Cory Greenwell and Nick Hart lead double lives. By day, they practice law; by night and every other waking hour they run the vital Backseat Sandbar blog site — reporting on the music scene in and around Louisville. Getting upwards of hits in the mid-20,000 range each month, Cory explains a graph where there is a dramatic dip in only one area since they launched in May 2007. “We were taking the bar exams that month,” he explains.

“Neither of us thought of music as a real career path,” continues Cory, “because we don’t play any instruments. But we launched the site so that like-minded people could find out about the cool music scene here. And now we get free tickets anywhere we want to see shows, and music is sent to us all the time from publicists in the industry.”

“We usually get two photo passes and I stand on one side of the stage,” says Nick, “and Cory stands on the other side. So it looks like we are everywhere.”

And they kind of are. Cory says he was keeping up with over 190 music sites every day, but just deleted over 70 of them he doesn’t consider relevant. He kept You Ain’t No Picasso, The Trip Wire, Pitchfork, Music Slut, Brooklyn Vegan, My Old Kentucky Home blogspot, Large Hearted Boy and regularly tunes into WOXY, Cincinnati’s alt station that both Cory and Nick consider one of the best sources for new music anywhere.

And they’re branching out. Cory will be featured as a guest DJ on WFPK’s new Off the Record series, and the two are also becoming promoters. They were behind the recent Thao with The Get Down Stay Down show at Skull Alley and are looking to book more bands into Louisville venues.

“Everything on our site is relevant to Louisville,” both Cory and Nick say at different times, “because Louisville has a credible reputation for its scene.” And by staying local, they’re going national. “We don’t compete with blogs that feature national content,” says Cory. “That would be easy to get hits, but then we would be like everybody else. But now, everyone is starting to know what’s going on in Louisville. In 2007 we reviewed about one show a month. So far this year, though, we’ve done 45.”