Jim Carroll

• SXSW
• March 22, 2011, 09:26

Once more with feeling: snapshot reviews from the Friday and Saturday night and day trawls at SXSW after the jump.

• Hip-hop Reviews SXSW
• March 21, 2011, 12:45

There are some shows which are destined to live long in the memory. Over the weekend at SXSW, Los Angeles teen tearaways Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All came to town and played a handful of gigs which were …

• SXSW
• March 18, 2011, 15:27

If you think St Patrick’s Day was bad where you were, you’ve obviously never experienced this strange beast called St Patty’s Day. For the Yanks in Austin, being Irish basically means drinking until you puke, listening to terrible Irish music …

• SXSW
• March 17, 2011, 15:00

You know the real business of the week has begun when the Austin police department make 6th Street a no-cycling zone and you move to the back-lanes to get from venue to venue without mowing down some slow-moving hipsters. I …

• SXSW
• March 16, 2011, 14:45

Traditionally, the Tuesday night of SXSW has been the quiet one in Austin, TX. The out of town nerds are returning to where they came from (San Francisco, New York and Swinford mostly) and the musos are rolling into the …

• SXSW
• March 15, 2011, 14:42

Win Win is a great, big-hearted film about a New Jersey lawyer Mike Flaherty, the high school wrestling team he coaches, a couple of families and what happens when Flaherty becomes the guardian to his one of his elderly clients. …

• SXSW
• March 14, 2011, 09:08

Greetings from the best little interactive, film and music showcase in Texas, nah, the world. As is now customary, mid-March sees me swapping the usual beat in Dublin for Austin and the SXSW beano. It starts with the Interactive and …

• SXSW
• March 22, 2010, 15:40

It’s over. There are no more bands to see, no more parties to try to get into, no more chance encounters with superstars in the hotel lobby (that would be John Hiatt) or lift (that would, er, Feargal Sharkey – …