March is full of all sorts of things. There’s St. Patricks Day, of course, and the beginning of spring, amongst ‘em. And, after the unusually harsh and seemingly unending winter we weather-pussies here in the Northwest have endured, we’ll seize any opportunity to drink green beer.

Speaking of opportunities to drink anything and everything, for days on end, and to have the same conversation 4,000 times in 4 days…

Sub Pop will be heading to the lovely shire that is Austin, Texas…

I know this probably means nothing to you coming from me — a Sub Pop lackey, who’s job involves such unsavory tasks as marketing records, writing here, on the web site of the band’s label that I’m talking about — but this Low record is real, real good. So quit being a jerk, take what we say at face value for once, and just buy it.

(Cake photo “borrowed” from tosawyer’s flickr stream. It’ll make more sense when you see the…

Our friends in Low are out right now playing a string of shows with Wilco. They are naturally very happy to find themselves in such good company on this tour, and will undoubtedly be playing a great many songs from their recent album Drums and Guns. If you live in one of the cities along this tour route, you should, of course, go! And, if you don’t live in one of these cities, on the Wilco website this evening at…