The Badgeless Scenes of SXSW:Levi's/Fader Fort, Blue Sky Studio, French Legation Museum and More

Major Lazer with Skerrit Bwoy at Jelly's Carniville

Our resident ninja photog Rebecca Smeyne spent her time at South By Southwest exploring the festival's badgeless margins--the shows anybody with a little creativity and a lot of patience could attend. From the party for Death + Taxes Magazine where No Age and Japandroids played, to the Cinders Gallery installation at OK Mountain to a random show on a random porch, she managed to catch things even the rest of us who were there didn't experience. Her photos from Austin, which aren't quite like anything else we've seen from the festival, are below.

White Mice's gear loading in at OK Mountain

all photos by Rebecca Smeyne

Blue Sky Studio, an art space in East Austin which hosted around 60 bands

The sheriff tells Ty Segall it's closing time during his set at the KVRX party

Les Savy Fav

JEFF the Brotherhood at the Panache Booking party

Brahms at the Billions party

Diamond Rings at the Death and Taxes Party

A random show on someone's front porch

New Orleans Bounce star DJ Jubilee