Ante Meridiem

While we may not agree as to whether new recording technology makes music better or worse (see Douglas Wolk's fantastic essay), I think we'd all be willing to admit that technology has made making music a whole lot easier, cheaper and more accessible. We can be more agile, impulsive, nimble, reactionary and spontaneous than ever before. Right? Well, that's the idea anyway.

So let's try!

The 20-year Austin veteran, Guy Forsyth, will join us live from Studio A during The Global Village!

The Native American blues rock group, Indigenous will play a few songs live during The Global Village ahead of their show that night at The Rumba Cafe! 

Reggae/pop/rock outfit, The Aggrolites, will perform a few songs live from Studio A during The Global Village and that night at Kobo Live!  

The contemporary folk duo, The Two Man Gentlemen Band, mixing folk with hot jazz, swing, Tin Pan Alley, vaudeville and more into their repertoire,  will perform live in the 2PM hour during The Global Village! 

Langhorne Slim & The Law is on tour in support of their latest CD, The Way We Move, and they'll be making a stop at WCBE before their show at Ace Of Cups that night. 

Marco Benevento, pianist/sound-sculptor/songwriter,  will join us Live From Studio A during the Global Village on Friday afternoon and play a few songs for you!  The new album is Tiger Face and he's touring in support of it and making a stop at Woodland's that night!  Also performing that night will be the Mike Dillon Band.  Tune in for a chance to win tickets!

Steve Kimock, joined by Bernie Worrell, Wally Ingram and Andy Hess, will perform live from Studio A during the Global Village in the 2pm hour! 

Catch Mark Erelli and Lori McKenna playing together Live in Studio A.

Mark Erelli is currently touring with Lori McKenna opening for and playing with her. Both will be performing that night at the Shedd Theatre at the Columbus Performing Arts Center.

Presented by Six Strings Concerts

The Phillip Fox Band will showcase a few new tunes during the Global Village in the 2PM hour! 

Born in Atlanta, and based in New York, Ron Pope,  former frontman for the band The District will perform some of his material. 

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For a band with a firm grasp on pristine, precise production and immaculate vocal

harmonies, Grizzly Bear can be inscrutable at times: Its members have been known to use their formidable studio chops in the pursuit of what can sound like puzzles waiting to be solved.

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The members of Sauti Sol rehearse in a cramped recording studio above a chapati restaurant off a noisy highway in Nairobi. Bien-Aime Baraza, Delvin Mudigi and Willis Chimano — the founding members, all 25 — have been friends since they sang together as part of a gospel ensemble in high school. When they graduated in 2005, they didn't want to stop singing, so they formed Sauti Sol. Sauti is Swahili for voice, while sol is Spanish for sun. "Voices of light."

Recently, I was listening to a new tribute album covering the songs of Fleetwood Mac, and thought once again how dreadful most tribute albums are: They don't add much to the legacy of the artists being saluted, while inadvertently freezing vital old music in an amber of sentimentality. Then I turned to When I'm President, an album of new songs by Ian Hunter.

Despers USA practices on a big parking lot off Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y. Band members start wandering in around 6 or 7 p.m. and slowly take their places behind racks of steel drums. Like a symphony orchestra, they're organized by section — the thin tenors ringed around the outside; the big, deep, oil-drum basses toward the center; the midrange "guitars," as they're called, nearby.

Their section leader counts them in. He stops them, and then stops them again, saying the opening needs to be stronger. Eventually, they get it.

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