There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. Are you ready to get your world rocked?

Are you ready to get your world rocked? Ready?

Are you ready to get your mind blown?

Do it!

One, T-T-T-S!

For more than 25 years, annual South by Southwest Conference has been

the place to hear artists on the cutting edge of music, but with more than 2,000

performances sorting the noteworthy from the just plain noisy is no small task.

I'm Jim Deeregatus.

And I'm Greg Kott.

We brave the crowds down in Austin, Texas and are ready to report to you the next crop of need to know bands.

Plus Blue-Eyed Soul Singer Nick Waterhouse.

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

You're listening to Sound Opinions, Jim,

and this is one of our favorite shows of the year because we get to

recap the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin Texas we've been going

since the early 90s you know we're tired we're exhausted but you know we sound

really bad we're still pretty pumped up? I mean we saw some great music down there

We saw some great music and I was just remembering the first year I went and Richards the governor of Texas was the keynote speaker

I will never forget her holding a little press conference

afterwards. We were asking her questions about Austin and music and she kept interrupting and saying,

wait a minute, wait a minute, let me get this straight. You all are paid to write about music?

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