It’s that time of year again.  That’s right:  March Madness and the NBA Trade Deadline.  Oh wait, what we meant to say was SXSW.  According to various reports coming out of Austin, the University of Texas just lost in the NCAA Tourney.  Oh, and the musical frolic-fest that is SXSW is in full swing.  We’d love to be there to catch Chuck Prophet and a few others, but otherwise we’ll lazily monitor from afar.

Of course we wouldn’t have minded catching Bruce Springsteen perform yesterday for 2-1/2 hours and give one of the best keynote speeches of all time.  You can check the speech out way below (note:  Parental Advisory for language).  But first, courtesy of Consequence of Sound, you can check out below Springsteen’s set-culminating read of Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land, featuring Régine Chassagne and Win and Will Butler from Arcade Fire, Tom Morello (lighting it up with a little Occupy SXSW venom), Eric Burdon of The Animals, Alejandro Escovedo, Garland Jeffreys, Joe Ely, and members of The Low Anthem.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – “This Land Is Your Land” (Woody Guthrie cover) from Consequence of Sound on Vimeo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWVp7NBp9XU

You can also catch The Shins live set HERE this afternoon.