"Is everyone having loads of fun yet?" asked Rebecca Taylor of the charming British folk rock band Slow Club during their SXSW gig at Barbarella Saturday evening. The bar had an impressive-sized crowd for 5:30 p.m., and there's a good chance it wasn't just to hide from the 40-degree weather outside. Taylor (drums, vocals and guitar) and Charles ...

To say that Frenchkiss Records has had a good year would be an understatement. While Passion Pit's debut LP 'Manners' might have been the label's biggest mainstream hit, the heart of this year's success undoubtedly comes from the Antlers. Their album 'Hospice,' a concept record about a hospice nurse's relationship with a patient, was one of 2009's ...

Between the natural acoustics and an intensely personal repertoire of songs, a church was a rather fitting venue for singer-songwriters Sharon Van Etten and Sarah Jaffe. Both played St. David's Historic Sanctuary on Thursday night for SXSW and turned the room into a confessional of sorts. Van Etten performed tracks from her stripped-down debut, ...

During Those Darlins' half-hour set at the SXSW Billboard.com Bungalow on Thursday night, drinks were spilled, instruments were dropped and blood was shed. Needless to say, these three ladies (and one dude) from Murfreesboro, Tenn., know how to put on a show. Dressed in all red, they opened with 'Red Light Love,' which features the lyrics, ...

The guys in psychedelic rock band Dead Meadow all share a love for Hammer films, 1960s horror movies and Vincent Price flicks, and with the March 23 of 'Three Kings' on Xemu Records, they get to pay a bit of homage to them. 'Kings' is a live record of the band's back catalog and a few new studio songs, and it's accompanied by a DVD of concert ...

Singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell's folk opera, 'Hadestown,' has been slowly cooking for a while now. Based on the Greek myth in which Orpheus attempts to rescue his wife Eurydice from Hades' underworld, the show -- first staged in 2006 and again in 2007 -- has seen many revisions. But for the version that will be set in stone, on an album out March ...

Throughout most of his 10-year career as a musician, TV show host and party starter, people have been skeptical about Andrew W.K., including rumors that an actor has been playing his persona for the past several years. While the entertainer has already publicly said that there has been a team of confidants, friends and family who have helped to ...