From the News & Observer's David Menconi, a nice piece on what's become of The Connells, my favorite North Carolina band. 

Every summer, I feel the need to break out their music, which seems designed for blasting out open car windows.  Nowadays, I don't have a car, so headphones and my home speakers will have to do.  But it still makes me remember what it was like to have a good band from your hometown that made everyone proud.

And I walked, and I breathed, and I tried to not let it change me.
Don't it make you wonder, man?