On Tuesday, Kesha arrived at SXSW to discuss online bullying with Refinery29’s Chief Content Officer Amy Emmerich. Although she hasn’t released new material in several years, 30-year-old Kesha Rose Sebert (she removed the $ in 2014) has developed a massive fan base in that time – for both her music and her activism.

For the past four South by Southwests, Justin Douglas earned a sizable paycheck from Converse by recording bands on behalf of Rubber Tracks, the shoe company’s program offering free studio time to artists with no strings attached.

Chrissie Hynde made the most of her 48 hours in Austin. Starting Sunday when the Pretenders opened for Stevie Nicks at the Erwin Center – where she duetted on “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – the Akron, Ohio, tough then upended the Austin Music Awards with impromptu punk. Monday at that same Moody Theater, her 40-year-old band debuted on Austin City Limits.

Few people would categorize Major Lazer’s style of rump-thumping global EDM as protest music, but Give Me Future proves that even the most fist-pumping party tunes become political when they reach the shores of Cuba.

“We’re gonna start off on some jazz shit,” said Robert Glasper about Monday night’s one-of-a-kind performance. As such, the Houston pianist/producer led bassist Derrick Hodge, sampler and beatboxer Taylor McFerrin (son of Bobby), sax/keys swing vote Terrace Martin, drummer Marcus Gilmore (grandson of Roy Haynes), and trumpet star Christian Scott.

As one-quarter of the B-52s, Cindy Wilson doesn’t demand much sell here in Austin. Her performance outside at Sidewinder on the first night of SXSW Music showcases proved that. 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of her New Wave rock lobsters, but the singer endeavored down a new, psychedelic path of overdubbed vocals and swirling, heavy-lidded grooves.

Mick Fleetwood sits for a South by Southwest interview on Wednesday, but otherwise, the members of Fleetwood Mac are still recovering from a 220-show tour 18 months ago. Not Stevie Nicks. “At my age, I wanted to put together songs that I haven’t sung onstage before,” announced the iconic Gold Dust Woman to a packed Frank Erwin Center on Sunday night.

Mid-afternoon Sunday finds Austin’s Michael Sanders calm and collected, hoisting a mug of hot tea with his left hand, while his right arm remains in a sling. Thirty-six hours earlier, a bullet tore through his shoulder.

Far from the maddening crowd Downtown, monstrous bulls, back-cracking broncos, and alternately lackadaisical and fleet sheep bearing 5-to-7-year-olds on the ride of their lives baptized Rodeo Austin 2017. Daylong rains didn’t free up many seats inside the Travis County Expo Center arena Saturday night. Dwight Yoakam then stampeded one and all.