There are over 3,000 bands at South By Southwest this year. You can't turn around without bumping into somebody's guitar. So how do all these artists wind up getting gigs in Austin to begin with? What do they do to set themselves apart? And how much, if anything, do they get paid? Yesterday I posed those questions to a half-dozen up-and-coming bands.
People sometimes ask me how writers are able to actually write amidst the hubbub at "South By." One way: holing up at the media center in the Austin Convention Center.
Rovio Entertainment continues to push the envelope of mainstream gaming and game merchandising with its ubiquitous Angry Birds franchise. The entertainment company - it's no longer just a game publisher - used SXSW in to debut its new Angry Birds Space game, which adds zero-gravity and other cool new gameplay features to the already addictive ...