
Rolling Stone’s Texas Takeover: “Historic” Portraits From SXSWPhotograph by Candice Lawler for RollingStone.com. Photographed with permission from the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum Rolling Stone stayed busy at SXSW this year, tweeting 100 band reviews @RollingStone (catch up on all the reports — and check out video — here), and seeing the biggest shows by Muse, Hole, Stone Temple Pilots and more. We also helped some of the fest’s hottest rockers into exhibits at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum — so Patrick Stump, the xx, Surfer Blood, N
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Published: 2010-03-22 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, SXSW
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Muse Pack Arena-Size Anthems Into Surprise SXSW ShowPhoto: Webber/Getty Muse are a band that like things on a massive scale, igniting big sounds on the biggest stages, with the kind of big visual effects known only to the likes of Pink Floyd and Daft Punk. That’s the Muse comfort zone, but the British trio’s special appearance Friday on a much smaller stage at a MySpace Music-presented South By Southwest show traded grand gestures for relative intimacy, without deflating the band’s soaring post-punk prog sound. There were still laser-beams and so
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Published: 2010-03-20 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, SXSW
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SXSW 2010 Day Three Twitter Marathon: 24 Reports, From Liars to Local NativesThe big story on SXSW’s third day was the surprise Muse performance at Stubb’s, which was announced during the broadcast of the Fox show Human Target earlier in the week (yes, really) — though Rolling Stone’s own showcase featuring Band of Skulls, Jimmie Dale and Colin Gilmore, Court Yard Hounds, John Doe, Rye Rye and Nneka was a pretty hot ticket, too. Christopher R. Weingarten of @1000TimesYes continued his Twitter odyssey yesterday, tweeting about 24 bands in 14 hours for @RollingStone. Reli
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Published: 2010-03-20 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, SXSW, SXSW Twitter Marathon
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