Matador 21 Live Stream: Liz Phair, Guided By Voices, More

Couldn't make it to Las Vegas for Matador 21, the three-day bash celebrating the venerable indie label’s anniversary? We’ll have a live stream right in this spot, showing every set as it’s played. (The video will repeat the next morning.) Check out the full schedule below, which we’ve listed in Eastern Standard Time. And look to rollingstone.com all weekend and on Monday for more video, reviews by Rob Sheffield, interviews with the artists, photo galleries, and reports on everything else that’s going down.

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Song Stories

“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz | 2008

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."

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