Blockspring RSS to JSON

I am trying to create an autocomplete search box for a signup form, where the input will be an artist name from the Songkick.com API, but it is using Blockspring RSS to JSON in order to fetch the artists from Songkick. I am running into trouble with the dynamic options and fetching from the external API. Does anyone have experience doing this or something similar? The example RSS and JSON is shown below.

http://acousti.co/feeds/artist/{input-artist)

http://api.songkick.com/api/3.0/search/artists.xml?query={artist-input)&apikey=XXXXXXXXXXXX

Bam,
Can you please explain what you mean by “running into trouble?”