There’s no way around it, y’all: If you missed Hardly Art’s showcase at Cheer Up Charlies Thursday night, you really messed up.

Urban Outfitters’ newly renovated Space24Twenty on 24th Street and Guadalupe in the heart of the University of Texas hosted a jam-packed lineup of headliners for lucky SXSW freeloaders on St. Patrick’s Day. Their first UO Live in Austin program attracted tots, festival registrants fighting hangovers, and mankind’s best friend.

Forty years ago, a bloc of Forest Hills outcasts debuted via a self-titled LP that sculpted punk rock for the ages. Thursday night, the Ramones’ catalog endured 18 acts’ own renditions.

Clad in black and wearing a beret, 76-year-old Dion DiMucci cut a compelling figure when he took the stage alongside Conan O’Brien house band leader Jimmy Vivino. The headliner on acoustic and the latter manning electric guitar, Thursday night’s storyteller session drew heavily upon the newly-released New York is My Home.

As Tony Visconti’s production career fast approaches the 50-year mark, his greatest hits still speak for themselves: Thin Lizzy, U2, T. Rex. And of course the ubiquitous David Bowie. Yet the famed studio guru isn’t some introverted tech geek. He’s a grand raconteur.

BBC Radio took over Stubb’s on Thursday night, opening with 83-year-old American treasure Loretta Lynn. Queen of country music for half a century, she’s promoting new LP Full Circle, her 40th to hit Billboard’s Top 10 Country chart. Consider the booking another case of a long-standing UK tradition: selling our indigenous music back to us.

Help me out here, people: Is there another band at SXSW that fuses traditional Japanese instruments – shamisen, shakuhachi, koto, and other things that originated in the 16th or even 8th century or earlier – with classic rock-and-roll style and Vocaloid pop novelty?

Dion Francis DiMucci, born July 18, 1939, in the Bronx, scored some of doo-wop’s biggest hits with his first group, the Belmonts (“Teenager in Love”). Solo hits “Runaround Sue” and “The Wanderer” were better, and he achieved a blues Zen covering the Drifters’ “Ruby Baby.” Tonight he vets new LP New York is My Home at the Driskill’s Victorian Room, 11pm

Hype men are important. Amidst technical difficulties and a Travis Scott no-show, hip-hop barkers entertained an energetic crowd Wednesday night at the Austin Music Hall. Future singles and trap-rap anthems kept the full house engaged between performances by the Flatbush Zombies, Kevin Gates, and surprise guest Wale.