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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Young the Giant at SXSW 2011 [Watch (HLS stream): Young the Giant at SXSW 2011](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/LMMTdv1P.m3u8) (2:51)  _Published 2011-03-23. Young the Giant played a showcase at SXSW 2011 at Buffalo Billiards_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:11 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [GIVERS at SXSW 2011](/video/zqhEuZlo/) ### GIVERS at SXSW 2011 [Austra at SXSW 2011](/video/ZD6Gkb5Z/) ### Austra at SXSW 2011 [The David Wax Museum at SXSW 2011](/video/XmJZasct/) ### The David Wax Museum at SXSW 2011 --- ## Transcript >> I think this is the first festival of the year that we've- are taking in that we've [ unk ]. So, it's a good place to, you know, share music for the people as well as other bands and I think a goal for us is just to beat all the artists that are releasing this year and keeping in touch with all of them. We've been really trying out hard. And now, we're just releasing since we are already involved, we have seen a big increase in our shows. So, these people coming in the shows and purely love our music, that's always kind of a [ unk ] just like business people as time goes and people who may have not heard you before. So, I think it's great because we're about to test the waters and see if [ unk ] like playing the music whatever you like and that it comes across [ unk ], I guess. Obviously, we associate with the live part of our music that we're doing every day. And going into the record, it's just all about keeping the energy at least try to [ unk ] the live [ unk ] and actually being recorded. So, there is I think a lot of energy that was kind of what defines us and they keep us in one of our shows [ unk ] some disgusting and smelling stuff. So- >> It's the first time I've ever released anything major, sort of debut and it's really interesting to like see the people actually being affected in a either good or bad ways or however via music and they're writing about it and people are blogging about it. And it's really like setting- we're really, really happy with how it's been. 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