How To Listen To a Ton of Free Music from South By Southwest (SXSW)

Between festival downloads and concert streams, you'll be set for hours and hours of listening

South by Southwest (SXSW): Commerce Goes Local, Social and Mobile

As usual, I've been spending most of my South by Southwest Interactive conference hanging out and chatting with interesting people. On Sunday afternoon, I did so...

South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive 101: Five Themes to Follow in Austin

South By Southwest Interactive is primarily about the networking, gadgets...and tacos. But this year, some new topics have filtered into the conversation

South By Southwest (SXSW): Will Collecting Data on Your Body Make You Healthier?

Not familiar with the “Quantified Self?” It's latest trend in obsessively tracking every possible health measure, in real time, that emerged as a major theme at...

The Quantified Self Evolves: A South By Southwest (SXSW) Vision of How Gadgets Will Teach Us About Ourselves

How do we go from nifty wearable gadgets to the dawn of a new cultural mindset? I have no idea – but I’m pretty sure someone at South By Southwest fill figure it...

Nothing Happens: 5 Intriguing Film-Festival Stories from South by Southwest (SXSW)

Joss Whedon's take on a Shakespeare comedy and a movie-ticket subscription service made news at SXSW film festival

Hey, Musicians: 10 Ways Not to Screw Up at South By Southwest (SXSW)

Five artists who made the most of the festival dispense some valuable advice for newcomers

South by Southwest (SXSW): Needly Brings WYSIWYG to Website Building

A veteran entrepreneur previews a do-it-yourself site-building tool which he says has been his dream for years.

South by Southwest (SXSW): Airpainting With Corel Painter Freestyle

One of the most dazzling demos I ever saw at a tech trade show happened more than twenty years ago, at a Macworld Expo in Boston. It involved a new software...

World Premiere: Amanda Seyfried in the New Music Video from SXSW Darlings The Milk Carton Kids

The video for 'Honey, Honey' hits the web today

Viewpoint: Cory Booker Wins South By Southwest (SXSW) — How a Mayor Conquered America’s Biggest Tech Festival

Our time had expired, I was getting the “wrap it up, now!” signal from the volunteers charged with keeping the tech festival moving, and yet I knew the moment...

9 New Bands to See at South By Southwest (SXSW): Welcome to Music’s March Madness

For those of you who prefer music to hoops, this music festival is nothing less than our March Madness; a thoroughly overwhelming onslaught of unknown bands,...

SXSW: TIME Reporters on Tech, Politics, Arts, Biz and Social Media

Thousands of tech geeks, media dorks, political junkies, music lovers and film buffs are descending on Austin, Texas for the annual South By Southwest tech, film...

Nardwuar Brings His One-Of-A-Kind Interview Style to SXSW

Watch journalist, punk rocker, and one-of-a-kind interviewer Nardwuar leave his mark on SXSW 2013.

SXSW Film Festival Announces 2013 Lineup

The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival—marking its 20th anniversary this year—has just announced its feature-film lineup.  One hundred and...

SXSW: Watch TIME's Lev Grossman Interview Futurist Ray Kurzweil

TIME's own Lev Grossman is at the South by Southwest festival, where he just interviewed author and futurist Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near) during an...

SXSW Eco: Searching for a New Environmentalism

I was fortunate enough to head down to Austin, Texas last week to attend the second annual SXSW Eco conference. It’s an offshoot of Austin’s fast metastasizing...

SXSW: Highlight Aims to Alert You To Like-Minded Folks in Your Immediate Vicinity

In many ways, South by Southwest is the ultimate laboratory for a service like Highlight, the location-based social networking startup that is quickly becoming...

Can a Small Start-Up Still Make a Splash at SXSW? Not If Jay-Z Is In Town

I’ll never know what Jay-Z has against me or my new Internet venture. All I know is that after months (okay, weeks) of planning a SxSW launch party for our...

SXSW Interactive Goes Political: Americans Elect Wins 2012 People’s Choice Award

Between grumbles in Austin that the 2012 South By Southwest Interactive festival had come and gone without any standout debuts or surprises, there was a steady...