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SXSW 2024

Streaming, Lineup, Tickets, Dates

SXSW Austin texas

South by Southwest, or SXSW as it is commonly abbreviated, is a cutting edge convergence of tech, film, music and innovation which aims to foster creativity and collaboration among diverse industries. The event has been taking place in the hipster cental of Austin, Texas each year since way back in the mid-eighties and is quite unique in festival terms due to its encapsulation of not only a the music festival component, but being partnered with film, interactive, digital and educational components spread across an entire week and literally dozens of different venues.
 
Taking place in mid-march each year, the South by Southwest festivals, displays and exhibitions take over the whole of Austin for what used to be an entire week but now stretches even further over 10 days, drawing crowds in their thousands from across the state and indeed the world to enjoy the multitude of offerings.
 
This page, sitting as it does in our music festival category, is focussed mainly on the musical elements of SXSW, to try and cover everything would just be a little too overwhelming! The SXSW Music Festival very probably has the distinction of being the largest in the world when all of the venues and performances are taken into account, as it's entire scope covers over 2000 artists performing in over 100 different venues.

Festival Dates

The SXSW festival in 2024 will take place from 8th - 16th March. The actual music festival itself will cover 11th - 16th March.

SXSW Festival Lineup

This year's opening key not speakers include Meghan Duchess of Sussex, Kate Couric, Brooke Shields, Nancy Wang Yuen and Errin Haines.   As mentioned above, the lineup for South by Southwest is genuinely vast, so we hope you'll forgive us if we don't try and reproduce it in it's entirety here! But this year's event does include: BALTHVS, The Black Keys, Giovannie & The Hired Guns, STRFKR, Rawayana, waterbaby, Chiaki Matumura, Ho99o9.
 
For the full line up we'll point you towards the relevant pages on the official site, where you can search by artist, venue and date to make finding your favourite performances that much easier:
 
SXSW music festival news and lineup

SXSW Social & Streaming

In terms of streaming, the diverse nature of the SXSW festival makes online coverage obviously difficult, although not impossible and there are a few ways you can try and keep up with events if you can't actually make it in person, or indeed to navigate your way around once you are actually there.
 
To begin with, there is an excellent SXSW mobile app, available for iPhone, iPad, or Android that shows you what is going on each day at all of the different venues, and also includes an excellent schedule planner that you can use to plan our what and where you need to be throughout the event:
 
SXSW official app
 
They've even this year gone as far as creating their very own social network, which enables festival visitors to connect with others and keep in touch with their friends, this is fantastic innovation that we can really see catching lon in the festival world:
 
SXSocial
 
You can also check out SXSWfm, the festival's very own radio station, with news and updates from all across the festival venues, and which is of course available to listen as on online stream:
 
SXSWfm radio stream
 
They also have an official youtube channel, where videos from some of the most popular events are uploaded to catch up with at a later date, this also includes back videos from previous years, a really useful resource:
 
SXSW Youtube official
 
There is of course also all of the usual social media channels:
 
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram

Festival Accommodation

Austin gets very busy around SXSW time, so make sure you plan where you'll be staying in plenty of time. The options range from cheap, campus style accommodation to the usual high-end hotels.You can check availability and make reservations for local hotels here.

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