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Margo Price performs "Desperate & Depressed" at NPR Music's SXSW 2016 showcase.

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Margo Price, 'Desperate & Depressed' (Live At SXSW 2016)

1:25pm March 18, 2016

by Lars Gotrich

The "Hurtin' (On The Bottle)" B-side was written while Price played low-paying gigs and slept on floors, but she assures us at our SXSW showcase: "I'll be desperate and depressed until I die."

Margo Price performs "This Town Gets Around" at NPR Music's SXSW 2016 showcase.

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Margo Price, 'This Town Gets Around' (Live At SXSW 2016)

1:24pm March 18, 2016

by Lars Gotrich

On stage at our SXSW showcase, Margo Price drops a feisty, take-no-prisoners country number that points a middle finger at shady music business practices and men who make unwanted sexual advances.

Margo Price performs "Hurtin' (On The Bottle)" at NPR Music's SXSW 2016 showcase.

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Margo Price, 'Hurtin' (On The Bottle)' (Live At SXSW 2016)

1:21pm March 18, 2016

by Lars Gotrich

Price closed her set at our SXSW showcase with what she called "a drinkin' song." And, not just any drinkin' song, but a bleary 'n' cheery, whisky-soaked country howler.

Margo Price performs "Hands Of Time" at NPR Music's SXSW 2016 showcase.

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Margo Price, 'Hands Of Time' (Live At SXSW 2016)

12:40pm March 18, 2016

by Lars Gotrich

At our SXSW showcase, Price, a country singer who has faced her share of real-life struggles, belts a desperate country ballad about setbacks and failures.

The ladies of KING — Anita Bias, Amber Strother and Paris Strother — soothe the crowd at Barracuda.

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SXSW 2016 Late-Night Dispatches: Thursday

12:30pm March 18, 2016

by NPR Music Staff

Late at night, the All Songs crowd took to the streets to talk about the acts that blew them away on day three of SXSW.

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Songs We Love: Dave Harrington Group, 'White Heat'

11:59am March 18, 2016

by DeForrest Brown

Ahead of his first solo project, the guitarist for electronic-rock giants Darkside discusses electronics, improvisation and controlled spontaneity

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Harold Mabern On Piano Jazz

11:57am March 18, 2016

McPartland caught the Memphis-born pianist for a session just before he left for a 1991 Japan tour.

Clockwise from top left: Chvrches (The Current), Jack Garratt (courtesy of the artist), Lucius (Rich McKie/WXPN), The Heavy (KUTX), Hinds (Melissa Wax/KEXP), Bombino (Cameron Pollack/WXPN).

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Watch Live: Chvrches, Bombino, Lucius And More At The SXSW Radio Day Stage

11:43am March 18, 2016

Jack Garratt, The Heavy and Hinds will also perform. Watch live starting at 1 p.m. ET.

Margo Price at NPR Music's SXSW showcase playing a soul stompin' song.

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Margo Price, 'Tennessee Song' (Live At SXSW 2016)

11:18am March 18, 2016

by Lars Gotrich

At our SXSW showcase, someone yells a yee-haw! from the audience before the country singer launches into the stomping, southern soul-rocker that turns cosmic.

Maren Morris performed a late-night lullaby for us at SXSW 2016.

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South X Lullaby: Maren Morris

10:30am March 18, 2016

by Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey

Watch the budding country star behind "My Church" perform her heart-wrenching song "I Wish I Was" by a creek in the middle of Austin, Texas.