{"id":9904,"date":"2012-03-16T11:28:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T19:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=9904"},"modified":"2012-03-17T09:40:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T17:40:17","slug":"sxsw-springsteen-performs-with-arcade-fire-and-gives-keynote-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-03\/sxsw-springsteen-performs-with-arcade-fire-and-gives-keynote-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"SXSW–Springsteen Performs with Arcade Fire and Gives Keynote Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of year again.\u00a0 That’s right:\u00a0 March Madness and the NBA Trade Deadline.\u00a0 Oh wait, what we meant to say was SXSW<\/strong>.\u00a0 According to various reports coming out of Austin, the University of Texas just lost in the NCAA Tourney.\u00a0 Oh, and the musical frolic-fest that is SXSW is in full swing.\u00a0 We’d love to be there to catch Chuck Prophet<\/strong><\/a> and a few others, but otherwise we’ll lazily monitor from afar.<\/p>\n

Of course we wouldn’t have minded catching Bruce Springsteen<\/strong> perform yesterday for 2-1\/2 hours and give one of the best keynote speeches of all time.\u00a0 You can check the speech out way below (note:\u00a0 Parental Advisory<\/strong> for language).\u00a0 But first, courtesy of Consequence of Sound<\/strong>, you can check out below Springsteen’s set-culminating read of Woody Guthrie\u2019s<\/strong> This Land Is Your Land<\/em><\/strong>, featuring R\u00e9gine Chassagne <\/strong>and Win <\/strong>and Will Butler <\/strong>from Arcade Fire, Tom Morello<\/strong> (lighting it up with a little Occupy SXSW<\/strong> venom), Eric Burdon <\/strong>of The Animals, Alejandro Escovedo, Garland Jeffreys, Joe Ely<\/strong>, and members of The Low Anthem<\/strong>.<\/p>\n