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The Casket Lottery’s furious performance at Middle of the Map Fest

by Nathan Cardiff As Saturday came to an end, I was starting to feel the effects of three days of awesome music, working at my

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Rock and Roll is Still Wild and Weird

by Mitch Jones Rock and roll used to be all about sporting matching outfits and choreographed stage antics. The last thing I expected to find

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Photo Gallery: SXSW 2013

Photos by Fally Afani, Mitch Jones, and Lillian Wright Smith.

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The Personality Within Surfer Blood

by Mitch Jones The music world is host to an endless number of intriguing characters. After my first full day at the South By Southwest

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Photo Gallery: Every Time I Die

By Lillian Wright Smith Don’t let the fact that Saturday’s show at the Granada was an early one lead you to think it was tame.

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Title Fight leads vicious show at the Jackpot

by Lillian Wright Smith I don’t know if the Jackpot was ready for the show they put on Wednesday night. The kids traveled far and

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Lawrence rings in the New Year with Murder By Death / Cowboy Indian Bear / Y[our] Fri[end]

The snow storm that arrived to finish off 2012 was hardly enough to keep Lawrence’s dedicated music lovers away from Downtown on Monday. Mass Street

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Photo Gallery: Liars / Cadence Weapon / Major Games

Photographer Nicholas Stahl caught these photos of Liars when they played at the Granada on Saturday. Rapper Cadence Weapon and local noise-makers Major Games joined

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Photo Gallery: Walk the Moon / Morning Parade

Walk the Moon hit the Granada hard with a crowd that might not have been the largest, but were fanatical about their favorite band. There

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Photo Gallery: Xiu Xiu / Dirty Beaches / Father Murphy

Xiu Xiu attracted an impressive hip crowd to the Jackpot that wasn’t too hip to sing along to their favorite songs. Duo Dirty Beaches and