San Diego-based rock band Dirty Sweet has been heavily touring the US and Europe, turning audiences onto their latest release, Of Monarchs and Beggars.  The five-piece blues-infused rock band offers original lyrics, intricate guitar riffs, and melodies that somehow have a familiar feel to them. Not a tribute band that tries to recreate a classic rock band's feel and nuances or even a cover band, Dirty Sweet comes by their retro sound quite honestly.

Background and Influences

The Grateful Web and the WOW Hall have teamed up to provide a live video webcast of tonight's New Riders of the Purple Sage Nov.

Send out the riders, the British are coming, and they're packing heat. The four lads from Leeds known as The New Mastersounds opened for J.J. Grey & Mofro, hitting the Ogden Theatre in Denver on Friday night like a punch in the face and sending the crowd home with sore muscles.

Amanda Bell, who was covering Vegoose on behalf of the Grateful Web, just sent her pictures to us.  She really did a great job with both band and crowd shots.  Amanda's review of the weekend will be coming soon, but in the interim feel free to browse through some more Vegoose pictures. Also, Amanda got a few inteviews from the weekend, so check back soon for those as we