Got to see Eve 6 at an absurdly tiny club last night. Twenty years in, those dudes have still got it.

I think it says something unfortunate about our culture that we often look down on bands who used to be huge and are now back to playing small clubs—there& #39;s this automatic assumption that it& #39;s better to break up as soon as you fall from the spotlight. But why?

The ethos of constant growth is poisonous in many ways, but especially with art, where a steady climb in popularity is the exception and not the rule. You have no control over what an audience will connect with—to expect every work to outperform the last is absurd. And yet we do.

From an artist& #39;s perspective, I can absolutely understand why it would be depressing to go back to small crowds after screaming thousands. But as an audience member, kudos to those creators who can come back down from the heights and still find joy in just making the art.