The Strokes: SXSW Concert Review

AUSTIN -- Austin's Auditorium Shores -- a festival-like amphitheater by the lake that's by far South By Southwest's biggest venue, and the only one totally free and open to the general public -- was swarming with kids before The Strokes hit the stage. But that's not a derogatory reference to the teenagers in the audience (though there were plenty of those, too), but actual kids: four years old boys on their dad's shoulders. Seven year old girls holding hands with mom. Duos of pre-teens, braces locked, hopefully, eventually, able to retract themselves from each other.