Big Huge: At The Movies Self-described as “a frightful/delightful five-piece of ditty pumpers with a heart that bleeds for the wild child, the mood swinger and the lost thought found again,” NYC-based Big Huge and their garage-pop sound is a legitimate gang of…
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Coinciding with the start of SXSW 2014, Chevrolet announced an exciting partnership with Beats Music, the newest name in the streaming music service game. While in Austin earlier this week with Chevy, we had…
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While a good majority of panels and projects at this year’s SXSW Interactive centered around the NSA and government surveillance, interactive installation StreamMeUp offered a lighthearted alternative to the discussion on where advancements in technology can…
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Jason Bentley spends a lot of time wearing headphones. He can be found late night in LA and around the world DJing everything from small exclusive events to massive dance parties. In his endless quest to keep up with new music and find vintage tracks for his radio shows…
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1. 30 Under 30 at SXSW Buzzfeed counts down 30 of the hottest young bands to check out at SXSW 2013, starting with breakout band Wildcat! Wildcat! and ending with returning headliner Passion Pit. The focused list serves as a great guide for anyone setting out to navigate the…
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Next week Dezeen will be at the SXSW technology conference in Austin, Texas, as part of Hackney House Austin, a showcase of the most exciting creative and digital companies from the London borough.
From 8 to 11 March, SXSW attendees will be able to meet representatives from more than 20 companies inside Hackney House Austin, a “capsule” edition of the Shoreditch pop-up space that hosted Dezeen’s Designed in Hackney Day during the London 2012 Olympics.
Between 10am and 2pm, attendees will be able to watch short films by Dezeen, Protein, onedotzero and ITV, pick up pre-ordered business cards from Moo and visit the Sugru repair shop.
Panels and workshops will be hosted by MakieLab and onedotzero in the afternoons, while Protein will relaunch its online video channel Protein TV with a forum discussing the Future of TV featuring speakers from ITV and Vimeo plus the site’s founder and CEO William Rowe.
Other companies exhibiting will include design studios Bare Conductive, Not Tom and Hulger and web designers Poke as well as design consultancy BERG and electronics “haberdashery” Technology Will Save Us, both of whom took part in our Designed in Hackney Day.
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PDT’s Jim Meehan mixed the perfect Manhattan
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We recently hosted a series of parties in five U.S. cities to bring the Subpop Showcase at SXSW to those that couldn’t make the trip to Austin. To ensure the highest level of sophistication to the bar, we enlisted our friend Jim Meehan of NYC’s famed speakeasy PDT to mix something special. As a pioneer in the mixology movement and author of The PDT Cocktail Book, Meehan fit the bill to concoct our very own signature cocktail.
Rather than reinvent the wheel, Meehan drew on his classic style and the event at hand for inspiration. With a Kentucky Rye and orange bitters, Meehan just slightly dressed up the classic Manhattan. Meehan describes it as “a Perfect Manhattan—made with both sweet and dry vermouth—that takes cues from MasterCard’s logo in the garnish: an orange disc and brandied cherry.”
2 oz. Bulleit Rye Whiskey
1/2 oz. Vya Dry Vermouth
1/2 oz. Vya Sweet Vermouth
2 Dashes of Miracle Mile Bergamot Orange Bitters
Stir with ice and strain into a chilled coupe
Pinch an orange twist over the surface of the drink then affix it to a cocktail pick with a brandied cherry.
Photography by Nick Brown
Behind the scenes with the famous indie label and what to expect at their SXSW Showcase
In partnership with MasterCard, on 16 March 2012 we’ll be streaming the Sub Pop Showcase live from SXSW in Austin to parties in NYC, LA, DC, SF and Chicago. In anticipation of the showcase we shot this video at Sub Pop’s headquarters in Seattle to get to know the label a little better.
Visit Tap into Austin 2012 to catch the Sub Pop Showcase livestream on Friday night and learn more about what’s happening in Austin during SXSW.
Johnny Knoxville on the film adaptation of Chris Millis’ novella recently debuted at SXSW
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Small Apartments focuses in on the small lives lived inside of a run-down Los Angeles apartment complex on the wrong side of the tracks. Little Britain’s Matt Lucas is both creepy and sympathetic in his stellar performance as the eccentric Franklin Franklin, an underwear-clad Swiss alphorn-playing weirdo who accidentally kills his horrible landlord (Fargo’s Peter Stormare). Franklin adores his handsome, charismatic older brother (James Marsden) who lives in a mental institution and sends him daily letters, cassette tapes of his rantings and ravings, and fingernail clippings. One day when no letter arrives, Franklin panics and goes to investigate what’s happened to his sibling.
Franklin’s soda bottle-filled apartment is flanked by those of his neighbors, Tommy Balls, a ne’er do well stoner liquor store worker (played by a terrific Johnny Knoxville) and Mr. Allspice, a bitter, divorced painter who moved into the building and just never left (James Caan). Neither can stand freaky Franklin or his annoying alphorn playing.
The cast is rounded out by Billy Crystal, whose wonderfully nuanced and unexpectedly hilarious performance as the world-weary and spray-tanned fire investigator Dolph Lundgren introduces the audience to an egotistical moonlighting pop psychologist preaching the gospel of “brain brawn”. Juno Temple plays an aspiring teen stripper with dreams of Vegas who lives in the building and the always pitch-perfect Amanda Plummer shares awkwardly sweet screen time with Knoxville as Tommy Balls’ worried mother.
Director Jonas Åkerlund is practically a legend for his music video work (Madonna’s “Ray of Light,” Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up,” Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s “Telephone” and dozens of other iconic clips), known for his meticulous eye, strong art direction, innovative camerawork and clever edits. The slow-moving Small Apartments, is, as the title implies, a small film, but one that features an impressive A-list cast and, despite the Coen Brothers-esque darkness of the plot, an ultimately uplifting message.
The screenplay was written by Chris Millis and adapted from his own novella, which won the 23rd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest in 2000. The movie’s haunting soundtrack comes courtesy of Swedish composer Per Gessel.
Five smoky eats around SXSW
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If you’re coming to Austin, you got to eat yourself some barbecue and there’s some terrific ‘cue available throughout the city.
Since the first day Franklin’s Barbecue opened its doors on E 11th street, barbecue fans have been praising it to the high heavens, and Bon Appetit magazine recently named it the best barbecue in America. Owner and pitmaster Aaron Franklin starts smoking his meats in the wee hours of the morning and when he opens for business at 10am there’s a line of anxious eaters waiting to place their orders. By around 1pm the barbecue is sold out and Franklin’s closes for the day. You’ve got about a three-hour window of opportunity to experience Franklin’s sublime melding of fire, smoke and spice.
Follow that sweet scent of smoldering oak uptown and you’ll find Ruby’s BBQ. Ruby’s slow-cooks their barbecue using brick and mortar pits and oak for the flavor and heat. In addition, they offer something few BBQ places offer: all-natural beef brisket that is free of steroids or hormones and an array of side dishes that includes enough variety a vegetarian can find more than enough to satisfy their hunger. Ruby’s feels like a backcountry roadhouse and the sound system provides the perfect soundtrack of Blues and down home Americana.
The Iron Works BBQ is convenient to the hub of SXSW action, just a few blocks south from 6th street on Red River. Originally an ornamental iron work shop, it was converted to The Iron Works BBQ in 1978, and the Texas State Historical Commission has designated it a historical site. It gets busy around noon and the best deal are the sampler plates featuring brisket, sausage and beef ribs. During SXSW the place is jammed with musicians, industry types and disoriented regulars.
If you can possibly find the time to make the 25-mile trip to Taylor to visit Louie Mueller’s BBQ, go for it. Since 1949, the Mueller family have been making some of the best, if not the best, barbecued brisket in Texas. Featured in countless magazines and on all the food channels, Mueller’s is not only a great place to eat barbecue, it’s a wonderful place to visit. A warehouse-size restaurant whose walls and floors have turned brownish yellow from years of smoke, Mueller’s sits on the main drag of the mostly abandoned downtown Taylor. There is a beautiful kind of serenity that pervades this once-teeming manufacturing town, which now looks and feels like a scene from The Last Picture Show.
On the east side of downtown is one of Austin’s oldest barbecue restaurants, Sam’s, which has been in business since the 1940s. A popular stop on the Chitlin Circuit, Sam’s has served R&B royalty from Tina Turner to James Brown. Not much has changed over the years—the joint is funky and full of soul. Specialty of the house: barbecued mutton. Sam’s is open until 3am on weekends.
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