Kenny Neal has never relied so heavily on the healing power of the blues

"When I play blues it's soothing, and it just puts your mind somewhere else, so that's been helping this a lot."

That time I asked Robben Ford if touring with George Harrison was the highlight of his career

While prepping for my interview with Robben Ford I noticed in his Concord bio that he'd toured with George Harrison in the fall of 1974.

Once you've acquired the services of a big-shot producer like Bob Rock, you're not supposed to fire his ass then bring him back again.

Local Celtic- and bluegrass-tinged pop-rockers the Clumsy Lovers recently issued their second CD on the hugely successful Nettwerk Records.

Local rockers the Inbetween play the Pearl on Saturday, along with Luxury Sport Sedan, the Okes, Dog Gone, and Grace Boulevard.

"That was my initial approach to rock music, my dad sitting me in the car and listening to Jethro Tull, early Led Zeppelin, things like that."

I'm not a big fan of mainstream country music. You won't find any Garth Brooks, Brooks & Dunn, or even Foster Brooks CDs in my collection.

When MxPx's Mike Herrera went looking for a recent album to hold up as a model for his group's latest CD he set his sights pretty high.

Late-night screening at the Rio on Friday of director Tony Scott's hyper-violent, Quentin Tarantino-penned action flick True Romance.

I did my fifth interview with Alice Cooper in September of 2005, when he was touring behind his 17th solo album, Dirty Diamonds.

"We're probably a little more on the rock side of [the jam-band] spectrum, but we have a touch of bluegrass in there somewhere."

At the 2005 East Coast Music Awards Nathan Wiley's sophomore CD, High Low, took the prize for alternative recording of the year.

Vancouver bluesman Robert Connely Farr performs a free show at the Princeton Pub, along with local rock acts Good as Gone and the Fraser Arms.