Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson, here with Matt Riley from KUTX and Austin.

Hello, sir. It is good to talk to you, especially on this really national holiday, South by Southwest week in your beloved city. Sadly, I am not going to South by Southwest this year,

but you will avenge me by attending. That's right. You will be missed, and this is like our very

own version, Marty Grau, down here where all real life stops for about 10 days. Yeah. Anybody you're

especially excited to see.

Frankie and the Witch Fingers have really popped out at me. They're starting to make some

noise nationally. I just love loud rock and roll, especially in person and in the morning.

In the morning in the morning.

So they're going to play for us Saturday morning

at the oldest beer garden in Texas

Schultz Beer Garden

and I'm really curious to see how this is going to land

at 10 a.m. on a Saturday morning.

That's one of the best things about South by Southwest

is just like wiping the crud out of your eyes

and immediately putting in earplugs.

So before we get started, I wanted to acknowledge that there is a new album out today by

the rapper Playboy Carty. He's just released his third album, I Am Music. It's his first since 2020's

whole lot of red. This record's been in the works for a long time, and he just announced it later

this week. We have not heard the whole thing. If you don't know Playboy Cardi, he's been around

for a while. He's had really high-profile collaborations with Kanye West, Travis Scott,

The Weekend.

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