It may be High Voltage’s first year as registered press for San Diego Comic-Con, but it’s not our first time in attendance and it’s definitely not our first time festival planning – complete with spreadsheets, party coordination and a walking map (to save our feet!). Heck, you might say festival/conference planning is actually a specialty of ours. So, why not […]

Well, it’s officially the end of SXSW (alright, there’s a half day tomorrow). The wear and tear of the week was a lot for all of us to deal with, especially due to lack of sleep. Walks that seemed to be easy were suddenly much farther away and venues that had available seating were highly favored over others that did […]

Exhaustion is setting in. Some of us are having trouble stringing words together. Yet we still trudge out in search of music because that is what we do. This is what we love. This is why we’re here. And despite a frustrating evening, today was possibly the most magical day yet for me. High Voltage’s SXSW 2014 Video Recap – […]

We’re about half-way through the music festival and today, more than any, proved one of my favorite SXSW lessons. SXSW is all about preparation and knowing that your plans will change, but that it will all work out in the end. It really is a magical place that way. My schedule got diverted several times today due to band cancellations […]

As a whole, Team High Voltage knew that Wednesday at SXSW was going to be the ‘worst’ day of this festival. ‘Worst’ as in the day with the most schedule conflicts in terms of bands that we all want to see yet were playing at the same time, had overlapping times or were too far away. It was almost enough […]

Welcome to another year of SXSW. The team is almost fully represented in Austin and we’ve got tons of copies of our 10th Anniversary issue to hand out (find us!). Now while this is our first daily recap for 2014, we actually got into town yesterday where I was able to catch a few minutes of Bill Cosby and Reggie […]

It was a blustery day by Los Angeles standards, and the looming threat of rain and crashing waves kept a fair share of people away from Santa Monica’s beaches, but not from the sand-adjacent white tents sheltering some of film’s most talented as they celebrated the year’s best independent films at the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards. As a long-time […]