines with honesty and provokes self-reflection.
This event was recommended by The Austin Chronicle in the article "State of Love and Trust: Belief in the 2011-12 Austin Music Awards," by Raoul Hernandez. You can read the full feature here.
In the late summer 1979, Joe "King" Carrasco formed a stripped-down four-piece combo to replace his Chicano big band, El Molino. Dubbed the Crowns, organist/accordionist Kris Cummings, bassist Brad Kizer, and drummer Miguel Navarro backed up Carrasco at Raul's, the famed punk club, and the Hole-in-the-Wall, and other University of Texas-area venues in Austin, quickly gaining a following around their revved-up Tex-Mex brand of punk rock, harkening back to the classic Vox and Farfisa organ-driven sound first popularized by the 1960s Texas bands Sir Douglas Quintet ("She's About A Mover"), Sam The Sham and The Pharoahs ("Wooly Bully"), and ? And the Mysterians ("96 Tears").
This event was recommended by The Austin Chronicle in the article "State of Love and Trust: Belief in the 2011-12 Austin Music Awards," by Raoul Hernandez. You can read the full feature here.
Sixteen Deluxe are a psychedelic noise-pop band from Austin, Texas, best known for their energetic, deafening live performances and lysergic studio creations. Formed in April 1994, they began playing live shows in June of that same year, quickly generating a heap of buzz, and filling local clubs with a kinetic mix of sonic assault, pop melodies, smoke, lights, and film projections.
This event was recommended by The Austin Chronicle in the article "State of Love and Trust: Belief in the 2011-12 Austin Music Awards," by Raoul Hernandez. You can read the full feature here.
“Carolyn Wonderland is the real deal! She’s an amazing guitar player. And damn, can she
sing.” – Los Angeles Times
This event was recommended by The Austin Chronicle in the article "State of Love and Trust: Belief in the 2011-12 Austin Music Awards," by Raoul Hernandez. You can read the full feature here.
RUTHIE FOSTER “LET IT BURN”
This event was recommended by The Austin Chronicle in the article "State of Love and Trust: Belief in the 2011-12 Austin Music Awards," by Raoul Hernandez. You can read the full feature here.
This event was recommended by The Austin Chronicle in the article "State of Love and Trust: Belief in the 2011-12 Austin Music Awards," by Raoul Hernandez. You can read the full feature here.
Austin troubadour Alejandro Escovedo’s journey has taken him from Texas to California to New York and back again to Texas, encompassing a breadth of music as varied as the many bands he was part of before embarking on a solo career. In the 1970s, he surfaced on San Francisco's punk scene, a guitarist in the Nuns; Rank & File helped unite the disparate worlds of punk and country in the 1980s; and after he moved back to Austin, the True Believers combined all manner of Americana music in a harbinger of what was to come in Alejandro's solo career which begun in 1992 with the album Gravity.