SXSW 2019 Day Five

Photos and Words by John McNicholas XSW 2019 Day 5 Saturday, the last day of the festival has arrived. We are tired. We are sore. Our ears are ringing a little. We’ve seen 99% of the bands that we were dying to see so today is a day to check out the off-the-grid bands and […]

SXSW 2019 Day Four

SXSW 2019 Day 4 Words and Photos by John McNicholas “‘Cause you can’t, you won’t and you don’t stop Oh ‘Cause you can’t, you won’t and you don’t stop” One of the highlights this trip was the “Music Keynote: Adam Horovitz and Michael Diamond of Beastie Boys with Amazon Music’s Nathan Brackett.” The talk centered […]

SXSW 2019 Day Three

SXSW 2019 Day 3 Words and Photos by John McNicholas Day 3 of the SXSW festival was packed with great talks at the conference and a ton of great bands so we were up early to catch the Shirley Manson (Garbage), Lauren Mayberry (Chvrches) and Pitchfork editor-in-chief Puja Patel keynote where they discussed everything form […]

SXSW 2019 Day Two

SXSW 2019 Recap Day 2 Words and Photos by John McNicholas The morning of the second day of the festival always arrives a little sooner than expected and for good reason, the time change, the time zone change and 2 fantastic SXSW keynote talks this morning by T-Bone Burnett and David Byrne that you want […]

SXSW 2019 Day One

SXSW 2019 Recap – Day 1   While Austin, TX is already know as the “live music capital of the world,” it’s the 5 days in mid-March, every year since 1987, that they really wear that title with pride as thousands of bands travel from all over the world to perform and attend the South […]