The Verve Pipe, courtesy Jamie Geysbeek. On the day this conversation was first supposed to happen, The Verve Pipe vocalist and bandleader Brian Vander Ark was driving to guitarist Lou Musa’s house in Western Michigan so that the two could both participate. Maybe it was fate, then, that Vander…

Every week people get mad at me for my top five. Sometimes it’s songs in the honorable mentions list that they think should’ve been at the top, sometimes it’s songs that they think got snubbed entirely, but people haven’t been this mad at me over something I wrote since…