When I think of thriving music scenes, I don’t usually think of Russia. Why? No particular reason I can think of. Sure, Russia usually pops into my conciousness whenever Eurovision comes around, as they typically have a cracking technopop entry every year. But otherwise – I suppose like many Westerners – I tend to default [...]

I didn’t make it out to Day 3 of Outside Lands (Jack Johnson is my personal antimatter) but I felt that days 1&2 gave me a pretty decent perspective on the overall festival experience.

First of all, I’m sure many of you have read about the festival’s problems – the sound brownouts during Radiohead and Manu [...]

So much to my surprise a few weeks ago, I receive a package from the UPS guy. Most of the time he just leaves them at the front door, but this time he stuck around for me to sign. I periodically receive packages so at first I wasn’t too terribly excited. But when I went [...]