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What we’re excited for at SXSW 2026

Austin 40 — For the festival’s 40th anniversary edition, we are heading to Texas to join one of the biggest global meetups of the year. We’ve selected a few things to highlight on your schedules.

Written by: Huck

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Music

Nina Utashiro builds disquieting, macabre sonic worlds

Huck x Eastern Margins — We caught up with the Japanese-German rap experimentalist ahead of her performance at Huck’s SXSW London joint event with Eastern Margins.

Written by: Isaac Muk

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Music

Huck teams up with Eastern Margins for a special SXSW London showcase

From Shibuya to Shoreditch — Taking place at Village Underground on Monday, performances will come from MONO, Nina Utashiro, Ena Mori, Jianbo, LVRA & Soda Plains.

Written by: Isaac Muk

Culture

Video: The rise of grime in the United States

Spitting bars across the Atlantic — Grime's biggest artists brought their UK sound to Austin, Texas last month. Watch this mini-documentary and see everything that went down at SXSW, with Skepta, Lethal Bizzle, Stormzy, and more.

Written by: Jason Nicco-Annan

Culture

Jasper Wong: Championing expression in a corporate climate

Things That Inspire Me — As part of last week's SXSW festival, Jasper Wong was among a collective of graffiti artists to transform the bare walls of downtown Austin into colourful tapestries. HUCK tracked him down to source his greatest creative inspirations.

Written by: Adam White

Top Picks

Sounds of South By Southwest

SXSW live music roundup — Huck's pick of the best live acts from the House of Vans SXSW stage at the Mohawk, featuring BadBadNotGood + Ghostface Killah, Ceremony, Brother Ali and more.

Written by: Adam Woodward and Bindi Kaufmann

Why I do what I do

The Great Escape: Turning 10

A Decade of Up and Coming Artists — Huck asked the director of The Great Escape, Europe's biggest showcase for new music, what we can expect from the festival's tenth edition.

Written by: D'Arcy Doran

Art

Austin Kleon

Show Your Work — Good work is all about process, artist and author Austin Kleon says. Share your process and it will bring you closer to your audience. He's inspired Huck to launch a new series "Show Your Work" and we want you to be involved.

Written by: D'Arcy Doran

Music

Neil Young's New Sound

SXSW Field Notes — Neil Young is well-known for his DIY-ethic in music but he's also applied it to fields ranging from filmmaking to inventing. Now he's on a mission to save music and launched a Kickstarter campaign for his ultra high-resolution music player at SXSW.

Written by: D'Arcy Doran

Activism

Edward Snowden Speaks

SXSW Field Notes — After throwing out into the open the US government and other countries' methods for spying on all of us, whistle-blower and activist Edward Snowden spoke at SXSW — and for the first time in public — about why he felt compelled to start a global debate on Internet surveillance. And why he would do it all over again.

Written by: D'Arcy Doran

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