Practice make perfect, this much we know. I have always been a huge advocate of bands that spend quality rehearsal time and many many shows working out their live act on the road.This infographic from Songkick made the rounds of InfoGraphic freaks earlier this year under the banner of "Hardest Working Bands of 2010".There...

After this week's artist announcement, it looks like this will be another year that we won't be attending the biggest music festival that Chicago has to offer. Other pundits have already said it better than I can, but the prevailing thought seems to be that bigger and more diverse does not equal better. Certainly, the...

Robbie Fulks is just about the perfect person to artistically convey how the rational, but passionate music fan can put the career of Michael Jackson into perspective. Emotionally expressive, brutally honest, occasionally caustic, it is perfectly in character for Fulks to recognize and reinterpret the brilliance that underlies Jackson canon, while acknowledging that it is...

File this chart in the "funny because its true" folder. Sad to say that The Barn is part of the problem here rather than the solution -- we've still yet to find the volume slider for any of our streams or YouTube embeds that doesn't (a) default to ear splitting levels and (b) have an...

In the last week, we've shared streams of a Trey show and a Keller show at tomorrowsverse.com, and expect to share more in the future, but we're probably not even a 1000th of a pixel on this heat map which shows the relative size of the places we go online to listen to music...

Okay, so hip hop is not our usual beat, but when I saw this over at the I Love Charts tumblog, I felt it was so incredible in so many ways that I just had to share.Who pissed in Lil Wayne's cheerios the morning of school pictures? My guess: Usher.

I recently stumbled upon a handy site, whose homepage falls right in line with The Barn's objectives of exploring the expanded world of The Grateful Dead and showcasing cool visual charts. The site is GratefulDeadTributeBands.com and their home page provides a nice US map color coded by the number of Dead bands they have...

We've got a lot of great stuff to share from this past weekend and some great material to preview for next weekend. But, before we get to that, did you know there was also a football game on Sunday night? And while the teams headed to the locker room at halftime to recuperate and game...

The Internets are all abuzz these days about the potential for multi-day festivals featuring Dave Matthews Band and Phish, swapping out headlining spots that cap off a day-long music lineup. While we know the DMB part of this is absolutely true, there is rampant speculation regarding who else is on-bard, a number of different locations...

Don't know why the author of this flow chart (source: Houston Press blogs, John Seaborn Gray) chose to frame it as which band to join, as opposed to "listen to" or "like". I guess its worth it for the sly Arcade Fire reference.Regardless, I may be using this chart to check out a couple...