I’m on my way to Alabama right now.  One of Burnside’s first contributors, Chad Gibbs, is taking me to an Auburn game.  I’ve never seen anything like SEC football.  I’m excited.  Plus, the Tigers are playing West Virginia, so it’s a battle of two of the classiest states...

In the three years since Chan Marshall, a musician who spends her days playing hypnotic and beautiful music under the name Cat Power, released her last album You Are Free, she has emerged from the shadows less tentatively than one might expect. Chan Marshall has been prone to being reduced to tears...