David Vandervelde is multi-talented in the music realm and holding himself accountable by writing, producing, and playing on his own records. Vandervelde comes to SXSW with a knowledge of obscure '70s pop music and whatever else he listens to when he's not busy trying to reason with the police. Describe your sound in your own words. I would ...

Hardy Morris is the vocalist and guitarist of the Athens-based rock outfit Dead Confederate. While Morris says the band's name is essentially its sound put into words, he maintains that its connotation leaves plenty of room for a wide array of different styles and influences to make their way into The Confederate's repertoire. at SXSW. Describe ...

Ekhi Lopetegi is the frontman for the Barcelona-based pop group Delorean. As the band heads to SXSW, Lopetegi explains members chose the name not for the "Back to the Future" reference or the coolness of the car, but for the coolness of the sound of the name itself. Describe your sound in your own words. Our sound is basically pop tunes ...

dEbruit is a producer, DJ, instrumentalist and vocalist who comes to SXSW from Paris, France, and a man of very few words -- though he'll happily blow your eardrums to smithereens. He maintains that all music is good music -- if even for just two seconds -- and doesn't feel guilty about much, whether it's listening to something deemed "bad" by his ...

Sawa Kobayashi is the lead singer of the Spanish act Debayres, a band that prides itself on being one of a select few at SXSW to categorize itself in the genre of tango fusion (but whose members are not proud of the mandatory glass of wine they drink before each and every live performance). Describe your sound in your own words. Our sound is ...

Chicken, the vocalist and bassist of San Francisco punk rock outfit Dead to Me, isn't too "chicken" to go deep about his dark past or the band as his saving grace as he heads toward SXSW. Describe your sound in your own words. I would like to say original, you know? I mean we didn't invent the wheel or anything, but we're original in that we ...

Oyvind Holm is the singer-songwriter and founder of the Norwegian alternative-pop act Deleted Waveform Gatherings -- a band that's self-described as "psychedelic." As he heads to SXSW, Holm speaks frankly with Spinner about his love for the Beatles, the predicament his iPhone imposes on his marriage and his secret affinity for Britney Spears' hits. ...