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  Free Album! Austin Power: SPIN's Best SXSW Acts 2012

  March 8, 2012 – Last time we looked at the lineup, there were approximately 135 billion bands playing SXSW 2012… that's more burgeoning musicians than there are stars in our very galaxy! Luckily SPIN is bound by indie rock law to listen to every one of them and have thusly hand-picked a swell mixtape of some of the most important acts to watch for in the upcoming weekend. …
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  Jay-Z Is Playing SXSW '12 and Livestreaming It to the Masses

  March 7, 2012 – It seems Jay-Z had a ball at last year's SXSW, where he made a surprise appearance at Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music label showcase at a converted power plant in downtown Austin. In fact, he liked it so much that he's just announced he'll be coming back this year — in just five days. …
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  Five Ways to Win Tickets to SPIN's Austin Party at Stubb's

  March 6, 2012 – For the past 10 years, SPIN’s annual March bash in Austin has happened at Stubb’s. But for most of those years, the parties have largely been populated by industry pros and pals inhaling as much free beer as they can reach. …
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  Santigold, Best Coast, Big K.R.I.T. Set for SPIN's Austin Throwdown

  March 1, 2012 – SPIN is proud to announce the complete lineup of our 2012 party in Austin, set for Friday, March 16. Once again at the city's fingerlickingest venue, Stubb's BBQ, this year's bill features a who's who of SPIN faves, led by dub-poptronica superstar Santigold, who conveniently dropped a new video today. …
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  Fiona Apple Announces Short Post-SXSW Tour

  February 21, 2012 – Fiona Apple's career is finally back on. Following the announcement of her upcoming appearance at SXSW, the singer has confirmed via her Facebook fan page a short, six-date East Coast run post-SXSW, hopefully to coincide with the eventual release of her embattled new record (her first since 2005's Extraordinary Machine). …
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  16 Best Indie Rock Street Styles

  March 22, 2011 –  …
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  SPIN Staff's Best & Worst of SXSW 2011

  March 21, 2011 – DOUG BROD -- EDITOR IN CHIEF, SPINBest Set: The Jim Jones Revue at Emo's Jr., Friday night. Until the Hives get back to touring this London quintet is simply the most electrifying live rock'n'roll act on the planet -- period. Hyperbole? Have you seen them?Best Discovery: Dinosaur Pile-Up, a trio from Leeds, England, that brings to mind a power-pop Nirvana or an aggro Ash. …
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  Best & Worst Moments of SXSW 2011: Day Four

  March 20, 2011 – BEST BAND TO WATCH THROUGH A FENCE: PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEARTCheer Up Charlie's hit capacity for the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, but it wasn't a problem for those left out in the line. All that separated them from the crowd was a chain-link fence, so they stopped sweating the wait and spread out with beer cans in hand. The band seemed relieved to be playing something so endearingly informal. …
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  Kanye West & Jay-Z Close Out SXSW

  March 20, 2011 – The fact that Kanye West was gracing Austin with his presence was no surprise. Even the fact that he'd brought Jay-Z with him wasn't a total surprise, given the spontaneous "Ho-va! Ho-va!" chant an hour into West's festival-capping set at a converted power plant downtown, sponsored by Vevo. …
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  'Mess With Texas' Megashow Helps Close out SXSW

  March 20, 2011 – It was no stunner that Ted Leo, punk-ethos lifer and reluctant interlocutor in South By Southwest's music-industry minstrel show, provided the most cutting epilogue to this year's cluster of the fucked: "I'm not impressed with your desire to be the biggest in the bowl," he sang on "The Sword in the Stone," at the fifth MWTX (Mess With Texas) party in a dusty, bi-level trailer park in East Austin. …
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