If you’re in London, this sounds like a pretty cool idea for DJs and the musically curious alike: The concept’s pretty simple, really – it’s a digital music DJ club, people show up, sign in and get 15-minutes to play their favourite songs, people can also sign up to be …

The third charity auction for the Station Family Fund is now on. The mind still boggles at the incredible loss of life and devastation wrought by the Station nightclub fire of February, 2003. John Langenstein, Director of Security for several bands including Phish, CSN, and The String Cheese Incident, has …

Today Brian Eno is best known as a visionary, founding theorist of ambient music, and the wildly successful producer of David Bowie, Devo, Talking Heads, and U2. But first as a founding member of Roxy Music, and then on four pioneering albums in the ’70s, Eno directly shaped the direction …

As I have said before, I dig Indians, what with their charming computer help desk demeanor, sophisticated tradition of philosophy, art and music, kick ass work ethic, and some seriously hot babes (holy almond-eyed mother of Shiva!) – in fact India was won two Miss Universe and four Miss World …

If anti-war populist lefty John Mellencamp can cheerfully record a song with gung ho Bible belt Republican Travis Tritt, then there may be hope for us all. The song is called “What Say You” from Tritt’s new My Honky Tonk History album, and the key is that while both crusty …

Check out the link above for a special customizable trailer for the Joseph Ruben-directed (Sleeping With the Enemy, The Good Son) thriller The Forgotten, hitting theaters September 24 from Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures. Though the trailer looks very cool, the customizable aspect merely inserts your name into the action …

Watching a large block of the Olympics last night yielded a few semi-random thoughts: The men’s and women’s gymnastics apparatus finals: I can understand why these incredibly strong, flexible, tough, determined, fearless, crazed little freaks of nature (in the best possible sense) dedicate their (mostly) young lives to their sport: …

Amazing filmic gathering of American traditional artists at the Anthology Film Archives beginning tonight in NYC: THE HIGH LONESOME SCREEN: A FOLK FILM FESTIVAL AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES AUGUST 20-29 FILMS FROM THE ALAN LOMAX ARCHIVE, APPALSHOP, AND JOHN COHEN Just think of us as one enormous porch! From August …

I am astonished and impressed by the self-contained world growing up around the jam bands: for a bunch of dopers they sure have it together in the professionalism and business acumen departments. We just announced AmsterJam 2005 yesterday, complete with travel packages to Europe’s ganjaville, Phish just conjured a portable …

What is it with bears and beer? At least three beer companies – Hamms, Hofmeister, and Labatts – have used bears as their mascot. Perhaps this is due to incidents like the following: A black bear was found passed out at a campground in Washington state recently after guzzling down …