By the time a band is accepted for SXSW, it's already on someone's radar. I noticed that every Colorado band playing an official showcase this year is with a recognized label of some sort. There are no unsigned bands representing the state.
So to get your invite to SXSW, someone is lobbying for you to get in and you are therefore no longer undiscovered.
If SXSW has become the voice of the "establishment," where should one go to truly find the next thing? The thing that is so cool, so new, so underground that almost no one knows about it yet, but they will.
Any suggestions? Is there a place where creativity abounds, but there is no media lurking to corrupt/exploit it? Where no one is recording every note, every move for YouTube?
If you wanted to scoop the music world, where would you go?
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