Jack Johnson Launches New Album and Summer Tour with Beach Clean-Up Concert
Jack Johnson is kicking off the release of his new album, To the Sea, and subsequent summer tour in a fitting way for a singer-songwriter with surfer roots and an ocean-themed album title: with a beach clean-up!
On Saturday, May 22, Johnson and Heal the Bay will host a two-hour beach clean-up at Santa Monica Bay. [...]
Concert for the Coast and Gulf Aid Raise Funds for Coastal Clean-Up
What started out as the newest music festival on the block has quickly evolved into much more. In response to the environmental devastation of the Gulf oil spill, the Hangout Beach, Music & Arts Festival has been reinvented as the Concert for the Coast.
The festival – which takes place May 14-16 in Gulf Shores, Alabama [...]
Musicians to Rock Climate Rally
Earth Day is getting quite the party for it’s 40th birthday.
And what’s a party without a little entertainment?
Passion Pit, the Roots, Mavis Staples, Honor Society, John Legend, Sting, Booker T, Joss Stone, and more will rock the National Mall on Sunday, April 25 to wrap up a week of Earth Day events held ’round the [...]
Pearl Jam Plants Trees to Offset 2009 Tour
Pearl Jam, through a partnership with the Cascade Land Conservancy, is offsetting more than 7,000 metric tons of carbon emissions from their 2009 tour. The $210,000 project involves planting 33 acres of native trees and plants in their home state of Washington.
If you’ve been following Pearl Jam’s long history of [...]
Sasquatch!’s Green Steps Get Bigger
Music festival season is upon us. One of the first on my radar? The Sasquatch! Music Festival at the Gorge Ampitheatre in George, Washington, which takes place over Memorial Day weekend May 29-31.
Sasquatch! always has a stellar lineup and this year is no exception.The 2010 roster includes the likes of [...]
The Crystal Method Gets a Green Makeover
Janine Johnson, Green Girl and founder of Green Wave, is giving the Crystal Method an eco makeover.
First on the list is greening the band’s rider. On tour, Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland ask for backstage amenities like reusable plates, utensils, and cups; local, organic food and beverages; reduced disposables; and recycling bins.
What’s especially cool about [...]
Clif Bar’s Green Notes Program Protects the Places We Play
You don’t have to be a rock climber or a mountain biker to enjoy the great outdoors. Musicians and fans love to play outside just as much as anyone else.
Think about it. How many major outdoor music festivals – not to mention outdoor venues on the regular touring circuit – are there? A lot. And [...]
Rothbury – The Greenest Music Festival of Them All?
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the greenest music festival of them all? This year I’m placing my bets on Rothbury. Now in its second year, the music festival – which just wrapped up its four-day stint yesterday in Rothbury, Michigan – calls itself a “party with a purpose.”
True to its tagline, Rothbury does all [...]
Musicians Go “Blue in the Face” Fighting Climate Change
We’re increasingly understanding that the environmental movement is not just about hugging trees and saving the whales, it’s about people too. That’s why musicians like Fatboy Slim, Jarvis Cocker, VV Brown, and Little Boots are lending their faces – painted blue – to Oxfam’s “Blue in the Face” campaign.
The new campaign urges world leaders attending [...]
Ben Sollee's Bike Ride to Bonnaroo
Although this year’s merrymaking has now officially come to a close, I wanted to bid farewell to Bonnaroo 2009 with an interesting story about one musician’s 330 mile journey to the festival…on a bike…with cello and 60 lbs of equipment in tow.
His name is Ben Sollee, and in an effort to reduce his carbon footprint [...]
