Explore one of SXSW Eco's newest sessions on Corporate Social Responsibility: How Chemicals in Everyday Products are Killing Us - and What You Can Do About It.

It’s a big week for SXSW Comedy: the festival’s first special, SXSW Comedy with W. Kamau Bell, premieres this Friday on Showtime!

SXSW Comedy with W. Kamau Bell is the first of a two-episode series, airing exclusively on Showtime this summer. Shot live at SXSW 2015, the special captures...

• Troy Carter's Atom Factory Announces Tech Accelerator SMASHD Labs
  Interview from Billboard.
• How Summer Festivals' Contractual Fine Print Limits Local Bands and Bookers
  Story from Seattle Weekly.
• Teenager finds photos of first Nirvana gig tucked inside her dad's books
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Whether it’s audio or visual, great art can be used for evil and propaganda – but it can also be used to enact positive social and political change.

The potential impact that art and music can have on political and youth cultures isn’t something to be taken lightly, a point...

• Taylor Swift leads 2015 MTV Video Music Award nominations
  Post from The LA Times.
• Lydia Lunch: 'If it's for the money, you're not doing art. You're doing commerce'
  Story from The Guardian.
• Wayne Carson Dead at 72
  Obituary
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There are a few things you need to know about submitting a hotel requests when Housing goes live on August 3rd, but the SXSW Housing department is here for you every step of the way. Here are some tips and policies that will help you with SXSW hotel requests....

• Nuns Intensify Fight Over Sale of Convent to Katy Perry
  Story from The New York Times.
• The 100 Biggest Summer Songs of All Time
  List from Billboard.
• Joey Bada$$ Decries Media “Brainwashing” Over Bill Cosby Story
  Post from
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It’s hard to believe that we’re just one week away from closing the PanelPicker entry process for SXSW 2016. The Music Conference Staff and Advisory Board are eager to dig into to your ideas, but here are a few more things we’ll be looking for once PanelPicker closes next...