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Seems he's talking exclusively about SXSW Music, whereas most people in our community probably think of SXSW Interactive (the techie-er of the three annual SXSW events) when they hear "SXSW".
I was about to post along these lines regarding my confusion. I had no idea it was a music festival.
Austinites figured this out 10 years ago. Really, what is it about a "Music Festival" where a band gets 30 minutes of stage time (if they're lucky)?
This comment caught my attention: "I won't be coming back. I'd have had better luck by just looking at the schedule and punching names into YouTube, then waiting for those bands to come to SF." I wonder what the odds are we'll see within 10 years Occulus like VR environments that can capture the concert experience, reducing somewhat the need to track down bands in crazy canceling venues like this if all you are inter…
Hate to go on a tangent but I can't believe jwz still hasn't updated his site to a more reader friendly color scheme.
I clicked the article thinking it was about the recent deaths at SXSW. It's someone complaining about bands. There's first world problems, and then there's "first world" first world problems. You americans are blessed with amazing conferences of all sorts especially tech, SXSW included, but god forbid the music was "not obscure enough". Why is this even on HN?
SXSW is a music festival. Music is the reason everyone is there.
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I was about to post along these lines regarding my confusion. I had no idea it was a music festival.
the hell? That's what it started out as. Music is still by far the biggest draw to SXSW.
Austinites figured this out 10 years ago. Really, what is it about a "Music Festival" where a band gets 30 minutes of stage time (if they're lucky)?
Sounds like a simple case of not enough stages. Promoters don't seem to care, either.
One of the "greatest" discoveries and label signings at SXSW was Hanson. Seriously.
Imagine a week with a couple hundred bands worse than Hanson.
FWIW- My thoughts are similar on SXSW interactive. I have been going for several years, always finding that there was some amount of serendipity to putting so many nerds and vc-types in a very small space (see PG's essay on SV: http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html ). This year I found it too chaotic. It's a nightmare to get in anywhere or know what's going on, even if you are "VIP." I had the good fortune to…
As recently as a few years back there were a few exciting things there every year.
Maybe it's me.