“We’re in a college town,” says Heath Truitt. “This what you’re supposed to do.”

All of a sudden, Auburn was the center of the South’s musical map.

Sally Tee explores the underworld of the once-long-now-short-haired vampires of Auburn rock.

The Haints toured six times in the past year and were only deported once

When I first met Roof Rabbit’s chief banjo-man, Jason McGee, we lived in an Auburn that was home to a thriving underground music scene … unfortunately we were hardly old enough to relish in all its glory.

How Hardy met Stewie: “Bone Dali was more than an Auburn institution; they were an Alabama fixation.”

“The Haints have always nipped at their own sound. On To Win or to Lose they find it, each of their deftly carved instruments aimed like pistols at your heels.”