The first track on last month’s Still Burnt (LA Burnout pt. 2) is a meandering Brian Wilson vocal rap taken from an old 70s interview. His ‘thoughts’ on the Los Angeles smog problem are placed over a bed of music (the High Llamas). Here is the original, sans music, for those interested.  Brian, ya better [...]

The 2008 Newport Folk Festival kicked off Friday night at the beautiful International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island. The Hall, which is part of the Newport Casino, hosted the first-ever championships of the United States Lawn Tennis Association in 1881, an event that eventually outgrew the venue and would later become the [...]