Vibes of a Peaceful Warrior

Vibes of a Peaceful Warrior

By: Garrett Bethmann For all the ways in which you can play the game of life, there are only three rules you need to abide by: paradox, humor and change.  The first rule is life is one big paradox, a mystery that needs to be understood, not solved. Secondly, finding...
The Greyboy Allstars’ Gold Standard

The Greyboy Allstars’ Gold Standard

By: Garrett Bethmann The amount of jazz, funk and soul sonic gems from the late 1960’s and early 1970’s are enough to sink the Spanish Armada 100 hundred times over. It’s a treasure hunt every time you start looking back into the vast vinyl riches of out of print...
Scott Hirsch: Magic in Ojai

Scott Hirsch: Magic in Ojai

By: Garrett Bethmann Ojai, California is a land of magic.  Nestled northwest of Los Angeles, it sits in a peculiar valley whose east-west orientation is geographically — and possibly metaphysically — unique. Surrounded by mostly desert, Ojai is amazingly fertile and...
Jeshua Marshall Go-Goes For It

Jeshua Marshall Go-Goes For It

By: Garrett Bethmann If you had been taught to believe the world was going to end soon in an apocalyptic manner, would there be anything left to lose listening to a little Rancid and Bad Religion on the way out? That was the question an 11 year-old Jeshua Marshall had...
Off The Clock: Kalmia Traver

Off The Clock: Kalmia Traver

By: Garrett Bethmann In Off The Clock, I talk with musical artists about the hobbies, interests and pursuits they have outside of music. While a cool job, music is still a job for these artists and they also love to talk about all the things that define them outside...
3 A.M. With brother sports

3 A.M. With brother sports

By: Garrett Bethmann Cutting it up across Austin, playing music with your best friends and watching the stars fade into the dawn fueled by nothing but beers, cigarettes and laughs sounds great, doesn’t it?  Friends Anthony Santa Maria and Ishaq Fahim of Austin’s...