In February, Marshall Allen dropped his debut solo LP, New Dawn, at the age of 100, earning designation in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest person to release an album of new material. And then, less than five months later, the veteran alto saxophonist and longtime Sun Ra Arkestra musical director celebrated […]
“I went to the US Festival in 1982 when I was a freshman in college. I’d grown up in Palo Alto and I’d seen the Dead a couple of times at that point, but they never really made that big of an impression on me. Then that morning, when it was Breakfast with the Dead, […]
photo: Scott Harris *** Earlier this week, at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, U2 received the 2025 Woody Guthrie Prize. Bono and The Edge made their way to Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa to receive the award, which honors the spirit of folk icon Woody Guthrie. One of Guthrie’s closest friends was Pete Seeger. So with this […]