Blog: Buzz Bands

Only Saturday, Casey Meehan, one of the guys behind Chicago-based digital music distributor Rock Proper , spoke excitedly with Jay Bennett about a venture through the fund-raising website Kickstarter to finance a vinyl pressing of Bennett's 2008 solo album, "Whatever Happened I Apologize." Meehan, like many artists on Rock Proper, had recorded his own music at Bennett's Pieholden Suite studio. The two also discussed how to promote Bennett's next album, the almost-completed "Kicking at the Perfumed Air." That night, Bennett, 45, died in his sleep. Cause of death has not been determined, but [...]