SETH ROGEN (This Is the End, 50/50), ZAC EFRON (The Lucky One, That Awkward Moment) and ROSE BYRNE (Bridesmaids, Insidious series) join forces with director NICHOLAS STOLLER (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek) for Neighbors, a comedy about a young couple suffering from arrested development who are forced to live next to a fraternity house after the birth … [Read more...]
“SUNSPOT’ AT MUSIC MADNESS ATX, SXSW 2014
Rock band Sunspot has racked up a few awards and a lot of recognition during the past decade, including winning Rock Album of the Year in the Madison Area Music Association Awards for Singularity (2010) and Loser of the Year (2004). The band has recorded six albums, a DVD and an EP, as well as over 160 biweekly video podcasts (Sunspot Road Mania), and have shared the stage … [Read more...]
‘FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK’ INTERVIEW @SXSW 2014
Leslie Coons interviewed Director Alejandro Franco and Rodrigo y Gabriela for the Mexican documentary that closed SXSW 2014, "For Those About To Rock." on March 15th. The story of Rodrigo y Gabriela, "For Those About to Rock" looks at the story of Mexican guitarists Rodrigo and Gabriela, two Mexicans who at a very early age decided to take the risk to pursue their dreams to … [Read more...]
HANNIBAL BURESS: THE NEXT AMERICAN COMEDIAN
Special to AMFM Magazine by Carla Taylor Sitting on a purple velvet couch at Pelon's on Red River in the back of the "Kegs and Eggs" Comedy Central house party for SXSW 2014, Hannibal Buress seems like one of your favorite people you knew from college. He's in good spirits, despite the muggy Austin atmosphere and deafening, boisterous high jinks going on right outside the … [Read more...]
RENO PEREZ & THE GROOVE GETTERS @SXSW 2014
On Friday March 14th, Reno Perez took the stage at Aussie's during SXSW 2014 for Music Madness ATX and drew in a large crowd who heard the call of the Blues in the midst of all the SXSW madness and responded. His three piece band entertained for slightly more than an hour, and after the last note the audience screamed for more. A classically trained Mariachi and a formerly … [Read more...]
ACTORS JAI COURTNEY AND MILES TELLER ‘DIVERGENT’ INTERVIEW
DIVERGENT is a thrilling action-adventure film set in a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues. Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader (Kate Winslet) to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four (Theo … [Read more...]
‘THE VOICE’S’ CLARISSA SERNA AT ‘MUSIC MADNESS ATX’ @ SXSW 2014
Clarissa Serna graced our stages at Aussie's Sports Bar and Grill on March, 2014. Her high-energy band blew the sand out of the volleyball pit there, and left the audience screaming for more. Clarissa is the Corpus Christi, Texas dynamo that turned four chairs with her rendition of the Cranberries "Zombie' on 'The Voice.' She chose Shakira to mentor her above the other judges, … [Read more...]
KOO KOO KANGA ROO HANDLES THE KIDS @SXSW 2014
http://kookookangaroo.com/#koo Koo Koo Kanga Roo is an interactive dance party duo from Minneapolis, MN. They have toured all over the country with Frank Turner, Reel Big Fish, The Aquabats and Yo Gabba Gabba. Since 2008, Koo Koo Kanga Roo have been all over the country putting on shows at preschools, bars, church basements and even nursing homes. The show is centered on … [Read more...]
‘BAD WORDS’ JASON BATEMAN DISHES THE DIRT ON SPELLING BEE RIVALS
Conflicting accounts of what actually went down on the set of "Bad Words," by the actors themselves - who do you believe? Jason Bateman makes his feature directorial debut with the subversive comedy Bad Words. Mr. Bateman stars as Guy Trilby, a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to cause trouble by hijacking … [Read more...]
LADY GAGA AND REGGIE WATTS AT THE VICE PARTY @SXSW 2014
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‘THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS’ – THE EDWYN COLLINS STORY SXSW 2014
SUNDAY AFTERNOON @ SXSW: DO NOT MISS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF “THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS” AND SPECIAL Q&A AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY FAMED SINGER EDWYN COLLINS THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS is from Ed Lovelace & James Hall the documentary directors and executive producers of "Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D”, which grossed over $32 million in the box office … [Read more...]
KAT CANDLER’S ‘HELLION’ SXSW FESTIVAL FAVORITE
"For about 20 seconds, Hellion seems like it might be a quiet, introspective portrait of two young boys in Southeast Texas — lyricism in the vein of David Gordon Green’s George Washington or Terrence Malick’s, well, everything. Malick’s longtime producer Sarah Green and modern auteur Jeff Nichols even produced it. Then the motorcycle engines start revving and the atonal dawn … [Read more...]
SXSW Plays Host To The International Creative Community
January 29, 2013 – Austin, Texas - As a unique platform for the global creative economy, South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences and Festivals remain the largest annual convergence event in the world. Since the early 2000s, registration has grown by more than 50% and each year one-fifth to one-fourth of total registrants come from outside of the United States. In 2013, … [Read more...]
