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Tom Morello rips it up as the Nightwatchman. AUSTIN - First off, our apologies today for all the up-and-coming acts that we were supposed to spotlight - Thursday at the South by Southwest music conference, the big names took over. Everywhere we looked, there seemed to be one superstar or another under foot. We couldn't help but stumble into a show with a familiar voice or two. We started the day in a parking lot: namely the front lot of the great independent record store Waterloo Records [...]

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!

Photos Courtesy of SXSW​By Craig HlavatyBruce Springsteen's Thursday started with a keynote speech in one of the big ballrooms at the Austin Convention Center, and ended with a mythic three-hour set

Bruce Springsteen's Thursday started with a keynote speech in one of the big ballrooms at the Austin Convention Center, and ended with a mythic three-hour set at ACL Live across town, in front o... Continue reading "SXSW: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Rock ACL Live " >

Michael Buckner/Getty Images Bruce Springsteen delivered the keynote speech yesterday at SXSW in front of thousands of festival attendees. Music critic Ben Sisario, writing about it in the New York Times said: "Mr. Springsteen, 62, posited his own experience as a fan as the, or at least, one, unifying story of pop music. After first quoting the rock critic Lester Bangs, who said that Elvis Presley was the last thing that everyone could agree on, Mr. Springsteen gave reminiscences of a [...]

Yesterday we brought you a report of Bruce Springsteen's keynote address at SXSW, in which the Boss confirmed ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ watch-bruce-springsteen-joined -by-arcade-fire-tom-/63248/

Bruce Springsteen's Thursday started with a keynote speech in one of the big ballrooms at the Austin Convention Center, and ended with a mythic three-hour set at ACL Live across town, in front o... Continue reading "SXSW: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Rock ACL Live " >

Em um festival conhecido por reunir tudo que é novo e até mesmo inexperiente no mundo da música, palco dos primeiros passos de várias bandas, quem possui um legado que o rendeu o apelido de "chefe" merece uma posição especial. Assim como um orador em uma formatura, Bruce Springsteen abriu o festival SXSW, em Austin, Texas, com um discurso absolutamente inspirador. No seu discurso, Bruce homenageou Woody Guthrie , ícone folk que completa seu centenário em 2012 e influenciou claramente o trabalho mais recente de Springsteen , Wrecking Ball , além [...]

Many potential Great GoogaMooga attendees were frustrated today in their efforts to sign up for free admission to the two-day food, drink and music festival , which is set to take place in Neathermead Meadow at Brooklyn's Prospect Park on May 19 and 20. Eventbrite, the company handling registration for the Brooklyn-based event, has updated the details on the sign-up page to read "Early registration is full. We apologize for the frustrations you had today in registering. If you haven't been able to register yet please email us at info@googamooga.com." There was also a note [...]

Bruce Springsteen conducts a music lesson. (Photo courtesy of SXSW) AUSTIN - Thursday's keynote address at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music conference was not conducted by Bruce Springsteen the rock star, it was delivered instead by Professor Bruce Springsteen the music historian. Springsteen, perhaps the most important rocker of his generation, showed up a half hour late while close to 2,000 conference goers lined up hours early. "Why are we here so f**king early," laughed Springsteen, when he finally appeared. "How important can this speech be if it's at noon, when most musicians [...]

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 [...]

            Blogkeepers' Note: This is a repost from a piece we originally ran in 2008. It caught the eye of the Austin Chronicle, and they interviewed us for their big SXSW 2012 preview issue. Read the Chronicle story here. March 16, 1974: Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, Texas In 1974, my college buddy Cindy came back from a spring weekend raving about this singer-songwriter she caught in concert at Liberty Hall in Houston.  "The guy's incredible," she [...]

This is Austin's version of spring break. In most places, spring break means warm weather, scantily clad college girls and drunken frat bros with an effective projectile puke accuracy radius of 20 yards. Not in Austin, Texas. Here, spring break means lots and lots of live music, free food when you can find it, and sheer insanity. Plus all of that other stuff above. Next Wednesday, the big ol' South by Southwest (SXSW) music event kicks off, and in this year of Twenty Aught Twelve the SXSW has grown to such incredible proportions that [...]

On May 8, 2006, my boss called me into his office. “We have eliminated your position,” he said. “We are letting you go. It’s not because of your work, it’s because…” By this time I had tuned him out, and the only thing I could think of was… how am I going to feed my wife and children?” When I listened to Bruce Springsteen’s grand new effort, Wrecking Ball , this past week every emotion I felt at the time came flooding back. I was the man in the reflective “Jack of All Trades,” who kept convincing himself [...]

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 [...]

We all knew Bruce Springsteen would have to play at least one surprise show while he's in Austin for his South By Southwest keynote speech, but it looks like he and the E Street Band will be performing an intimate show for festival goers. From SXSW: From Monday, March 12th through Wednesday, March 14th, eligible [...]

Bruce Springsteen met with the foreign press in Paris yesterday.  He spoke about his forthcoming album Wrecking Ball , and how the death of Clarence Clemons was like losing the rain. Included in this video are some clips of "Easy Money," "Shackled and Drawn," "Wrecking Ball," and "Land of Hope and Dreams." We here at 30 Days Out are eagerly anticipating a Springsteen gig in Austin during SXSW. We will be there to cover his keynote address and hopefully a full-band set or at the very least a solo set at Waterloo. Bruce [...]

On March 15 of next year, one Bruce Springsteen will walk into the Austin Convention Center to deliver the year's SXSW keynote address. And even if he just blathers about factory closures and Pete Seeger for two hours, it'll probably be worth trying to get in, because he's motherfucking Bruce Springsteen. In other SXSW news, the festival has unveiled a list of some of the bands playing next year's throwdown. Right now, the list includes Thee Oh Sees, Cloud Nothings, the Men, Class Actress, Chelsea Wolfe, Com Truise, Teengirl Fantasy, Turbo Fruits, Choir Of Young Believers, [...]

I really didn't need a reason to go to SXSW next March. I had it already marked on my invisible calendar but for anyone who has doubted going to Austin, TX for the week long music festival...this is something you may want to check out along with all the bands that'll be playing. A press release from the people at South by Southwest states that Bruce Springsteen will be the keynote speaker for the festival. His presentation will take place on Thursday, March 15th at the Austin Convention Center. It doesn't really [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours Taking time out from his day job as the Fratellis frontman, Jon Lawler moves off in a sixties pop direction and pays homage to legendary producer Phil Spector with the Codeine Velvet Club . He shares vocal duties with Lou Hickey as epic walls of sound are unleashed by a backing band the pair have drafted in. Their big, bouncy tracks sound like a poppier version of the Last Shadow Puppets , with a commercial, yet sometimes unnerving, sensibility. [...]