SXSW’s second day was all about diversity. There were revelatory sounds from Africa, Turkey, and the U.K., all of them shot through with a sense of pride for the respective artists’ homelands. In some cases, that meant Texas and Tennessee, too. Here’s what we saw on the stage, in the streets, and even on a boat.
Dawn Richard’s Glittery Galaxy
We’re still feeling the reverberations from Richard’s set at the Container Bar, where she blew all the other Doc Martens showcase performers out of the water simply by showing up in black leather boots (Docs, of course) — laced all the way up to her thighs. Richard made sure to ask if anyone was from New Orleans before she tore through gems off last year’s Second Line, her sixth LP named after her hometown and the parade of dancing spectators within it. The album dabbles in everything from R&B to glitzy house, which translated…
