SXSW Streaming Audio Feature: Bloggers Fight Back: Legal Workshop for Music Bloggers
In case you’re interested, an audio recording of the session that Mike and I did at SXSW this year is up now on the SXSW site. To stream and/or download the MP3, hit that link above. The slides for this presentation were pretty inconsequential but I’m happy to upload them if anyone wants to see them—let me know in the replies/comments.
Austin’s neon signage game is tight like you wouldn’t believe. I always find great signs like this one (located outside of the beloved Home Slice Pizza in south Austin) especially striking coming from D.C., where there’s a complete dearth of artful neon. A few more of my Instagrams from Austin can be found on my Flickr page.
The best discoveries at SXSW always lie off the beaten path. At least that’s what I told myself as we made the nearly two mile trek out to Hot Mama’s Espresso in east Austin for the Kassette Klub/Head Underwater showcase. The minute we arrived at Hot Mama’s, however, I knew I had come to the right place. Tooth Ache’s hazily funeral electro-pop wafted out of the coffee shop’s open doors, sending waves of warped organ chords, tinny drum-machine beats and mournful sighs floating off into the sunny Texas afternoon. Peep the visually-fitting video for “Skin” above and pick up Tooth Ache’s excellent debut 7” on Father Daughter Records. And if you’re in D.C., be sure to check her out at Paper Sun this Friday.
the scent of conferences in the air
Hard to imagine but conference season (also sometimes referred to as “spring”) is almost upon us. Here are two conferences that I’ll be speaking at in the next few months:
- On March 13th, I’ll be delivering a presentation at the South by Southwest Interactive festival (SXSWi) in Austin entitled “Bloggers Fight Back: Legal Workshop for Music Bloggers”.
- In April, I’ll be moderating a panel at the National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR) in Boston that looks more generally at the intersection between copyright and remix culture. Panelists, schedule, etc. are all TBA, though I can tell you that the conference takes place from April 8-10 and there will be a diverse and amazing group of people on this panel!
If you happen to end up at one of these conferences, please say hello!
come watch me flap my gums
So, I am going to be speaking at a couple of conferences during the next few months, alongside noted consumer advocate and burrito enthusiast Michael Weinberg. If you are planning on attending either of these events, you should drop by and say hello:
This year I did things a bit differently down in ATX: I attended most of the SXSW Interactive festival and stayed for a little over a day’s worth of the music. And while I wasn’t covering the festival for anyone this year, I still couldn’t resist snapping a few shots of Carsick Cars, Fucked Up and Sleigh Bells, which you can see here. This year’s highlight for me was probably IAMSOUND’s showcase at Malverde, not because Zooey Deschanel was in attendance (she was and reportedly smiled at Alex!) but because the bands performed on an open air, second floor balcony, set against a backdrop of neon green insulation foam and steel, thanks to the unfinished office building across the street. Fool’s Gold and MEN were both great, jj was confusing and Sleigh Bells destroyed—that is, until their set was cut short by Austin’s mandated 2am closing time. Luckily, I still managed to fire off a few shots during their truncated set, some of which came out quite well, if I may say so myself.
