Anytime you decide to put something new out into the world there’s going to be some anxiety.  What if people don’t like it?  What if I screw up?  There’s a long list of What If’s.

You learn at some point though, whether you’ve got a new album (or…gulp…a new website), that there is no possible way to do everything perfectly in the beginning.  You’re inevitably going to fall flat on your face a few times and you’re going to do it in front of a crowd.  It’s just part of the process. There are a lot of ways of dealing with this and in my conversation with Andrew Hendryx we hear one of the most effective: having a good attitude about it and pushing forward.

In this week’s interview Andrew and I talk about why his band Yarn has never had a rehearsal space, why they’ve been willing to play almost anywhere, and how they’ve been successful connecting with their fans online.

All the while, the wheeled hamsters who apparently run the internet in upstate New York (where Yarn is recording their new album) work feverishly to keep our connection afloat. You’ll noticed I squirm a bit and that I probably should have changed into a different shirt before we started rolling but…hey, it’s okay if it isn’t perfect, right?