All Songs Considered SXSW Preview →
NPR’s All Songs Considered SXSW preview is well worth checking out. They’ve got an interview with Carrie Brownstein and Stephen Thompson, followed by an interview with Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig. On top of that, they’ve got 17 tracks from artists performing at SXSW available for streaming.
My advice is listen to all of them, but if you want recommendations, you can’t miss Bon Iver, Fanfarlo, Times New Viking, and Tift Merritt. And, of course, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who wouldn’t recommend Vampire Weekend (we postedthe music video for the song NPR are streaming, “A-Punk”, a few days ago).
If you’re not at SXSW, like me, you could do worse than subscribing to the NPR All Songs Considered podcast. They’ve promised broadcasts and webcasts of almost two dozen SXSW concerts:
NPR Music and All Songs Considered will be in Austin next week, blogging, broadcasting and webcasting nearly two dozen live concerts. You’ll hear R.E.M., My Morning Jacket, Jens Lekman, Vampire Weekend and many more, all webcast live on NPR.org.
Besides giving me something to get me through the next hundred pages or so of Leashing the Dogs of War, and making me even more envious of friends who are in Austin enjoying the show live instead of in Baltimore writing a paper on international conflict management, my favorite thing about this is PBR’s exclusive sponsorship. Looks like Pabst has refocused its marketing efforts to capitalize on the indie/hipster pseudo-ironic love of that tried and true blue-collar piss in a can. God bless ‘em.
NPR’s website is also really killer. They do a good job of organizing the information and leaving room for exploration. Not too easy.
