Monday. The Music Fog crew is making its way to Austin, Texas for the spectacular Music Fog Marathon, presented by Neustar. We're set to start at Threadgill’s WHQ in South Austin on Wednesday. Woo-hoo, we are so stoked to be bringing you a 44 artist line up over four days. We promise some of them will be brand new to you. After all, that is part of the joy of what we get to do, discovery and exploration. In this day of tightened radio playlists and an astounding amount of bands that all are vying for attention, how do you find the new stuff that you might like. Music Fog bravely enters the scene to help be a lodestar to guide the way through this confusing landscape. Not that we can do it all, I am beginning to think that no one can keep up with it all. We all have to have our filters, to wend our way through the veritable musical jungle.

Photo Credit: Maren HoopferOne of our favorite ‘discoveries' came through the wisdom and ears of our buddy Andy Rubin of Cyclops Books in Baltimore. One night he invited us Foggers up to record Frontier Ruckus, who were newly signed to the Avett Brothers original label, Ramseur Records. What can we say, we fell in love with the just out of college band. Visiting their website seconds the motion. They call their front page EARSHOT! I love that! They have such a facility for wordsmithing, that one can feel their music even without actually hearing it from the linguistic brush they construct with. We got to hook up with them again, this time at the Americana Fest in Nashville this past September. We are so happy that they were invited to play the festival, and that other people from around the country attending the event could marvel at them. As they are on tour, so can you if they are near your town. Here is “Silverfishes,” from the CD Deadmalls And Nightfalls.

- Jessie Scott