We all have dreams, right? Visions of grandeur, things we want to achieve, places we want to go, people we want to meet, etc. Holding on to that dream can be the ultimate struggle especially when you’re living off of Taco Bell & Ramen noodles on a friend’s couch and have no idea where your next check will come from. […]
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 […]
Photo Credit: April Bauer “It’s about being beat down. The challenges in our society…coming back and finding the strength to fight again but without becoming a monster in order to survive in a world full of monsters.” That’s how Jimmy Gnecco describes his latest creation. In 2013 a successful Pledge Music campaign resulted in the album Ballet The Boxer, 1 […]
