The New Music Seminar (NMS) is a music conference and festival held annually each June in New York City. The New Music Seminar originally run from 1980 to 1995 and was relaunched in 2009.
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South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It began in 1987 and has continued growing in both scope and size every year. In 2017, the conference lasted for 10 days with the interactive track lasting for five days, music for seven days, and film for nine days. There was no in-person event in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin, Texas; in both years there was a smaller online event instead.
A view of 6th Street in downtown Austin, Texas, during SXSW 2013
SXSW employee giving an introduction of the event
Blackalicious and Lateef performing at South by Southwest 2006
Conan O'Brien promoting Conan O'Brien Can't Stop at SXSW 2011