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7:00pm CST

TechSet Party

This Friday SXSW kickoff party unites the digerati as they channel their inner Fame Monster by reviving a decade of style and glamour that made the social elite go ga ga.
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5293

Friday March 12, 2010 7:00pm - 8:00pm CST
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Party, Interactive

8:00pm CDT

Microsoft Party and Interactive Gallery

Technology and music mix it up at the Microsoft Party with special guest Carsonified. Party with some of Austin’s finest DJs including DJ-Mel, drinks, and networking at the hottest nightclub and best rooftop Terrace59, Speakeasy. Come see the live debut of The Roebucks (Brooklyn, NY) being hailed as “United States’ answer...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5289

Monday March 15, 2010 8:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Party, Interactive

8:00pm CDT

Gavin Holland

Part of Senari & Couch Sessions Present
http://www.thecouchsessions.com/2010/02/sxsw-senari-x-the-couch-sessions-showcase-at-speakeasy-austin/

Wednesday March 17, 2010 8:00pm - 8:59pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Unofficial Music

Host Organization(s) Senari / Couch Sessions
Info Y

8:00pm CDT

Deadly Dragon Sound

Wednesday March 17, 2010 8:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags DJ

8:00pm CDT

Senari & Couch Sessions Present

The Senari x Couch Sessions Showcase is upon us! After several months of work, we’re proud to announce one of the best, and most diverse showcases that the SXSW Music Festival has ever seen. Headlining the showcase is New York’s own Cubic Zirconia featuring Tiombe Lockhart, capping a lineup that includes Sweden’s Adam Tensta, DC’s own Tabi Bonney, and Brooklyn’s Jahdan. DJ sets provided by New York’s Deadly Dragon Soundsystem and DC’s Gavin Holland! Gavin Holland, Deadly Dragon Soundsystem, Jahdan Blakkamore, Tabi Bonney, Adam Tensta, Cubic Zirconia
http://www.thecouchsessions.com/2010/02/sxsw-senari-x-the-couch-sessions-showcase-at-speakeasy-austin/

Wednesday March 17, 2010 8:00pm - Thursday March 18, 2010 2:00am CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Unofficial Party

Host Organization(s) Senari / Couch Sessions

9:00pm CDT

Deadly Dragon Soundsystem

Part of Senari & Couch Sessions Present
http://www.thecouchsessions.com/2010/02/sxsw-senari-x-the-couch-sessions-showcase-at-speakeasy-austin/

Wednesday March 17, 2010 9:00pm - 9:59pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Unofficial Music

Host Organization(s) Senari / Couch Sessions
Info Y

9:00pm CDT

Jahdan Blakkamoore

Jahdan Blakkamoore is a Brooklyn local hero. Beloved for his charismatic stage presence, pointed lyrics, and powerful voice, Jahdan brings the perspective of Rasta sufferation to the streets of post 9/11 New York City. Making his first impact with NYC's golden-era street rap legends Boot Camp Clik, Jahdan has been bridging...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6895

Wednesday March 17, 2010 9:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Reggae

10:00pm CDT

Jahdan Blakkamore

Part of Senari & Couch Sessions Present
http://www.thecouchsessions.com/2010/02/sxsw-senari-x-the-couch-sessions-showcase-at-speakeasy-austin/

Wednesday March 17, 2010 10:00pm - 10:59pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Unofficial Music

Host Organization(s) Senari / Couch Sessions
Info Y

10:00pm CDT

Tabi Bonney

Washington, DC’s Stereo Faith has a DJ technique unlike many others. His signature style of whipping club goers into a fury by seamlessly blending an array of musical genres, is a result of attending numerous punk rock matinees, Jamaican sound clashes and hip hop concerts throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s. These...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6094

Wednesday March 17, 2010 10:00pm - 11:00pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Hip-Hop/Rap

11:00pm CDT

Tabi Bonney

Part of Senari & Couch Sessions Present
http://www.thecouchsessions.com/2010/02/sxsw-senari-x-the-couch-sessions-showcase-at-speakeasy-austin/

Wednesday March 17, 2010 11:00pm - 11:59pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Unofficial Music

Host Organization(s) Senari / Couch Sessions
Info Y

11:00pm CDT

Cubic Zirconia

Huddled around bowls of sushi rice and bottles of Sake in a hole in the wall Sushi-ya on East 7th Street, three of the four of members of NYC’s Cubic Zirconia are letting it all hang out. The East Village spaced-out RnB acid house revivalist outfit Cubic Zirconia is just getting...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6087

Wednesday March 17, 2010 11:00pm - Thursday March 18, 2010 12:00am CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Electronic

12:00am CDT

Adam Tensta

Part of Senari & Couch Sessions Present
http://www.thecouchsessions.com/2010/02/sxsw-senari-x-the-couch-sessions-showcase-at-speakeasy-austin/

Thursday March 18, 2010 12:00am - 12:59am CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Unofficial Music

Host Organization(s) Senari / Couch Sessions
Info Y

12:00am CDT

Adam Tensta

Since the release of his debut album It’s A Tensta Thing which became a Swedish chart topper in 2008, Adam Tensta has made dance floors from Stockholm to Dakar, from Paris to Los Angeles, sizzle with his electro/house influenced sound. By now, people on three continents know the words to his...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6081

Thursday March 18, 2010 12:00am - 1:00am CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Hip-Hop/Rap

1:00am CDT

Cubic Zirconia

Part of Senari & Couch Sessions Present
http://www.thecouchsessions.com/2010/02/sxsw-senari-x-the-couch-sessions-showcase-at-speakeasy-austin/

Thursday March 18, 2010 1:00am - 1:59am CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Unofficial Music

Host Organization(s) Senari / Couch Sessions
Info Y

1:00am CDT

Gavin Holland

Gavin Holland has been dubbed one of "one of D.C.'s titan DJs" by The Washington Post, and that may just be true. His party, Nouveau Riche, has been a consistently sweat-drenched, line-around-the-block affair for the past year and a half, garnering the D.C. City Paper's "Best Dance Night" award in their...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6845

Thursday March 18, 2010 1:00am - 2:00am CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags DJ

8:00pm CDT

DJ CFCF

Michael Silver (aka CFCF) is one of those rare talents to whom pop sensibility seems to be second nature. The Montreal native has been making music in his bedroom since he was 12 years old, but it’s only over the past year or so that the rest of the world has...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/4766

Thursday March 18, 2010 8:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags DJ

9:00pm CDT

Bruce Peninsula

Dreamt up by Misha Bower and Matt Cully in the summer of 2006, Bruce Peninsula has slowly mutated, elaborating on the Alan Lomax archives that initially inspired them and taking a new turn every time a new member or instrument is added to the mix. Since their second show, Bruce Peninsula...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/975

Thursday March 18, 2010 9:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Folk

10:00pm CDT

Little Girls

Little Girls aka Josh McIntyre and co. are excited to announce the release of debut and proper album, Concepts, on Paper Bag Records on October 13th. After word started circulating earlier this year via some early blog attention from songs discovered on the band's MySpace and the subsequent release of their...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5526

Thursday March 18, 2010 10:00pm - 11:00pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Punk

11:00pm CDT

Woodhands

Since the 2008 release of their debut album Heart Attack, Woodhands has received impressive accolades for both their recorded work and their relentless live performance, appearing on several ‘Best Of’ lists including a recent anointment as one of the '10 Best New Bands On Earth' by British tastemaker Q Magazine following...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/1523

Thursday March 18, 2010 11:00pm - Friday March 19, 2010 12:00am CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Electronic/Dance

12:00am CDT

Winter Gloves

Reactions to Winter Gloves’ debut album, about a girl, and their energetic live shows earned praise like “Best New Artist” from iTunes Canada and an invite to join tours with the likes of Thunderheist and Tokyo Police Club. The guys will bring their constant buzz of bass and gritty synths (as...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/1522

Friday March 19, 2010 12:00am - 1:00am CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Pop

1:00am CDT

You Say Party! We Say Die!

British Columbia's You Say Party! We Say Die! (aka YSP! WSD!) are back! Having reinvented themselves with their spirited style of New-Wave, and a new depth of material, the band is excited to announce the details of their much-anticipated third release, XXXX, out on Paper Bag Records on Sept. 29th. YSP!...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5778

Friday March 19, 2010 1:00am - 2:00am CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Pop

8:00pm CDT

Bambarabanda

Friday March 19, 2010 8:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Latin

9:10pm CDT

Nawal

Friday March 19, 2010 9:10pm - 10:10pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags World

10:20pm CDT

Ciegossordomudos

CIEGOSSORDOMUDOS Ciegossordomudos Is a band founded in Bogota, Colombia in 1994 by three of the most influential musicians of the colombian music scene: Alejandro Gomezcaceres (guitar, Aterciopelados), Pablo Bernal (drumms Carlos Vives) y Jota García (bass Sonorama). their self-tittled album ciegosordomudos (nonsense) was released in 1999 and very quickly won critical acclaim...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6741

Friday March 19, 2010 10:20pm - 11:20pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Latin Rock

11:30pm CDT

Superlitio

Latin Grammy-nominated band Superlitio have been described as one of the best rock bands in Colombia today, and they’re on their way to SXSW 2010 for their second time at the festival. The band independently released its fourth album CALIDOSOUND in July 2009, having teamed up with award-winning producer Rafa Sardina....
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5664

Friday March 19, 2010 11:30pm - Saturday March 20, 2010 12:30am CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Latin Rock

12:50am CDT

Systema Solar

Systema Solar is a musical-visual collective from the Caribbean coast of Colombia. It 's members, originating from a diversity of territorial and sonorous latitudes have found in the afro Caribbean vibrations a sea of possibilities to renovate the strength and spirit of Colombian music. The objective of the collective is to...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5058

Saturday March 20, 2010 12:50am - 1:50am CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Latin

8:00pm CDT

Carsick Cars

Carsick Cars were formed in March 2005, and over the past four years have become one of the best known Chinese underground bands in the world, whose song “Zhongnanhai” named after both a popular cigarette brand and the country’s leadership compound, has become the anthem of the Chinese underground. Often imitated...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/87

Saturday March 20, 2010 8:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Rock

9:00pm CDT

P.K. 14

The space that PK14 occupies in Chinese music today is analogous to that of the Talking Heads or Television in 1970s New York – fundamentally important to the development of the under-ground scene but part of no school or musical style. Founded in Nanjing in 1997, PK14 made their big-stage performance...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/241

Saturday March 20, 2010 9:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Rock

10:00pm CDT

Xiao He

He Guoheng, known in the musical world as Xiao He, is one of the most creative and influential artists coming out of the Beijing music scene and is one of the two or three musicians most often saddled with the epithet “genius”. In addition to his performances and collaborations with a...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/1528

Saturday March 20, 2010 10:00pm - 11:00pm CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Avant/Experimental

11:00pm CDT

Snapline

One of Beijing’s most admired but most uncompromising young bands, Snapline consists of two members of the seminal Beijing band Carsick Cars, Li Qing on guitar and keyboards and Li Weisi on bass. Floating over their grinding, pulsating and pushy rhythms and noises is the softer, more fluid singing of Chen...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/281

Saturday March 20, 2010 11:00pm - Sunday March 21, 2010 12:00am CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Punk

12:00am CDT

AV Okubo

Hailing from industrial Wuhan, AV Okubo draws on the sweltering summer nights and the grinding factory noise of their home city to put on one of the best live shows in China. Their performances are electrifying and burst with a sophisticated take on the throwaway culture underlying the best pulp fiction...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/65

Sunday March 21, 2010 12:00am - 1:00am CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Punk

1:00am CDT

White

Formed by ShouWang and Shen Jing in February 2005, White have quickly become one of the most acclaimed outfits in the Beijing new music scene and their rare concerts a Who’s Who of China’s young experimental scene. Their sound is ever evolving, spiraling outwards from noise and minimalism to take in...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/1514

Sunday March 21, 2010 1:00am - 2:00am CDT
Speakeasy 412 Congress Ave

Tags Avant/Experimental