Music fans who skipped out on Ray Benson's birthday party on Tuesday (March 14) during SXSW are now kicking themselves for missing a surprise appearance from Willie Nelson.
South by Southwest, the annual music, film and media festival in Austin, Texas, is adding another star to its roster of impressive talent set to appear at the 2017 event. Garth Brooks will present one of the music keynote addresses during a conference on Friday, March 17.
Thursday night (March 18), Loretta Lynn played a spirited set at the iconic Austin, Texas venue Stubb's during the South by Southwest Music Festival, where she took song requests from the crowd.
Willie Nelson calls Austin, Texas home, but his appearance at the popup Spotify House venue at SXSW 2016 on Sunday night (March 13) was unplanned — and a huge surprise for the crowd.
Paul Feig’s The Heat took a genre that has traditionally belonged to men — the buddy cop movie — and gave it a female twist. Feig’s new movie, Spy, does much the same thing, this time for spy films, a world that has long been by, about, and for dudes and their power fantasies. Spy explicitly subverts the genre’s typical gender dynamics by casting Melissa McCarthy as a lowly, desk-bound CIA analyst named Susan Cooper, who has spent her entire career in the shadow of a glamorous James Bond-esque spy (Jude Law) and then finally gets her opportunity to step into the spotlight and become a full-fledged field agent.
Willie Nelson may be the hottest ticket at the 2015 South by Southwest Music and Media Conference. On March 19, Nelson will host the fourth annual Heartbreaker Banquet at his ranch just outside Austin, Texas, and the lineup will make any music fan start scrambling for tickets.
Lionel Richie seems to have stepped into a new role as the king of collaborators during the past year. The ‘Endless Love’ singer, who started with the Commodores and then rose on the wings of his own solo career, is now collaborating with artists of all genres, from the most cult indie acts to mainstream country stars. Richie will be making a big appearance at South by Southwest 2012 as the headli