Under the Influence: Denver Joe Vasquez, Drink Up and Be Somebody

Luke Schmaltz

Johnette Napolitano

Drunkard of the Issue #60: Johnette Napolitano

Frank Kelly Rich

Boozing Through a Break Up

Luke Schmaltz

Drunkards of the Issue June 06: Sans Sobriety

Luke Schmaltz

Boozing with the Band: Vadge Moore and Matt Skiba

Brian M. Clark

Music

Home Music

Drunkard of the Issue Oct 05: Boyd Rice

Luke Schmaltz

Drunkard of the Issue July 05: Scott Wexton, The Voodoo Organist

Frank Bell

All That Jazz

Richard English

Drunkards of the Issue Aug 04: The Dropkick Murphys

Nick Esposito

Drunkard of the Issue July 03: Hank Williams III

Nick Esposito

Drunkard of the Issue Dec 02: Kirk Dubb

Frank Kelly Rich

Band On The Rum

Luke Schmaltz

Drunkards of the Issue April 02: Brethren Fast Racing Team

Luke Schmaltz

May 13: Day Three of American Craft Beer Week
It's hump day for American Craft Beer Week. Before you start thinking, "What, those beer snobs get a whole week?" let me lay something on you. Now, it's easy to take for granted America's 6,000 breweries, but I can remember when there were only a handful of massive beer factories cranking out very similar lagers, aside from a few mind-bending mutants like Lowenbrau Dark. The craft beer explosion is a true American Dream story. When you consider the amount of red tape and bureaucracy the pioneers of the movement had to hack through, then the hard fight of getting American's to grow their stunted palates, then the rapid growth of new breweries, many of them started on shoestring budgets: it's quite simply astonishing. Not only have we replaced all the breweries killed by Prohibition, we've handily surpassed that number. In this age of corporate consolidation and ever-growing mega-companies, the craft beer revolution is very nearly a miracle. Much more than most companies, they've been battered by the lockdown, so buy some craft beer this week. Hell, buy a case. Let's get America's craft breweries rolling again!