Music reviewed: SXSW 2012 on NPR
Head to our SXSW page for NPR Music's full coverage of this year's festival. See a list of bands we'll feature live and set times for when they're playing, and hear our Austin 100 stream — 100 songs from 100 bands performing at this year's festival.
Some of the bands discussed:
The solo project from Kelly Pratt (Beirut, Arcade Fire) greets the world with Travelers, the first single from the upcoming album Natives (February 21, 2012, Luaka Bop).
www.brightmomentsmusic.com
The City and Horses
Grey Filastine is an audio-visual artist born in Los Angeles, based in Barcelona, and often nomadic. He composes a dense transnational bass music that collides the lowest frequencies of dubstep with the highest-level beat science, acoustic strings, voices, and gathered street noises. The results are "Awesome and delicate... hybrids so fluent they defy classification." -Pitchfork
Quiet Company http://quietcompanymusic.com/
Clyde and Clem's Whiskey Business
ZZ Ward
@zzwardmusic
http://zzward.tumblr.com