Habib Sabet

Cass McCombs makes for the bubbling kettle in a backstage corner of Bar Le Ritz PDB and pours himself tea. “Do you want some?” He points at an overturned box of Throat Coat and winces, apologetically. “It’s all they have.” I shake my head, so we sit across from each other at a low wooden table, … Continue Reading

It’s Friday morning in Buena Vista, Colorado, and my tent is not cooperating. All around me is the tinny sound of other campers expertly pounding stakes into the earth with fun-sized mallets. I am using my left Birkenstock, and its forgiving cork-and-rubber sole is not faring well against the Rocky … Continue Reading

John Craigie spent the better part of his early career without a fixed address, sleeping in his van and on couches, touring around the country, and self-releasing a spate of albums for his homespun Zabriskie Point Records. Based on the evidence of those early records, one could have been forgiven … Continue Reading

East Fairfield is a small village of just over a thousand people in northern Vermont, about half an hour from the Canadian border. Approaching from the west, you crest a large hill and the land begins to open up. Horses graze in slanting pastures, and the faint smell of manure comes and goes as you … Continue Reading