SXSW 2011 Wrap-Up

The 2011 SXSW Music Festival was earlier this month and the who's who of the indie and hip-hop music communities were in attendance along with a smorgasbord of the most promising independent and unsigned up and comers in the music world today, so we broke our coverage of the event down accordingly.

The SXSW Festival-goers were treated to a host of established indie acts from (the newly reformed) Death From Above 1979, Bright Eyes, the Strokes (shown below), the Boxer Rebellion (shown below), Bombay Bicycle Club, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart (shown below), and the Joy Formidable (shown below) [those are some of my favorites, but this entire lineup was fantastic, as usual]. 

the Boxer Rebellion

the Pains of Being Pure at Heart

the Joy Formidable

the Strokes

Not to be outdone, many established and up and coming names from the hip-hop world also graced the many stages at SXSW.  Big Krit tore the stage down and linked up with Spitta at Mohawk performing their collabo "Glass House" as well as solo tracks like "Country Shit".  Just touched down while Spitta performed "Famous", a few cuts off Smokee Robinson, and brought out Roddy and Trade to do "Roasted". Kanye was over at the VEVO tent putting on a GOOD show that included Pusha T, Jay-Z, and John Legend, while Bun B performed at Kiss & Fly and managed to get Wiz, Big Sean and Trae the Truth on stage to perform "Phone Numbers". Odd Future tore a couple of sets down and managed to bust a fan's head open, Diddy managed to find his way on stage with the new jacks and Lil B and did a performance of his own that included the classics "Victory" and "All About the Benjamins". Needless to say it was an epic event. Here are a few performances that took place over the 10 day long festival.

Kanye West - "H.A.M."


"Runaway"


Krit - "Country Shit"


Just - "Touched Down"


Curren$y - "Famous"




Odd Future - "Sandwitches"


French


Bun B


We at the Music-RX would also like to wish a very fond welcome to the newest member of our staff, Jay.  He helped to write this Wrap-Up and he'll be regularly posting very soon, so comment and show him some love.

--Max & Alex