Our Austin360 writers pick their favorite music of SXSW 2013. Read more while you listen to our playlist!

SXSW Music Day 4

(Photo credits clockwise: Ashely Landis, Ashley Landis, Rudolfo Gonzalez and Laura Skelding for Austin American-Statesman)

• Usher joins Afghan Whigs onstage at Fader Fort Our reporter says it was “weird, but cohesive,” and then Usher came back out for some solo time. Check out the photo gallery too
  
  
• Green Day’s big SXSW day: First was the SXSW premiere of Green Day’s documentary, then came the band’s performance at ACL Live. (And check out the photo gallery from the show too.)
  
  
• The Flaming Lips get weirder than usual for packed Auditorium Shores audience (Photos of Friday’s Auditorium Shores concerts)
  
  
• More photos: Our big, giant gallery of all day Friday/SXSW Music Day 4; The Beards at City Hall; Depeche Mode; and all our A-List galleries from Friday’s parties
  
  
• Why SXSW still matters: It’s a choose your own adventure of music from around the world (Check out the awesome Vine videos in the post to sample some of the international acts)
  
  
• The Cuban connection: Cuban band Escape stopped at SXSW as part of brief sojourn to the U.S. and panel discussion of Cuba’s underground metal scene
  
  
• Scene reports from the Flatstock poster show; from the market at Auditorium Shores; Youth Lagoon and Sky Ferreira at Hyp Hotel; Spin Party at Stubb’s and goth versus psych at SXSW
  
  
• Quick hit reviews of performances by: Vampire Weekend; Natalie Maines; Austin’s Patty Griffin Bouldin Castle; Caitlin Rose and Palma Violets; master accordionist Celso Pena; MØ and Rhye
  
  

And for Saturday night, there are $30 tickets available at the door for the ACL Live show featuring John Fogerty, True Believers and more.

SXSW Interactive 2013 Day 2: More rain, red carpets, crowds, panels (& more food)

• Photos: Elon Musk, crowds and just about every SXSW woman attends the panel Anne-Marie Slaughter panel
  
  
• Elon Musk Keynote:  crowd see never-before seen video footage of a reusable rocket test landing from SpaceX
  
  
• Al Gore on the Future: Quote: “The future of democracy may depend on freedom and transparency of the Internet.”
  
  
• The Anne Marie-Slaughter Panel: Changing the debate and making change. Quote: “If we are going to have better choices for women, we have to have better choices for men.”
   
• Leap Motion demo: Checking out the 3D motion control experience, w/ video
  
  
• Deadliest Catch on Twitter Panel: We printed the only quotes fit to be printed
  
  
• Grocery Store Tech Panel: Panelists try to argue that grocery stores are struggling because they have not embraced technology
  
  
• Learning Civics through Video Games Panel: Quote: “The No. 1 thing you hear from (middle school aged students) is, “That’s not fair.” And that’s why work with middle school kids, because civics and democracy is about, is this fair?”
  
  
• Our Vine videos from SXSW 2013: From bucking bulldogs to demos
  
  
  

SXSW Interactive 2013 Day 1: Rain, speakers, panels (& food)

Miss some of Day 1? Check out our panel reviews, and our trip to the first day of Paul Qui’s curated SouthBites trailer food park.

• Photos! Panels and puddles
  
  
• Interactive opening party and the Day 1 Overview
  
  
• Food writer Addie Broyles and Social Media Editor Jackie Stone take a trip to SouthBites and eat a rice crispy treat made with salt and vinegar potato chips, cornflakes and sugar babies
  
  
• Bre Pettis opening remarks: The world of 3-D printing
  
  
• GIF Panel: Quote: “The moving artform is always going to be there.”
  
  
• Virtual Reality in Gaming Panel: Quote: “We’re not going to be making games in the future, we’re going to building dreams.”
  
  
• Reddit Panel: In which redditors talk back to the panel
  
  
• Are We Sitting Too Much? Convo: putting “background movement” back into our lives
  
  
• Machinima and Rooster Teeth Panel: Quote: “If you have a good idea, don’t sit on it…If you wait, someone else is going to do it.”