Is Glastonbury 2010 Sell Out Good For Fans?

I was amazed when I read these stories about Glastonbury festival 2010 selling out even before they announced who’s playing.  Was it a promoter ploy? Or a genuine case of fan diehard commitment? Then I read these Billboard  and Gaurdian reports and remembered that last year’s Glastonbury festival did the same thing by selling out five months prior [...]

Popmatters Interview: Plan B

This article originally appeared in Popmatters. UK acoustic guitar slinger/cinematic rapper Ben Drew (aka Plan B) traces the planting of the seed for what you hear on his debut record Who Needs Actions When You Got Words to the desire to be real about the world he grew up in and plainly tell it like [...]