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The Builders and the Butchers at Antone's . It's difficult not to compare Portland band the Builders and the Butchers to the Decemberists - both play dark, epic folk songs full of thumping percussion, mandolins and banjos.

Tyler, The Creator performs during the SXSW Music Festival early Friday, March 14, 2014, in Austin, Texas.

What up Columbus! Your girl is out here making things happen in Austin, Texas at one of the Nations biggest music events! SXSW! You know I have to share my experience with you! Here's a preview of whats going down here at SXSW 2014 with music's hottest acts, upcoming artists and more! Had an opportunity to attend this year's SXSW to perform at a ... (more)

Austin police arrested South By Southwest performer Tyler, the Creator and charged him with inciting a riot after a crowd broke down the gate surrounding the Scoot Inn to see his performance Thursday afternoon.

While a galaxy of stars were paying tribute to Lou Reed a few blocks away at the Paramount Theatre, Reed's former college classmate and fellow urban poet Garland Jeffreys, who had performed at the Reed show earlier, was back in club mode, delivering a lean, mean showcase set with the grace and class that one has come to expect from him.

A lawyer for Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter on Friday argued that a lawyer for her father's estate should be disqualified from participating in a dispute over the ownership of King's Bible and Nobel Peace... AUSTIN, Texas - It's been nearly three decades since Spandau Ballet played in the United States.

A driver who plowed into a crowded street at a popular festival in Austin this week, killing two people, was charged with capital murder, police said Friday.

It's like nothing we expected. Calendar editor James Renovitch, photographer John Leach, and I got to spend a morning with professional falconer Steve Oleson and his noble pal, Meego.

Bystanders tend to a man who was struck by a vehicle on Red River Street in downtown Austin, Texas, on Wednesday March 12, 2014.

Rashad Owens, the suspect in the SXSW wreck that killed two people, is seen in an undated booking mug provided Friday, March 14, 2014.

Ed Sheeran was a winner Thursday night at the mtvU Woodie Awards, held at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas.

Here's a bold new concept for all those niche TV shows out there, hanging on for dear life with a small-but-rabid fan base: Get canceled.

In this Nov. 24, 2013 file photo, Lady Gaga, center, and R. Kelly perform at the American Music Awards held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live, in Los Angeles.

Barricades stand near the scene of a deadly car accident at the South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Festival on March 13, 2014 in Austin, Texas.

U.S. safety regulators have recorded 303 deaths when airbags failed to deploy in 1.6 million compact cars recalled last month by General Motors Co, according to a study released Thursday night by a safety watchdog group.

The Austin Ballroom of the Convention Center bustled with this town's finest Wednesday night: fiddle phenom and scion Warren Hood, Octopus Project theremin temptress Yvonne Lambert, KUTX favorite Jay "Silver Fox" Trachtenberg, and the members of horn line Hard Proof Afrobeat.

An intoxicated driver fleeing police plowed his car into a crowd at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, early Thursday, killing two people, authorities said.

A car being pursued by police has crashed through a crowd outside a venue at the SXSW festival in Austin, TX, leaving two confirmed dead and over 20 people injured.

A former longtime Fiesta Bowl chief executive who acknowledged participating in an illegal campaign contribution scheme faces sentencing Thursday in federal court.

Unidentified people are comforted after being struck by a vehicle on Red River Street in downtown Austin, Texas, during SXSW on Wednesday March 12, 2014.