That was the biggest surprise at Saturday night’s world premiere of Jack Johnson: En Concert, the new film about the surfing-and-singing star’s 2008 European tour. Well, that, and the fact that Jack even made a last minute musical appearance at the Arlington Theatre, a surprise showing that was announced less than 24 hours before the event began.
Jack Johnson is harnessing the power of his Twitter followers to promote his new live album. Users send a form letter (form tweet?) to their followers and in return will get a free MP3. Nice. It’s simple, probably cost next to nothing, and will most likely be very effective.
It’s not everyday you get unfettered backstage access to a rock concert but my assignment for Focus Earth wasn’t to go backstage at an “everyday” anything. This is Jack Johnson, king of green rock and roll (though he is careful to point out that nothing about him is rock and roll, his music is of a different brand) ...
After the platinum performance of
Jack Johnson’s 2008 release of Sleep
Through the Static, the North Shore
native has relatively dropped off of the
tour circuit; that is, at least in the U.S.
he has. With the 2009 release of the
singer/songwriter’s DVD En Concert
set for August 25th, Jack Johnson and
Brushfire Records have prepared the
DVD as a compilation of his recent
European tour.
Throughout history, music has created movements to inspire generations to make a change. From Elvis’ gyrating hips to Beatlemania to Nirvana’s voice for an unrepresented generation, these artists bound together audiences from all walks of life and made us realize that what we listen to, in a sense, reflects what we believe ...
Bob and Kelly King started Pacific Biodiesel in Hawaii 10 years ago, before anyone knew what biofuels were or why they were important. In 1995, while he was working at the Central Maui Landfill, Bob King saw the opportunity to convert restaurant waste into biodiesel that could fuel the landfill’s generators ...
Inside a trailer behind the main stage at the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, Jack Johnson is quietly tuning up his acoustic guitar and tuning out the cacophony of crowd noise and distorted bass barely muffled by the window ...
Singer Jack Johnson doesn’t mind success, as long as it doesn’t come with the large carbon footprint. In an industry known for its excess, the 33-year-old has steered clear from outrageous rider demands like green M&Ms only or expensive whiskey and instead requires recycling stations at green buffets at his tour venues ...
Newsflash: Jack Johnson’s music isn’t just for surfers anymore. Yes, he surfs. Yes, he plays ukulele. And, yes, there is probably another surf film in his future. But Friday night’s show at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine reminded that Johnson is an exceptional singer, songwriter and guitarist whose talents transcend flip-flops and suntan oil ...
Strawberry shortcakes just might save the world, and that’s why Jack Johnson is spending the last Friday morning of July on his knees, picking the ripe red fruits from a green patch at Goleta’s Fairview Gardens. Surrounding the world-famous surfing rock star, UCSB alum, and sporadic Montecito resident are children gathering strawberries, including two towheaded boys of his own, but mostly kids from the garden’s summer farm camp ...
At most venues, the Jack Johnson Tour hosts a handful of regional nonprofits in addition to the four regular national/ international organizations. In Santa Barbara, where the community ties to Jack and company are strong, they’ve opened up their Village Green to 15 hometown nonprofits, including five from UCSB alone. Here’s a brief guide to whom you’ll find in the Village Green at Harder Stadium ...
Credit Jack Johnson for knowing himself and his audience. His style of laid-back folk-rock might not be to everyone’s taste, but if you’re attuned to it, he can serve it up to you in spades. And he did exactly that at the Comcast Center on Wednesday, dishing out nearly two hours of beachcomber vibes that did a lot to counteract the cool, cloudy evening ...
Tabbed as a “mellow rocker” by perhaps one too many publications, the chart-topping singer-songwriter has a fire within that belies his laid-back manner—a fire that extends to his company, Brushfire Records, and his environmental activism ...
When I hear Jack Johnson’s easy on the ear sounds, I think of summer in Cornwall, or more far-flung exotic lcoations, thousands of miles away.
Wherever it is, it’s always drenched in sunshine ...