“Mothers who use cannabis are better mothers,” says David Lucito, who for decades has been preaching the multitudinous wonders of weed. Unfortunately, David says, while he grew up in a “loving Catholic household” in Opelousas, Louisiana, his parents were “very anti-drug.” Growing up in such an environment, it took him 19 years to break free […]
Name Jorma Kaukonen Best known for Founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. And, husband and world traveler and general philosopher. Current city Athens, Ohio… Home of Ohio University. Really want to be in My dream city is Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. I would be drinking espresso and enjoying the local seafood caught that day followed by a […]
Lists like this are set up to fail, and, in line with the inevitable, this one fails too. But we never kidded ourselves, nor intended to kid you, that we could succeed in definitively choosing the 40 greatest, most important, creative, and successful music makers in the last 40 years. Many great artists didn’t make […]
Paul and Earl Hudson were born to a Jamaican mother and an American father who worked as a mechanic for the U.S. Air Force, and they moved all over the country before settling down in Washington, D.C. In 1976, the Hudson brothers formed a jazz fusion band called Mind Power, Paul on vocals and Earl […]
Jazz pianist Gerald Clayton has a new album. We have a few questions. After a couple of decades as one of his field’s most inventive, talented and in-demand players, he wanted to try something different. So he made Ones & Twos with the idea that listeners could play sides one and two simultaneously. Each of […]
When I share photos with guests who join my Airbnb Experience, “The Sunset Strip: Stories With a Music Journalist,” the first one I show is a shot of me with Dizzy Reed outside the Whisky in 1989. It was taken a few months before Reed joined Guns N’ Roses as their keyboard player, a role […]
Randy Bradbury’s life changed at 15. After being raised on a steady headbanging diet of Foghat, Black Sabbath, and Ted Nugent, he discovered a dangerous new sound called punk rock. It was the end of the ’70s, and many years before he would become the bassist for melodic hardcore heroes Pennywise, but that first taste […]
Fresh off playing a friendly game of soccer with his labelmates like Rauw Alejandro the night before the Latin Grammys, Trueno casually strolls into a hotel room with yerba mate, a popular herbal drink from his native Argentina, in hand. Unphased by the push and pull of the industry around him, the rapper sees the […]
If the name of the band Man/Woman/Chainsaw sounds familiar, that’s because its members took inspiration from Carol J. Clover’s 1992 book, Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, which explores the “final girl” horror film trope. “Completely stolen,” says Emmie-Mae Avery (vocals, keys, synths), referring to the band’s name during a […]
Name Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte of 3OH!3. Best known for Being one of two dudes who can’t really dance, sings just OK, used to be slightly handsome, but can still rock a fuckin’ party. — Nat Current city Los Angeles. — Sean Boulder, CO. — Nat Really want to be in Margeritaville. — Sean Anglet, […]