Climate Art Contest Announced: Deadline Extended to September 6

The Gulf oil disaster is but one example of the ways in which our fossil fuel economy is impacting the planet we call home. But as bad as this catastrophe is, the specter of global climate change looms even larger as a threat to sustaining life on Earth. Despite overwhelming evidence -- species extinction and dwindling water supplies to mass migrations and mega-storms -- the public is still unclear what climate really means for them.

Concert Review: Jackson Browne with David Lindley in Los Angeles

Story by Phil Gallo - SoundSpike Editor at Large

Reuniting with David Lindley gives Jackson Browne [ tickets ]'s concert presentation a welcome spark, a bit of a kick in the pants that fires up not only the songs Lindley helped shape on record in the 1970s, but latter-day tracks as well.

The best pieces in Browne's canon -- and his set Friday (7/23) at a sold-out Greek Theatre was extremely well selected -- possess an engaging didacticism, a cognitive knowledge translated in song on a universal level, and they were delivered with the endearing casualness of a friend sitting on a living room couch.

Special benefit reception with Jackson in support of the Plastic Pollution Coalition

At the Filene Center at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA on September 12

There is a special benefit reception with Jackson, in support of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA on September 12. Tickets for this private, aftershow backstage reception include great seats for the Jackson Browne with David Lindley concert. For ticket info go to www.guacfund.org and check on the great work by PPC at www.plasticpollutioncoaltion.org