Best in SXSW 2025: NPR
Julian Baker and Soris at the Lacyone 2025 Festival in Lac Runch on March 13, 2025 at Spicewood, Texas.
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Julian Baker and Torres
“Who needs excellence when you get charisma?” Julian Baker mocked SXSW on Wednesday with Torres. Both magic and bone fire in the opening festivals group, where they presented a peek on their next album, Send my path. The musical chemistry of the duo was clear because it traded the expected tunes linked to the countryside, which led to their southern roots as it was advancing in the Queer stories. Backed Pig meat, 90.9 Bridge
Oats the issue
Under Casey Gomez Walker, Case Oats in Chicago conducted captivating groups in SXSW in the wake of the signature of Merge Records. Walker’s creative writing background was fully displayed with her lyrical, supported by Spence Tweedy on drums, Max Subar on guitar and solid pedal, Jason Ashworth on Bass and Scott Daniel on Fiddelle. Based on a short story, Walker wrote in college, the individual song “Seventeen” picks up the global view of this formative time in her life. The first uniform album will be released later this year, and I cannot wait to find out how these songs take a new life on the road. Musa Musa, Wnrn
Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson took the theater for the first time in 15 years with a sudden group of luck, one of the auxiliary events to the SXSW that is held on the Willie Nelson farm. There is no stranger to the re -invention of herself, Simpson performed songs with a new/American voice, partly formed by the JD McPherson product, a collaborator in the next EP Nashville Canyon. Simpson’s amazing performance was met with a very positive response from the crowd, which seemed attracted to the original self -expression of the artist. – Lindsay Kimballl, Current
La sécurité
What a difference per year! In Sxsw last year, the Montreal Artsy Dance Punk La Sécurité was like the muscle car that was manufactured in the drawing race: one long immediately without any turn. After a year of wandering and improving its craft, the band in Austin fell more like a Formula 1 racing car: even faster, but it is now able to deal with the hairpin curves. I am confident, Spry and Balletic, La Sécurité at the top of her game this year. ____RCnulty, Kutx
delivery
It was logical to discover a band from the capital of live music in Australia (Melbourne) to tear groups in the world’s living music capital (Austin). The second full album of the band, force majeure, It is appropriately describes mining the best elements of the villain and RAM (and eye shadows) with three alternating singers. There is a lot that should be loud at the present time, and the delivery makes “screaming loud”. Jeff Blourman, Wnrn
Edgar Alejandro
While he was running and magicing his way during a group in the early morning, 23 -year -old Edgar Alejandro captured Cotics Live at Schulps Gartin. You may get to know the song “A Tu Lado”, which stands out in Los Angeles, which has become a virus on Tiktok last year. In SXSW, he performed a performance with a guitar and a voice-but this fall, Alejandro, who was born to a family from Mariashis in Guadalajara, will take a tour of 14 pieces to support his next album. – Dider -Got, Kutx
Sedona
Performing with an allergy that combines Southern California/Fleetwood Mac Vype with modern pop music, San Fernando Native Sedona makes waves with their new record, Entry to heaven. She caught her last performance in SXSW in a great bar in Austin and hit her well -made songs, such as the song “Best Keep Secret”. -Alejandro cohen, Kcrw
Taylor Ray
Although she lived in Austin for seven years, Taylor Rai did not introduce her first appearance in SXSW this year. Her new and wonderful album, VoidIt will be released next month. Jesse Scott, Wmot
