Maryland Public Television (PBS) often dedicates a big chunk of its Saturday Night lineup on its "MPT 2" channel to music performance. Tonight, June 4th is no exception. Beginning at 11pm, they kickoff the entertainment with "Live from the Artists Den" with Jakob Dylan performing in the Refectory of the Desmond Tutu Center in NY.At Midnight, MPT 2 turns to Memphis, running a series of "Sun
Philadelphia's WHYY is presenting a fantastic Saturday night music lineup tonight. Austin City Limits kicks things off at 10:30pm with singer-bassist Esperanza Spalding, who performs a mix of jazz, soul and Brazilian pop and Athens, Georgia native Madeleine Peyroux ("Bare Bones"). Following at 11:30pm, Live from the Artists Den features Jakob Dylan from the Desmond Tutu Cultural Center in New

Here's another batch of good pre-Austin listening for yas: The Singer-Songwriters and otherwise acoustic types : Joe Pug - Hymn #101 . Singer/songwriter with more than a little Peter Case influence, easily one of my top 5, of the 1000+ mp3s made available. Colin Moore - Disease . Just the right amount of grit & urgency in his delivery. The Wooden Sky - When Lost At Sea . Way over yonder in a minor key. Good [...]
In this week's installment of the DC9 at Night Podcast, Merritt Martin, Noah W. Bailey and I huddled up to talk about some of the bands from the region that made the cut and were asked to perform at ... Continue reading "The Weekly Podcast: Scoping Out The Local SXSW Performers" >

More performers (can't include everyone) at SXSW I'm excited about. After A-E yesterday, today I work F-J . To be continued further this week. Enjoy! The Features - "The Drawing Board" [MP3] The Nashville, TN fellows will be releasing their sophomore full-length Some Kind of Salvation in May. Fives Times August - "Beautiful Girls" [MP3] I used to be way into this Dallas, TX singer/songwriter back in the day but then didn't hear anything from him. Nice to see he's still [...]

AA Bondy 11:45-12:30 // AA Bondy // Dell Stage Despite a burning desire to sleep till noon, I rolled out of bed at 9:30 (that's early for a Sunday!) to make sure Josh and I were at Zilker in time to catch Alabama folk singer AA Bondy. He reminded me a great deal of Bob Dylan with a tinge of Rocky Votolato , although almost any modern folk singer with an acoustic guitar and harmonica reminds me of Votolato. Regardless of any comparisons, Bondy's set was quite lovely, despite not [...]