Eighteen years ago, in the middle of the night, a group of guys in North Carolina gathered in an empty club to record some music. The club was Chapel Hill’s now-legendary Cat’s Cradle, and the guys were the now-legendary Archers of Loaf, who’d been playing together for a year when they commenced their midnight-oil-burning recording sessions. “The Cradle shows would end around 1:30, then they’d have to clean the place,” says Archers guitarist Eric Johnson over the phone in his Carolina drawl. “We’d come in at three in the morning and record for three or four hours, and we did that over the course of… that’s funny, I can’t remember the exact number of days it took us to do it.”
Grant Brissey covered everything from hard news and technology, to music, film, and visual arts during his time working for The Stranger. Grant's work has also appeared at Geekwire, and in Billboard,... More by Grant Brissey