VVM hits SXSW Hard

houstonpress.com – Village Voice Media, the Houston Press’ daddy company, has announced the line-up for this year’s SXSW day party at La Zona Rosa, set for March 19 at noon. The show hasn’t disappointed since Rocks Off has been aboard, with 2008 bringing the Black Keys, HEALTH and …Trail Of Dead and last year the Crystal Antlers, M. Ward, Cursive and Gomez enlivening five-hour event.
This year’s line-up is just as striking as the previous two, with current indie darlings and Rocks Off faves Surfer Blood, The xx, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and the legendary Superchunk rounding out our bill. We told we know how to stack the deck, kids.

Village Voice Media & XO Join in Partnership

money.cnn.com – XO Communications (OTCBB: XOHO) today announced that it has deployed a nationwide MPLS IP-VPN solution for Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC (VVMH), for the benefit of its operating companies that consist of 14 weekly newspapers and daily Web sites, including New York’s Village Voice, the LA Weekly, Denver’s Westword and the Phoenix New Times.

XO Communications is providing a fully managed MPLS-based wide area networking solution connecting the various locations of the operating companies across nine states, including a data center and VVMH corporate offices in Phoenix, Arizona. The XO MPLS IP-VPN solution provides VVMH and its operating companies with a secure, private IP network with Class of Service capabilities and high-speed Ethernet access to support optimal performance for delivery of digital media files and access to central applications. The XO solution also paves the way for VVMH and the operating companies’ eventual migration to Voice over IP (VoIP).
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