Shocking news flash: The Roots are great at music, and even better at playing it in front of you.

One of the most unexpected acts to show up at this year's SXSW was folk-rock troubadour Donovan, the Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist who recorded a string of hits in the late 1960s and was a friend of note to people like The Beatles and Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones.

The Black Belles have an awesome viral marketing technique: passing you on the street carrying their equipment, dressed like The Black Belles.

Ingrid Michaelson is, more or less, the most adorable person in the world.

The best part isn't that the band's name is "Bleeding Rainbow" -- it's that they were originally Reading Rainbow and had to change it.

If you try to take a photo in a dimly-lit church with a non-professional camera, you've got the brain of a four-year old child, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it.

Unless you count The Iron Bear, Friday's 'Workaholics' house party in downtown Austin had more "tight butthole" discussion than anywhere else at SXSW per capita.

I like Motion City Soundtrack's music, but not enough to know my cues.

Andrew W.