SXSW Boston & Beyond: How to stay locked in on our March 17 party with Berklee

After months of planning and preparation, Austin is finally on the horizon.

Our third-annual South-By-Southwest "Boston & Beyond" party with Berklee College of Music (Berklee's 11th event at SXSW) goes down Thursday, March 17 at noon (local time) at Brush Square Park, located next to the Austin Convention Center. If you're at SXSW or heading down very soon, all you need to do to party with us is RSVP here. The party is all ages and open to SXSW badge holders.

If you're staying here in New England, keep it locked to Vanyaland and you won't miss a thing. We'll be broadcasting all of the performances via VanyaRadio, and updating audio and visuals from Brush Square Park all afternoon. You'll be tasting the Lone Star and tableside guac from the Iron Cactus fresh on your lips.

The "Boston & Beyond" party is co-presented by Berklee Alumni, The Red Room @ Cafe 939, and Heavy Rotation Records. Below is the lineup, with individual profiles on each performing band available via our slider.

"Boston & Beyond" 2016 Lineup
12:15-12:45: Rann (Brooklyn)
1:00-1:30: M+E (Heavy Rotation Records, Boston)
1:45-2:15: mar | co (Boston)
2:30-3:00: Lady Pills (Heavy Rotation Records, Boston)
3:15-3:45: Plastic Waves (Boston)
4:00-4:30: IAN (Los Angeles)
4:45-5:15: Great Grandpa (Seattle)

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mar | co, 1:45 p.m. set time

The music of mar | co is the sound of your first kiss. The duo of Austria native Marie Lang and Miami-riased Alex Coco create a seductive brand of electronic pop that pushes the boundaries of minimal future pop. We first fell into innocent lust with the Boston group in the spring of 2015, when we first hyped their yearning alt-pop track “Closer”. Since then, we’ve bumped their remarkable sounds at our pool parties, partied with them at CMJ in New York City, and watched as they turned heads everywhere from the Boston nightlife circuit to Boston Magazine’s Best Bostonians party. And of course, we were there when they gave a deliberately detached polish to Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself”.

Fill in your eyes with a visual look at their recent live performance at the Foundation Room for the latest Takeover session, and allow mar | co to soundtrack your next mood via their songs below.

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