Recent Counting Crows Updates
Nadine’s Wild Weekend Announces 2002 Dates and Expansion Plans
San Francisco's "Godmother of Rock," Nadine Condon, has just announced the dates and expansion plans for the 2002 Nadine's Wild Weekend (NWW), set for August 22, 23 and 24. Co-sponsored by BMI, this year’s event will be co-produced by Motogirl Productions and K-Line Publicity, with early sponsors including SF Weekly and others to be announced shortly. Now in its fourth year, NWW, the Bay Area’s biggest music…
Ben Folds Keeps On Cookin’

Nowadays, countless singer/songwriters aspire to the lofty standards set by Brian Wilson and Paul McCartney, but Ben Folds is one of few whose creativity actually measures up to that of his influential predecessors. Folds's prodigious talents are abundantly displayed on the singer's new Epic Records album, Rockin' the Suburbs. Not only does Folds play all of the instruments on the disc,…
Train

San Francisco’s Train was formed in 1994 with the collective belief that if you write and perform great songs, people will listen. Having gone from playing local venues in Northern California to opening for such bands as the Counting Crows, Blues Traveler, Better Than Ezra and the Dave Matthews Band, and recently selling out The Fillmore in San Francisco, the group has quickly become…
Counting Crows Fly High
Poetic, introspective and unabashedly romantic, Counting Crows is a modern rock anomaly. While many of their contemporaries explore the darker side of human nature, the Crows remain true to the tenets of classic rock & roll. The band's new DGC Records album, This Desert Life, is a homespun masterwork reminiscent of Bob Dylan and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Yet for all its late-'60s homages, This Desert…
