PURA VIDA TEQUILA-100% AGAVE AZUL Launches into California from Texas base By Michael Hepworth Hollywood,CA(Hollywood Today)8/21/11—All the way from Texas comes Pura Vida Tequila, a newcomer to the already crowded field. However this tequila might have a marketing edge thanks to the slick packaging, price point of $29.99 and the rock star connection of Billy [...]

[Read more →]

Grammy Foundation Grammy Camp Sound Check To cultivate the understanding, appreciation and advancement of the contribution of recorded music to American culture Interactive Experience with Amos Lee and Joey Burns of Calexico By: Justin Houston Wiggins Los Angeles, CA(Hollywood Today)8/21/11/–Singer-songwriter Amos Lee and Joey Burns of Calexico were featured Saturday at the Grammy Museum as [...]

[Read more →]

His vocals were sharp, his guitar playing excellent and his band absolutely locked in with the groove By: Justin Houston Wiggins “There is something about Dave’s music” West Hollywood,CA (Hollywood Today)8/21/11/—Dave Alvin brought his powerhouse band, “The Guilty Ones” to West Hollywood Thursday night for a sell out show of rich, poignant and wistful music [...]

[Read more →]

The “voice” of the Black women …. men too By Keith Williams HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 8/21/11 — Beefy Barbarians, Suburban Vampires and Smelly Spy Kids all pitted their 3D stereoscopic glasses against current chart champs The Help and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, every one of them falling horribly flat at the [...]

[Read more →]

By Edward Garren Hollywood,CA(Hollywood Today)8/20/11/—I can’t remember a movie that has stirred up so much “stuff” in a long time.  There was a lot of controversy about the portrayal of Black men in “The Color Purple.”   “Driving Miss Daisy certainly caught it’s share of controversy.   A friend who is in her 80s told [...]

[Read more →]

European Rock Tangerine Dream The Carl Palmer Band, Curtiss Maldoon By Fred Starr New York,NY(Hollywood Today)8/19/11/—Sepheryn, by Curtiss Maldoon, will be available. Singer/ songwriter/guitarists Dave Curtiss and Clive Maldoon. came to prominence in their native England with guitarist Steve Howe (who would go on to fame in Yes). Their band Bodast quickly splintered into a [...]

[Read more →]