A brief update for those who are following my new "side job" coordinating SXSW4Japan fund raising efforts with Rob Wu and Hanson Music!

Joseph Jaffe, author of Flip the Funnel, donated his keynote for this cause, has auctioned one of two keynote speeches to Lifelock, for $15,000, bringing our SXSW4Japan total up over $123,000 in just 3 weeks..and that's just in ONLINE donations.  Text donations have yielded hundreds-of-thousands to the Red Cross, and soon, our album sales will, too. 



Also, today we released our SXSW4Japan benefit album, featuring 47 tracks from artists like Ben Folds, Natasha Bedingfield, Micheal Stipe of REM, Bowling for Soup, Widespread Panic, Ozomatli (a new favorite!) Rayland Baxter, The Lonely Forest and many more.  Check out the full lineup and buy the album here:

Finally, today (April 5) at 12pm CST our Live Streaming Telethon begins.  We'll feature 12 hours of the hottest musicians from SXSW along with some special guest contributors you won't want to miss.  For your convenience, the stream and schedule are below. You can get the stream for your own site here  or share it on your facebook page.



Schedule:

Hour 1	John "Jojo" Hermann / Widespread Panic
1pm ET	An Horse
12pm CT	Michael Stipe
11am MT	Miles Zuniga
10am PT	Rooney
	Emergency Blanket
	Orianthi
Hour 2	Tracy Bonham
2pm ET	Johnny Polygon
1pm CT	North Mississippi Allstars
12pm MT	Imani Coppola
11am PT	The Parlotones
Hour 3	Andrew WK
3pm ET	Jenny O
2pm CT	Michael Stipe
1pm MT	Bowling For Soup
12pm PT	Charlie Mars
	The Boxer Rebellion
Hour 4	Stephen Kellogg And The Sixers
4pm ET	Jimmy Gnecco
3pm CT	Grand Atlantic
2pm MT	Alpha Rev
1pm PT	Drawn From Bees
Hour 5	Ben Folds
5pm ET	Leslie Stevens
4pm CT	Anna Nalick
3pm MT	Locksley
2pm PT	papercranes
	Amanda Palmer
Hour 6	North Mississippi Allstars
6pm ET	Rooney
5pm CT	Philip Nelson
4pm MT	Taylor Locke And The Roughs
3pm PT	The Gay Blades
	Kina Grannis
Hour 7	Andrew WK
7pm ET	papercranes
6pm CT	Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
5pm MT	Michael Stipe
4pm PT	Luke Rathborne
	John "Jojo" Hermann / Widespread Panic
Hour 8	Orianthi
8pm ET	Cary Brothers
7pm CT	Andy Grammer
6pm MT	Natasha Bedingfield
5pm PT	Rayland Baxter
Hour 9	Rayland Baxter
9pm ET	Hey Battlefield
8pm CT	Laura Jansen
7pm MT	Andrew WK
6pm PT	Ben Folds
	The Hours
	Jackson Harris
Hour 10	The Lonely Forest
10pm ET	Michael Stipe
9pm CT	Kina Grannis
8pm MT	Orianthi
7pm PT	John "Jojo" Hermann / Widespread Panic
	Imani Coppola
	Keaton Simons
	Michael Stipe
Hour 11	Bowling For Soup
11pm ET	Ozomatli
10pm CT	Keaton Simons
9pm MT	Johnny Polygon
8pm PT	Jonny Dubowski / Jonny Lives!
	Michael Stipe
	North Mississippi Allstars
	Amanda Palmer
	Rain Phoenix
Hour 12	Ben Folds
12am ET	River City Extension
11pm CT
10pm MT
9pm PT