Hype Hotel

One less warehouse full of free booze in Austin this year.

Soul/funk/rap hybrid Anderson Paak was one of the artists we were most excited to see at SXSW.

Hype Hotel returns to SXSW with six nights of free shows and very stacked bills.

Leon Bridges may have won SXSW this year, at least according to a panel of judges:Fort Worth soul singer Leon Bridges, Australian indie sensation Courtney Barnett and veteran Austin rock band Spoon are the winners of this year's Grulke Prizes, South by Southwest announced Tuesday...

If the old Spoon were at times as stiff as a starched shirt, what stood out about Tuesday's show was the spontaneity and flexibility pulsating through the band...

Gorilla Vs Bear says:We've already mentioned how psyched we are about our own unreal official SXSW showcase this year, going down Thursday night at the Hype Hotel presented by Feed the Beat (aka the Fair Market building on East 5th), and brought to you by Mazda, official automobile sponsor of #HypeON...

SXSW is here and so is another year of Hype Machine's Hype Hotel. Check out the schedule live, and listen to it. Alvvays, Best Coast, Spoon, Twin Shadow, Viet Cong, Natalie Prass, King Tuff, Autre Ne Veut, Yumi Zouma, Leon Bridges, HINDS, Lydia Ainsworth, Rae Sremmurd, SOPHIE, Earl Sweatshirt and more will grace the stage at 1100 East 5th Street in Austin from March 17-21 this year...

On the Wednesday (3/12) night of SXSW, Hype Hotel hosted the entertaining synth pop of Mountain Man/Megafaun-related duo Sylvan Esso (who also played our Thursday day party ), Manchester's Bipolar Sunshine, the "mysterious" Young & Sick, chamber pop collective Mutual Benefit (who also played our Friday day party, pics soon), the 4AD-signed SOHN, and party starters Chro...

On the Friday night (3/14) of SXSW, Hype Hotel hosted a dancey show with UK producer Tourist, TDE-signed R&B singer SZA, enigmatic UK funk collective Jungle, German producer Tensnake, and the once-milkshakin', now "indie" Ke...

Will 2014 be the the most Classic Britpop SXSW ever? Probably not -- 1995 or 1996 editions likely win there -- but many of that era's leading lights will be in Austin in a couple weeks...