Video: Adele ~ NPR Tiny Desk Concert...

Video: The Low Anthem ~ Tiny Desk Concert...

Don't forget The Low Anthem will be in the area as an opening act for The Avett Brothers:
Cleveland @ House of Blues on February 27th
Ann Arbor @ Michigan Theater on March 9th

and again as a headliner at The Ark on April 7th

Video: Swell Season ~ NPR Tiny Desk Concert...

Avett Brothers: Tiny Desk Concert Video...

NPR Offers Free SXSW Sampler...

Download a free 10-song sampler of the artists featured by NPR Music at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, TX this month. Click the link below and the songs will automatically begin downloading into your iTunes account. If you do not have an iTunes account, follow these instructions and then click below. Read more about the bands featured on the sampler and NPR Music's full SXSW coverage here.

Click here to download the Sampler. (You must have iTunes)

Tracklist:
Furr by Blitzen Trapper
Knotty Pine by David Byrne & The Dirty Projectors
Lakeside by BLK JKS
Go On, Say It by Blind Pilot
Bag of Hammers by Thao Nguyen
The Rake's Song by The Decemberists
St. Joseph's by The Avett Brothers
The Mountain by The Heartless Bastards
Dreamer by K'Naan
Just Ain't Gonna Work Out by Mayer Hawthorne

Ward Off Those Winter Blues...

M. Ward on Letterman (2/17/09)


To mark the February 17th release of his new record, Hold Time, singer-guitarist M. Ward gives a special solo performance. Hear selections from the new album, recorded live from the studios of WNYC in New York. The acoustic performance includes an interview with M. Ward as he takes questions from listeners, WNYC's Alana Harper and All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen.

Listen to the performance & the interview.

M. Ward First Listen on NPR...

M. Ward's Hold Time won't be released until Feb. 17th, but listeners can hear the entire album here on NPR Music as an exclusive preview, beginning at 11:59 p.m. ET Monday, Jan. 12th.

From NPR
The songs of singer-guitarist M. Ward seem to drift in on the crackling radio waves of a distant time. Warm and intimate, his largely acoustic and usually spare arrangements are a tribute to what Ward sees as the greatest era for American music: the 1950s and early '60s, when singers like Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison infused country-rooted pop with honesty and romance. Ward's latest album, Hold Time, continues this tradition, with a gorgeously produced mix of finger-picked guitars, upright bass and shuffling rhythms, all tied together by his achy voice.