Grateful Dead hasn't played a show in 16 years. Yet the band just sold through all 7200 individually numbered, limited edition versions of EUROPE ’72: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS in four days. Each box set sells for $450. When you do the math, that's $3,240,000. And this...
Warren Haynes In Soulful Motion
Stax/Concord will release the appropriately titled, Man In Motion, from singer-songwriter and rock star Warren Haynes on May 10. The new album is a snapshot of a creatively restless musician who is constantly in artistic motion himself. "Musicians are students for...
No Nukes
What have we learned, if anything from the near meltdown at Fukushima? The Germans learned something. They decided last week to close seven of its 17 nuclear plants. According to BBC, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that all reactors operational before 1980 would be...
Friday Night Variety: Comedy, Music And Conversation
Portland is home to several live storytelling events. There's Mortified, BackFence PDX, Ignite Portland and Live Wire! Radio, to name a few. Last night, we attended the taping of Live Wire! episodes 144 and 145 at Alberta Rose Theatre, near our home in Northeast...
Music Lovers Are “Blessed” Everytime Lucinda Writes, Or Plays, A Song
Lucinda Williams' new album, Blessed, has been out for two weeks. So there's no excuse for you not to buy it and put it instantly into heavy rotation on your playback device of choice. Martin Chilton, Digital Culture Editor at The Guardian is fully on board (if that...