Here’s the thing — I cherish honesty in music. Mind you, I’ll bop my head a bit to a little Auto-Tune and programmed drums and sometimes I don’t even mind…
At the end of his two-plus hour acoustic set, Ben Harper leaned back into his chair, pushed the Fedora off his forehead and took a deep breath. After a beat,…
While cleaning out the office the other day I stumbled across this Pop Quiz that I’d done for the San Francisco Chronicle back in May of 1996… I’m going to…
You EDM fans should know who Pasquale Rotella is… I mean, he damn near created your movement with the Electric Daisy Carnival shows and the collection of happenings Insomniac (the company…
One of the great things about being a fan — of anything, I suppose, but for this it’s about sports — is the community of people that band together to…
Ran across this story the other day… It was published in Harp, a great magazine that spit out its last pages in 2008. Amy’s music sticks with me to this…
Apparently I wrote a bio for Third Eye Blind back in 1995. From what I remember, or at least what Stephan Jenkins told me at the time, I was about…
I loved being a journalist — the researching, the interviewing, the crafting of a story. At my best, I was able to pull a reader into the experience… Maybe it…
The Dummy Notes: Perry Farrell freaked me out. He didn’t do anything extra special. Just the idea of talking on the phone with him gave me the heebie-jeebies. I actually…
One of the best corporate gigs I EVER had was writing the Production Notes for the film “Red Tails.” The film was a bit meh, but the people involved were…