SXSW: Gateway to the Music World

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
Hundreds of foreign musicians are in Texas right now searching for the American dream: a chance to crack the U.S. music market. Today on Soundcheck: The world comes to Austin. The second of two special live broadcasts from the South by Southwest music festival. And later: offbeat soul band The Heavy hails from outside Bath, England. They claim to “specialize in making everything wrong sound right.” We find out just what that means when The Heavy join us for a live performance in the studio of our host station, Classical 89.5 KMFA.

Follow our journey into the belly of the (music industry) beast on our blog, Soundcheck On Site: SXSW!

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