Disc Break for March 11 (Provo Daily Herald)

Beck, 'Odelay'

FMQB's Unofficial South By Southwest Music Guide (FMQB)

3/17 5th Annual Canadian Blast BBQ at SXSW at Brush Square Park from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.: Born Ruffians, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Hollerado, Radio Radio, Plants and Animals and Justin Rutledge and The Beauties

Old-time music is in Philly-area man's blood (The York Dispatch)

ELKINS PARK, Pa.—Rafe Stefanini feels awkward at parties unless he has a musical instrument in his hand—specifically, a fiddle, banjo, or guitar. The fiddle is his favorite, and with it he plays old-time music surpassingly well.

Boulder Acoustic Society returns to Silver City (Silver City Sun-News)

SILVER CITY - Back due to popular demand after their appearance at the 2008 Pickamania!, the Mimbres Region Arts Council Folk Series presents Boulder Acoustic Society tonight at the Buffalo Dance Hall. This will be the only Folk Series event to be held at the Buffalo Dance Hall this year.

First Saturday Night Arts Alive! (The North Coast Journal)

March 6, 6-9 p.m. First Saturday Night Arts Alive! Is proudly presented by USBank, with Eureka Main Street and the Humboldt Arts Council Opening receptions for artists, exhibits, and/or performances March 6 6-9 p.m. Phone 707-442-9054, for more information.

Meet the mayor of Vintage Town, USA (San Clemente Sun Post News)

Rin Tanaka thinks of himself as a hunter-gatherer. But his hunger isn't the regular human kind; it's that of a self-proclaimed vintage freak. Tanaka's scavenging for vintage began in Yokohama, a Japanese port city and U.S. naval base. When Tanaka was...

John Mayer / Feb. 25, 2010 / New York City (Madison Square Garden) (Billboard)

John Mayer ended his Thursday night (Feb. 25) show at New York's Madison Square Garden in the same way he starts most conversations these days: with an apology.

Carter: Broadcasting on All Frequencies (Wichita Falls Times Record News)

Last Saturday, a group of four young musicians debuted a new project called “Broadcasting on All Frequencies.” Featuring the rhythm section from the disbanded Corithea band and a guitarist and saxophonist who are freshman music majors at Midwestern State, the band has a very different sound from what people normally expect to hear around here.A cross between a hardcore and a R&B rhythm section ...

Sound Off (The Post and Courier)

If you want to go really old school when it comes to seeing a live performance, then take a trip to New Orleans and catch a performance at Preservation Hall. Opened in 1961 and dedicated to preserving the unique sound of New Orleans jazz, the venue has no air conditioning and no running water, but the history embedded in the walls of the venue is palpable.

Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave (Rolling Stone)

Artist: Johnny Cash Review: From 1993 until 2003, Rick Rubin and Johnny Cash produced a string of ingeniously simple music that set Cash's fathoms-deep baritone against a stark backdrop, turning him loose on grim, death-haunted Appalachian ballads, standards and rock songs of recent vintage. Seven years after Cash's death, those sessions are still producing great albums. The latest of the Rubin ...