Chris Budd is a music industry sales rep, former music publisher and the founder/owner/editor of Toronto-based music blog Indie Music Filter.
I’m starting the day at 32%. Obviously the lack of sleep was getting to me. Couldn’t even figure out a schedule for shows… It was about wandering and finding fixes that day. Seeing the Riverboat Gamblers picked me up to around 55%.? Their lead singer avoided certain injury 9 times during his set, jumping off […]
I’m just about to head out the door to see Explosions in the Sky for the first time. I have a feeling its going to blow my mind, but I’ll try not get my hopes up just in case…. Take a listen to these… Fir by Benoit Pioulard This Harness Can’t Ride Anything by Chin […]
Possibly my least productive day bandwise. I saw only 8 of them….. And I still can’t remember what I was doing between noon and 2pm. Everything else has come back to me. SXSW has always been about meeting people. I met Sue while on the plane from Denver to Austin last monday. We talked for […]
Here’s what I’ve learned about SXSW. Be ready at any time to start drinking. Normally, this began around noon and wouldn’t stop until around dinner or into the wee hours of the morning. Last week, I would occasionally wonder who was consuming more… college kids on spring break, or me in Texas on a business […]
I’m sitting here with a couple post it notes trying to piece together the week I’ve had in Austin. Most of it is coming back to me, but not all of it. The one memory that really sticks out though is what happened on saturday night after most of the official showcases were finished. A […]