The article that follows was written while I sat on my couch during a cold, snow-blasted day in Chicago, a day the majority of which I spent with the Bonnaroo MySpace page constantly reloading.  Seriously, I sat there from eleven in the morning until almost eight o’clock at night, and while I wasn’t paying attention [...]

Nothing beats live music.
No experience beats a group of people on a stage, playing music they wrote themselves or somehow arranged besides, sending energy out into a room in the hope that the people in that room looking up at the stage respond positively, move around, sing along, and/or feel something.
Notes on the [...]

There is this popular image of the local neighborhood record store, of it being a place where people of all ages and levels of maturity hang out, discuss music, debate greatness, maybe smoke pot, and listen to Zeppelin records or, later, Yo La Tengo ones.
There is a musty smell about the place, posters [...]