SXSW Music 2011

Follow Assistant Editor Sarah Vasquez as she covers the 2011 SXSW Music Conference beginning on March 15.
Musicians show off colorful clothing, patterns, designs during festival.
Adding to the music, film, technology, and video games, StyleX introduced fashion to this year's South by Southwest.
Instead of using professional models for the runway, several musicians that performed in the SXSW Music Festival or are affiliated in the Austin (continued)
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Starting out gossiping about celebrities, Perez Hilton has quickly gone up the ranks as a blogger who is famous for his words. Also known for throwing massive parties that often become spectacles, Hilton has thrown parties at South By Southwest (SXSW) for the past few years. (continued)
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City and Colour, the solo project for Dallas Green, performed at the IFC Crossroads House on Thursday for SXSW, while hundreds of people waited in line just to hear a song from the singer/songwriter. Green formerly played in Alexisonfire, a hardcore punk rock band that was popular in Canada where Green first joined the band. His solo band City and Colour couldn't be any more drastically (continued)
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Midnight Riot gets their voices heard at several battle of the bands.
Alternative rock band Midnight Riot competed in the Emo's Battle of the Bands on March 27. Leading the band is ACC Round Rock Campus student Amanda Kirkpatrick, whose fiery vocals bring a dimension to the band and often draws comparisons to another alternative-rock front woman Hayley Williams (continued)
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Bands converge in Austin to play official, unofficial shows during SXSW Conference.
South by Southwest Music seems to grow bigger every year with people from all over the world come to the city to get in on the action and the venues popping up all over the city. "Every place that has electricity becomes a venue," said Taylor Muse, vocalist/keyboardist for the (continued)
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