The Drum sits down with Peter Lewis, SXSW’s chief partnerships officer, at the Austin Convention Center, which closes on ...

Brian Hobbs, SXSW’s director of music festival programming, has since said the changes will expand the musical offerings, not scale them back. But it’s hard not to see this as the latest setback for ...

SXSW will be two days shorter and not feature a dedicated music weekend. The festival brings in thousands of people and ...

Next year’s edition of the festival will be two days shorter as SXSW's music programming will take place throughout the week.

Construction at the Austin Convention Center is displacing the annual March festival and forcing SXSW organizers to rethink ...

SXSW is shortening its festival next year by two days. All three tracks will also run concurrently over seven days. SXSW says the changes were prompted by the planned closure of the Austin Convention ...

Organizers say they’re programming one complete week of film, TV, and music in March 2026, as opposed to the separate ...

Austin multimedia festival SXSW's plans to restructure for next year are causing Texas musicians to sound the alarm about the ...

Big changes are coming to South by Southwest. After wrapping up the 2025 edition of the Austin, Texas-based festival, ...

SXSW 2026 will be a "reimagined experience" as the Austin Convention Center closes for reconstruction, festival officials say ...