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SXSW 2010: [Photos] Austin by cameraphone

A candid view of what lies behind the music at South by Southwest

By K BONAMI | March 24, 2010

Photo: K Bonami

Arriving in Austin | SXSW 2010 | March 16, 2010

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Ye gods!
Much beautiful music turns up in the 18th-century operatic form that’s probably most alien to a modern audience.
Review: Against Me! at Port City Music Hall
My sophomore year in college I met a girl named Erin. She had bleached blonde spiky hair, tattoos, and a lip ring. She had spent the previous year hitchhiking around the country and while I was attending outdoor arena concerts, she was at basement punk shows.
Jonathan McPhee and The Longwood Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan McPhee and The Longwood Symphony Orchestra at Jordan Hall on May 1, 2010
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Ye gods!
Much beautiful music turns up in the 18th-century operatic form that’s probably most alien to a modern audience.
Review: Against Me! at Port City Music Hall
My sophomore year in college I met a girl named Erin. She had bleached blonde spiky hair, tattoos, and a lip ring. She had spent the previous year hitchhiking around the country and while I was attending outdoor arena concerts, she was at basement punk shows.
Jonathan McPhee and The Longwood Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan McPhee and The Longwood Symphony Orchestra at Jordan Hall on May 1, 2010
Blythe spirit
Leaving the Cutler Majestic after the opening night of Opera Boston’s latest Offenbach, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein , you could see the smiling faces of an audience that had had a good time.
Photos: Band of Horses at the Ames Hotel
Band of Horses, live at WFNX Ames Hotel Session
Everyone Everywhere | Everyone Everywhere
Remember when emo wasn’t just some watered-down pop-punk version of goth? No? Well . . . it wasn’t.
Photos: Pearl Jam live at the TD Garden
Pearl Jam's Boston stop on their 2010 tour
Open spaces
In my review of the memorable Brahms performances Sir Simon Rattle led with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for the Celebrity Series of Boston last month, I should have mentioned that one decision responsible for the beauty and spaciousness of the orchestral sound was the placement of the first and second violin sections on opposite sides of the stage.
Wanting more
After its triumphant traversal of the complete Béla Bartók string quartets at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Borromeo Quartet was back for a free 20th- and 21st-century program at Jordan Hall, leading off with an accomplished recent piece by the 24-year-old Egyptian composer Mohammed Fairuz, Lamentation and Satire.
Group hug
Things aren’t always what they’re called — we know that flying fish don’t fly and starfish aren’t even fish.
Local luminaries’ picks
I asked a bunch of people who really dig local music to help me make sure I wasn’t leaving any songs out when I was developing my list of the best 10 songs of the 2000s, but then I quickly realized that “best” is about as subjective as things come when you’re talking about songs.
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