OK so we have a leading candidate for a music night. Kyle and curmudgeonly Derek, you available on the 18th? M. Gaines, feel like a trip to the big smoke for a grande music weekend? Adam (I know you're out there) is this the right time for you to come out of the woodwork and join us?

Stu, I keep meaning to check out Carissa's Wierd, and will do now for sure given your rec. Leads me to this blog question, can you name artists or bands whose predecessor bands you'veheard of / listened to only after the fact, and liked as much, nearly as much, or hell, even more then the artist through whom you discovered it / them? My mind goes immediately to Heatmiser, whose last record in particular (Mic City Sons) is better than the first couple of Elliott Smith records. There are doubtless many others.....