FolkMusic.com -- the home page of folk singer and multi-instrumentalist John McCutcheon -- is the newest launch from Superclean. The site features an online store with his entire catalog, a multi-themed blog, interactive gig map, and more. Read more about Superclean Launches FolkMusic.com - Website for John McCutcheon

I have used a lot of different hosting companies through the years. I started off at Gorge.Net up in Hood River, Oregon back in 1995. Since I moved down to the Bay Area in '97, I've tried many... including yahoo!, SiteGround, Godaddy, and others. My favorite has always been LiquidWeb based up in Minnesota. I've had a VPS running for about 4 years that performs very well but their responsive support is my favorite thing about them.

The one drawback about the VPS is that if one site goes down, the entire server and all sites on there go down with it. I learned this one night when Dave Matthews (of Dave Matthews Band) tweeted about the new DannyBarnes.com site (he's my friend and client, Dave produced the record) and 800,000 of his followers piled on for the next 36 hours. I think Dave could bring a government to its knees with a following like that. Hey, Dave, don't you owe me a pizza? Read more about My Favorite Cloud

My wife and I happily blew off Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival for the second year in a row (we didn't miss a day for the first 8) with the stipulation we would enjoy Flaming Lips instead at the amazing and fabulous Fox Theatre in Oakland. This is a trade I would make every time. I think the Flaming Lips are the best and most important live act on the planet. Who else delivers such and intense balance of pure entertainment, high art, and rockin' great music?

Plus, they are just so damned COOL. They are their own roadies... you see Wayne Coyne and the boys on the stage moving stuff around and setting up their props. Smiling and saying hello. Wayne even gives us a little courtesy info-piece before the their show. ("We use an insane amount of strobes. If you feel like they are effecting you in a bad way... don't look at them!")

Their stage show has really evolved. We still get all of the confetti and bouncing balls... and mega-strobes... and a very improved video backdrop. The visual theme also included a lot of orange. All of the amps and the side-stage dancers were in orange. The video feature a beautiful dancing naked lady and the band actually emerged from her vagina. I don't make this shit up. We also had a lot of lasers (our show had Wayne shooting lasers out of his giant rubber hands at a mirror ball, the next night's audience all got little pen-lasers upon entry and did the same trick.) Read more about There is still NOTHING like a Flaming Lips show