SXSW 2008: Day One Video Recap
Posted on 12. Mar, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Music, SXSW, Videos
Here’s a video montage of the Synthesis.net crew’s first day in Austin, TX for SXSW 2008. In it, you’ll see how shitty the outskirts out town are on the way from the airport to downtown, how badass Ironworks BBQ is, and how even on the night before the official start of the music fest, there are more parties and bad ass bands to watch while getting completely black out than you can shake a fucking stick at. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and you’ll be sure to be hearing, and [...]
SXSTFU: An Introductory SXSW 2008 Blog
Posted on 12. Mar, 2008 by spencer in Music, SXSW
In the coming days you’ll most likely want us to STFU about SXSW, so I’ll keep this introductory South By Southwest blog brief. For those unfamiliar, SXSW is a music festival in Austin, TX where music industry professionals and semi-professionals from around the globe come to schmooze, ink deals and drink as much free alcohol as possible while seeing some of the largest (and smallest) bands play in some of the smallest venues. For instance, one of 2006’s highlights was seeing the Flaming Lips with about 250 people.
It’s spring [...]
SXSW 2008 Pregame
Posted on 11. Mar, 2008 by Bill in Blog, Lifestyle, Music, SXSW
SXSW is without question both the busiest and best week of the year. We arrived late afternoon today (Tuesday) ready to start drinking Lone Stars, eating BBQ and working our collective asses off getting tons of content and meeting virtually everyone there is to meet.
SXSW 2008 looks to be better than 2007 (not that SXSW 2007 sucked or anything) since Red Bull is back this year with the Red Bull Moontower (at SXSW 2006 the Red Bull House stole the entire show). Now we really don’t know what’s going [...]
Samantha Power: Hilary Clinton may actually be a Monster, but nothing is off the record. Obama Aid Resigns…
Posted on 07. Mar, 2008 by spencer in Music, Politics, SXSW
From the BBC:
“The Scotsman newspaper quoted Ms Power as saying: “She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything.”
Obama Adviser Samantha Power Resigns, but it’s too early in the morning to process politics. Before my first cup of coffee, I thought in terms of spin:
Sam Power is a Pulitzer Prize winner – certainly she knows nothing is off the record — especially juicy quotes — and this episode of her resigning is a highly calculated move. It shows Obama taking the moral [...]
Synthesis’ SXSW 2007 Highlights
Posted on 05. Mar, 2008 by spencer in Internet
In anticipation of next week’s SXSW media blitz, here’s a clip of our highlight from last year.
Actually, my highlight was the cathartic releasing of the bats underneath bat bridge, but hey, maybe i was just tired and feeling a bit emo.
Listen to Spencer’s interviews from SXSW 2007 at synthesisradio.net
SXSW 2008: The List Q – Z
Posted on 28. Feb, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Lifestyle, Music, SXSW
EVEN MOAR
Q
Quartz-head 02 (Tokyo JAPAN) Web site
The Quebe Sisters Band (Burleson TX) Web site
Queen Majesty (Brooklyn NY) Web site
Question (San Antonio TX) Web site
R
Radar Bros. (Los Angeles CA) Web site
Joshua Radin (Los Angeles CA) Web site
Radio 4 (Brooklyn NY) Web site
Radio Moscow (Ames IA) Web site
The Radishes (San Francisco CA) Web site
Shina Rae (Houston TX) Web site
Kristoffer Ragnstam (Gothenburg SWEDEN) Web site
Rahdunes (San Francisco CA) Web site
Rana Santacruz (New York NY) Web site
Ra Ra Riot (Syracuse NY) Web site
The Rascals (Liverpool UK) Web site
Ravens & Chimes (New York NY) Web [...]
SXSW 2008: The List G – P
Posted on 28. Feb, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Lifestyle, Music, SXSW
MOAR:
G
Gaia Mesiah (Prague CZECH REPUBLIC) Web site
Greta Gaines (Nashville TN) Web site
Galaxie (Montreal QC) Web site
The Gang (Brooklyn NY) Web site
David Garza (Austin TX) Web site
The Gaslamp Killer (Los Angeles CA) Web site
The Gaslight Anthem (New Brunswick NJ) Web site
Gasoline Cowboy (Auckland NEW ZEALAND) Web site
Gatoblanco (Bogota COLOMBIA) Web site
Gentleman Auction House (St. Louis MO) Web site
Georgie James (Washington DC) Web site
Gerald G (Austin TX) Web site
Geronimo (Regina SK) Web site
Genghis Tron (New York NY) Web site
Ghislain Poirier (Montreal QC) Web site
Ghosthustler (Denton TX) Web site
Giant (Greensboro NC) Web site
Laura [...]
SXSW 2008: The List A – F
Posted on 28. Feb, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Lifestyle, Music, SXSW
If you’re one of those lucky enough to get your employers (or parents) to foot the bill for sending you to Austin the second week of March for SXSW (or one of the even fewer lucky enough to be able to afford to pay for themselves) you may, at this point, being asking yourself “Well who IS playing this year?” Well lucky for you, we have the semi-complete list of bands playing sanctioned SXSW 2008 events right here. Read ‘em and weep after the jump (part 1 of 3…thats how [...]
