Joe Pernice will perform at Iota on Sunday in support of his new novel and accompanying soundtrack, “It Feels So Good When I Stop.” Joe Pernice, the leader of the Pernice Brothers and the force behind some of the most well-crafted classicist pop songs of the past decade, officially jumped into the wild word of fiction this week with his first proper novel, It Feels So Good When I Stop. The book’s story of…

Perhaps you’ve been to one of those shows where the crowd – for whatever reason – keeps a ten foot distance between themselves and the stage. We’ve seen it before (last summer’s Clientele show at Iota comes to mind), but it baffles us every time. Seems to be that those expecting a night of folk-pop or softer stuff don’t want to get too close to the stage, lest they embarrass the performer or something. Luckily,…