The Futureheads (Photo: Shirlaine Forrest)If you're following the annual South By Southwest Festival and impressed by the amazing music coming out of Austin this year, we're sure you'll enjoy looking back at some of the standout performances Yahoo! Music shot during our many past rock 'n' roll pilgrimages to Texas.

British outfit the Futureheads were just a few months into promoting their freshly minted, self-titled debut album when they played their set at Austin hotspot La Zona Rosa in 2005. The band had already received considerable acclaim for its new-wave and punk-influenced style at this point--they even covered Kate Bush on their first record. Here they are performing hit single "Decent Days And Nights."

Kasabian (Photo: Tim Mosenfelder)If you're following the annual South By Southwest Festival and impressed by the amazing music coming out of Austin this year, we're sure you'll enjoy looking back at some of the standout performances Yahoo! Music shot during our many past rock 'n' roll pilgrimages to Texas.

When British rockers Kasabian landed in Austin for 2005's South By Southwest, the group was a few months into promotion of their self-titled debut--and receiving gobs of hype for being the U.K.'s next big dazzlers, a la the Stone Roses. Here's the band performing the anthemic "L.S.F.," at perpetual Austin hotspot Stubb's.

Albert Hammond Jr. (Photo: Hal Horowitz)If you're following the annual South By Southwest Festival and impressed by the amazing music coming out of Austin this year, we're sure you'll enjoy looking back at some of the standout performances Yahoo! Music shot during our many past rock 'n' roll pilgrimages to Texas.

Albert Hammond Jr. is best-known for his role as guitarist in rock band the Strokes, but the multitalented musician also has a solo career under his belt. When he appeared at 2007's SXSW, his first solo album, Yours To Keep, had just been released in North America--a set that included help from famous pal Sean Lennon, as well as Strokes bandmate Julian Casablancas. Here he is performing first single "Everyone Gets A Star."

Kings of Convenience (Photo: Marc Grimwade)If you're following the annual South By Southwest Festival and impressed by the amazing music coming out of Austin this year, we're sure you'll enjoy looking back at some of the standout performances Yahoo! Music shot during our many past rock 'n' roll pilgrimages to Texas.

Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience called up adjectives such as "lovely," "beautiful," and "delicate" with their first forays into the indie-pop world. However, after 2001's remix album Versus, the pair took an extended break, leading their fans to lament when they'd be back on the scene. Luckily, by 2004, KoC returned with the stunning Riot On An Empty Street, which included the track "Cayman Islands"--seen performed here at 2005's SXSW.

Brandi Carlile (Photo: Trish Tokar)If you're following the annual South By Southwest Festival and impressed by the amazing music coming out of Austin this year, we're sure you'll enjoy looking back at some of the standout performances Yahoo! Music shot during our many past rock 'n' roll pilgrimages to Texas.

Folk singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile was poised on the brink of breaking out wide when she arrived at 2007's SXSW. Just weeks after her appearance at the festival, she'd release her critically acclaimed sophomore album, The Story, which was produced by T Bone Burnett. Here she is performing the title track from the set, which you may remember as being a huge viral sensation via its placement in a visually stunning General Motors TV spot for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

A model of the James Webb Space Telescope, which is the Hubble telescope’s successor, is on display in front of the Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin. (Alex Evars/NASA)

SXSW Interactive may be a conference concerned with online space, but NASA took the gathering of geeks as an opportunity to showcase a tool concerned with revealing the mysteries of outer space.

On the front lawn of the Long Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Austin, NASA set up a to-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as well as a fully staffed information center. The telescope is named for the second administrator of NASA, James E. Webb, who oversaw the first manned missions to space. Scheduled to launch in 2018, the JWST is the successor to the Hubble space telescope, which has been in orbit since 1990.

"The mission is primarily to see the first light created after the Big Bang," says Scott Willoughby, the Program Manager for JWST at Northrop Grumman. "That light is very far back in the distance; and you see farther back in time the farther away you look.

"We're seeing further back, because [JWST] is more sensitive. But we are also seeing things we couldn't

Elon Musk

AUSTIN, Texas — Finally! A man with a fresh new approach to balancing childcare and hard work!

Spoiler: it involves PILES OF MONEY.

Family life was the unexpected subject of the sold-out discussion between Elon Musk, founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and Chris Anderson, the former editor-in-chief of Wired, at South by Southwest on Saturday.

The topic was meant to be Musk's zillion androgen-dense projects, many of which have to do with rockets and Mars. But after marveling at Musk's work ethic, Anderson pressed Musk—briefly but spectacularly—on the subject of his five children.

Musk's answer? "Children are awesome."

"Awesome" sounded good in Musk's lovely South African accent.

"But I don't see them much."

(A friend of mine told me conspiratorially during the talk that Musk was divorced from the mother of his brood, and had had one or two "cheapskate divorces"—which turns out to be well known in billionaire circles.

Musk went on: "I do email while I'm with my children. And I

Photo: Onetaste.usThe female orgasm--a phrase that should be in French--was the subject of an ecstatic, wild-eyed lecture at South by Southwest Friday evening. Nicole Daedone, statuesque blonde, quoter of Joseph Campbell and Buckminster Fuller, haver of one-touch 30-minute orgasms, was our rapturous host; the audience was putty in her hands. One of us, it seems, even came.

Daedone runs a center called OM that gets people to practice a practice that turns them into practitioners. The practice seems to be masturbation, but the word is never used. (Info on OM and The Practice can be found here at onetaste.us.) The good news is that some time with The Practice can make us all more loving, more connected and less vulnerable to trauma and addiction. The bad news is that only The Practice yields the real, right kind of oxytocin shock-and-awe orgasm. In general we ain't, as they say on Twitter, hitting it right.

Daedone cites much legitimizing kinda-science (the women's-mag phrase "limbic system"; iffy