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Not at SXSW? Listen to the Shows from Your Computer

BuzzSugar — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:30:00 -0700

The sprawling South by Southwest festivals are in full swing in Austin this week, with the music portion of events kicking off today. Can't be there? Do what I'm doing and listen online, courtesy of the newly supercool NPR Music.

NPR is webcasting four concert programs from SXSW starting tonight. Tonight's lineup includes performances by Jonathan Rice and REM, while Thursday's all-day broadcast includes Yeasayer, Jens Lekman, and Vampire Weekend. Thursday night's program includes sets from Yo La Tengo and My Morning Jacket, and the program ends Friday with another afternoon lineup including The Weakerthans and The Whigs. In addition, some individual performances will be webcast by individual NPR stations, including She & Him's Friday afternoon show.

Some NPR stations will be carrying all or part of the lineup on the radio (go here to see if yours is one of them), but here's the best part: All of the NPR Music concerts will be archived, so you'll be able to listen to them -and, perhaps, even download them - anytime you want. Nothing like a little SXSW in your pocket, right?

This Year's SXSW Film Lineup Looks Awesome, Y'all

BuzzSugar — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:31:53 -0800

After seeing the just-announced lineup of films showing at the South by Southwest festival this year, I'm salivating. There are some movies premiering at SXSW that I've been patiently awaiting for what feels like forever, like Run, Fat Boy, Run with Simon Pegg and Hank Azaria. Then there are others that I'd just love to see before they are actually released, like Forgetting Sarah Marshall (later opening April 18), the Kevin Spacey casino movie 21 (opening March 28) and Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (April 25).

What's really putting me over the edge is that there are Sundance titles here that I never got into and desperately wanted to see, like the adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's Choke, the high school noir film The Assassination of a High School President and the documentary Young@Heart.

The festival takes place March 7-15 in Austin, Texas. What about you? Do you live close enough - or are you willing to make a trek - to see some of these films at SXSW? And are you chomping at the bit as much as I am?

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Buzz News Roundup, 12/21

BuzzSugar — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:28:34 -0800

Fox has announced the schedule for the first weeks of American Idol, with the auditions starting Jan. 15 and the first live show airing Feb. 21; details are at The Futon Critic.
Rainn Wilson will host the Independent Spirit Awards in February, Variety reports.
According to Zap2It, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (formerly Eko on Lost) has been cast in the live-action G.I. Joe movie.
Lou Reed will be the keynote speaker for the South by Southwest in 2008, writes Billboard.
Stephen Colbert is the AP Celebrity of the Year, the Associated Press reports.
A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila is getting a spinoff called That's Amore, writes the New York Daily News.
MTV is making an original musical called The American Mall from the High School Musical producers, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
A Gossip Girl-inspired reality show appears to be in the works, TV Guide reports.
The season finale of Dexter became Showtime's most watched broadcast ever on Sunday, according to Zap2it.
Variety reports that Shirley MacLaine will play CoCo Chanel in a Lifetime miniseries.

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