DirecTV brings Texas music fest to viewers
Shiny Toy Guns
Can’t make it to Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival? Watch it on DirecTV.
For the third consecutive year, the celebrated music event will air live on DirecTV’s original entertainment channel, The 101 Network. The SXSW runs March 18-22 in Austin, and The 101 will broadcast two full days of festival coverage and live performances beginning at 4 p.m. March 20.
Among the many acts scheduled to perform during DirecTV’s two-day broadcast in HD and 5.1 surround sound are The Airborne Toxic Event, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters, Carlene Carter, Ed Harcourt, Echo and the Bunnymen, Forever The Sickest Kids, Juliette Lewis and the New Romantiques, Lenka, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Proclaimers, Shwayze, Solange Presents Sol-Angel & The Hadley Street Dreams, Third Eye Blind, Tinted Windows and The Von Bondies.
Shiny Toy Guns, a Grammy-nominated American rock band originally from Shawnee, is also in the lineup. The band, founded in 2001 by vocalist Chad Petree and bassist and keyboardist Jeremy Dawson, has released two albums. “We Are Pilots” features three singles that peaked inside the top 30 in the U.S. Modern Rock Charts. “Season of Poison” has two singles so far — “Ricochet” reached No. 17 and “Ghost Town” hit No. 29.
For more information on the South by Southwest Music Festival, go online to www.sxswlive.com.
–Penny TV
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