Almost every performance we wanted to see today was delayed or had technical difficulties. We’d like to blame Michelle Obama for that as the pattern started first thing in the morning when they closed traffic to pedestrians as well as vehicles, so the bands we were scheduled to interview couldn’t get to us. But when life hands you lemons you […]

South By Southwest version 2016: Welcome to another year of High Voltage making you feel as if you are here with us in Austin, TX! The rules are simple: Every day we give you a snapshot of the day’s highlights as seen through our various High Voltage eyes. We arrived in Austin on Monday which, technically, was still during Interactive Week and […]

South By Southwest seems to be off to a slow start this year; the streets aren’t that busy, there isn’t an abundance of schedule conflicts and we actually made it to some panels! But like the tortoise taught us, slow and steady wins the race and this slow day was a great way to ease into the week to come. […]

There are hundreds upon hundreds of bands that play South By Southwest in Austin, TX (aka SXSW) each year and to listen to each artist in advance is not only time consuming, but often a daunting task. That’s where being High Voltage’s Research Junkie comes in handy! Instead of investing your own personal time and energy on this task, let […]

British band Everything Everything may be a little difficult to place in a genre-box, so it’s just simpler – not to mention much more apropos – to just call them one of the UK’s most innovative bands. Their latest album, the critically acclaimed Get To Heaven, was released on February 26th and not long afterwards comes a 15-date North American tour […]

DREAMERS. Brooklyn, NY-based band I stumbled upon last year, self-subscribers to the genre of “cosmic rock” who have a pretty good grasp on song structure with shades of Phoenix. Have you heard of them? Sure you have. Well, maybe not. Or perhaps it’s a case of hearing “Wolves” overhead while you were, say, waiting in line at Subway’s (terrible sandwiches, by […]

To keep it simple: This is the part of the program that calls for recounting and sharing a few of the recent musical memorables. Parade of Lights @ Bootleg Theater 1/28/16 There’s this thing that the Los Angeles-based, alternative electro band known as Parade of Lights does. It’s a simple thing but it makes folks get up to get down with […]