Tag Archives: SXSW

Black Drawing Chalks Streaming Song On ARTISTdirect

Posted by on March 8, 2013

ARTISTdirect is streaming a song by Black Drawing Chalks as part of its “New Artist Alerts” series. The Brazilian hard rock group (who will be making their live U.S. debut at SXSW) also recently premiered the video for “Famous” with Revolver Magazine.

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Eminence Recording New Album, Featuring Guest Appearance From Sepultura’s Paulo Jr.

Posted by on February 25, 2013

[youtube]http://youtu.be/RGZVkH7L6i4[/youtube] As Metal Insider readers may recall, Eminence performed for the first time in the U.S. aboard our CMJ boat show with Prong and For Sleeping Or Jumping. Now comes word that the Brazilian metal group has reunited with Danish producer Tue Madsen (Moonspell, The Haunted, Sick Of It All) and is currently recording their […]

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Video: High On Fire Set SXSW 2012 Ablaze

Posted by on April 27, 2012

Last month, Metal Insider was proud to be a part of the South by South Death 2012 showcase at SXSW along with our bros at Metal Sucks and Metal Injection. Unfortunately, though, I had to stay back on the East Coast while Bram got to go crazy in Austin while repping for the site. Thanks […]

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Metal Sucks Announces “South By South Death” Showcase

Posted by on February 13, 2012

Austin, we have a problem. Wait, we’re saying that wrong, aren’t we? The point is that our cranky Jewish friends over at Metal Sucks have just lifted the veil on an epic SXSW show. Their second annual “South by South Death” showcase is probably causing a Depends shortage in the greater Texas area, as it’s […]

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SXSW: A Metal Insider Guide

Posted by on March 15, 2011

Those of you that pay attention to the music industry, are in a band, or live near Austin TX probably know all about South by South West. For the uninitiated, it’s basically a weeklong music, film and technology/social media conference in Texas’ coolest city. A six square block radius is closed off to traffic, and […]

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Metal Insider Heading To Austin

Posted by on February 24, 2011

Metal Insider is proud to announce our involvement in the first annual South by South Death, an event taking place at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin TX on Friday, Match 18th. The event, which is also being presented by MetalSucks, NARM, and Roxwel.com, will take place from 2pm t0 6pm at Headhunters. It will […]

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SXSW 2010 – Music, Day 1

Posted by on March 18, 2010

For the next few days, I’m going to attempt to sum up SXSW. I say attempt, because trying to talk about the annual rite of passage for bands, journalists and the music industry at large is like taking a camera phone picture of the Grand Canyon. My trip started with Motorhead, well, Lemmy, actually. With […]

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SXSW 2010 – The Sword Live At Stubbs

Posted by on March 17, 2010

Marc Meltzer reports in from Austin on The Sword performance… The Sword is from Austin and seeing them open for Motorhead at Stubbs BBQ was going to be perfect. There was no way it couldn’t be. It was raining all day, but the skies opened up in time for The Sword to take the stage. […]

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Anyone Going To SXSW? Here’s A Great Reason To

Posted by on February 11, 2010

Headed to SXSW? The music industry’s spring break in Austin is coming up in a little over a month (March 17-20) , and the first must-see metal event of the convention has been announced. High on Fire and Priestess will be headlining Action! PR’s showcase. After having heard High On Fire’s new album, Snakes For […]

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