Why do you think it's important to support indie publishing?
I suppose I don't really feel like I'm supporting indie publishing as much as I'm supporting good publishing. it just so happens that the raddest, greatest, most visionary publishing happens to be independent, for the obvious reasons. I do feel it's important to support rad, great publishing, because otherwise what are you left with?

Who have been some of your favorite people you have worked with along the way?
The Sads played their first show at Family and I was very stoked they played an Unsane cover, because when I was 15 my band, Tetsuo, covered an Unsane song in a battle of the bands competition. We didn't qualify for the next round.

Author Trinie Dalton curated an amazing reading series at the store for a few months with some of my favorite writers like Benjamin Weissman, Amy Gerstler, Aimee Bender, Stanya Kahn and Margaret Wappler.

No Age used the literature section of the store as a rehearsal space for a week. The amazing thing was that people simply endured the noise and shopped regularly, leaning over the drums and blasting amps to get a book.

Mike Mills premiered his five music videos for Blonde Redhead at the store, and we set up monitors around the shelves and gave out silkscreened tote bags.