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South by Southwest (SXSW) Drops Third Round of Musical Acts for 2024 Festival – Glide Magazine

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South by Southwest (SXSW) Drops Third Round of Musical Acts for 2024 Festival – Glide Magazine


The South by Southwest® Music Festival (SXSW®) has announced the third round of Showcasing Artists invited to perform at the 38th annual event. The festival features one-of-a-kind music showcases from rising talents and renowned artists from around the world performing in front of industry professionals, influencers, press and a multitude of engaged fans who have a passion for music discovery. The first event on every music industry professional’s calendar, the SXSW Music Festival takes place March 11-16, 2024.

SXSW Music Festival programmers present the best in eclectic and acclaimed artists offering a unique opportunity for national and international exposure. Artists in this announcement hail from Australia, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Dominican Republic, England, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Panama, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine, and Venezuela. Third round highlights include Angélica Garcia (El Monte CA), The Black Keys (Akron OH), Blind Channel (Helsinki FINLAND), Bootsy Collins (Cincinnati OH), Boza (Panama PANAMA), Chase Shakur (Atlanta GA), Fabiana Palladino (London UK-ENGLAND), Flyana Boss (Los Angeles CA), GOKUMON (UchikubiGokumonDoukoukai) (Tokyo JAPAN), J Noa (Santo Domingo DOMINICAN REPUBLIC), Johnny Jewel (Los Angeles CA), Kneecap (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND), Lime Cordiale (Sydney AUSTRALIA), Luther Dickinson (Memphis TN), Marcelo D2 (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL), Mayuan Poet (Kunming CHINA), Miso Extra (London UK-ENGLAND), Moffa (José Gabriel Feliciano) (San Juan PUERTO RICO), Scowl (Santa Cruz CA), SNŐÕPER (Nashville TN), STRFKR (Portland OR), and Vitesse X (Brooklyn NY).

Spanning six nights, Music Festival showcases are curated by SXSW programmers in collaboration with record labels, booking agencies, export offices, management and PR firms, publishers, media outlets, lifestyle brands and festivals. These showcases give attendees the opportunity to experience today’s and tomorrow’s headliners in Austin’s iconic and offbeat venues. Showcase presenters include: Adult Decisions, All The Vibes, ATC Live, Athens In Austin, Atomic Music Group, BBC Introducing, Beyond the Music Manchester, Big Picture Media, Billboard, BIRP.fm, Breakout West, The Broadside Hacks Folk Club, CareFreeBlackGirl, Chicken Ranch Records, Chopstars. City Slang, CLASH Music, Classical Unlocked, The Color Agent, Crosstown Concerts, Dear Life Records, Dedstrange, Deezer, Don Giovanni Records, Double Denim, End of the Trail, Everything RnB, Fair Enough PR, Father/Daughter Records, Fierce Panda, Flatspot Records, FOCUS Wales, Folk Alliance International, Friends from the East Festival, FRIENDSHIP., Future Classic, Gar Hole Records, Give A Note Foundation, Houndstooth, Iceland Music, Island Wave, Italia Music Export, Italians Do It Better, Gorilla vs. Bear, High Road Touring, Indie Shuffle, Initiative Musik, Jaded, Jazz Re:Freshed, KUTX The Breaks, LICKS Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, The Loyalty Firm, M for Montreal, Mint Talent Group, Monster Child, Mothland, Music from Ireland, Music Website, MUTEK, Nerdcore, New West Records, NIVA, NoiseCo, Now Wave, Paper Bag Records, Penny Loafer PR, POP Montreal, Post Electric Artists, PlantWave, Reeperbahn Festival, Roskilde Festival, Ramp Local, Range Magazine, Rhythm n Vibes, Rolling Stone, School Night, Selector Radio, So Recordings, The Smoke Out, Sofar Sounds, Space Agency, The Spanish Wave, Synásthesie Festival, Taiwan Beats, Tiger Bomb Promo, Tokyo Calling, Traffic Music, Trucha Soul, Violet House, WeFoundNewMusic, We Were Never Being Boring, Wide Days Scotland, and WOMEX.

The third round of artists invited to perform include:

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Acantha Lang (London UK-ENGLAND)
Ada Oda (Brussels BELGIUM)
Adriana McCassim (Los Angeles CA)
AHI (Brampton CANADA)
airu (Bilbao SPAIN)
The Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet (Austin TX)
Alice Ivy (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Alisa Amador (Boston MA)
Alix Fernz (Montreal CANADA)
Allan Harris (New York NY)
Allegra Krieger (New York NY)
Altameda (Toronto CANADA)
Amber Lang (Willingboro NJ)
Amiture (New York NY)
Andrew Gould (Queens NY)
Angélica Garcia (El Monte CA)
Ankur Tewari (Mumbai INDIA)
A’Rise (Sun-El Musician, Kay Faith, Kooldrink) (Mooi River SOUTH AFRICA)
Arny Margret (Ísafjörður ICELAND)
Asha Jefferies (Brisbane AUSTRALIA)
Ashley Kutcher (Baltimore MD)
Aubrey Haddard (Brooklyn NY)
Aurora D’Amico (Palermo ITALY)
Ayoni (Los Angeles CA)
Babe Corner (Vancouver CANADA)
BackDrop Cinderella (Tokyo JAPAN)
Bebo Dumont (San Juan PUERTO RICO)
The Belair Lip Bombs (Frankston AUSTRALIA)
Ben Buck (Austin TX)
Ben Kweller (Dripping Springs TX)
Bia Ferreira (São Paulo BRAZIL)
Big Dumb Baby (Brooklyn NY)
Big Jade (Beaumont TX)
Big Wy’s Brass Band (Austin TX)
Big Zeeks (London UK-ENGLAND)
Billy Allen + The Pollies (Muscle Shoals AL)
The Black Keys (Akron OH)
Blakchyl (Austin TX)
Blaketheman1000 (Los Angeles CA)
Blind Channel (Helsinki FINLAND)
Blue Water Highway (Austin TX)
BODUR (London UK-ENGLAND)
Bones and Jones (Geelong AUSTRALIA)
Bonnie Montgomery (Fayetteville AR)
Bootsy Collins (Cincinnati OH)
Boza (Panama PANAMA)
Brad Byrd (Los Angeles CA)
breathe. (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Brie Stoner (Grand Rapids MI)
Bubble Tea and Cigarettes (New York NY)
Buggin (Chicago IL)
Byron Juane (Charlotte NC)
C4 (Birmingham UK-ENGLAND)
Cactus Lee (Austin TX)
Caleb De Casper (Austin TX)
Cale Tyson (Los Angeles CA)
Cameron Romance (Los Angeles CA)
Cardinals (Cork IRELAND)
Carpetman (Kyiv UKRAINE)
Cassadee Pope (West Palm Beach FL)
Chance Emerson (Hong Kong HONG KONG)
Chase Shakur (Atlanta GA)
Chelsea Days (Oklahoma City OK)
ChihiroYamazaki+ROUTE14band (Kawasaki JAPAN)
Chih Siou (Taipei TAIWAN)
Chinese American Bear (Seattle WA)
Chioke (Philadelphia PA)
Chris Acker (New Orleans LA)
Chris Patrick (East Orange NJ)
Cloudchord (Austin TX)
Clover County (Athens GA)
COASTCITY (Miami FL)
College of Hip Hop Knowledge (Austin TX)
Corridor (Montreal CANADA)
Cotton Mather (Austin TX)
Couch Prints (New York NY)
The Courettes (Mariager DENMARK)
Crabe (Montreal CANADA)
Creekbed Carter Hogan (Austin TX)
Crys Matthews (Nashville TN)
Cuffed Up (Los Angeles CA)
Curtis McMurtry (Austin TX)
DAIISTAR (Austin TX)
Daisy Rickman (Penzance UK-ENGLAND)
Dale Hollow (New York NY)
Dani D y Franky (Miami FL)
Dani Gurgel & Debora Gurgel (São Paulo BRAZIL)
Danxgerous (Rome ITALY)
Day By Day (South Florida FL)
DBMK (Tampa FL)
Deer Fellow (Austin TX)
Def-i (Albuquerque NM)
Dende (Katy TX)
Desiree Cannon (Jenner CA)
The Deslondes (New Orleans LA)
Die Slo (Austin TX)
The Dinosaur’s Skin (Taipei TAIWAN)
Dj Napalm (Austin TX)
Doohickey Cubicle (Vancouver CANADA)
Dual Core (Austin TX)
DV-i (New York NY)
DVTR (Montreal CANADA)
Dyce (Leuven BELGIUM)
Dylan Earl (Fayetteville AR)
Eliza McLamb (Los Angeles CA)
Embla and the Karidotters (Bergen NORWAY)
End It (Baltimore MD)
Enji (Munich GERMANY)
The Eric Hisaw Band (Austin TX)
Erykah Officer (Miami FL)
Ethan Tasch (Menlo Park CA)
Eva Westphal (New York NY)
EyeQ (Brooklyn TX)
Fabiana Palladino (London UK-ENGLAND)
The fin. (Kobe JAPAN)
FLEWNT & INKABEE (Perth AUSTRALIA)
FLWRSHRK (Bronx NY)
Flyana Boss (Los Angeles CA)
Font (Austin TX)
FOXCULT (Seattle WA)
Foyer Red (Brooklyn NY)
Frances Chang (Brooklyn NY)
Friend (Philadelphia PA)
Gabby’s World (New York NY)
GameboyJones (Kent OH)
gglum (London UK-ENGLAND)
GOKUMON (UchikubiGokumonDoukoukai) (Tokyo JAPAN)
Grace Pettis (Nashville TN)
Greg Freeman (Burlington VT)
grimelda (Saskatoon CANADA)
Gummy B (Taipei TAIWAN)
Hanorah (Montreal CANADA)
Helsinki Lambda Club (Tokyo JAPAN)
Hembree (Lawrence MO)
High. (Boonton NJ)
His His (Toronto CANADA)
Hollows (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
Hotel Mira (Vancouver CANADA)
HUSHMONEY (Los Angeles CA)
The Ian Fays (San Francisco CA)
If I Die In Mississippi (Gulfport MS)
Ila Barker (Winnipeg CANADA)
Indian Giver (Toronto CANADA)
ISMAY (Petaluma CA)
Ivoris (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Jack Van Cleaf (Encinitas CA)
Jason Calhoun (Philadelphia PA)
Jaz Dhami (Birmingham UK-ENGLAND)
Jeff Lofton (Austin TX)
Jess Cornelius (Los Angeles CA)
JET THE 3RD (Houston TX)
Jhama (Vidigal BRAZIL)
J. Isaiah Evans & The Boss Tweed (Dallas TX)
JJ Shiplett (Calgary CANADA)
J Noa (Santo Domingo DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)
Jobi Riccio (Nashville TN)
Johnny Jewel (Los Angeles CA)
John Roseboro (Brooklyn NY)
JOSEON (Los Angeles CA)
Joudy (Brooklyn NY)
JPerry (Port-Au-Prince HAITI)
J Soulja (Austin TX)
JW Francis (Sapulpa OK)
Kadesh Flow (Kansas City MO)
Kaitlin Butts (Tulsa OK)
Kalamari (San Antonio TX)
Kaleah Lee (Vancouver CANADA)
Kalpee (Lange Park TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO)
Keenan Te (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Kharma (Chicago IL)
Kierst (Brooklyn NY)
King Nun (London UK-ENGLAND)
Kiss Bang (Los Angeles CA)
Kneecap (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND)
Kolb (Brooklyn NY)
koleżanka (New York NY)
kudaranai1nichi (Tokyo JAPAN)
K.Williams (Tacoma WA)
Lady Apple Tree (Los Angeles CA)
La Gallo 3:20 (Monterrey MEXICO)
Lamont Landers (Decatur AL)
Laney Jones (Nashville TN)
Latir (London UK-ENGLAND)
Laveda (Brooklyn NY)
Lev Snowe (Winnipeg CANADA)
LEX the Lexicon Artist (Taipei TAIWAN)
Liam Benzvi (New York NY)
Liam St. John (Spokane WA)
LIE NING (Berlin GERMANY)
Life’s Question (Philadelphia PA)
Life In Vacuum (Toronto CANADA)
Light Beams (Washington DC)
Limbo (San Francisco CA)
Lime Cordiale (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Lisa Morgenstern (Berlin GERMANY)
Little Wilderness (Durango CO)
Lizzie & The Makers (Brooklyn NY)
Los Choclok (Cosoleacaque MEXICO)
LOS KEMET (Jackson MS)
Lost Bayou Ramblers (Lafayette LA)
The Lostines (New Orleans LA)
Lucaa (Washington DC)
Lucky Lo (Copenhagen DENMARK)
LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) (Northampton MA)
Luna Aura (Nashville TN)
Luther Dickinson (Memphis TN)
luvis (Tokyo JAPAN)
Lxandra (Helsinki FINLAND)
Madeleine Mayi (Los Angeles CA)
Madeline Goldstein (Los Angeles CA)
Madison Baker (Austin TX)
Majin (Taipei TAIWAN)
Malin Pettersen (Oslo NORWAY)
Mali Velasquez (Nashville TN)
Marcelo D2 (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL)
Marissa Burwell (Regina CANADA)
Mary Scholz (Los Angeles CA)
Mary Shelley (Brooklyn NY)
Mayuan Poet (Kunming CHINA)
MC LARS (San Francisco CA)
MDUKE (San Antonio TX)
Medusa (New York NY)
Mel Bryant & the Mercy Makers (Nashville TN)
Me Nd Adam (Austin TX)
Merce Lemon (Pittsburgh PA)
Merv xx Gotti (Regina CANADA)
Midnight Navy (Austin TX)
Mikaela Monet (Valencia VENEZUELA)
Mina Okabe (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Mind Shrine (Houston TX)
Miranda Joan (Montréal CANADA)
Miso Extra (London UK-ENGLAND)
Moffa (José Gabriel Feliciano) (San Juan PUERTO RICO)
Moon Walker (New York NY)
MOTO BANDIT (Nashville TN)
My Education (Austin TX)
Myrkvi (Mosfellsbær ICELAND)
Natalie Price (Austin TX)
Native Sun (Brooklyn NY)
Nawf Lxrds (Waco TX)
Nick Finzer (Denton TX)
Night Drive (Austin TX)
N Nao (Montreal CANADA)
Noah And The Loners (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Nonô (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL)
Nur-D (Minneapolis MN)
Nyssa (Toronto CANADA)
Office Dog (Aukland NEW ZEALAND)
Ohm-I (Kansas City MO)
Ok Cowgirl (Brooklyn NY)
Old Heavy Hands (Greensboro NC)
The Oxys (Austin TX)
The Past Lives (Austin TX)
Peelander-Z (Austin TX)
The Peevie Wonders (Newcastle UK-ENGLAND)
PEGGY (Ann Arbor MI)
Pendulum Hearts (Austin TX)
Philip Labes (Los Angeles CA)
PIAO (Toronto CANADA)
Pierce Washington (Dallas TX)
pimpawatb (Baltimore MD)
Poise (New York NY)
Pony Girl (Ottawa-Hull CANADA)
PRINCE AMINE (Montréal CANADA)
Programmique (Brooklyn NY)
Proper. (Brooklyn NY)
Provoker (Los Angeles CA)
Prowess The Testament (Washington DC)
Purple Bee Experience (Volente TX)
QUANNA (Savannah GA)
Rachel Rose (Brooklyn NY)
Rain on Fridays (San Diego CA)
Ray$av (New Orleans LA)
Remo Drive (Minneapolis MN)
Restos (Austin TX)
Reyna Tropical (McAllen TX)
RIP Dunes (Brooklyn NY)
Robert Grace (Kilkenny IRELAND)
Rose Hotel (Atlanta GA)
SANITY (Birmingham UK-ENGLAND)
Sara Parigi (Prato ITALY)
Schatzi (Austin TX)
Scowl (Santa Cruz CA)
Scuttino (Dallas TX)
Searows (Portland OR)
The Sewing Club (Nashville TN)
Shallow Alcove (New York NY)
Shalom (Fairfax VA)
Shannon and the Clams (Oakland CA)
Shubzilla x Bill Beats (Seattle WA)
Six Missing (Austin TX)
SkyBlew (Chapel Hill NC)
Slow Fiction (Brooklyn NY)
SNŐÕPER (Nashville TN)
Songer (Reading UK-ENGLAND)
Sophia Galaté (Los Angeles CA)
The South Hill Experiment (Los Angeles CA)
Space Goonz (Austin TX)
Spoon Benders (Los Angeles CA)
Star Parks (Austin TX)
Stereo Jane (Los Angeles CA)
Storey Littleton (Woodstock NY)
STRAWBERRY LAUNCH (New York NY)
STRFKR (Portland OR)
Sugadaisy (Nashville TN)
Sunnsetter (Hamilton CANADA)
Suzanna Choffel (Austin TX)
SWEET SPINE (Greenville SC)
SWIDT (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Taija Kerr (Austin TX)
Tami Hart (Brooklyn NY)
Telescreens (New York NY)
Tempers (New York NY)
TENN (Sheffield UK-ENGLAND)
Tetchy (Brooklyn NY)
Thelonious Love (Houston TX)
Therapy? (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND)
There Go My Baby (San Antonio TX)
Thomas Hinds (Cartersville GA)
Tiffany Poon (Hong Kong HONG KONG)
Tino Martinez Quintet (Hamilton BERMUDA)
Tonina (St. Louis MO)
Totalement Sublime (Montréal CANADA)
Trinket (Brooklyn NY)
Una Canción Bonita (Tuxtla Gutiérrez MEXICO)
Utley3 (Austin TX)
VAPERROR (Brooklyn NY)
Vertarias (Austin TX)
Vitesse X (Brooklyn NY)
WAKE (Calgary CANADA)
West 22nd (Austin TX)
Wez Atlas (Tokyo JAPAN)
WifeKnife (Brooklyn NY)
William Singe (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Willow Parlo (Hamburg GERMANY)
wilt (Los Angeles CA)
Wishy (Indianapolis IN)
Wonderly (Portland OR)
Wreck The System (Temple Hills MD)
X Ambassadors (Ithaca NY)
XAV (Roxborough TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO)
xJermsx (New York NY)
Yayoi Daimon (Osaka JAPAN)
Yung D3mz (Accra GHANA)
Zach Person (Austin TX)
ZADA (Whistler CANADA)
Zay.Peace (Wichita Falls TX)
Zitah (London UK-ENGLAND)

(This list is subject to change. More performers will be announced at later dates.)



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Texas ban on selling smokable cannabis takes effect March 31

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Smokable cannabis products must be removed from Texas stores by the end of the month under new rules adopted by the state’s health department.

Virtually all edible hemp products will still be allowed with stricter packaging and testing requirements. But sharply higher fees on retailers and manufacturers, while lower than initially proposed, could lead to more expensive products or force some companies out of business.

The sweeping regulations for the state’s hemp industry were first recommended in December. They were created based on an executive order issued by Gov. Greg Abbott after the Texas Legislature couldn’t agree whether to regulate THC products more strictly or ban them entirely.

Last week, the Texas Department of State Health Services adopted its final version of the rules and said they would take effect March 31.

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The new regulations effectively ban the sale of smokable hemp and extracts by changing how DSHS measures Delta-9 THC, the primary psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.

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Live resins and rosins extracted from cannabis, such as these sold at Austin’s ATX Organics, have become popular in part because they’re faster acting and easier to dose than edible hemp products.

Under the state’s 2019 hemp law, cannabis with no more than 0.3% Delta-9 by dry weight is considered legal hemp.

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The adopted DSHS regulation includes a new “total THC” rule, which counts a cannabis compound known as THCA in the Delta-9 calculation. THCA converts to Delta-9 when heated or smoked, which is why a product known as THCA flower has become widely popular in Texas.

During the public comment period, hundreds of people told DSHS they oppose counting THCA as Delta-9. THCA is not explicitly banned by state or federal law.

In its response, DSHS said the “total THC” policy follows existing state and federal regulations, which are the rules written by government employees tasked with interpreting law.

The Texas Agriculture Commission adopted regulations in 2020 requiring that tests account for the potential conversion of THCA to Delta-9. The U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed a similar rule on the last day of President Trump’s first term. The rule was adopted two months later by the Biden administration.

The state’s new hemp regulations slash a proposed 10,000% increase in the annual fees charged to retailers and manufacturers of what Texas calls “consumable hemp products.” But the adopted fees — $5,000 per year for each retail location and $10,000 per year for each manufacturing facility — are still 33 and 40 times higher, respectively, than existing levies.

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More than 9,100 retail locations in Texas are registered to sell consumable hemp products, according to state health records.

Smoke ATX off of West Slaughter Lane pictured on Monday, July 21, 2025, in Austin.

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Smoke ATX off of West Slaughter Lane is among 9,100 locations registered with the state to sell hemp products. The annual fee for hemp retailers will increase from $150 per location to $5,000 under the new rules adopted by DSHS.

Some retailers say the fees are still crippling, especially coupled with the new prohibition on smokable products.

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“It’s a high rate, but it would still be feasible, but then we come into the [THCA] regulations,” said Estella Castro, owner of the hemp store Austin Cannabis Co. “If you don’t have the flower, and the flower is going off completely, I don’t think you’re going to have the $5,000.”

Castro said smokable products account for about 40% of her sales.

Cannabis advocates say they are glad to see new product recall standards and a process to track consumer complaints, but they believe high licensing fees and a ban on flowers and extracts will power up the unregulated market.

“We know that consumers will be able to still acquire these products either from out of state operators who are not restricted by DSHS regulations or from the illicit market, which causes the most concern for us,” said Heather Fazio, who leads the Texas Cannabis Policy Center. “The illicit market doesn’t have age restrictions. It doesn’t have safety mechanisms and consumer protection.”

The new DSHS rules only affect the manufacture, distribution and sale of hemp products. They don’t affect state law allowing for possession of them.

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Mark Bordas, head of the Texas Hemp Business Council, compared the $10,000 fee annual on hemp manufacturing facilities to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s fee on distillers: $3,000 every two years.

“Our concern is some of these measures are so draconian that you are going to drive people out of the business and then folks’ access to the products,” Bordas said. “Invariably, we’re going to have to bring forth a [lawsuit], and the state has to defend what it’s done, and that’s taxpayer money, and it’s a waste.”





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3 Top Texas Longhorn Recruiting Targets Were Blown Away By Their Visits to Austin

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The Texas Longhorns continue to do everything they can to better their team for the future, including dominating on the recruiting trail with some of the most sought-after prospects in the country.

Their latest installment comes after extending offers to offensive lineman Ty McCurry and Jayden Thompson, while also leaving a favorable impression on premier recruit Brayson Robinson.

As they continue to make a push for another top-10 class under head coach Steve Sarkisian, the Longhorns made a staunch impression on three of their top targets for the 2028 cycle.

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The Longhorns continue to make a push on the recruiting trail, hosting some premier targets on the first day of spring camp, and extending offers to McCurry and Thompson. Both players were impressed with what they saw, not just on the football field, either, but from the Forty Acres as well.

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“They said I’m their top guy and that they want me back out for a visit soon. “McCurry tells me of his conversations with the Longhorns before continuing on where they stand in his rankings. “I’ve loved the past two times I’ve been in Austin to check out the Longhorns and can 100 percent see them being a contender in my commitment down the line.”

McCurry was a Sports Illustrated freshman All-American and currently stands at 6-foot-6 and 270 pounds, currently holding 11 offers with many of them coming from the Lone Star State. The other offer from the first day of practice went to Jayden Thompson, number 15-ranked offensive tackle in the 2028 class according to 247Sports.

“My conversations with the coaches went very well, they were all very inviting and helpful,” Thompson told Texas Longhorns On SI of the Longhorns staff. “If I had one takeaway, it would be the tour of not just the football part of the school, but the campus as well.”

Another target for the 2028 cycle is Brayson Robinson, an edge defender out of Mavel, Texas. While he didn’t receive an offer yet, he has quickly garnered interest with some of the top programs in the country. The Arizona State Sun Devils and Alabama Crimson Tide have been on him mainly, but he’s hearing from a lot of schools, including the Longhorns, who impressed him.

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“It went amazing and I like how every coach introduced themselves to my family and me,” Robinson told Texas Longhorns On SI about his visit. “I also love the culture.”

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With still a while to go until the 2028 cycle becomes the forefront on the recruiting trail, Sarkisian and his staff continue to set themselves up to be at the top of the conversations regarding the premier talent on their target board.



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Severe storms possible in Austin midweek. Here’s what to expect and timings.

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So far this month, Austin’s main weather observation site at Camp Mabry has recorded 0.7 inch of rain, but the year overall has been dry. Since Jan. 1, we’ve recorded just over 2.5 inches of rainfall, which is about 2.75 inches below normal at this point in the year.

While the weekend rain wasn’t exactly a drought-buster, we can still keep our hopes high — or, in the words of a classic infomercial: “But wait … there’s more!” 

Morning: We’ll wake early Tuesday under dark and cloudy skies, as the sun doesn’t rise in Austin until 7:46 a.m. because of daylight saving time. Temperatures will be near 70 degrees, but don’t expect the same foggy start we saw Monday. Winds will be a bit gusty out of the south, which will help keep the low-level moisture mixed and prevent it from settling in and creating a layer of fog. 

Midday: Sprinkles or light showers are possible through midday, but the heavier rainfall will hold off during the morning. The upper-level low pressure system approaching from the west will help produce active weather across West Texas during the first half of Tuesday. 

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Afternoon: However, across Central Texas an atmospheric lid, known as a capping inversion, will remain in place until surface temperatures warm up enough for rising air to break through the “cap.” Once that happens, the atmosphere will gradually destabilize through the afternoon and evening, allowing rain and thunderstorms to develop.

Breezy south winds will continue throughout the day, with gusts up to 25 mph. Afternoon temperatures are expected to climb into the upper 70s and lower 80s.

Once the cold front transits east of Austin on Wednesday, drier and cooler weather will settle in for the rest of the work week before 80-degree afternoon temperatures reemerge next weekend.



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