I was at a show last night and the person next to me was singing along to every word of every song. While that in and of itself is not a crime (maybe a bit of moderation mighta been nice?), this person also couldn’t have found the right key with GPS. Is there anything at a concert that absolutely drives you nuts when someone near you does it?

I'm going to be visiting Seattle with my family the first weekend of April, and think it would be cool to meet some of my fellow music community nerds who reside in the Seattle area. If anyone is be up for a hangout / meetup at Live On Mars in Cap HIll one of those days, please reply to this post and we'll figure something out. Maybe we'll get more than a couple of people and I'll call ahead and try to reserve a space? Who knows. Even if only one or two people are up for it, I'd love to have an extra reason to pay a visit to the bar and patronize the kind of place that I could only wish existed in the town I live in. I'm planning for either Thursday, April 2nd or Friday, April 3rd - so let me know if you want to join on either day. Depending on responses and schedules yet to be determined, I'll pick a day that works and we'll see who can make it.

Let’s share some playlists! I know we already do this in some form or another across this board, but thought it might be fun to kind of centralize it. Here’s what I’m thinking, based on a group I used to run IRL. Once every three months, I’ll set up a thread calling for mix submissions. It’ll stay open for a month, and anyone that wants to drop a mix is free to do so. My promise to you is that I will listen to every mix, just please keep the lengths sensible since the point here is sharing. That’s the crux of it. So let’s start here. Drop a playlist you’ve made in the comments… could be your latest mix, could be your favourite mix, could be a custom mix for this project. You do you. There are no rules, apart from being kind to one another, which seems a baseline for this place anyway. In future maybe we pick custom themes for these or implement some kinda structure but let’s start it easy. P.S. If any of you wanna make or send me actual mixtapes I’ll take ‘em. DM me and I’ll happily shoot you an address.

I'm sure many of us are familiar with the scene in High Fidelity (book or movie) where the character Rob says "I'm about to sell 5 copies of the Three E.P.s by the Beta Band" and then pops on "Dry the Rain" by the Beta Band only to have the clientele of his record store start grooving... Honestly, I personally bought that album after hearing it in the movie. But I digress. What album/track/artist did you buy after hearing it in a record store on first listen, previously unknown to you? For me, I was at a Hastings (if you're U.S. based, did you have a Hastings?!?!), and in the music area they were playing '23' by Blonde Redhead. I was instantly in love. I had to have it, nevermind that I'd never heard it before. Fortunately, they had a little stand where they placed the "currently playing album" so I didn't have to interact with anyone to figure out what it was. Yay introversion. What about you?

Every once in while I get this overwhelming "why don't I listen to this band more?" feeling. I'm currently having this moment with TVOTR. They're awesome. Why don't I listen to them more? Any TVOTR fans out there? Please share your favorite songs?