Being called “one of the biggest assholes in the history of rock and roll” by Rolling Stone last year probably didn’t make Beach Boy Mike Love…
I have some prejudices when it comes to extreme outdoor or adventure sports. It seems like a pastime of monied dudes with leisure time. NerdWa…
“Everybody’s dying this year,” says folk icon Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. “It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some beloved musician dying.”
Standing on the sidelines at NFL football games as an Oakland Raiderette cheerleader, Anjelah Johnson must have wondered if that was all there…
The other day, singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter had a conversation with early rock and roll/R&B pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Only…
For all the times Tracy Morgan appeared on Saturday Night Live—as characters like Uncle Jemima, Brian Fellow and Dominican Lou—his most recent…
For Mick Fleetwood to enthusiastically tout his new blues band as a “return to [his] roots” may seem like a bit of a stretch, until you factor…
The multitude of arts and culture happenings in Monterey County this season will only grow as we approach the end of the year. Here’s a sampli…
Last week, 75-year-old Dr. John headlined the Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful World Festival in Queens. The July 22 Monterey show kicks off a stri…
Robert Cray credits 1960s AM radio as one of the dominant sources that shaped who he is as a musician. He absorbed it all – the gospel of the …