SXSW 2017 Recap

SXSW 2017 Recap - Saturday

South-by-Southwest came at a difficult time in 2017. Of course, the country’s still reeling from Trump being in the White House, and you know how the music community feels about that (not to mention tighter immigration rules). More specifically to SXSW, the festival seemed to scale back this year, with some prior big sponsors either absent (Samsung, Hype Machine), less events (Vans, SPIN), or shrunk to über-exclusive private events that everyone wanted to go to and no one could (FADER Fort, Spotify House). Hell, there wasn’t even Über or Lyft this year! And on top of it all, there was a huge, late season snowstorm in the northeast on the first day of SXSW Music that kept a lot of acts (both nor’easters and those flying through) from making it to Austin on time.

Yet through it all, artists & events were able to shine through, Tuesday to Saturday, March 14th to 18th:

Click here for QRO’s recap of Friday at SXSW 2017

Rachael Ray party @ Stubb’s

The Drums

Click image for photos by Jessica Alexander

The biggest, even only event to catch on Saturday afternoon of SXSW ’17 was Rachael Ray’s big party at Stubb’s. Headlined by the one-and-only Weezer, it also featured De La Soul, The Districts, Hamilton Leithauser, Margo Price, The Cringe (Ray’s husband’s band), and The Drums.