
The middle-aged fat man in the purple-striped shirt wouldn’t stop hitting on young girls. This was, as my friend and bandmate Tal described, the “glue” of my second day at North by Northeast. But before I continue, some background information is necessary. About a month ago, my band New Stems played a show at the Horseshoe Tavern that was sponsored by the local modern rock radio station, 102.1 The Edge. When our set concluded and we’d finished packing up our gear, a man came up to our vocalist/rhythm guitar player Jordan, talked to him [...]