A handful of news stories broke while your friendly HT staff concentrated our efforts on the kickoff to festival season down at Langerado. It kinda reminds me of Die Hard With a Vengeance. We fell for it hook…line…sinkah. So let’s take a look at some of the shit that went down outside the state of Florida:
- With a heavy heart we’d like to acknowledge the passing of Boston lead singer Brad Delp, who died Friday in New Hampshire. We’ll be rockin’ out Foreplay/Long Time in your honor today
- West Virginia’s All Good Festival announced its initial artist lineup, with RatDog, moe., Keller Williams, Michael Franti and Les Claypool at the top of the bill (the random jamband festival generator works again!)
- Police arrested Blues Traveler frontman John Popper for possessing an assload of weapons and a wee bit of drugs during a traffic stop last week. First Trey, now Popper — anyone else from the 1993 HORDE tour feel like getting arrested? I’m predicting a “Big Head Todd Stabs Single Mother” headline next week
- Eddie Van Halen has finally been institutionalized…eh, it’s just rehab, the psych ward will have to wait
- Who owns the live music of days gone by?
- Our friend Jeff at Passion of the Weiss counts down the 10 Greatest Jewfros of All-Time (standing o for a fantastic top ten idea)
- Some dudes put together a new community site for permanently organizing Internet downloads (e.g. mediafire, sendspace) — check out GigPedia
- Uncle Neddy fills us in on the NYC shows of the week
- Anyone catch the Wheel of Fortune opening to South Park this week? I missed it, but someone sent me this clip, and wow…
- The last 10 minutes of Big Cypress have been posted to YouTube
Lastly, it’s Tourney Time. The brackets are printed and the madness is upon us. We’re all big music fans, but for the next few weeks the only song that’ll truly matter is One Shining Moment. If you care about college hoops in the slightest, make sure to bookmark SI.com’s Tourney Blog and check back repeatedly — it’s easily the best page on the world wide web this month.