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Carter Smith has turned Rollo Grady into the quintessential stop for discovering young unsigned rock acts, breaking and championing bands like The Soft Pack, JEFF The Brotherhood, and Warpaint long before the rest of the blogosphere has had time to wake up and eat their Wheaties. Smith ’s reach also extends into lm and television, where he ’s worked as a music consulINTERVIEW: ROLLO GRADY ’S CARTtant on the Ed Helms feature ER SMITH TALKS WITH AQUARIUM Cedar Rapids and American DRUNKARD ’S JUSTIN GAGE Dad, where he helped with My Morning Jacket ’s transformaJustin Gage, the founder of Aquarium Drunkard, is the Don tion into cartoon form.

Corleone of music blogs —the Carter: What inspired you to Godfather. He ’s been blogstart your music blog, Aquarging about music longer and better than most and with the ium Drunkard? What year did you launch the site? classiest and most balanced of palettes, equally spotlighting dusty and forgotten crate- Justin: AD launched in the spring of 2005. It was initially dug records and promising an inexpensive and effective young contemporary artists, way to organize and share my always with one idea at the forefront —timelessness. In ad- thoughts on various interests dition to blogging, Gage hosts with friends scattered around his own weekly radio show on the country. The blog very quickly morphed into a place Sirius/XMU, runs his Autumn Tone label, has written a book solely to discuss music and then expanded, becoming a about the Memphis & the sort of dialog with the comDelta Blues Trail, and worked menters and the small pool as a music supervisor for the of others doing a similar thing award-winning lm Natural (blogging about music).

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