A sold out Avalon Hollywood was filled with about 1500 surf fashion people for the 2nd Annual Design for Humanity Wednesday night. It was as swanky as surf industry stuff gets (I’m assuming with the red carpet and all).  A former Billabong person, Kati, was nice enough to bring me along. We’re borderline MGMT groupies at ...

Hovering over the set times late Friday night, I declared that such a stacked lineup had never been seen before, on paper. Our only concern was finding time to see it all, in reality. It’s still hard to believe this caliber of talent was cued up for the day without a single break. Seriously, this was something I live for. Ask The Hoff. It ...

And the next day, and the day after that.   I'll do my best to document the ultimate reality.   [YouTube:P81dHaZiyA8]   [YouTube:uNbv0L1x0iA]   [YouTube:SQF8ep-OJLs] [YouTube:UWJYu2FRD7w]   Godspeed.    

We'll come back to that later.  Concert season is among us! It seems like every time a browser is refreshed another tour gets announced or lineup released. Choose wisely or you'll go broke. I personally cut groceries out of the budget (not recommended). Here’s what’s on deck so far. If you're roaming the streets ...

  Current “It-factor” band, MGMT, sold out the Echoplex along with co-headliner Yeasayer last Saturday. Our group of seven withstood the two hours of rain to get the last remaining tickets. Literally, we were of the final 25 lucky “walk-ons” (the doorman assigned us numbers, you’d think Willy Wonka was ...

   Officially out of that January hustle and now experiencing a brief break from east coaster visitation, I’m back at it. Starting 2008 in a hibernation mode, scored by old favorites, was a healthy move. There’s only so much digging you can do for new music before you stop and question why. One might even propose a ...