Country Jose McDonald died yesterday, Saturday, March 7, 2026, in Berkeley, California. I saw Country Jose many times during the 60’s: at the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival, June 1967,...
Eleazar “Chuco” Soto is an experimental jazz saxophonist, composer, producer, and empresario based in the Lake Chapala area of Mexico, near Guadalajara. For as long as I have known him, he and...
I am not going to write about the Grammys this week – that will be for next week after I see the winners. This week, it is about classical music.
What? Classical...
I went to a Carole King Tribute performance Sunday night at a place called the Bravo! Theater in Mexico, and realized how much of the soundtrack of my life she created, from...
Bob Weir passed away on January 10th, 2026, at the age of 78, succumbing to underlying lung issues after having previously been treated for cancer, according to his family. In some ways,...
I am back from the holidays, which were spent, among other things, listening to new music, which is starting to emerge for the new year. In my earphones were songs like SLOW ...
What could be more sin fronteras than music streaming platforms and their payment methods? The opaque ways in which artists get paid for streams do not stop at national borders (though it...
