Given the staggering variety of music and mayhem going on at all times, it's impossible for any one person to have the same SXSW experience. So here is ours, in words and photos.

Wednesday
We'd started our music consumption early, catching Donita Sparks and Shearwater at Emo's, but the music festival didn't officially start until Wednesday. The day began at the Austinist/Gothamist party where we said hello to Austinist editor Allen Chen before catching some of Snowden and Bravo Silva's sets.

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More after the jump!