Christopher Lopez

Hollywood-based singer-songwriter Jose Ferrer, better known as Boxwood, has earned a reputation for his uncommon performance approach, using a loop pedal to singlehandedly layer tracks live. But his second release, the EP Sun Garden City, leaves n...

It's not easy to maintain the same energy, verve and passion you started out with when you've been doing something for 20 years. Just ask 311. They've been at it for more than two decades. What was once five starry-eyed kids in Omaha became a plat...

Much of the career and extensive catalog of 311 has been devoted to promoting positive values and unity. This means facing sea after churning sea of diehard fans with a smile. The Los Angeles-based band with Omaha roots hasn't been content to mere...

Over the weekend, a colleague posted less than a shining endorsement of the recently announced 311 Pow Wow Festival slated for August 4-6 in the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park. And readers had reactions that ranged from sadness to contempt to an oc...

Do you take your drinking seriously? Do you drink first and ask questions later? Or perhaps you perpetually invoke axioms of drunkard wisdom like, "I only drink on days that end in 'y'," "I'm not an alcoholic; alcoholics go to meetings" and "it's ...

The Drive-By Truckers aren't exactly known for bright and cheery songs about rainbows and butterflies and happy shit like that. The alt-country/southern rock/swamp stomp band that co-frontmen Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley founded in Athens, Georg...