Just days after the 2025 festival wrapped in Austin, plans are already underway for next year's South by Southwest (SXSW). However, before excited attendees open their purses for the 2026 event ...

Reports of SXSW’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Despite headlines circulating online on Monday suggesting that the music component of the annual festival in Austin, Texas, is all but ...

By Taylor Mims Writer Austin’s annual SXSW conference and festival is set to scale back its 2026 edition. Next year, the event will run from March 12-18 — two days shorter than this year’s ...

Last week it certainly felt that way. This was a snack-size SXSW. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, SXSW routinely hosted nearly 2,000 bands on nearly 100 stages. This year those numbers bottomed out ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Changes are coming to South by Southwest (SXSW) next year. Instead of spanning from one mid-March weekend to the next, SXSW 2026 will be two days shorter. SXSW 2026 is scheduled ...

For the first time ever, SXSW 2026 will feature a shorter schedule, but organizers are clarifying that this will not impact its historic live music festival. Next year's event will be shortened ...

Next year’s edition of the festival will be two days shorter as SXSW's music programming will take place throughout the week. By Kimberly Nordyke, Ethan Millman Reports of the demise of South by ...

Now the music portion of SXSW might be significantly scaling back, if not going away entirely. UPDATE: It looks like SXSW Music will now run concurrently with the other SXSW festivities.

Although LGBTQ representation was few and far in between among the headliners at this year’s SXSW, several indie darlings broke the industry’s cis-heteronormative mold to stand out.

South By Southwest's (SXSW) standing as Texas' most preeminent music festival isn't changing anytime soon. Despite numerous headlines suggesting the music component of the now 38-year-old festival ...

The first distinction from this and other past years is that the second weekend of SXSW, when music showcases and panels traditionally took place, has been dropped. But reports that this means an ...

SXSW — two BrooklynVegan shows at Mohawk included — wrapped up its 2025 edition on Saturday (3/15), and has announced its dates for 2026, when it’ll undergo some changes. SXSW — which ...