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by Chris Aponick | The Reader
Sometimes at SXSW, you're playing like a degenerate gambler, trading the sure thing you have for a ton of risk. I played that hand Thursday night here in Austin, leaving the hard-to-get-into Bruce Springsteen ACL Live at Moody Theater performance just as he entered his second hour to try to get into The Jesus and Mary Chain at the Belmont, an overly small club that SXSW wedged one of its biggest draws into for an official showcase.