> Thank you for being the independent and "alternative" (whatever that might be), voice of music on the Internet. I read Consumable religiously and enjoy it immensely.

A quandary exists, however; major alternative darlings are conspiculously absent from your concert listings (indeed, I've never seen reviews or news about these guys either), Pavement and Dinosaur Jr, both undertaking US concerts.

While I appreciate listings for bands such as Collective Soul and other mainstream (read: sounds like everyone else on the alternative tip) bands, {I'd appreciate} some coverage of the truly alternative bands out there.

- Scott G

Scott - Your letter brings up several distinct, but commonly asked issues. The first point concerns tour dates; we take what the labels and publicity places wish us to have. If they don't contact us with the information, we can't publish it. Ironically enough, if we have too many "name" artists listed in the tour section, we'd have to eliminate some of the lesser known artists' tour dates.

The other issue concerns individual reviews. Some reviews take longer than others to appear; for instance, Dinosaur Jr. is forthcoming, and J Mascis' solo album was reviewed last summer in Consumable. However, in addition to that, some labels and publicity firms do not fully recognize our importance to our readers, and do not help support Consumable. In those unfortunate instances, we will not provide a review. - Bob Gajarsky, Editor in Chief

> Ich hatte nur eine kleine Frage: Gibst es noch ein Out In The Green in Frauenfeld dieses Jahr? Danke für die Antwort. Viele Grüsse - Eric Federau, Switzerland

(Translated and answered by Reto Koradi):

I just have one little question: Will there be an Out In The Green in Frauenfeld this year? Thanks for the answer. Best regards..

ANSWER: The "Out In The Green" festival was written about in Consumable a couple years ago, so this was probably found in one of our back issues. But, yes, there is an Out In The Green this year from July 11-13. The (in my opinion, disappointing) program and additional information can be found at: http://www.outinthegreen.ch