Buzzfeed recently reported on a curious feature that Google offers as a part of its Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) product.  Many spreadsheet jockeys have been known to start a series in the first two cells of a worksheet (e.g. Days Of The Week, Months of the Year, etc.) and use the autofill feature to [...]

I recently finished Neil Young’s autobiography Waging Heavy Peace — and while I’ll save all my thoughts on that tome for another post, one of the things that did stand out was how much he values the friendships in his life, whether they be musical, business or otherwise.  At around the same time, I came [...]

Listening to this offers a weird and wonderful trip through a time machine and is a true fly-on-the-wall experience.  A year before he decided to have a go at playing rock music with his buddies in The Warlocks, Jerry Garcia was riding high in the folk scene and giving banjo lessons.  I can only imagine [...]

Any day with great music is like a holiday, but there are certain days on the calendar that make the live music experience even more celebratory. Even without music, the transformation that occurs in late autumn takes on a surreal, ominous tone, it’s no wonder that ancient societies create myth and ritual that mirrored the [...]

This is the second edition of the The Barn’s These Are My Jams series.  To see what this is all about, check out Volume One. 1. The further and further I get from my youth, the less and less inclined I feel to want to hang out with the people that make the music that [...]

While searching for an online Venn Diagram creator for my Springsteen at Wrigley Recap, I came across an interesting site that generates Venns automatically based on the most common Google Suggest autocompletes for any given question.  You just provide it with a query and  three common search terms, and it finds the most likely searches [...]

With so much great music out there, I have a hard enough time keeping up with English speaking bands, not to mention all instrumental groups. But, every so often I get a feel for crossing the language barrier. Maybe I’m looking for vocal music, but want to remain blissfully unaware of the lyrics. Maybe I [...]

There is something joyous and affirming that takes place as Deadheads celebrate Jerry Garcia’s birthday and the “Days Between” each year — sharing memories and music that has enriched in so many ways. But the mood can’t help but turn slightly melancholic as the impact of August 9th sets in towards the end of the [...]

If you missed the awesome Kevin Shapiro Phish From The Archives show broadcast on Sirius/XM this year prior to the SPAC simulcast, a kind soul has added it to the Drop Canvas file sharing site (part one, part two).  Unlike a lot of the other great downloads that we host on thebarnpresents.com it is out [...]

I was recently turned on to Fort Atlantic by a friend.  Turns out they are releasing their new album on  modded NES cartridge A big screen showing of Martin Scorcese’s seminal Band Documentary The Last Waltz will go down at Fitzgerald’s in Berwyn on May 3.  There will also be an additional 30 minutes of [...]