It’s music festival season: this weekend South by Southwest is in Indie-rocking in Austin, and next week Miami Beach will descend into a disco inferno as the Winter Music Conference (WMC) rolls into town from the 20th to the 25th.

South by Southwest is underway in Austin, with the much vaunted music portion of the festival kicking off tomorrow.

Cue the bad “Mile-High Club” jokes. Demonstrating why the commercial passenger jet has never before doubled as a flying concert venue, Jamiroquai played a a set of their white-man funk for a plane full of contest winners on Monday.

The announcement came a week later than expected, but yesterday Al Gore went public with plans for the “Live Earth” concerts that will happen on July 7

Erik at Gadling picked up a clip on Brooklyn’s Army of Björk party this week, shot by our very own Liza de Guia.

What do jagged, post-punky rock music and the oft stuffy discipline of food writing have in common? Listen to Terry Gross interview Alex Kapranos, frontman of Scottish group Franz Ferdinand, about his gustatory adventures on the road, to find out.

If you missed the annual art/celebrity showdown that was Art Basel Miami Beach, the friendly dilettantes at Cool Hunting, now sufficiently recovered from their hangovers, have just the thing: a video recap of the weekend’s happenings

Travel headlines for the weekend of 11/26/06.

Apple has inked deals with six air carriers to offer iPod services on their flights. Never again will your battery die in transit and strand you without your travel soundtrack of choice!

Les Inrockuptibles a French music magazine that kicks the collective derrière of major US titles, but is sadly little-known here, because, well, it’s in French, launched their annual festival yesterday.