Justin Zupnick '13 had a chill time at the Rubblebucket show at Castaways last Thursday. 

Rusted Root offered both news songs and old hits, like "Send Me on My Way," at Castaways on Friday night.

The Dinosaur Jr. frontman is coming to Ithaca looking for good times.

Ska's founders, the Skatalites, prepare for their trip to Ithaca.

Cody Ernst assesses how the funk hurricane that is The Big Mean Sound Machine impacted Castaways on Saturday night.

The Sun catches Hey Rosetta! frontman Tim Baker before he launches on the group's first Northeast tour.

Manning the Okenshields salad bar by day, at night Apia Awa becomes D.J. Double A, the turntableist for Ithaca's own The Gunpoets.

Along with (aptly named) Sweetheart and Free Energy, Titus Andronicus delivered Springsteenesque rock Wednesday night at Castaways.

So that big deal of a musical gathering known as South by Southwest happened a few weeks ago in Austin, Tex. and in the aftermath, buzz is afloat for a few bands, which could rocket them to the big time of the indie world. This is really just to say that music obsessives, like myself, now have our spring listening albums picked out for us.