Berklee's Seventh Annual SXSW Party features Berklee, Berkleemusic.com, and Heavy Rotation Records (HRR) alumni and students performing rock, pop, punk, dance, electronic, Americana, and folk. Artists include The Shills from Boston; Austinites Ume; Boston’s The Grownup Noise; Brooklyn-based Lucius; Queen Caveat from Los Angeles; Canary (HRR) from Boston; Justin Klump, from Portland, OR; and Boston and New York-based Mrs. Danvers (HRR). Berklee is the only college to host an official day party at SXSW, one of the music industry's biggest events.
The party is 21-plus and open to SXSW badgeholders. The public can email sxswrsvp@berklee.edu to attend free of charge. Free copies of HRR's latest release, Under the Influence, will be given away. The album features Berklee students and alumni covering some of rock's biggest names and the seminal bands that influenced them. Listen at HeavyRotationRecords.bandcamp.com
Official Website: http://www.berklee.edu/events
Added by Berklee MR on February 27, 2012