I’m a little bit country and I’m a little bit rock ’n’ roll. My first concert was Howard Jones at the Henry J. Kaiser convention center in Oakland. I sing for Hot Lunch and Sweet Chariot. I also enjoy skating pools and riding old choppers.
Listen to our Bubblegum Classics playlist Growing up in the 1970s exposed me to many flavors of bubblegum pop. Of course, I was too young to know that’s what this…
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Listen to our Fictional Bands playlist I knew about the Monkees before I knew who the Beatles were. As a child of the 1970s, the television was my babysitter. This was…
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Rock out to The Mullet! It seems like almost every Father’s Day, people talk about “dad rock” as if they grew up wearing tweed sports coats with suede elbow patches…
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Listen to our Mother’s Day & Mom Rock playlist The ‘90s are almost 30. This realization hit me like a Zima hangover while I was programming the playlist, Mother’s Day…
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Listen to the Country Punk Mixtape For the past 15 years, I’ve been booking, hosting and performing at Sleepless Nights, an annual Gram Parsons tribute held in San Francisco. I’ve…
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‘Harvest’ brought Neil Young fame and fortune. Then he made the darkest music of his career.
Are you old enough to remember the moment when the people who made fun of alternative music started listening to alternative music? It’s not like somebody flipped a switch and…
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Music fandom should be an invitation to explore, not a barrier to entry.
