Mitch Myers' book, <I>The Boy Who Cried Freebird:
Rock and Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling</I>, is a lovely thing. He mixes essays, short stories, tall tales, and interviews about rock to get to the core of what it is to be a music geek. "Don't compare me to that guy in <I>High Fidelity</I>," he says. "That dude wasted all his time organizing his collection in some kind of chronological order—everybody knows that you should file your albums by genre."

Ever since Vol.6 No.3 was published in August of 1983, <I>Stereophile</I> has been the leading subjective review magazine in terms of circulation. At that juncture our circulation was 12,000 and has now increased to 15,000. And it's all your fault!

On May 23, <A HREF="http://www.sonos.com/">Sonos</A&gt; announced the release of Sonos Software v 2.2, which adds <A HREF="http://www.pandora.com/">Pandora</A>'s personalized Internet radio service to Sonos' wireless multi-room music systems.

When we last <A HREF="http://stereophile.com/news/042307linn/">heard</A&gt; from Linn, <I>The Scotsman</I> reported layoffs, restructuring, and a hoped-for resurgence. On May 25, we received a note from <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/1101ivor/">Ivor S. Tiefenbrun</A>, Linn's founder, that he had returned to the positions of chairman and managing director, after an absence of four or five years due to serious health problems, thanks to new medications that have "returned [him] to fitness and restored energy levels."