When we hired Greg Huang as our Seattle editor a few months ago, Rebecca wrote an article entitled, Introducing Greg. He Rocks. That’s because right after we hired him, he went on tour with what we described as his “fantastically quirky band,” Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives. The band, which claims influences by the Violent Femmes, Beatles, and Twisted Sister, among others, fairly exemplifies the innovation scene: besides its Xconomy editor, other band members include Dan Schmidt, employee #3 at Harmonix; Bill Foster from Cognex; and Chris Rigopulos from OC&C Strategy Consultants.

Now, Greg is back on the East Coast for a mini-tour to celebrate the release of Honest Bob’s new album, Third Time’s the Charm (look for it soon on iTunes and CDBaby). They played in NYC last night, but tonight are on at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square. They hit the stage at 10:30, and you just might see some of their Xconomy colleagues around as well. If you do, let us know you’re an Xconomy reader, and we’ll buy you a beer.

If we can hear what you’re saying: they crank it.

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Astute readers will have noticed a new byline cropping up on Xconomy for the last week or so. It’s our new Seattle editor, Greg Huang. Seattle? Yeah, that’s what I said—more on that very soon. But Greg is filing stories from the Boston home office before he heads west so we thought you should know a little bit about him.

For lack of a more eloquent way to put this, Greg totally rocks. With a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT he’ll be duking it out with Wade (himself an MIT PhD) for the title of office brainiac. And, also like Wade, he’s got the killer combination of a deep knowledge of technology with real chops and experience as a journalist—he’s done stints at New Scientist and Technology Review, and was Bob’s co-author on Guanxi, the 2006 book about Microsoft’s Beijing research lab and global competitiveness.

Also like Wade, Greg decided it was a good idea to take a week off almost immediately after starting at Xconomy. (Lest you think Greg and Wade are actually the same person, click here.) His excuse trumps Wade’s (vacation) for originality, though: He’s heading out “on tour” with his fantastically quirky band, Honest Bob and the Factory to Dealer Incentives. Founded by a pair of guys who now work at Harmonix and Cognex, Honest Bob was one of the original inspirations for our Battle of the Tech Bands in January. And even though “scheduling difficulties” prevented the band from actually showing up for the event, we still think they’re pretty damn cool—imagine what Jonathan Richman would sound like if he had a degree in computer science and you get the basic idea. So if you’re going to be in New York tonight, Burlington, VT, on Monday, or Cambridge, MA, next Saturday, by all means go check them out. And tell Greg he’s got a story due.

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