Hootie, Horton Heat, and a bunch of country stars

If you're in the southeastern California desert in April, why not head over to Stagecoach, the big country festival? Darius "don't call me Hootie" Rucker will be there flogging his country album, the Reverend Horton Heat (have they gone country, too?) will play a set, Kid Rock will be there, and then there's a bunch of acts readers of this site probably don't care about.

Here's the video for the Rev's only modern rock-charting single, 1994's "One Time for Me" (which barely crept in at #40):

Soul Asylum and Everclear in LA

If you live in Los Angeles, get yourself down to West Hollywood TONIGHT for the first-annual Sunset Strip Music Festival, featuring, among others, Soul Asylum, Everclear, and Camper Van Beethoven (the dude from Cracker's other band).

Now, correct if I'm wrong, but the Sunset Strip was the locus for late '80s glam-metal, was it not? And Soul Asylum and Everclear were not really part of that scene, being a) '90s bands, and b) from Minneapolis and Portland, respectively.

So... ?? Somebody go and tell the rest of us what it was like.