Two great articles today : 

<a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/father-john-misty-bonnaroo">Father John Misty at Bonnaroo</a>

"I'm in music for the same reason anybody else is: It's a transcendent thing," he said before heading to his trailer backstage. "I like to maintain my status as an observer of culture and a performer, and sometimes those things are in conflict. Sometimes really interesting things come out of that, so I'm not that didactic. I just like to fuckin' get inside of an idea and ask myself every question that that idea poses. When I'm inside a song and writing it, me playing a festival like this, it's all a comet trail coming from that, of having been at my house where I'm singing that song and it takes me all the way to this point. You trust your passions so much that you follow them to places that you don't understand. I don't understand how it is that my passion brought me here, but here I am, and I like the open-endedness of that."

Read more: Father John Misty Bonnaroo - The Lonerism of Father John Misty - Esquire
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<a href="http://blog.thecurrent.org/2013/06/the-audacity-of-low-what-does-a-band-owe-us-when-we-pay-to-see-them-perform/">The Audacity of Low</a>

All of this raises an interesting question. In this era of insta-downloads and unlimited, streaming free music, forking over actual cash for a concert ticket seems to have raised our expectations to new heights. But what does an artist actually “owe” us when we pay to see them perform live?