NPR MUSIC LIVE FROM AUSTIN: SXSW 2010
NPR Music is heading to Austin, and we hope to see you there! For the third straight year, we are opening SXSW with a headlining showcase at Stubb’s with Spoon, Broken Bells, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, The Walkmen and Visqueen, and presenting a daytime concert Thursday afternoon headlined by Sleigh Bells. The concerts will be webcast live at www.npr.org/sxsw and via the NPR iPhone App, and broadcast on NPR Member stations across the country.
Joining NPR Music are five station partners – KUT Austin, WFUV New York, WXPN Philadelphia, KEXP Seattle and The Current from Minnesota Public Radio, many hosting and broadcasting their own events in Austin. All SXSW coverage, and archives of the past two years of music, can be found at www.npr.org/sxsw
Before you go, download the entire NPR Music in Austin Master Events Calendar and quick facts here. Also not to be missed: The Austin 100, a six-and-a-half-hour mix of some of the best discoveries playing SXSW, and a free NPR Music Sampler of our showcasing bands, downloadable at iTunes.
NPR Music Presents SXSW Showcase
Wednesday, March 17, Doors at 7PM (CT)
Stubb's,
*SXSW Badge Required*
8PM: Visqueen (8PM); The Walkmen (8:45PM); Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (9:45PM); Broken Bells (11PM); Spoon (12:15AM)
NPR Music Presents Live from the Parish
Thursday, March 18, Doors at NOON (CT)
The Parish,
*Public Event, Space Limited* [Note: No badges were mailed this year, you're still invited!]
Brooklyn Rider (12:30PM); Smith Westerns (1:15PM); Local Natives (2PM); G-Side (2:45PM); Surfer Blood (3:30PM); Sleigh Bells (4:15PM)
Quotes
NPR's showcase at the Parish, which I'd been looking forward to for weeks -- best lineup at the festival.
-Vanity Fair
SXSW and NPR have a good thing going.
-New York Times
NPR: For those seeking more than 140 characters worth of coverage, public radio delivered, with packed parties and plenty of broadcasts.
-Billboard
The NPR Showcase definitely stands as one of the festival's marquee events.
-PopMatters