Blog: The Tale of The Tape

SXSW was growing tremendously by 1997, and with the advent of music blogs and web-ready video cameras, attendees could offer nearly real-time updates on the bands and sets that they were enjoying. Here is a recap of the festival from 1997-2002. 1997 The most eagerly anticipated sets of the week were from Whiskeytown, the alt-country outfit led by Ryan Adams, though most accounts of the bands' performances remember the band as being too fucked up to play. This opened up a spot for breakout band of the festival, [...]