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Photography - Stories: SXSW

The annual South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival in Austin, Texas is the largest event of its kind in the United States. Every March, nearly 1,300 bands and thousands more music fans converge on the city for five days to immerse themselves in music.

Straight from Tokyo, The Emeralds shake things up on the second night of the festival at Caribbean Lights on Sixth Street.
   
Fans of Bleach, an all girl punk trio, rock to the music at Elysium on Saturday night.
   
Spilled drinks and instrument cases litter the floor inside Beerland during the Dirt Bike Annie show.
     
  
An unidentified reveler is taken into custody by Austin police officers after starting a fight on Sixth Street.
   
The scantily clad Demolition Doll Rods out of Detroit, rocked the Jackalope Saloon on Thursday night.
   
Early Sunday morning, in the final hours of South by Southwest, days of partying appears to have caught up to the body and wallet of several people on Red River Street.