Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets are sold out to James Blake's Monday show at Music Hall of Williamsburg. NPR will be streaming James Blake's Wednesday show at Stubb's which is part of SXSW where... more info
Guardian Music — A hack weekend here, a site scrape there and pretty soon we had this wonderful new tool for tracking artists at the SXSW festival• Check out our SXSW 2011 band tracker... more info
VH1 Blog — There are a whopping 2,000 or so acts performing at South By Southwest in Austin this year. A few are household names (Duran Duran, Erykah Badu, The Strokes), some are... more info
Song, by Toad — I am Ruthless for this week’s show on Fresh Air Radio, so it will just be me prattling on by myself instead. I have a John Darnielle tribute to the assault on organis... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — Daedelus at LPR (more by Chris Doss) South by Southwest isn't the only major music fest that goes down in March. Ultra Music Festival happens a few days later in Maimi, a... more info
Altsounds — Fresh off a month long European tour opening for *The National*, *Sharon Van Etten* is ready to hit the road again! Continuing to support her 2010 release, *epic* (Ba Da... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — photos & review by Dominick Mastrangelo DOWNLOAD: BOBBY - Sore Spores (MP3) BOBBY (the band) @ Bowery Ballroom "The story of BOBBY is marred in mystique and hazy hear-say... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — words & photos by BBG Goes Cube Goes Cube celebrated the release of their new LP Of Tides & Drifts and kicked off their campaign toward SXSW with a show at The Studio at ... more info
Guardian Music — An extract from Mark Donne's The Rime of the Modern Mariner, a tribute to London's docks and Britain's declining shipping industry, narrated by Libertines frontman Carl B... more info