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SXSW Recap: Wheelchair Sports Camp Asks What It Means to Be a “Successful” Artist

By Kalyn Heffernan
Mar 23, 2016

Editor's Note: Kalyn Heffernan is a familiar voice to many regular readers of Westword Music. We've written about her band Wheelchair Sports Camp many times over the years, and she has sent us dispatches from previous trips to SXSW. This year, she shares this recap of the band's fifth trip to...
A butt-level view of music festival fashion in 2014

By Kalyn Heffernan
Mar 20, 2014

Editor: Kalyn Heffernan is a familiar voice to many regular readers of Backbeat. We've written about her band several times over the years. And this week, she's been sending us commentary on her third trip to Austin for SXSW. Read about why she still thinks it's worth it to go,...
Photos: Every outfit Wheelchair Sports Camp's Kalyn Heffernan wore at SXSW 2014

By Kalyn Heffernan
Mar 18, 2014

Editor: As she has in years past, Kalyn Heffernan from Wheelchair Sports Camp is documenting the band's trip to Austin for SXSW. Today, she's sent us portraits of each of the four outfits she wore at the festival this year. "I packed a good twenty-plus shirts/tanks, too many hats, shoes,...
SXSW is still worth it for up-and-coming bands, but not for the reasons you'd think

By Kalyn Heffernan
Mar 17, 2014

Editor's note: As she has in years past, Kalyn Heffernan from Wheelchair Sports Camp will be sending us dispatches from the band's trip to Austin for SXSW. An Austin blog asked me to, "describe SXSW in 15 seconds." I did it with only two words: shit show. But that's not...
Wheelchair Sports Camp left some puke in Amarillo but has (so far) avoided arrest: SXSW

By Kalyn Heffernan
Mar 13, 2014

Sleeping in the van. Editor's note: As she has in years past, Kalyn Heffernan from Wheelchair Sports Camp will be sending us dispatches from the band's trip to Austin for SXSW. She sent her first report, which you see here, Wednesday afternoon, before a drunk driver crashed into a crowd...

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