A sign of things to read:
Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan of Superchunk, Merge Records, and the top-notch book Our Noise.
A sign of things to come:
The Decemberists perform "The Mariner’s Revenge Song." Check back next week for an interview with a certain sideburned bandleader.
A sign of the times:
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