Beauty Bar

Day 4, part 2 recaps and a full day of Day 5 recaps and interviews are on the way, but first, I have to sum up what had to be the craziest end to a South By Southwest festival I’ve ever witnessed. It starts when a journalist friend, Dave Jaffer of Montreal’s The Hour, hears legendary Toronto indie-electro-punk duo Death From Above 1979 is playing its first reunion show in half a decade at Beauty Bar. We literally run to the venue in an attempt to get into the 225-capacity space. What we find is a crowd of at least