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Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Getty Images for SXSW "Happy birthday, Woody," were the first words out of Bruce Springsteen 's mouth at his "intimate" SXSW concert, a ticket so hot amongst the tens of thousands here in Austin that they were handed out by lottery. And in honour of Woody Guthrie 's centenial, The Boss and his increasingly sprawling E Street Band delivered a moving, powerful [...]

Today's SXSW recap on the RiO!B focuses on the Bruce Springsteen concert I saw. It was my first time seeing the Boss and I was lucky enough to have floor seats and see an array of special guests including Tom Morello, Jimmy Cliff and even Arcade Fire!

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Evan Agostini, AP Bruce Springsteen is delivering the SXSW Keynote address this afternoon in Austin. Thanks to the fine folks at NPR, you can stream The Boss' big speech here . And apparently he's bringing his guitar along, so we an expect some tunes off his new album, ' Wrecking Ball .' Stayed tuned for Spinner's full recap on Springsteen's [...]

So you're probably wondering why it's taken me so long to write a preview of this year's South by Southwest festival (now to be described as SXSW from this point forward), held annually in Austin, Texas. And yes, your faithful editor will be there to catch as much of the action as humanly possible. The music portion takes place from Tuesday the 13th humanly possible (read: I'm putting my body to the test on this). For your information, tickets to the music portion of SXSW from Tuesday the 13th all the way [...]

Two of rock's coolest cats make Rolling Stone's dream come true.

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Exclusive , New Music While some may question the logic of hosting a multi-venue, club-crawl music festival in the middle of a Norwegian deep freeze, the organizers behind Oslo's by:Larm festival -- which wrapped up three days of boozin' and schmoozin' on Saturday night -- understand there's no better way to beat the mid-February chill than to cram into intimate venues and exchange body heat with a couple hundred sauced Scandinavian strangers. Now in its 12th year, by:Larm has [...]

By now, it's pretty clear we don't take vacations, let alone days off. Take last week for example. Yes, Consequence of Sound packed our bags and headed down to Austin for South by Southwest, but between the three events we hosted and slew of others we attended (see rest of site), life wasn't any less chaotic during our fun in the sun. And needless to say, it won't be anytime soon. So, let's kick things off and catch up on the goings on that went down while we were gone... Billy Corgan has apparently [...]