Blind Melon is back with Travis Warren filing in for the late Shannon Hoon (RIP) on vox. Being a huge Blind Melon fan…the news of a reformation with Travis Warren, in a hole many would say is too big to fill, left me a bit skeptical and well…sorta disapointed? like seeing my old collectable die … Continue reading →

Read all about it! She’s like a Woody Guthrie with boobs. This is awesome. In the same week that Radiohead, NIN, and several other major mainstream artists announce they are going their own way from huge labels as a whole, and are finally putting some interesting spin into the new media pitch, aging (does she … Continue reading →

The highlight of this past weekend’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Fest — the free festival in Golden Gate Park — was the intimate set by the “strictly” bluegrass group Dry Branch Fire Squad. You could’ve heard a pin drop — and lots of tear drops — when the band-leader did a Civil War lament, unaccompanied on … Continue reading →