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What We Loved At SXSW On Friday

The All Songs Considered crew recaps what we saw on our fourth day in Austin, including ecstatic shows from Anna Meredith and Weezer.
Weezer played a feel-good, sing-along set Friday at SXSW in Austin.

We're well past the halfway point of the music portion of South by Southwest, and things are starting to wind down in Austin. But the indefatigable team (well, mostly Bob Boilen) is still raring to go. Bob, Robin Hilton, Stephen Thompson and 's Jessi Whitten convened on an Austin street corner Friday night to recap what they'd seen that day. Stephen and Bob rave about Anna Meredith's electric performance at Esther's Follies; Bob. Jessi's discovered an artist to help fill the -sized hole in her heart: Welsh singer Meilyr Jones, whom she describes as a "young, feral ." And Robin's in heaven after seeing both and in the same day. If you've ever doubted whether people still care about Weezer, he says, look no further than the enthusiastic "Say It Ain't So" sing-along he witnessed.

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