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If you saw the movie “La Bamba” many years ago, and hopefully paid attention to the Los Lobos soundtrack, then you know there’s a folk ve...

How’s this global warming working out for you?   If it gets any hotter, I might have to go buy some beachfront property in Point Barrow,...

“Hendrix of the Desert:” don’t you just love that name they try to hang on Vieux Farka Toure’, son of Ali, son of Ishmael and Mariam?  Ye...

The last thing I had in mind when I left my apartment last Saturday was to receive some musical epiphany at LA’s   MacArthur   Park… yes...

It’s that time again in LA—summer—and there’s so much good music for free that it almost makes the smog and traffic jams and lack...

Have you ever noticed that the best travel writers never really considered themselves as such?  Look at anybody’s list of favorites ...

New Guide Shows Hostel Trend Coming to North America—Finally | PRLog

  My glorious career as a music promoter lasted a total of one band (I count time in personalities, not days-months-years).  ...

Primero, Segundo, Tercero, Cuarto, Quinto, and… and… Sixto, ahhhh…  And the sixth time was a charm (not that the first five weren’t)...

It’s horrible, of course, the war currently going on in Mali, the desecration of Sufi shrines in Timbuktu, and the disruption of...