You are an artist? You feel that the next step in your career would be a huge, 3 months long tour in the States? Your country is taking care of you, and gives you good information about what you need to do to be legal south of the border. Why not use it?

You will definitely eat better ribs and barbecue than you ever did!!!

There's a lot of good music out there, and a considerable amount of crap to wade through to get to it. If you've been playing with the Pop Sirius Player (that blue box over there to your right...) you probably have come to some interesting conclusions about the festival's voting process. We currently have 6188 songs being voted on, from nearly 800 bands. Qualitatively, you're always welcome to let us know what you think by commenting, but quantitatively, the votes speak for themselves. Here are some artists that you guys have set aside from the poop pile, along with the blurb that is meant to sum them up to the judges. You can even go see their Sonicbids profle for yourselves by clicking on the band names.

	Educated Consumers, Maryland, USA "300 characters? That's barely enough space to brag about how much $$$ we are going to make your venue. We have opened for the superstars and headlined as the local heros. We have rocked internationally renowned venues and brought down the house at every hole-in-the-wall around DC/VA/Bmore."
	boats, Winnipeg, MB "specializing in handclaps, glockenspiel, vocal loops, noisyness, and magic."
	Thrushes, Baltimore, Maryland, USA "cotton candy guitars and sticky reverb-drenched melodies shimmer and shudder with echo ”
	Sprengjuhollin, Reykjavik, Iceland "Sprengjuhollin stormed onto the Icelandic scene last year, making art school hipsters, mechanics, housewives, convicts, critics and politicians fall in love with their music and lyrics and resulting in critical praise, ever soaring sales and chart topping success (#1 for a total of 27 weeks in 2007)"
	charles atlas, Brooklyn, NY "post-chamber and ambient from brooklyn, NY"

The astute and newly ambitious triad of boys about town Jay Watts III, Alexander Buckiewicz-Smith, and Ali Rahman have decided to get their commentary out of online forums and onto itunes. Square Quotes debuted last week in time to highlight some of the more notable Suoni Per Il Popolo events, and to remind us that we need our weekly (well, twice-weekly?) dose of JW III's eclectic witticisms, ABS's enviable elocution, and Ali's interjections. But maybe sometime soon an equally astute lady will chime in through their clever banter...