SXSW

Book Review: Mitch Baranowski (editor) “Austin’s Music Scene: Your Guide to the City’s Most Iconic Artists & Venues”

March 10, 2026 Tim Martin 2

In 1991 Austin City Council declared the city the Live Music Capital of the World. The live music and festival scene has grown over the years, including internationally recognised events like South by Southwest and Sutin […]

Festival Review: South By Southwest 2025, 11th – 16th March, Austin, Texas

March 25, 2025 Oliver Gray 1

Having missed out on last year’s South By Southwest Festival for various reasons, AUK’s occasional foreign correspondent Oliver Gray returned to the fray this year, accompanied, as always, by his intrepid chum Paul Dominy on photo […]

Book review: Oliver Gray “Austin Healing – Cautionary Tales From 20 Years Of SXSW”

November 14, 2024 Paul Kerr 1

Oliver Gray should be known to AUK readers as our regular Austin correspondent having reviewed the annual SXSW Festival for us over several years. He is, of course, not an Austinite, nor even American. He is […]

Live Review: South By Southwest Festival 2024, Austin, Texas

April 8, 2024 Paul Dominy 0

In my twenty years attending South by Southwest, Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express have been there for half of them. Even when they are not going to be in town during the week of the […]

Live review: South By SouthWest Festival 2023, Austin, Texas

April 4, 2023 Oliver Gray 0

Here’s our annual report from Austin’s SXSW Festival, written as always by our roving reporter Oliver Gray. This year it’s a photo essay with Oliver’s words accompanied by photographer Paul Dominy’s swell pics. Musical categories, don’t […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Willie Nelson “Seven Spanish Angels”

August 10, 2026 1

Seven Spanish Angels is a song which encapsulates a full range of americana imagery – doomed love, defiance, outlaws, faith, mystery and death – all set in an undescribed location that calls up the settings for […]

Chris Pierce “Songs for the Heavy Hearted”

August 10, 2026 0

A moving, beautifully crafted collection of songs that refuses to surrender compassion in a fractured world. Chris Pierce has always possessed one of the finest voices in americana, capable of conveying tenderness, conviction and quiet resilience […]

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