After meeting at a talent show at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000, Chicago-bred MC Naledge (born Jabari Evans) and DJ/Producer Double O (Michael Aguilar, of New Jersey) began making music together under the group name Kidz in the Hall. Currently on tour in promotion of their third album, Land of Make Believe (available March 9), the duo will ...

For Austin, Texas native Warren Hood, SXSW is old hat. The 26-year-old singer and musician [he plays the violin, fiddle, guitar and mandolin] has been performing publicly for more than 10 years and has played SXSW more of those years than not. ["I've had a career of being a side man for a lot of people," Hood says]. This year, however, marks only ...

The Novas were formed in 1963 as a teenage surf-rock band in Dallas. After gaining regional acclaim playing at clubs, concerts and parties in the Southwest throughout the 1960s, the band broke up – and took a 30-plus-year hiatus. But after coming back together for a special reunion performance in 2005, erstwhile band members David Browne, ...