“I have to do everything I can to protect the temporary autonomous zone that is the concert space so that everyone can have their version of a good time. Looking at that symbol [the confederate flag] and being reminded of what it represents is not my idea of a good time. I think a lot of other people at the show agreed with me. The people that don’t agree with me, they can go home, I say.”

—I interviewed Patrick Stickles of Titus Andronicus about the confederate flag controversy at their show in GA last week