It is a great pleasure to welcome my dear friends in Plain White T’s to the JBTV studios for an exclusive performance on our high definition sound stage. A lot has changed for all of us in the last 11 years, but it’s safe to say more has changed for these kids from Villa Park.

“Hey There, Delilah” catapulted the band onto a worldwide platform, reaching the elusive #1 spot on the Billboard Top 100 chart and nudging their record “Every Second Counts” to Gold certification status. But, as you’ll see this week on JBTV, one of my favorite things about the T’s is that they’re still as humble and down to earth as they were when then played house shows in the 90’s. After countless world tours, the band is back with a brand new album (out this week) called “Wonders of the Younger,” and they’re debuting some of their live material for the first time this week... only on JBTV! And yes, they’ll play a show-closing version of “Delilah."

Our other featured in-studio artist this week is another one of our hometown favorites, The Frantic. If you’ve watched JBTV at all since last March, you’ve heard the band (whether you know it or not) every week as they perform our show’s intro theme song. You know the one; “J-B-T-V!” It’s about time we have these dudes featured properly on the HD sound stage. Having worked with the band dating back to my years on Q101 radio, I’ve said since the first time we spun “Audio and Murder” that The Frantic is bound for enormous things and I stand by it more today than ever. They were 17 then. They’re pushing 21 now. They’re growing up and their songwriting is growing up with them. They have incredible energy, charisma and stage presence and we’re thrilled to bring you this week’s JBTV exclusive studio session with The Frantic!

Hosts Toby Jeg and Brendan Kelly are hanging at Bottom Lounge with Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba. JBTV gives you an all access pass to Matt’s sound check before his solo show last month, complete with unseen performance footage. Plus, Skiba gives us the scoop on the Trio’s forthcoming record.

Jenna Martinelli is backstage at Metro with OK Go, marking their second 2010 appearance on our show. They’re that good! We, of course, talk concepts with the band best known for creating some of the most inventive music videos of the past decade. Jenna even talks the guys into dancing for the JBTV cameras.

Toby Jeg and myself are on location with the guys from Man-B-Que. What is it? Meat. Beer. Rock and roll. We grill. We drink. We rock. That’s it. 3 simple things and 1 insane can’t miss party!

And our namesake, Jerry Bryant, takes us back in time for a classic in-studio segment with Kill Hannah. It’s another exclusive performance, filmed in our downtown Chicago studios in 2006. You won’t – and can’t – find this anywhere but JBTV!