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This Sunday, Harry's hosting a trilogy screening event of BEFORE SUNRISE, BEFORE SUNSET & BEFORE MIDNIGHT - Is your soul romantic enough? Hey folks, Harry here... It killed me to miss BEFORE MIDNIGHT at SXSW this year.

For the second year in a row, I spent a lovely spring weekend in Fredericksburg for the 2013 Hill Country Film Festival .

Emmylou Harris performs onstage at Radio Day Stage during 2013 SXSW at Austin Convention Center on March 15, 2013 in Austin, Texas.

By now, we're getting used to seeing iPads being used as checkout devices at small businesses and mobile payment devices in taxis.

Pandora's presence at South by Southwest this year and last hammered that reality home.

The Austin -based band released their debut CD, played a packed showcase at SXSW, and won an Austin Music Award for Best New Band.

The Oak Cliff Film Festival has announced the lineup for its second annual installment, slated to run June 6-9 at Texas Theatre and other Oak Cliff venues.

This year during South By Southwest Interactive, Paste and Sennheiser teamed up to present an array of interviews each day, live from the Blackheart on Rainey Street.

The Marfa Film Festival is back after a hiatus of a couple of years, and several of us at Slackerwood couldn't be more thrilled.

More than 30 years ago, Celso Pia introduced cumbia into Mexico and established his native Monterrey as the seat of the genre.

Watching Jim James record his sixth Austin City Limits TV taping Sunday at ACL Live at the Moody Theater brought to mind his spellbinding set at the Heartbreaker Banquet during SXSW last March.

People have a hard time pronouncing the name of Miami sextet Ketchy Shuby correctly.

Though music fanatics have been guessing who would headline the 2013 edition of Austin City Limits Festival for weeks now, the official Austin City Limits Festival 2013 lineup finally surfaced early Tuesday morning.

In the documentary Trash Dance , which opens today at the Violet Crown Cinema, filmmaker Andrew Garrison offers a record of the making of choreographer Allison Orr 's one-night-only, site-specific production of The Trash Project - a dance piece performed in 2009 by the workers and machinery of Austin's Solid Waste Services Department .

Stateside Independent will screen The Happy Poet -- which premiered at SXSW 2010 -- Monday, May 6 at 7 pm [ ticket info ]. Cast members Jonny Mars, Chris Doubek and Liz Fisher, and producer David Hartstein, will be there for a Q&A following the movie.

This year during South By Southwest Interactive, Paste and Sennheiser teamed up to present a spread of great interviews each day from the Blackheart on Rainey Street.

After debuting his live show at SXSW, this will be KASTLE's first live tour, featuring him on keyboard with a really organic and new sound.

VH1 is partnering with AOL to widely release director Alex Winter 's new documentary film Downloaded , which covers the rise and fall of the infamous mp3 file sharing - some would say file stealing - application Napster, as well as the ramifications that this service had on the music industry at large.

It must be quite a ride for The Lumineers . In just over a year, the band has gone from playing in front of two people at SXSW to packing the 16,000 seat Austin 360 Amphitheater.

Of all the weddings we've ever featured on The Knot Blog, Alex and Alex's wedding is one of my favorites because it mixes the offbeat vibe of Austin, home of famed music festival SXSW, with a rustic bohemian style.