Last night we went to the Perez Hilton “One Night In Austin Party”–the 2nd annual SXSW event where, for one night in Austin, the garishness of Hollywood overwhelms this otherwise earthy Texas town. And from the looks of it, it’s overwhelming Perez, too.
22 March 2009
SXSW 2009: One Night In Austin With Perez Hilton
By Cindy Casares at 4:07 PM.
19 March 2009
Ceci Bastida Toots Her Horn At SXSW 2009
By Cindy Casares at 2:45 PM.
Last night we were totes going to call it early on our first night at SXSW when we ran into Nuria from Remezcla who carried us over to the Flamingo Cantina and Mexican rockera Ceci Bastida’s midnight show. And boy are we glad she did. Ceci kicked our collective asses, musically speaking, with red suede [...]
SXSW 2009: Bomba Estéreo Kicks It Off Right
By Cindy Casares at 9:00 AM.
Last night we kicked off the musical portion of SXSW 2009 with Bogotá’s purveyors of “cumbia sicodélica,” Bomba Estéreo. Lead singer Li Saumet is like a Latinasian Annabella Lwin complete with 80’s cassette tape belt buckle and guitarist Julian Salazar treated us to a spacey jam in the middle of “Fuego,” that we just had [...]
