Telephoned, you'll find at SXSW, ais not a mashup crew, and it's definitely not a cover band. Not quite, anyway. The musical territory New Yorkers Sammy Bananas and Maggie Horn occupy is a tough one to find -- the place where your favorite pop song can get reimagined as a dance floor jam, with enough hooks, lyrics or other source material left over ...

Warning: do not even think about lumping Detroit's five-headed noise monster the Terrible Twos into the neo-garage movement that was the Motor City's only reliable export for most of the last decade. While Twos' honcho Chris Campbell (guitar/bass/vocals) and his bandmates took the stage at all the clubs that helped launch the White Stripes, the Von ...

Chris Trew wasn't born with a mic in his hand, but that's about the only time he wasn't actively entertaining folks. Starting out as a stand-up comedian long before he adopted the Terp 2 It moniker for his absurdist hip-hop material, the Austinite is a regular at comedy clubs and live music venues all over the south. When not teaching ...

Chris Johnson's instinct was right when he decided his band fell somewhere in the middle ground between Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's retro southern harmonies and the Arcade Fire's orchestral sweep. Acclaimed almost from the moment Johnson and his six bandmates took the stage as Telegraph Canyon, the Fort Worth, Texas group has become a live ...