Stephen Fitzpatrick of England and Audun Laading of Norway met studying music in Liverpool which eventually led to the creation of dream pop duo, Her’s.
The singer-songwriter Celia Pavey, who goes by the name Vera Blue, floated through the middle of the South by Southwest Swan Dive audience. She walked up the steps on to the stage to play her first show in the United States.
Austinites were joined by Solange, Lana Del Rey and Lil Wayne, as well as up-and-coming bands from around the globe like Her’s, Maggie Rogers, The Japanese House and more.
Last Monday, three experienced speakers shared their stories and research at a South by Southwest panel discussion about the representation of disability in the media.
Director Ben Wheatley’s “Free Fire” (2016) premiered in the United States as a headliner of the SXSW Film Festival on Monday at the Paramount Theater in downtown Austin. The one-setting crime and comedy thriller shocked the audience’s minds and hearing with its twisting plotline and ear-shattering sound bites, containing over 7,000 rounds of ammunition fired.
On Saturday, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, senior editorial director at Mic, and Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change considered how communities can move from meme to protest through online activism.