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Team This Song’s SXSW Wrap-Up

Team This Song is still processing SXSW, and we’ve decided to process with you.  Listen as the interviewers, editors, audio engineers and interns who make this show happen bring you their favorite sparkly festival moments from artists like Lizzo, Spoon, OJR, Temples, Cool Kids, Otis the Destroyer and 6lack.

Listen to KUTX  On Air Host Jody Denberg’s SXSW Wrap Up with Rolling Stone’s David Frick and Robyn Hitchcock

Check out Music and Videos from KUTX Live at the Four Seasons 2017

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Listen to Songs from Episode 74 of This Song

 

SXSW This Song Artist Spotlight

There are a lot of amazing things about being in the music industry here in Austin, Texas; getting to interview fantastic artists that live here and some that are just passing through is great, but seeing them all in one place for a week of music-making magic (and madness) has got to be one of the best. Here’s a list of our This Song artists that played 2017 SXSW official,so even if you can’t see them, you can hear them talk about music that changed their lives!

Benjamin Booker // SXSW

Big Thief // SXSW

Calliope Musicals // SXSW

Gary Clark Jr. // SXSW

Hard Proof // SXSW

Jane Ellen Bryant // SXSW

Kevin Morby // SXSW

Leopold and His Fiction // SXSW

Lizzo // SXSW

Misimplicity // SXSW

Mobley // SXSW

Molly Burch // SXSW

M. Ward // SXSW

The Octopus Project // SXSW

OSHUN // SXSW

Ringo Deathstarr // SXSW

San Fermin // SXSW

The Shelters // SXSW

White Denim // SXSW

*Wu-Tang Clan // SXSW (*RZA from Wu-Tang clan collaborates with Paul Banks as Banks & Steelz)

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Texas Standard: March 10, 2017

Should a joint land you in jail? Thats the pot law on the books now in Texas: up to six months, in theory. But we’ll hear from a republican who’s fighting to reduce that penalty. Plus historic antiquities swiped from Mexico and intercepted by park rangers on a smuggling route through Big Bend. We’ll hear from the chief ranger about why it’s a big deal. And a self-driving shuttle bus making a slow tour through Texas cities – could this be the vehicle that convinces us to give up the steering wheel? Plus, fitbits on cows, the typewriter rodeo, a wrap of the week in Texas politics and so much more coming up today on the Texas Standard:

Texas Standard: March 9, 2017

Illegal crossings on the southwest border down 40 percent in one month! The trump administration says, “You’re welcome” but can they take the credit? Also the tax man calculating the value of homes across Texas right now. We’ll tell you about a political effort to cap how much your property taxes can be raised and why its freaking out some cities and counties. Plus everyone loves to trash the Texas foster care system, but what about the good apples? Foster parents making big sacrifices to help someone else’s children.Also, refugees in public schools and a whole lot more today on the Texas Standard:

Texas Standard: March 8, 2017

Obamacare, but for how much longer? How does what’s been called repeal and replace stand to affect Texans? Answers and more questions today. Also as many servicemen and women once stationed in Afghanistan return to Texas, new boots on the ground over there: Chinese boots. We’ll explore. And give me your tired, your very poor, your huddled masses yearning to be able to afford a grocery trip. What new numbers tell us about why Texas has become a beacon for California migrants. And the latest weather forecast. Same as it ever was? Those stories and so much more today on the Texas Standard:

Texas Standard: March 7, 2017

The bathroom line gets long outside the senate chambers as lawmakers hunker down to take care of business, we’ll have the latest on a controversial move just ahead. Also is there something Texas democrats and republicans can agree on? Quite possibly. We’ll hear about rumblings over criminal justice reform. Plus 11 professors for how much? Why the governor’s plan bring the best and the brightest to Texas may be on the chopping block. And Aggies making school a safe place for former soldiers…how and why? Plus the white shaman of the lower Pecos arrives in the big city: could this be a sign? Those stories and so much more today on the Texas Standard:

Texas Standard: March 2, 2017

It’s been called unconstitutionally dangerous to Texas kids. Finally a fix for a failed child welfare system? That’s our top story today. Plus, thousands of Texans without voter ID went to polls anyway, signed affidavits and cast their ballots. Why 4 months later, some may face criminal charges. And the farm to table movement and a fresh push to change the tax menu. Also nature or nurture: new research in the Alamo city could prompt a rethink in how best to get newborns out of intensive care. Those stories and so much more today on the Texas Standard:

SXSW: Tech & The Future of Food

In this special SXSW edition of The Secret Ingredient, Tom Philpott, Rebecca McInroy and Raj Patel talk about technologies that will shape the future of food. Technologies, as it turns out, that might surprise you, mainly biodiversity, and gender equality.

Listen back to this discussion, recorded live at the Convention Center in Austin, Texas for SXSW 2016.

Innovation and Creativity

A talk about memory, innovation, creativity and productivity, live at SXSW 2016, with Dr. Art Markman, Dr. Bob Duke and Rebecca McInroy.

C. Robert Cargill Live at SXSW 2016

Novelist, screenwriter, critic and slam poet C. Robert Cargill sits down with host Owen Egerton at SXSW 2016 to talk about coming up in Austin, the history of scary movies, and advising on the set of Dr. Strange.

Texas Standard: March 17, 2016

A Texas Police officer charged with murder after an off-duty encounter. So what should you do if approached by a plain-clothed person who says they’re a cop? We’ll explore. Also Merrick Garland: The SCOTUS nominee may have the name of a cowboy but does he have other Texas ties? He does when it comes to the people he’s helped over the years. Plus are electronic bikes a viable alternative to the cars stuck in traffic across Texas cities? And a film explores the complicated trials of border patrol agents. And we’ll take a lesson in Jay Z 101. All that and more today on the Texas Standard:

Texas Standard: March 10, 2016

Back to New Orleans-Texas’ Voter Id Law, ruled unconstitutional, gets another hearing in the 5th circuit. Also the State of Texas is fighting an order to fundamentally overhaul Child Protective Services…but CPS employees protest that Texas should give in. We’ll hear why. And If at birth you don’t succeed…an irreverent Texas-based comedian talks about living with cerebral palsy and making lemonade out of wheelchairs. Superbugs in the water and trip tips for spring break…oh we’re just getting started ya’ll it’s the national news show of Texas:

Texas Standard: March 9, 2016

Tornados touch down in north Texas…after a warm dry winter, you may want to break out the wetsuit for spring. Also- they turn out at rallies, their registration numbers are formidable…but on election day the Texas Democrat doesn’t tend to vote, despite the fact that demographics suggest they could change the political complexion of the state. We’ll explore. Plus a sobering talk about what Texas campuses can to to stop sexual violence. Also gas at a buck 40, is this the new normal? All that and much more, on todays Texas Standard:

Texas Standard: March 7, 2016

Remember when there were 9 on stage plus a kiddy table debate? Some say its now down to two. And one’s from you know where. Riddle me this: why does a candidate who’s offended so many south of the border have so much apparent support in the borderlands? Because there’s more to the story. We’ll check in with Laredo. Also when it comes to cars, the highest insurance rates are also in the poorest places in Texas. We’ll do the math. And why are millions of Texas tax dollars being spent on juggling balls, custom coffee mugs and other tchotchkes? Those stories and more today on the Texas Standard:

KUT Weekend – March 14, 2014

Man plows into crowded street at SXSW….what happens when businesses ignore SXSW…and a fungus that may save us all. Those stories and more in this edition of KUT Weekend!

KUT Weekend – March 7, 2014

Business Republicans delivered a blow in Texas primaries….labor law and the army of South by Southwest volunteers….and Austin’s Mondo gallery hopes to make a big splash during SXSW. Those stories and more in this edition of KUT Weekend!

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