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  • VVM hits SXSW Hard

    Posted on February 1st, 2010 admin 1 comment

    houstonpress.comVillage Voice Media, the Houston Press’ daddy company, has announced the line-up for this year’s SXSW day party at La Zona Rosa, set for March 19 at noon. The show hasn’t disappointed since Rocks Off has been aboard, with 2008 bringing the Black Keys, HEALTH and …Trail Of Dead and last year the Crystal Antlers, M. Ward, Cursive and Gomez enlivening five-hour event.
    This year’s line-up is just as striking as the previous two, with current indie darlings and Rocks Off faves Surfer Blood, The xx, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and the legendary Superchunk rounding out our bill. We told we know how to stack the deck, kids.

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  • VVM @ SXSW Part 1

    Posted on March 18th, 2009 admin No comments


    Alltop CEO Guy Kawasaki gave a shout out to L.A. Weekly, the Village Voice and SF Weekly right before his March 17 SxSW keynote with Wired editor Chris Anderson regarding Anderson’s upcoming book, Free. In Kawasaki’s pre-keynote video interview above with Viddler.com, the interviewer (referring to Clay Shirky’s treatise) asked Kawasaki how the concept of “free” applies to newspapers which she refers to as “essentially dead.” Kawasaki said favorably of the Village Voice Media papers:
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