The next time one of your blogger friends tells you that “blogging aint easy”, take their word for it and give them a hug. From time to time, we need hugs to keep us focused on doing what we do — delivering the goods to all of you music fans out there.

In answer to the questions posed by three of our readers, I’ll attempt to make an answer by sort-of not answering directly. “We’re working on it”, is the most honest answer to the question at hand. We have been working with the wonderful people at Idolator to generate stories and, so, the coverage we’ve generated will be appearing there once it’s ready.

We are aware that people like the “instant gratification” of regular updates via Twitter or tiny updates, but this year we’re trying to do something of greater quality and vision for all of you. We went to Bonnaroo looking to talk to all of you, the music fans who make the festival a reality, to ask what you think about various topics. What we learned is the basis for something much bigger than what we originally planned on doing.

Much thanks to everyone who we met at Bonnaroo 2008 — artists, fans, workers, volunteers — for making the experience memorable. We’ll tell you all about it really soon. Promise.

Namedropping, pontificating, cracking jokes, chatting it up, showing love for Memphis, and playing the tunes that make the kids do those crazy dances, I had a great time chatting with Joe from Each Note Secure last week on WOXY’s The Blogger Hour. Here’s a recap of the show you can stream, so press play, sit back, and listen to Joe and I talking each other’s ears off in between these songs –

The Teenagers – Starlett Johansson
Envelopes - Free Jazz
The Whitsundays – It Must Be Me
The Third Man – Psyops Marching On
Beach House – Gila
DJ Day – A Place To Go
Lefties Soul Connection – Paul Newman
Polyrock – Go West
Enon – Mirror On You
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Baltimore

Be sure and join me, E.J., and Joe from Each Note Secure and WOXY tomorrow, Tuesday, February 5th at 8pm for the second edition of The Blogger Hour. On the show, Joe will be grilling me as I insecurely attempt to answer his questions about a variety of subjects, primarily the music that I’ve selected for the show. Curious? Well, here’s a preview of the artists I will be playing new and/or breaking music from during the show –

The Teenagers
Envelopes
Enon
The Whitsundays
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
The Third Man
Beach House
Polyrock
DJ Day
Lefties Soul Connection

Here’s a sneak peek at a couple of the tracks you’ll hear –

The Third Man – “Psyops Marching On” (Buy From iTunes)
The Teenagers – “Starlett Johansson” (Buy From iTunes)
Envelopes – “Freejazz” (from the forthcoming album Here Comes The Wind)