Rowena Wise & Didirri

I've been trying to put together a list of artists to check out during this year's SXSW, but it's slow going this time around.  Day parties and free showcases are trickling out at a middling pace this year, and for the first time, i find myself not knowing who the majority of acts are.  Whether or not that's a holdover effect of the festival's bullshit invitation to the US military last year that caused maybe hundreds of artists to boycott their official showcases, i don't know.  But in some ways, as big as this event has gotten over the last decade, in some ways it feels like it's dying.  And that makes me sad.  That's not to say that my investigations into the incoming onslaught of artists has been fruitless.  Case in point is the folk rock stylings of Australian artist Rowen Wise.  Here she is with fellow Australian singer/songwriter Didirri with new track "No Cure for Love."  It's pretty.  Check it out below, download it here from Beloved Records and look for her in Austin in a couple of weeks.