SXSW is not a festival, it’s a conference.

Austin, TX

“I didn’t want to say something overt. I didn’t know how to.”

“You ain’t even got enough tape for these fuckin’ ghost stories.”

“My music is no more or less than the music created hundreds of years ago by some indigenous inhabitant of a small atoll in Micronesia.”

“I sort of deduced from the fact that the car wasn’t in the driveway when I woke up that I must have written a song.”

And this is what 20 of these bring us.

“This album is so strong and unsettling because our groups were comfortable with being vulnerable.”

A slow-release IV drip of lovingly-crafted foreign movies

“This world is coming to infect your body and destroy the planet you live on and control your movements, and there’s precisely jack shit you can do about it.”

The taboo, the wasted, the awkward, and the cute.

“Magic and music were powerful tools for transformation.”

“We didn’t want to make a dark children’s record, but we didn’t want to avoid darkness altogether.”

“The internet is good for finding artists, but it’s also full of whackos and phonies with half-baked ideas. We don’t exactly hype that shit.”