Every year, the Organic Hip-Hop Conference rallies conscious troops from all over the continent and beyond for a weekend of fighting for better communities through activism, vegetarianism, and music. Sponsored by Difference Makers Non-Profit Organization and Urban America Newspaper, the 2009... More >>
Last February, as a trifle, two buddies got together to jam through free-form guitar exercises while smoking a bowl for the good of all mankind. It should have been a one-time thing, but it took root, grew wildly, and flowered excessively. Now, almost a year later, that early impermanent duo has... More >>
As both the precocious bard and poet laureate of the Laurel Canyon elite, Jackson Brownes late-'60s/early-'70s repertoire found him standing shoulder to shoulder with the other notables of the day. With peers like Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Browne... More >>
If you or someone you know ever gets that smug sense of accomplishment, that theyve done SO much with their lives or theyre just crazy busy and dont have time for much else, AND youd like to knock them down a peg or two, have them look up Ruben Blades resume. Ruben... More >>
The Bonzo Dog Band, an eccentric Sixties British group with a penchant for silliness and satire, once released a song whose title begged the theoretical question, "Can blue men sing the whites?" That is, of course, a twist on the age-old argument about whether white musicians, who never... More >>