Here we go! Welcome to Stories in High Fidelity. Now that we’ve gone live, let me explain what this site is all about and what it is not going to be.

First off, this site is not going to be a typical music blog. We will not be posting generic press releases and calling them posts. If you want great music news, you can visit The Music Slut, Brooklyn Vegan, Stereogum, Idolator, Bumpershine, Music Snobbery, Gorilla Vs Bear, You Ain’t No Picasso or any number of the bazillion great websites that cover up-to-the-second music news, mp3’s and live reviews to find out everything you could possibly want to know and hear.

Stories will be a place for bands, record stores, labels and writers to share their personal memories and opinions, tour diaries, album or live reviews, favorite bands or records and so much more. An easy way to think of the website is a Huffington Post of music. In other words, this site will have lots of first-person pieces from some bands and musicians you know very well and others we hope you will welcome with open arms.

Stories in High fidelity will also be on Sirius Satellite Radio’s award-winning Blog Radio program on Thursday evenings, alongside great blogs like Brooklyn Vegan, Gorilla Vs Bear, An Aquarium Drunkard, My Old Kentucky Blog and It’s A Trap.

To launch STORIES IN HIGH FIDELITY, we will be throwing a pre-CMJ launch party extravaganza at the HighLine Ballroom in New York City on October 20th. The evening will feature stories from Chuck Klosterman, Dan Kennedy, Rob Sheffield and Marc Spitz, as well as a live performance from Jaymay. You can buy tickets here: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=304048

If you are interested in contributing stories to the site, or you would like to get even more involved in the day-to-day work, we welcome you to email us at storiesinhighfidelity@gmail.com.