I want to welcome a new blogger to IFC's Indie Ear--Rachel Pesin.

Let me give you the dirt on Rachel: I've known her and her sister Sarah for six years now, and they've always had a great knowledge of music--talk to them for five minutes and you'll figure this out very quickly. I also appreciate that Rachel and Sarah are true fans of music. Sometimes it gets really annoying when you talk to someone who knows album titles and release dates, but doesn't get excited (and a little bit giddy) when seeing a band live.

(SXSW 2007, left to right: Jim, Rachel, Sarah)

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Much like John Connor in Terminator 3, I've been living "off the grid" of late. Last year I watched all my of co-workers lose their jobs, while I toiled away on a sinking ship trying to sell hand-held video games to impressionable teenage boys--a far cry from what was an endless music-video oasis and a place for musicians to come talk shop about their latest album and tour. I'm not hatin' on anyone--I'm just saying--that's how it went down.

After my office was taken away, I was told to sit by the phone and wait for my next assignment. Eventually my mail stopped coming (I'm still trying to figure out who's listening to all my free CD's), and getting in contact with acquaintances at record labels soon became a challenging task. It was difficult, I later found out, cause a lot of these record label people also lost their jobs. Seven years into the business (with four years of college radio experience on top of that), and I can tell you, I have never seen anything like this.

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