Greetings from Indie Rock Spring Break! I'm in between going to Gonna Get Down 2 (brought to you by Austinist , Gothamist , and Gorilla Vs Bear ) and the Fader Fort and thought I'd check in. Here's a picture of Sparrow House playing at Gonna Get Down: The highlight of my day (so far) was Austin Mayor Will Wynn on stage between Earl Greyhound's set. Mayor Wynn says there are three keys to keeping Austin the music capitol of the world: Austin needs to have lots of venues within walking distance, so...

Last Thursday, the Zune team threw a party at Baltic Room, with Clipse . I got invited (last minute, so I didn't invite you, dear blog reader). Anyways, I've been meaning to post some photos and link to The Stranger's recap , but haven't gotten around to it till now. You know, busy, what with all the playing Gears of War Zune work. Anyways, check some pictures: Image from The Stranger (image from a cameraphone) On a mostly un-related note: in college I made up this expression "I'm so indie, I look...

Greetings from the cold, sunny, Northwest. I'm back from CES now and wanted to post a few photos. A lot of them are on my flickr site . First up, there's a video of my that my buddy Major Nelson made in our booth, and we have a talk. And he beams his latest podcast to me. Check it out: (clicking image will launch a video) In all my time there, a definite highlight was hanging out with Stephane from Cliczune and Paul from Zunebrothers / Zuneluv . The Zune Party at Tao rocked. Questlove from The Roots...

What a day. The day for me started off with breakfast at Minnie's (I had the Benedict) I handed out Zune devices to all the winners. (both from Crunchgear's contest and from the Secret Machines Myspace contest ) and gave a little demo. Then it was off to the Monorail for a private ride to the Seattle Center, where the Secret Machines played. KEXP's John Richards (John in the Morning) took the stage, and introduced. . . Bill Gates! John sent Bill a playlist, one that he made - and one that you can...