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Improve Your Skills at SXSW Interactive Workshops Innovative Storytelling in the Digital Domain SXSW Interactive Extended Workshops provide in-depth, hands-on education, taught by top industry leaders. Choose from two-and-a-half, four, and eight hour sessions. Any registrants with an Interactive, Gold or Platinum badge must reserve a seat to attend any SXSW Interactive workshop once the online schedule goes live in January. Check out sxsw.com/interactive/ sessions/workshops for confirmed workshop programming! A program dedicated to revealing and exploring new storytelling models in web-based, interactive and other digital directions, the Digital Domain returns for 2014. Hugely popular in 2013, the program is the ultimate convergence event, investigating the collision of cutting-edge technology and the evolution of narrative. Don't miss it. Learn more at sxsw.com/film/sessions/digital-domain. Connected Cars & Radio Migration Bajofondo, La Mala Rodriguez, Cafe Tacvba and Natalia Lafourcade Top Latin Grammy Nominations The 14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards show returns to the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 21. This highly anticipated event for the Latino community honors nominees in more than 48 categories and will be broadcast live on Univision. This year once again features a number of SXSW alums among the nominees: Album of the Year, Best Alternative Song, Best Instrumental Album - Bajofondo Best Urban Interpretation, Best Urban Music Album - La Mala Rodriguez Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song - No Te Va Gustar Best Long Version Musical Video, Best Recording Album, and Best Alternative Music Album - Natalia Lafourcade Best New Artist - A Band of Bitches, Gaby Moreno Best Alternative Music Album, Best Alternative Song - Leon Larregui (lead singer from Zoe) Pusha T Releases LongAwaited My Name Is My Name Solo Album Pusha T made his debut at SXSW in 2008 as a member of The Clipse, alongside his brother 8 Malice. Since then, Pusha T and Malice have gone in separate directions. After a religious awakening, Malice, who changed his name to No Malice, took a break from music to publish his book Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, Blind & Naked. Meanwhile, Pusha T rose to solo stardom as a member of Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music imprint and was featured on some of the biggest singles of the past couple years, including "Mercy" from the G.O.O.D. Music compilation Cruel Summer and on Kanye West's "Runaway." After releasing two critically acclaimed mixtapes, Pusha T released his debut solo album on October 8. Titled My Name Is My Name (taken from a quote from drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield in celebrated HBO drama The Wire), the record features collaborations with 2 Chainz, Big Sean, Young Jeezy and Kendrick Lamar. SXSWORLD / NOVEMBER 2013 The music industry has experienced many changes since the widespread of adoption of the Internet, but perhaps the most significant have been in consumer behavior. Now, with the rise in Internet radio consumption (Edison Research reported in September that 53% of the U.S. population listens to Internet radio), car companies are beginning to turn their attention toward how people will consume audio in their vehicles in the next five to 10 years. The same Edison Research study also reports that while 83% of Americans still listen to terrestrial radio as opposed to Internet radio while using their vehicles, that number will likely drop in the next decade. As more and more Americans migrate to Internet radio each year, many car manufacturers are seeing the future. Ford and Livio have just struck a deal to develop what Ford is calling a "brought-in" solution, where the user provides the music apps with his or her smartphone as well as the Internet connection. Livio has also been working with Chevrolet on its digital dashboards. It should be noted that this is just one solution of many in a still fragmented market, and quite a few analysts agree: standardization of digital dashboards across all new vehicles will be key in shifting audio consumption in cars from terrestrial radio to Internet radio. Whether standardization happens is to be determined. Either way, at the The Radio Show in September, Fred Jacobs and Roger Lanctot predicted there will be 140 million connected cars by 2017.