Some of the biggest stars at SXSW 2025 spent the festival’s third full day of music at Willie Nelson’s Luck Ranch, where everyone from Julien Baker and Torres to Jessica Simpson and Lucinda Williams all showed up. Others were at Rolling Stone‘s Future of Music showcase, where música mexicana heartthrob …
Read More »The Best of SXSW Day Two: Billy Woods, Jack's Mannequin, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, and More
A great performance at SXSW can happen anywhere: An official showcase at a downtown venue, an unofficial get-together at an East Side bar, a shindig thrown by a third-party political group, or all of the above. Here are the best things we saw on Wednesday, March 12, at SXSW 2025. …
Read More »The Best of SXSW Day One: John Fogerty, Case Oats, Gloin, and More
SXSW 2025 is underway! The music portion of the long-running Austin, Texas festival got started with a scattering of big and small shows around town as evening fell on March 11. If you knew where to look, you might find a classic rock legend, a chart-topping pop star, or any …
Read More »New Doc Explores Medically Unnecessary Surgeries Given to Intersex Kids — And the Trauma They Cause
Jim Ambrose was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1976 with what he describes as “a body that was really upsetting to my parents and my doctors.” Though medical tests determined that he was perfectly healthy, his doctors seemed more concerned about what was between his legs: either “a really, …
Read More »Benson Boone, Megan Moroney, Ivan Cornejo, and Rema to Play Rolling Stone's Future of Music Showcase at SXSW
Benson Boone, Megan Moroney, Ivan Cornejo, Rema, and many other standout artists will take the stage at Austin’s ACL Live at the Moody Theater for Rolling Stone’s third annual Future of Music showcase, presented by JBL. Part of this year’s SXSW festival, the four-night concert series will take place from …
Read More »SXSW Adds Jack's Mannequin, Sunflower Bean, and More to Lineup
SXSW has announced a third round of artists who will be performing at the festival in Austin, Texas this year. The 2025 event will include Jack’s Mannequin, Sunflower Bean, and Holy Fuck, who have performed at SXSW in the past, along with newcomers like Mexico’s alt-maverick NSQK, J-Pop boy band …
Read More »SXSW Drops U.S. Army Sponsorship Ahead of 2025 Festival
The organizers of South by Southwest announced Wednesday that it has cut ties with the U.S. Army and other weapons manufacturers following a 2024 festival that saw artists pulling out of the lineup due to sponsorship deals with those entities. “After careful consideration, we are revising our sponsorship model,” SXSW …
Read More »South by Southwest Expands to London
South by Southwest (SXSW) is heading to London, England. After nearly four decades in Austin, Texas the multidisciplinary festival will launch across the pond in June 2025. The European fest plans to takeover dozens of dozens of venues, galleries, clubs, and other spaces in Shoreditch in the East End. Similar …
Read More »'There Were Punches I Didn't Want to Pull': Why Dev Patel Needed to Make 'Monkey Man'
All Dev Patel knew was: The man was wearing a rubber monkey mask. Past that, everything else was a mystery. The 33-year-old actor had this image stuck in his head. There’s a young man, sweaty and battered, standing in a crude wrestling ring located in what Patel excitedly describes as …
Read More »Rolling Stone's Future of Music Showcase at SXSW Had Stars from Around the World and Lines Around the Block
Over four nights in March, Rolling Stone’s Future of Music showcase at SXSW brought the stars of tomorrow to Austin’s famed ACL Live at the Moody Theater. Each night, the 2,750-seat venue was packed — not just inside, but outside, too. Ahead of the second night’s bill, which was topped …
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